Awe-SOME!!!

ok so this week was an alright week, NOT!! it was an awesome week, for one last p-day our whole district went to a dojo in kokomo(member owned) and we had huge battles with those play swords with padding and on them, and we got to wear hockey masks for protection, it was a really good comp inventory, we were able to burn up all the energy that builds up inside of us and it was soo much fun.

then on thursday we had to go to Indi for elder timothys doctor appointment to find out about whether he needed surgery on his ankle or not (he broke it like 6 months ago) and whether he had to go home or not and luckily he just needs to go to some rehab for a little while so its all good. So on our way back we stopped by kokomo to take our break with them and then we took them to logansport to blitz our area and we had alot of fun(FYI-all 4 of us are from AZ and no one from our district is from utah, hahaha).

now the climax of this week was yesterday when we went on exchange with the zone leaders and i went with elder miller(also from AZ) back to Lafayette cause their area is Purdue universty campus and let me tell you it was AWESOME!!!!!! now let me tell you y it was such an adventure. Now for normal missionary work all you do is go door to door and talk to people w/ your comp. Now this is not true on campus, on campus there are people everywere to talk to, i discribe it like and a kid in a candy store, missionaries are the kids and all the candy are people to talk to. So you can only imagine my excitement, but there is another catch about campus and that is that you’re on your own. How this works is a companionship goes to an area with a good number of people and you stay in that general area and you split up and go teach and talk to people by yourself, and just by myself i taught 11 lessons, now the reason that is really good is because in a average day as a normal missionary you teach like 5 lessons together. Pretty crazy huh, it really puts a missionary to the test to see if you can hold your own and on the drive back to logansport to switch back elder miller said i passed with flying colors, he said out of all the missionaries he has EVER taken on exchange to Purdue i did by far the best, and he said that one of those missionaries is going home in 2 transfers. Before he told me that i thought that i did pritty good so he really boosted my confidence :)

now for this coming week i can make a really good guess on what will be the climax and that will be on Wednesday when our entire zone of 20 missionaries are gonna go blitz Purdue campus so im really stoked for that.

WEll thats all i got, tells spencer to stop getting hurt and tell alli to tell everyone from camp hi for me, love you lots,
Elder Nelson