July 28th, 2014 - New People?!?

Hey Everyone!

Well transfers happened this last week, which meant the first couple days were spent saying goodbye to people with Elder Lyman, and then these last few days have been spent working to get Elder Hansen used to the area and meet as many people as possible. It's been awesome to get to work with new people this week, as every companionship in our district was changed in some way. But anyway, some spiritual thoughts first!

This week I spent some time studying Alma chapter 38, which is Alma's advice to his son Shiblon, who is a pretty cool kid. I particularly found verses 10-12 interesting as it is some very pointed things that he counsels Shiblon to do or stay away from. I also read a sweet talk by Elder Packer about the Language of the spirit - y'all should check it out! A couple other scriptures stood out to me this week: 1 Nephi 1:12; 2 Nephi 3:12; Mosiah 4:9-10; Enos 1:8-9;1 Nephi 3-4. Plus, we watched a sweet video in ward council yesterday that talked about teaching and learning in the home and at church, y'all should check it out!

Video 1: https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2014-06-001-learning-and-teaching-in-the-home-and-the-church-the-home?category=auxiliary-training-videos/2014-auxiliary-training&lang=eng

Video 2: https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2014-06-002-learning-and-teaching-in-the-home-and-the-church-the-church?category=auxiliary-training-videos/2014-auxiliary-training&lang=eng

Alright, some quick highlights this week! On Tuesday, we got to see a ton of people and eat a load of food - some members had a party at Denny's for the missionaries who would be leaving, and then later we had dinner with an awesome family before another couple took us out to dinner at Café Alley. Wednesday was pretty exciting since it was transfers day and some incredible members were willing to drive us up to the city and stay up there until we were ready to head back - which ended up being a lot longer than usual since one of the new missionaries had to buy a bike while we were up there. Another sweet highlight was church on Sunday, where we had an awesome sacrament meeting, a good sunday school lesson, and then a super spiritual priesthood hour where the Elder's quorum presidency was reorganized and we got to watch a sweet talk from President Uchtdorf! 

Sorry it's short today, but such is life sometimes! Have a fantastic week! Love y'all!

'Til Next Time,
Elder Jordan Nielson