"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