Assigned to a new Area...

I got the big call this morning and I will be getting assigned to a new area and companion tomorrow. It is one of those things that I'm am really excited about but at the same time I don’t want to go and then all wrapped together I have no regrets and I know that the Lord has another work for me to do in another place.

This week was awesome as usual and I learned a lot. One of the miracles that I saw this week was while I was on an exchange with Elder Nash. Just really quick I have to say that this exchange started off really slow because our interests in life are almost completely different and it looked like it was going to be a long day but then it hit me like a freight train: we are both missionaries and called of the same God so we started to talk about the gospel and that is when it took off. So now the miracle: we were in Kendleville and just got done with service and the next thing to do was tracking but then we got this call from a Less Active member who wanted a blessing long story short, all the plans for the day got white washed and moved around. So after our break we had planned to go and tract that street that we were going to earlier. No one is even answering the door and then this door opens to us and we are invited in before we even say anything, so at this point I am super excited, then we get to talking and this man is a preacher at a local non-denominational church and the missionaries used to come over all the time just a few years ago and then they stopped. Then 5 minutes after we sit down his wife shows up, having just finished working, and she is overjoyed to see us as well. We start with a prayer and the their questions start coming and then Elder Nash starts us off on ! Nephi 10 and we read it with them, Elder Nash handled it very well, and at the end of it all there are still questions but the wife says that it feels and sounds like the Bible does, and she is right of course. At the end of it all the husband says that he doesn't have a desire to read the Book of Mormon and then through out some excuses involving time and being a preacher and all these types of things, in the mean time I'm just thinking about how since being a missionary I have learned that there is always time to be made but I kept that to myself. As for the wife she said this, she is having knee replacement surgery and wouldn't be able to meet for at least a month, BUT, she was going to take the Book of Mormon with her while she is in the nursing home and she will read it there. i am so happy that we got to change our schedule because if not we might of met him but she would have been at work still and you could just see the Spirit working within her, it was a blessing to witness.

Another miracle that myself and Elder Marchant saw while tracting was on last Friday. Everything was perfectly in place, you know the wonderful liquid sunshine was coming down upon us, no one was answering the door, all the good stuff. Then we see that the next door has a covered porch which looked very nice and dry and this wonderful lady opens the door and she is busy cleaning up her great grand daughters mess but quickly we mention the Book of Mormon and she tells us that she has one sitting next to her bed, and this doesn't happen to often so we ask if she has read any of it and she answers us by saying : yes i try and read it every night, and this is when our jaws just dropped to the ground, our mental jaws of coarse.

So something that I loved was that yesterday we got to help a Less Active Part Member family dig a 50 foot trench and it was AWESOME to be able to get a shovel into my hands again.
love ya,
Elder Nelson