Dear
All,
In North Platte, Nebraska, it's sunny! With a gentle breeze. With a high of 105 and a low of 69. Haha, so my companion likes to use this thing called Tell Me to find out the weather and such each day. It's a number you call and it tells you the weather for the week. It's been super dry here! Drier then most summers people say. Which isn't very good. It's not good for the crops at all. So a lot of people have been praying for rain!
So this past week we got a new mission president! His name is President Weston! He is so awesome! He interview each of us last Thursday and it was just great! He helped me out a lot with some problems I've been having with my companion. He's a great man, who you can tell has been called of God.
As for the 4th of July, it was amazing! We went on exchanged that day, so I was with Elder Benson. Elder Benson and I went inspired tracting for like all day, and it was awesome, because I rarely ever get to tract because my companion doesn't like to. We started it off with a powerful prayer and it was just smooth sailing from there on out. Of course, my legs were taking a beating and we had to rest every now and then, but knocking on doors that you feel The Spirit is prompting you to knock on is so amazing! Even if they aren't interested, planting seeds and them seeing someone who is nice and just wants to know how there 4th of July is going gives them that opportunity to see who we as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints really are. It was so powerful to me to be able to experience how my kindness kind of reflected their kindness back.
And my last experience that I am going to share is more of a funny experience, but sad at the same time, depending on how you look at it. So me and Elder Hollingworth were riding our bikes down the road, until Elder Hollingworth got a flat back tire, which slowed us down. As we were stopping, all of the sudden I hear something that sounds like "My brother is Mormon." I look over and this drunk guy is coming over to us, but he is saying "Brother Mormon." My companion has told me about this guy before and usually he yells at him, but today he was being kind. "Brother Mormon." he says, "How you gentlemen doing today. Why don't you take a seat. It's hot and you two must be really tired."
"No thanks. We are good standing." says my companion.
"No, I know you guys must get tired and thirsty. It's hot outside." He says as he leaves, then eventually he comes back. "Here is 5 dollars. The machine only takes 1s, but why don't you two go get yourselves a pop."
So we went to get ourselves a "pop" from the machine that doesn't take the 5, so my companion just takes a one out of his wallet and we get them with that. Then comes back the guy. "Hey, my land lady doesn't like Mormons or Jehova's Witnesses here, so why don't you park your bikes behind my apartment and you can come in through the back. I want to share something with you guys that will just bless your socks off." I'm thinking at this point, this guy is crazy. He wants to "bless my socks off." But my companion just says "Watch out for anything fishy." and proceeds to go to this man's apartment.
So we get inside and he started to close both the front door and the back and as he's doing so he's saying "I'm not Mormon, and I'm an excommunicated Jehova's Witness." Then he gets to the sent of the room and just starts crying as he says "I didn't bring you guys here to feel sorry for me. I would like to share with you a song." He turns on this song, and it's a pretty decent song about trials and such, but as the song is going he's saying all sorts of random stuff. Like "Brother Elder, isn't this just beautiful?", "Brother Elder, I don't want you to feel sorry for me." , and "Pastor, do you feel me?" As this is all going on, at some point he opens up a can of beer pours it into a cup, then pours vegetable juice in the same cup. It was disgusting! Then he says "Brother Elder," looking straight at me, "I do drink a little, but I wouldn't give you any if you got down on your knees and begged me for me." I was just like "Thank you so much." Haha
So after the song he decided to tell us what is weighing on his heart. He told us he wanted a Catholic NFDA wife. I had no idea what he was talking about, but he was so drunk I just went along with it. After he talked to us for about like 20 minutes straight repeating himself over and over again. "Brother Elder, don't feel sorry for me. You don't have the fear me." All sorts of random stuff, I tell him we have to get going. He says to me "Will you lead us off in prayer?" so he grabs me and my companions hands, so I get to have my first prayers circle on my mission. So I pray and ask I'm praying for the military and the poor he starts squeezing our hands and shaking like he is about to explode or something. So I end, and he just starts praying right after. After we're done and we are about to leave, he just grabs our hands and says "One more time!" and instantly starts praying for the cops out in the streets. Well we get out of there and we give him our number and he asks if he can call us at around 6 because he gets lonely at time, but as we were leaving my companion was just like "He won't call us. Within 5 minutes, he probably won't even remember what just happened."
So there y'all go. I had my first drunken man experience and prayer circle all in one experience. It was pretty funny, but I felt bad for him, because he was doing that to himself, and he could be so much happier if he just got his act together.
Well I hope everyone is doing well! I love hearing from all of you! I'm so blessed to have y'all in my life and we are so blessed to have this country. I love you all! Until next week!
With tender love and care,
Ofa atu,
Elder Timmy Nelson
P.S. Happy later 4th of July!
P.P.S. Next week is transfer week! So anyone who wants to send me some mail probably best to send it to the Mission Office next week, just to be safe, and my next P-Day will be on Wednesday the 18th. So until then!
In North Platte, Nebraska, it's sunny! With a gentle breeze. With a high of 105 and a low of 69. Haha, so my companion likes to use this thing called Tell Me to find out the weather and such each day. It's a number you call and it tells you the weather for the week. It's been super dry here! Drier then most summers people say. Which isn't very good. It's not good for the crops at all. So a lot of people have been praying for rain!
So this past week we got a new mission president! His name is President Weston! He is so awesome! He interview each of us last Thursday and it was just great! He helped me out a lot with some problems I've been having with my companion. He's a great man, who you can tell has been called of God.
As for the 4th of July, it was amazing! We went on exchanged that day, so I was with Elder Benson. Elder Benson and I went inspired tracting for like all day, and it was awesome, because I rarely ever get to tract because my companion doesn't like to. We started it off with a powerful prayer and it was just smooth sailing from there on out. Of course, my legs were taking a beating and we had to rest every now and then, but knocking on doors that you feel The Spirit is prompting you to knock on is so amazing! Even if they aren't interested, planting seeds and them seeing someone who is nice and just wants to know how there 4th of July is going gives them that opportunity to see who we as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints really are. It was so powerful to me to be able to experience how my kindness kind of reflected their kindness back.
And my last experience that I am going to share is more of a funny experience, but sad at the same time, depending on how you look at it. So me and Elder Hollingworth were riding our bikes down the road, until Elder Hollingworth got a flat back tire, which slowed us down. As we were stopping, all of the sudden I hear something that sounds like "My brother is Mormon." I look over and this drunk guy is coming over to us, but he is saying "Brother Mormon." My companion has told me about this guy before and usually he yells at him, but today he was being kind. "Brother Mormon." he says, "How you gentlemen doing today. Why don't you take a seat. It's hot and you two must be really tired."
"No thanks. We are good standing." says my companion.
"No, I know you guys must get tired and thirsty. It's hot outside." He says as he leaves, then eventually he comes back. "Here is 5 dollars. The machine only takes 1s, but why don't you two go get yourselves a pop."
So we went to get ourselves a "pop" from the machine that doesn't take the 5, so my companion just takes a one out of his wallet and we get them with that. Then comes back the guy. "Hey, my land lady doesn't like Mormons or Jehova's Witnesses here, so why don't you park your bikes behind my apartment and you can come in through the back. I want to share something with you guys that will just bless your socks off." I'm thinking at this point, this guy is crazy. He wants to "bless my socks off." But my companion just says "Watch out for anything fishy." and proceeds to go to this man's apartment.
So we get inside and he started to close both the front door and the back and as he's doing so he's saying "I'm not Mormon, and I'm an excommunicated Jehova's Witness." Then he gets to the sent of the room and just starts crying as he says "I didn't bring you guys here to feel sorry for me. I would like to share with you a song." He turns on this song, and it's a pretty decent song about trials and such, but as the song is going he's saying all sorts of random stuff. Like "Brother Elder, isn't this just beautiful?", "Brother Elder, I don't want you to feel sorry for me." , and "Pastor, do you feel me?" As this is all going on, at some point he opens up a can of beer pours it into a cup, then pours vegetable juice in the same cup. It was disgusting! Then he says "Brother Elder," looking straight at me, "I do drink a little, but I wouldn't give you any if you got down on your knees and begged me for me." I was just like "Thank you so much." Haha
So after the song he decided to tell us what is weighing on his heart. He told us he wanted a Catholic NFDA wife. I had no idea what he was talking about, but he was so drunk I just went along with it. After he talked to us for about like 20 minutes straight repeating himself over and over again. "Brother Elder, don't feel sorry for me. You don't have the fear me." All sorts of random stuff, I tell him we have to get going. He says to me "Will you lead us off in prayer?" so he grabs me and my companions hands, so I get to have my first prayers circle on my mission. So I pray and ask I'm praying for the military and the poor he starts squeezing our hands and shaking like he is about to explode or something. So I end, and he just starts praying right after. After we're done and we are about to leave, he just grabs our hands and says "One more time!" and instantly starts praying for the cops out in the streets. Well we get out of there and we give him our number and he asks if he can call us at around 6 because he gets lonely at time, but as we were leaving my companion was just like "He won't call us. Within 5 minutes, he probably won't even remember what just happened."
So there y'all go. I had my first drunken man experience and prayer circle all in one experience. It was pretty funny, but I felt bad for him, because he was doing that to himself, and he could be so much happier if he just got his act together.
Well I hope everyone is doing well! I love hearing from all of you! I'm so blessed to have y'all in my life and we are so blessed to have this country. I love you all! Until next week!
With tender love and care,
Ofa atu,
Elder Timmy Nelson
P.S. Happy later 4th of July!
P.P.S. Next week is transfer week! So anyone who wants to send me some mail probably best to send it to the Mission Office next week, just to be safe, and my next P-Day will be on Wednesday the 18th. So until then!
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