I'm trainer!

As for the weather it hasn't been bad but last night we got about 2-3 inches and it is still coming and it could be bad cause they might have to delay the transfer meeting. O ya transfers are up again and this morning we were talking about it and i said that since we haven’t got the call yet we probably would stay and then the phone went off and i answered and President Corey was on the other line, we knew something was gonna happen cause usually the assistants make the call unless it is for leadership. Also i have now been in Logansport for 6 months and we thought that i would for sure be leaving but instead Elder Ashton is being transferred and i am going to be training a new missionary which is AWESOME im soo excited and a little nervous at the same time but butterflies are a good thing.

So before i forget I’ve noticed recently that i never got a line of authority (priesthood) and i really want it.
As for this week it has been alot of tracking but it has also been alot of fun we have found alot of people that have good potential of being solid investigators and one of them reminds me alot of Luis (superintendent for Denver). Also this week we had an investigator at church and she is practically golden plus she was a referral from members and her fellowshippers are the relief society president and her husband the 2nd counselor in the bishopric, it just cant get any better than that.

Well i hope you all have a good one and pray for me as a trainer that i will do a good job. love,
Elder Nelson

"I haven't done anything like this since Deagan Const."

This week has been awesome and really depressing too but as for the depressing part first. So we had this investigator and he has just been going down hill really fast and on Wednesday i was on an exchange with Elder Manookin and we went over to teach him and give him one more chance but what ended up happening was not expected at all. We told him that if he read the Book of Mormon for a week straight for 10-15 min a day that everything would improve, but instead he ended up getting offended and made sure that weknew that he was doing everything that he could do and that he doesnt have 10 min a day to read because he has other more important priorities. So during this whole thing my heart just felt like it was ripping in half and wewere finally able to calm him down and apologize for offending him, we testified, prayed and told him that we would try and stop in every now and again to see how he is doing but then he said something that really tore me a new one and that was this: " I don’t invite just anyone in to talk to me so if you’re not with them Elder Nelson i probably wont let them in." after he said that i just felt horrible and i definitely didn’t feel capable enough to teach anyone so we went to the church cause they were having mutual, so that we could talk to Brother Bettcher (young mens president). We get there and he is mad too because no youth showed up and he lives like an hour awayso basically he just wasted 4 hours of his day. Anyways we were talking to him and he was telling us that we didn’t have to come help him at his house on Saturday if we didn’t want to cause it would be like -10 with wind chill, but i let him know that no weather stops missionaries.
So now to the AWESOME part of the week and this was at the Bettchers for service and what we did was this there were six of us in all, 3 chain saws, 1 back-hoe, 1 log splitting machine, 3 diesel trucks and about 50 wild cherrytrees in a line next to a farm. Your probably already thinking what on earth were we doing, well the answer to that is that the Bettchers heat their house on wood and we were there to help him in a sense keep him his pregnant wife and 3 young children warm at night. So i was soo excited because i haven’t done anything like this since Deagan Con. and i was soo ready. Just to let you know, no one got hurt and no we didn’t use any machinery even though i really really wanted to but even though we didn’t that doesn’t mean that we weren’t busy the whole time. There was a whole system and at the start we had to clear all the cut branches but once we got going we were the ones loading the trucks with the split wood. Ill say this though it was alot of fun but in rating the difficulty level, lets just say this: wood is alot lighter than concrete. Anyways we stacked the trucks to like 3' above the sides of the bed and what we learned was that a mondo filled truck of wood will last about 2 weeks and we got 6 loads of mondo filled trucks, so basically i think that they are good for the winter. O something else was that before we started loading the trucks the average loading time was like 2 hours and then unload was like 20-30 minutes well when we did it it took us an hour to load, plus we were stacking it so we got like a third more in than normal and then we got timed and it took us 7 min to unload, soo we definitely had a blast and it was well needed to relieve some stress.

well my time is short so have a good one and i love ya all, Elder Nelson

"awesome game.."

The weather has been pretty crazy here, a couple days ago its was in the 50s and now we have an inch of snow on the ground and it is still coming.

As for running now it helps alot it gives ya time to think about nothing except breathing and putting one step in front of the other, now running a mile is easy so now its like 1 1/2 miles plus Elder Ashton has a soccer ball
that we kick around while were running soo its always something to look forward to in the day.

Maybe Dad should get a game system called theWii and they actually use that at rehabilitation centers and it has these exercise games on it, you might want to look into that a little.

So is Amanda driving the truck now? is it even running good?

Thanks for sending that book i havent got it yet but I’m sure it will help alot.

So as for this week it has been alot of fun and alot of hard work too for starters we watched the movie: The Testaments with an investigator and i had forgotten just how powerful that movie is even though it is mostly fiction. We went out and ate dinner with this member family and it was awesome for 2 reasons the first is because the mother had just quit her job and I was super proud and so was she because the boss of the company was being unethical and she always felt guilty working there soo she put her foot down and quit on the spot and then 3 others there are quitting too.

So while we were there one of the kids friends was there and we were playing this game that i made up(ill tell ya about it later) and he was having all the awesome questions and we found out that he was 14 and his family is split religiously speaking and he was in the middle just like Joseph Smith so we got super excited and taught him about the book of mormon and the first vision.

so im out of time, love,
Elder Nelson

"January Thaw" and getting into shape!!

Family, It has warmed up in the last week up to the high 30's but the members here were telling us that this is called the January thaw and that it will get bad again in February so that really cut my legs out from under me.
Something else that is new is that me and Elder Ashton have started to run every day. So we started this Saturday and it was up hill and we ran up hill and only made it about 4 blocks when we realized that we are some out of shape missionaries. After that though we got to take Sunday off and then on Monday it was a little easier--our goal is to be able to get up to a mile which will be sweet.
I don’t have much time left but really quick i wanna tell you about the family home evening that we put on last night. It was Awesome, we had a lot of people show up and for the first part we had a box car build off and it was loads of fun, and after that we had a drive in movie and watched the Lamb of God movie it went very well. Love, Elder Nelson