May 17th

Another transfer is over and we got the call yesterday from President Collins but get this… I'm not the one that is leaving. Elder Cubit will be training a new missionary for his last transfer and I will be staying here at Purdue and will be training a new Zone Leader.

As for this week and the last week it has been great, last week more so than this week. The only reason I say that is because it was in the high 40's, 50's and it even got to the 60's. It was a glorious week. Elder Cubit and I also gave a training to our Zone at Zone Conference last week and it went really well. We were given 2 hours and we trained on the fact that we are here to invite people and they commit themselves to do things to come closer to Jesus Christ, and then we follow up with how they are doing. It was awesome! and the Spirit was there testifying of the truthfulness of what was being said. Elder Cubit also gave a special musical number by singing the song: "O Lord My Redeemer." It was powerful and it helped me to reflect and remember who Christ is, and what it was that he has done for me personally. I then thought of how he has done those same things for all of Gods children and that is why I am here, to help them.

This week was full of great things as well. Because of all of the meetings and the crazy weather we had to visit and train at all 4 District meetings in the Zone along with 2 exchanges. For one of them I went with Elder Sterling and visited the Spanish in Frankfort, it was a really cool experience. Since I don't speak spanish he would translate my testimonies into Spanish but other than that I prayed silently for him. In one of our appointments I could kinda follow along because I can recognize the words for things like the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith but as they were talking I had the idea of bearing my testimony of the Book of Mormon being true and of Joseph Smith being a prophet of God. It just stuck in my head and so I finally got an opening and bore my testimony while Elder Sterling translated. Later I decided to bear my testimony of the love of the Bible that I have and the importance that it has in the Restoration. Afterwards we talked about it and they had met with that investigator 11 times and it just hadn’t hit him yet and now it has and it is starting to sink deeper into him. The Holy Ghost is now one of my closest friends and I love him, it amazes me on a constant basis in this work and the fact that we are not doing it alone.

I love you all,
Elder Nelson