I Have Been Called as District Leader

So we got transfer calls this morning and it was President Collins on the phone. I have been called as a district leader and luckily me and Elder Bowen get to stay together through another transfer. Also this Saturday we are gonna be moving to a new house so the new address is: 620 E. Broad St., Angola, IN, 46703.

So as for this week it has been AWESOME! A lot of really cool stuff has happened this week. So for the past two Sundays in a row we have had visitors at church that have just been passing through and I strongly believe that they were all sent here to help inspire the branch to do more missionary work. For instance last week this Hispanic truck driver from Mesa, Arizona visited and during priesthood he got up and shared a missionary moment. He said that he has been away from home for 45 days, He said that everywhere he goes he takes Book of Mormon pass along cards and he keeps them in his from pocket and in the past 10 years he has given out 19,000 cards to people and gives them to everyone and just tells them that it is from God and is something that will bless their lives. He went on to say that by doing this he has got on average of 24 families a year to be taught by the missionaries and in the year of 9/11 he found 43 families. This man inspired me so much and also reminded me that missionary work is easy.

As for the person that came this week there was a miracle in how they didn't get lost. So on Saturday night we had an extra 15 minutes before a meal appointment (It was the best steak dinner I have had in along time) and we are driving when we see Brother Wilson standing on the corner by his house so we decided to go say hi and see what he's doing. Well as we talk to him we find out that he is waiting for a family that is passing through town that are going to be staying the weekend with the Wilson's. The catch is that this family didn't know were the Wilson's lived and that is why he was on the corner. A few minutes later this mini-van comes down the street and she sees us doing what we do best, and that is standing out like a lit candle in the dark, and it is the family that we were waiting for. So it turns out that this family is doing a fund raiser for the Shriner's hospital because their 3 kids were all taken care of there. Bro. White is riding his bike from the Oregon coast to the New York coast while his wife and two of his daughters are driving along side of him and they are giving inspirational talks along the way. Before this year Brother White never rode bikes until he started to train for this.

I love how both of these normal people have made such a huge impact on everything around them and it goes to show what the gospel of Jesus Christ is really capable of when it is fully embraced.

Also something completely spontaneous that we did this week was this pioneer day celebration called the Vermont Settlement up in one of the towns that we cover and we found out about it on Friday and then we had a booth in it. Unfortunately we didn't get any investigators from it but I think that we planted a lot of seeds.
love ya,
Elder Nelson