Conference Week

Conference was amazing and I was able to learn a lot . I went into this conference with a lot of questions and I got all the answers that I need for now.

So this morning was the big suspenseful morning. It was the morning for transfer calls and the day that would determine the who and the were I would be spending my last transfer. The news is that we didn't get a call and that means that Elder Roberts will be the companion to kill me off and that I will spend the rest of my mission at Purdue. I am super excited and as I thought about it I realized a few different things. One, I would be serving at Purdue for 7 1/2 months. My second 7 1/2 month area, Logansport was the first. Along with that I will have served a total of 17 1/2 months in the Lafayette Zone. That is almost 3/4 of my mission and I wouldn't of had it any other way. I am overjoyed and excited for the next few wonderful weeks ahead.

So as usual you all probably want to know about how this week went. It actually started with an awesome exchange with Elder Jones. We were able to work really hard and have a blast doing it. It was just like when we served together previously. We also went on an exchange with the two Elders that serve in one of my beloved old areas of Logansport. All by coincidence I was able to see and speak to a lot of the members there that I grew to love very much and i was even able to go and try to contact the very first man that I was able to see baptized but unfortunately he was not there. We were able to talk to his son that I was also able to teach when I served in Logansport.
Within this exchange we were driving in a town called Flora. It is just a small town but a very nice one. I remembered that once when I served in Logansport I had visited a mother and 2 small children. As our plans fell through and we were on our way to another town we drove down that specific spot of road in which this mother had lived and I noticed it quickly. We knew that it was no coincidence that we were there. We drove up the road slowly as i tried my hardest to remember the trailer that this young family lived then again and again but with no such memory. While we were doing this we noticed a man that had walked out of his home and had been watching us go back and forth. We finally decide to stop and knock on some doors to see if we could find this mother but first we talked to this man. We said hello and asked him how his day was and if he had ever met missionaries before. He then told us that he was a member. We started to talk more and it turns out that he was baptized 10 years ago in Lafayette and that his records were in Illinois at the time. We found out that he had no home and no phone but that he was moving around a lot but we were able to give him our information and the address of the church in Logansport. It truly is amazing at how the Lords ways are not our ways. Over all it was a very good week and within our own area we were able to see a lot of miracles as well. We saw them while walking around campus, we saw them in meal appointments with members and especially within lessons with amazing investigators. In fact we were able to have 3 investigators come to general conference. Two of them enjoyed it a lot and we haven't been able to talk to the other. I do know this though. There were very special talks that were very specific to each of their individual needs. It was one of those feelings of: 'I hope that they are listening to this one'
I love you all and I greatly appreciate all of your love and support,

Elder Nelson