Hey so my new apartment number is 133. Sorry I never told you! I did get your package though mom! I haven't checked on Grandma's yet though. So it sounds like things are happening back home! Pretty cool! Sorry if this email is a little un focused. We're emailing in a store at the mall called Curacao, because all the libraries are closed today because its Ceaser Chavez's birthday. The musci in here is pretty loud. We can't email at the family history center either because the guy over the stake for family history doesn't like the missionaries right now for various reasons. It's dumb, but whatever.
So this past week I went on exchanges with my old companion Elder Riley Smith who is the assistant right now. I love that kid. He's awesome. He really helped me figure some things out that I could do to help the zone. We taught a less active named Michael who wants to start coming back to church. He's YSA age and went to church last week, but he sadi he wanted to try the spanish ward so he went there this week. We taught him the plan of Salvation and read some scriptures with him. His goal is to eventually get the priesthood. He's pretty sweet. We found two new investigators this past week. One of them was the daughter of a potential that we stopped by. We taught her the last half of the plan of salvation and showed her the because of him video. She expressed concern for her brother who passed away a couple of years ago. It was really good. The other investigator we found used to be a former. Her name is Karen. She lives in a place called Sepulveda residential. Elder Kosmicki has taught her before and he was the one who dropped her. She thanks everyone who goes to church is of the devil, but she comes to church herself and knows the church is true. . . I know it doesn't make sense. My companion has deduced that she is not accountable, along with one of the assistants who has taught her before while he was here in this area before. So why teach her!? She has been coming to church on her own somehow and she tried to set up an appointment with us and we set it for wednseday. We told Elder Shrum ( the assistant) that we had an appointment with her and he told us not to go so we didn't, but we were contacting on Sepulveda and she found us. She came up to my companion and asked us if we could teach her. She walked us back to her crazy complex and we taught her the resoration. While we were talking about prophets, she told us that the picture we showed her looked like the antichrist..... Ya it was weird. As for right now we're officially teaching her. Maybe she'll come around and not be crazy someday and turn accountable. Even our bishop thanks she's not accountable, but she wants to be taught. We'll see what happens. I went on exchanges this week with Elder Orchard who got transferred here 6 months ago from Sierra Leone because of Ebola. He's awesome. I went to his area and biked around all day! It was awesome! I trained him on planning which went really well. We found a new investigator and a ton of awesome potential investigators. To update you on my other investigators, we had 3 come to church! It was awesome! We taught our 16 year old investigator Hugh on Saturday and he told us he wanted to come to church. We got him a ride and he came! It was awesome! He has come so far from when I started teaching him. He now prays every night and reads the scriptures. He starting to ask God for help with the things he's going through. He used to be Atheist. He is progressing really well. Lloyd Tackwell came too. We had a lesson with him last night which went good. We taught him about general conferance and set him a baptismal date for May 17th. He's got a couple concerns to work through still, but he'll get there. Claudia cancled all her lessons this week, but she came to church. Shemal still didn't come to church. He is our main focus right now. He has such a strong testimony and is sharing the gospel. He's just not coming to church. We'll keep working on him. He's on date for April 19th still. We taught Lyndsay Lucas about Reading a prayer and got her to commit to read and pray on the bus since that is the only time she has to do it. She is really cool. She has a prosthetic leg and her dad Steve is really prayng and reading to find out if this is true too. They keep committing to church, but are not coming either. That is like the missing link for everyone.
The zone right now isn't doing well. Our key indicators are still the lowest they've ever been, and there has been some disobedience throughout the zone, but we've resolved it. The mission as a whole right now is struggling. It's like over half the mission has been getting trunky. It's sad, but I can tell you right now, I'm not trunky! Haha I'm going strong and I will to the end of my mission! It's like swimming! You go hard the whole time! And at the end you make sure nothing is left in the tank! I'm going to come home and collapse because I'm not going to have anything left. I love this mission and I'm doing my best! That's what matters right?
Elder Nelson
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