Out of Love

Mom, I love you a lot and out of love I would like to point something out to you again: you don't answer my questions. I really would like to know if Kelly's brother is still going to Purdue and if so what is his name?

Now this might sound weird but one of the highlights of my week was that I found out that I'm a Zone Leader. I know, I know but don't judge me yet. I know that I have been a Zone Leader for a couple of weeks now but it didn't hit me until this week. It was something that I knew in my head but not in my heart. This was an answered prayer that I have been asking for ever since I got the call from President Collins and my answer came to me at something called Zone Leader Council. This council takes place on the first Friday of every month. It is where President and Sister Collins, the Assistants and all 16 of the Zone Leaders in the Mission meet to discuss the challenges of the mission as a whole, and set goals to solve those problems. It was amazing. It will be counted among one of the most powerful experiences in my life. The Spirit was thick and very much there. As I walked into the mission home and saw all these amazing leaders and spiritual giants I had feelings of unworthiness, to be counted among them was never something that I thought of ever happening. As we started, the answer to my prayer was slowly coming into focus, and then as I stood in front of them all, leading the recitation of the scriptures I felt equal. I now know that I have been called and counted worthy to serve in an additional way to help build Gods Kingdom, and it is an honor. Ever since then I feel that I have grown exponentially in every aspect of the work. Elder Hurst and I have even recognized that our teaching has become even better than what it was.

As for another amazing highlight I had the opportunity to go on exchanges with one of the District Leaders in our Zone and it was in one of my old areas: Logansport. It was so much fun and we got to see many miracles. In fact one hit home big time for me. We also trained at their District Meeting and along the way there I had been thinking about some of my old investigators. As we started the meeting we were talking about our stewardships (investigators that need our prayers) and one of the names on the list for the Logansport Elders sounded familiar. As they went on and explained who he was and what to pray about it sounded more and more familiar. They said that he had been taught before and that he believed that those missionaries were truly sent from God. That is when I asked: Does he live right on the Wabash river and they said that he did. Those missionaries were Elder Ashton and I, all of a sudden I got really excited. It turns out that we had stopped by because we were passing through the area just to say hi and what I didn't know until now is that at that very moment was the first time that he had contemplated the thought of suicide without thinking of what would happen to his kids. If that isn't the workings of God I don't know what is.

Also on our exchange we had planned to teach a potential and we ended up teaching him and his whole family which totaled 7, and all of them above 15ish and all are new investigators.

As you could tell we had an amazing week and I don't even have enough time to tell you about the 5 new Chinese investigators we have.

Love,
Elder Nelson