Birthdays, baptisms and gardening

March 12th, 2012

 

 

My companion Elder Nielson had his birthday yesterday and I hung some balloons and signs for him that you gave me. He enjoyed it. I've currently done that for about 5 or 6 of my companions now and I've made their misssion birthdays a little bit lighter. It's so good to see the joy on their faces and know that their birthdays weren't forgotten after all!

 

We also have about three or four investigators now that are interested in joining the church. Tina & her son Zamien, Carmen, and Amanda and her family. The work has picked up here, but alas to journey is without it's stumbling blocks, but most of those we are knocking out of the way, so it's been pretty good. We're hoping to get all of them baptised by the end of this month. It'll be awesome!

 

We also stopped by a 76 year old lady who introduced herself as Mary Little, and we helped her with her gardening. We mowed, pulled weeds, and watered her plants. She was so delighted that she told us we could come back anytime and swim in her olypic sized pool. ......Don't think we'll take up that offer anytime soon, but it felt really great to help her out!

We also made a table for a widow in our Ward. Her husband was making her a table when he suddenly fell ill and passed away, so we took a surprise visit to her house and finished the table for her. She was so thrilled!!! It took us a couple of days, but in the end It turned out great!!! Thank you so much dad for teaching me we to work with wood! I couldn't have done it without you!

 

In other news, Adriana, Monica, Marcella, and Andre are doing really good too, from what I've heard! They didn't lose their house back in Winter Haven and they are still keeping commitments with the missionaries, those Andre is still bieng a punk at times..... It's amazing to see what the gospel does for families and how it's helps and strengthen their faith and trust in the Savior. I am so glad you all are helping others come unto the gospel and I pray you find much success in your endeavors! Keep up the good work! I love you and hope to see you all again very soon!

 

~Elder Nessen  (you can make this a letter to everyone on my blog if you want, but you probably would want to ommit the first part)

 

Happy Birthday to:

 

Tami Proksch

Traci Knowles

Tracy Brown
Mineko

Rob Suckoll

Hiram Smith

Seth Montandon

Tai Wilson

Matthew Payne

Candice Stanley

and

Gabbi Nichols