Hey, i am doing great!!! i just got transferred. it has been really hard, because i got comfortable in the same sector for 6 months. but thats the mission. i am in a new sector called curacavi, out side of santiago again. it looks like i will end outside of santiago. but im happy to be in the country. my companions name is Elder Melendez he is from El Salvador. it is hard some times for me working with native spanish speakers, not because of the language, because i always speak spanish anyway, its just hard to live with one. but he is great and i am excited for the chance to work here. we will have a lot of success. i love the mission for the chances and challenges that it gives. thats alright that your not going to come pick me up here in chile, i think its better that way. i am not sure about the calls but normally they are after 3 and before 5 or 6 just to give you a ballpark. i will give you the number to call next monday.
i love you guys, thank you for everything.
Elder Nelson
April 18, 2011
Hey hows it going!!
I am doing great, i got this paper from the office that i need to fill out. but i forgot the paper in the house, from my memory i will try and remember all of it.
i think i need to know,
airport, which don't remember
if you guys are going to come pick me up, and I'm not sure how to do that,
phone number
well...... thats all i remember but i think that there was more. thats all right next week i will let you know.
well we have had a great week, Elder Amado came and talked to our stake here, so that was great.
like always i struggle finding things to say. but we are working hard and trying to help a ward with a lot of problems.
Tal vez me va a matar por no decir mas, pero....
Love you guys and i am forever grateful for your ejemplos and the support that you have given. ,
Love,
Elder Nelson
I am doing great, i got this paper from the office that i need to fill out. but i forgot the paper in the house, from my memory i will try and remember all of it.
i think i need to know,
airport, which don't remember
if you guys are going to come pick me up, and I'm not sure how to do that,
phone number
well...... thats all i remember but i think that there was more. thats all right next week i will let you know.
well we have had a great week, Elder Amado came and talked to our stake here, so that was great.
like always i struggle finding things to say. but we are working hard and trying to help a ward with a lot of problems.
Tal vez me va a matar por no decir mas, pero....
Love you guys and i am forever grateful for your ejemplos and the support that you have given. ,
Love,
Elder Nelson
April 11, 2011
Hey!!!
Hows it going!! im glad that lots of great and exciting things are happening. :) the taxes are fun. just kidding. i am doing great, we are working hard, i have been a little sick but ok. no i have not received a release day yet. i am hoping that i will not receive one and they will just forget. but just to give you a ball park, transfer day will be the 18 of July, and normally you leave that day. so that is my guess. well things are great and getting a little cold, but thats normal around this time. i have realized that i hate the cold, so it will be fun in Idaho. love you guys,
Elder Nelson
Hows it going!! im glad that lots of great and exciting things are happening. :) the taxes are fun. just kidding. i am doing great, we are working hard, i have been a little sick but ok. no i have not received a release day yet. i am hoping that i will not receive one and they will just forget. but just to give you a ball park, transfer day will be the 18 of July, and normally you leave that day. so that is my guess. well things are great and getting a little cold, but thats normal around this time. i have realized that i hate the cold, so it will be fun in Idaho. love you guys,
Elder Nelson
April 4, 2011
Hey hows it going,
Conference was great!!!
I did learn a lot watching it. we had a fair amount of success bringing investigators, i feel more converted to the Gospel after watching it. sorry i have not been writing very many stories, i have been sending more pictures to make up for it. i will admit i get a little lazy writing, but i still love you guys!!
this week i was able to dig a trench for some investigators that really need some help, that was a lot of fun.
we are teaching this amazing family that went to conference and loved it, it has been a great spiritual experience with them. Roma is the mom, Fransica the daughter(14), and Diego(10). Diego is the coolest little kid, in the hardest of circumstances. he is sick and has to be hooked up to a machine a lot to keep alive, the doctors say he lives on spirit and will, that he will not live long. he remains optimistic always and has a way of helping me feel the love of Christ in my life. he is a very special Kid and i get emotional just thinking about him. God loves him, as he loves all of us, in ways and in amounts we do not understand or comprehend.
we also talked to a guy that very seriously thought that the entire church and especially the missionary network is a spy organization, and he gave us a very convincing argument, i almost believed him. it was a man that spoke very well in English and that lived in the states, and that new a lot about the church. he kind of sounded like a Chilean spy. :) we joked around with him for a while, he was a very cool guy, in completely convinced that i work for the C.I.A. that was a funny contact.
i love missionary work and the gospel, i love witnessing the blessings that come flooding into our lives when we are worthy to have the spirit.
thank you for everything,
Love you guys,
Elder Nelson
March 28, 2011 (Elder Nelson's 21st Birthday!!)
Hey thanks for hooking me up with everything for school. i am glad you are on top of things. im excited about going right up to school, it makes things a lot less complicated. but i will be up there for a long time. well it sounds like everything is going great, i do miss baseball games, here in Chile they do not even know what baseball is. i got all the letters for my birthday, thank you all so much for taking the time to send me those, i was very exited to get all the letters. especially the spider man one that makes noise. that was fun when i opened it up in zone class. I'm really bad at writing so i am going to send some pictures!!! I'm not sure if i have already sent some of these but here they are. not sure about to order 1. we play soccer every week at 6 in the morning, its a lot of fun 2. we do a lot of service, for people, i actually hated doing that one because we had to cut the grass with scissors 3. the house of a member doing service out back. 4. fixing the bikes, they are horrible, we are always fixing them. 5. i made an awesome breakfast for Elder Rhodes, i am trying to learn how to cook, i know scary right. these are from this morning, the perks of having sisters in your district. they came at 6 in the morning put it all up then rang the doorbell and ran, i was make and tired, then really happy. like a sour then sweet commercial.
March 21, 2011
Sorry i have been having some computer problems.
I'm doing great and working hard. i want to end the mission working harder than i have ever worked, but i will say that God has been sending me some fun trials along the way. the trials make us stronger, and allow us to increase our faith.
i wanted to send some pictures so im going to see how that works
1. a treat that we made. with crushed up Oreo and a mix of cream cheese and peanut butter on top. amazing!!
2-3. a service project with an investigator and her family. they bought that house (really really cheep) and had to take it apart and move it to some land that i think is like government given. really poor family. but the service was cool, we took apart the house with a hammer and a crowbar.
4.out workin hard
5. the picture says it all.
I'm doing great and working hard. i want to end the mission working harder than i have ever worked, but i will say that God has been sending me some fun trials along the way. the trials make us stronger, and allow us to increase our faith.
i wanted to send some pictures so im going to see how that works
1. a treat that we made. with crushed up Oreo and a mix of cream cheese and peanut butter on top. amazing!!
2-3. a service project with an investigator and her family. they bought that house (really really cheep) and had to take it apart and move it to some land that i think is like government given. really poor family. but the service was cool, we took apart the house with a hammer and a crowbar.
4.out workin hard
5. the picture says it all.
March 14, 2011
Hey thanks for writing! its great to hear from you all. it sounds like you are all doing great. there were changes today, but i stayed here with my same companion. i will be here that means for 6 months, which is a long time. i am now district leader of sisters, which is a new experience. with Elderes it has been easy but now i have to be nice and creative. i am happy to spend so much time outside of santiago (en el campo). i am a little disappointed to not be going to school until the winter. it complicates some of the plans be were making, but it will all work out in the end. i think that i will end up staying in arizona unto school then. time is going very very fast and i only have three changes left, but that's alright it just makes me work harder. we are going to baptize everyone here!! i don't have any really cool stories this week. it was a rough one, but we just buckled down and worked like crazy. i love the mission.
Love you guys and thank you for everything
Elder Nelson
Elder Tyler David Nelson
Mision chile santiago norte
sucursal correo patronato casilla 60
Santiago
Chile
this is the new address for the our mission. you need to send things there. also they said that we should only use USPS to ship packages.
I got your package and i loved to see the pictures. you guys are all looking good.
thanks
Love Ya,
Elder Nelson
Love you guys and thank you for everything
Elder Nelson
Elder Tyler David Nelson
Mision chile santiago norte
sucursal correo patronato casilla 60
Santiago
Chile
this is the new address for the our mission. you need to send things there. also they said that we should only use USPS to ship packages.
I got your package and i loved to see the pictures. you guys are all looking good.
thanks
Love Ya,
Elder Nelson
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