August 26th, 2013

Hey Everyone,

I couldn't think of a decent subject for this week... so you get the lame cop-out subject.

But, this week has definitely been pretty exciting! I finally got to eat something decently weird - deep fried elk... It was super tasty!

Anyway, this week was pretty exciting... the first thing of note being that we got lost on the way to transfers! We ended up getting on the 40 instead of the 240... and it definitely made a huge difference in where we ended up! I've learned the importance of making sure your directions are accurate now ;)

Another cool thing that happened this week was more ironic than anything. We had been trying for about a week to catch one of the people we visit with, and had no luck thus far. So, on Tuesday we went and tried her again but, after knocking three time nobody answered. We wrote her a note, stuck it in her door and headed towards the car. We were in the car about to leave when - much to our surprise - she walked around the house from the back yard! She said that she had gone out the back door and ended up locking it behind her... so she had been outside while we were knocking. Luckily for us, she walked around just before we were leaving and we got to visit with her finally... then to top it all off she made it to church this week! It was super awesome!

In addition to that awesomeness, we got to start teaching this super awesome family! We had run into the father outside a few weeks ago, but with school starting and sports and such they had been super busy all the time. We finally caught them at home when they had a minute, and he was super interested! It's neat to see how Heavenly Father is always preparing people to hear His gospel, because his wife had grown up as a member, but when she turned 18 or so stopped going. So, it was neat to be able to hear her outlook on things as well, and it really helped him understand it more. 

On a random note... I was about 3 feet from a possum a couple days ago. It had ended up in a less active sister's trash can, and we got to have the fun experience of getting it out! It was exciting because it really didn't want to be forced out of the trash can for some reason... and so we eventually had to kind of throw it out by swinging the trash can back and forth.

Onto studies super fast -

• D&C 17:8
• Acts 9:15
• Acts 9:40
• Matthew 11:28-30
• Acts 10:20
• Acts 10:34
• 1 Nephi 22:3
• Matthew 12:12
• Matthew 12:25-26
• 2 Nephi 1:21
• 2 Nephi 2:11
• 2 Nephi 2:28
• D&C 22:2
• Matthew 13:26

I would put some thoughts with those... but I think this week you can ponder them yourselves ;) There should be something there for just about everyone... but one of the coolest things I've been learning has focused on the impact of Agency in Heavenly Father's plan for each of us, so as you're going through those scriptures try looking for agency! (They don't all have something to do with it, but you can try ;) )

So, that's the deets for the week! 'Til next time!

Love,

Elder Nielson