Many Exciting Things

This week was full of all sorts of things. Many exciting things and also some disappointing things. As the exciting things. We had a missionary Blitz on campus. We had 10 missionaries, most from the Zone and then the 2 Assistants, all on campus. it seemed as if were ever you looked you could see a missionary. Also we had a few members from the singles ward come out and help talk to people. They are such a great help some of the members even went off by themselves and taught people. Over all I think that it was a great success on many different levels. For one all of the missionaries had a blast, some were shy at first but campus' are really good at forcing missionaries out of there bubble. We didn't hear a single complaint from anyone. Actually all that we did hear was requests for another one soon but I don't think that will happen this semester. Another really great thing that happened was that between the time the missionaries showed up and left they are progressed in many different and unique ways. One of the big reasons for the Blitz was to advertise what we called "Why We Believe" Purdue. We had it just Sunday night and it's purpose was as a missionary finding tool. The purpose of the Fireside was so that more people could learn about what it is we believe and we used our resources to do it. It turns out that there are a good couple of dozen faculty and professors at Purdue that are members. We had professors from the engineering department, Chemistry, Business, Computer Science and others. It turned out to be Awesome. We have now 2 more people that we will start meeting with this week. Here is something really cool. One of the speakers is in Chemistry and his name is Phil Low and he has literally almost cured cancer and it super close to a Nobel Prize. Now Let me tell you what I think that my mind blew up like 3 times as he was talking, he is so smart. During his talk he explained how Science and Faith go hand in hand and gave a few examples of it. He talked about the Big Bang theory and evolution and then death. As an example he explained very clearly that in our galaxy there are a some 100 billion stars and that our galaxy is one of more than 100 billion more like it. It gives quite the perspective doesn't it. He then explained how religion just tells us that everything was made by God but lacks the mechanism and the how he did it and then how science is just the opposite. Then he said this about big bang, if it had happened just a second slower or a second faster nothing would have been created but as we know things are here so it happened right. He said that the odds of it moving at just the right speed are 1 over 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 that is one big number in fact 23 zeros. Isn't it Awesome that precision is so important to God and that he always does things in that way. I loved what he said next. He said that all of the scientists that are at the Nobel level know that there has to be a God.

So out of all this Awesome stuff that happened this week there were the low times. We had 12 Lessons fall through on us this week but that is ok because God always has a plan for us.

I love you all so much and I always enjoy telling you about my week. Till next time.
Elder Nelson