Temple Announcement

As for the new temple announced: everyone is ecstatic, including me. So you might already know but the prophet is the only one that decides on when and where a temple will be built. In this stake the Stake President gave a commitment this last stake conference of indexing 1,000,000 names before the end of the year and I heard that they hit the goal just before conference. Something that I have been saying for a while is that "when they build a temple in Indiana I will come back to see it dedicated." and now I guess I will be visiting back a lot sooner that what I thought.

So I have some good news. Elder Weaver was sent home on this last Friday and the reason is good, because he is going to get a lot of professional help and he is planning on coming back out. So that means that I am now in a threesome with the Elders that are assigned the Zionsville Branch (they were already in my district) and we are covering both areas until transfers in 2 1/2 weeks. I will say this: it is something that is also inspired. We all believe that this threesome is exactly what our areas need to get a jump start. Now I will also be able to get to know these Elders much better and be able to fulfill my calling much better; which is to help them become better missionaries. My new companions names are: Elder D. Jones and Elder Goodwin who are both from Utah but Elder Goodwin lived mostly in California. It has been really fun trying to get everything figured out because we are going back and forth between apartments and living out of bags plus we have to balance our time between the 2 areas but it hasn't really been all that bad, just different.

So General Conference was awesome as usual and just as usual there seemed to be a handful of certain focus points. One of them was that of Agency. I loved how they pointed out so plainly that Satan has no power over us unless we choose to give it to him and even when that happens we cannot blame anyone for anything that we do. It is always our choice. Another one that they pushed a lot, as usual, was missionary work and President Monson just laid it out straight: go on a mission whether young or old. Also I really liked how they talked a lot about the Holy Ghost and how he is literally a member of the God Head and that he should not be taken lightly and that we need to learn how to trust God.

There are a few really cool things that happened that got me ready for this. One thing is that I have my miracle journal that I am really pushing myself to keep up on and part of what was said on Sunday was that we must be grateful of what the Lord gives us. Also on Sunday morning in my studies I was learning all about Trusting God and then they emphasized it in conference as well.

Well I love you all a lot,
Elder Nelson