"Love all my Companions like Brothers"

I'm so happy that everything is ok and I know that Grandpa is happy right now.

My new address is: 824 Winter Court, Carmel, IN, 46032

My new companion is Elder Weaver and he is an amazing person, you just have to look really hard and get it out of him. We are doing good together I think. It is really interesting that you say that you said you had a lot of troubled companions. It is interesting because in an interview President Collins told me that missionaries like me don't get good companions very often. I will say this I have learned to love all of my companions like brothers but, most of them have been these types of missionaries. It has been really interesting to be able to look back and see how the Lord works: line upon line. I have learned and continue to learn that the Lord has a plan and we all have a part of that plan. He also will never give us anything that we cannot handle. If I had Elder Weaver as a companion a year ago (not possible he wasn't out yet) I would not have been able to handle it and I could possibly have just given up. But this week I have been thinking a lot about different Christ like attributes such as charity or humility but specifically patience. As I have pondered and studied I have learned this: patience is a really hard thing to have. You are now probably thinking about how I possibly could have missed this concept for this long but hear me out first. I've learned that there is a lot more to patience than just not losing your temper, the Lord teaches us line upon line. He starts us off with one thing at a time and then once we have a good form of patience to work with, then we move to something else and he helps us with that until we're ready to move on again. As we are learning new things the Lord is using those things to build upon other testimonies that we have gained previously. I'm sorry if none of this makes sense but it is truly amazing how the Lord truly is the master builder. He knows exactly what order things have to happen and that it is different for everyone.

Something else that is cool. I have always felt comfortable in any LDS church building that I have been in, it feels like home. In this new area it has felt even more like home than anywhere else and I have been trying to figure out why and then it hit me while we were at district meeting: it is a clone building of the 18th St. building at home, same floor plan, same carpet, same colors, couches everything is exactly the same.

Well that is all I got for the time I have.
Love
Elder Nelson