Transfers!

Dear all,

So it is transfers yet again! My how time just flies by! Well, it looks like I'm staying in North Platte yet another transfer! But my companion and good friend Elder Benson is being transferred. I sure will miss him, but I know the Lord is in it, so all is well. We are also getting more Elders here in North Platte, so I will be back to just working in 1st ward instead of working in both 1st and 2nd. This makes me a little sad because that means I won't be working with Bruce Winters and the twins Hope and Faith anymore. I have seen Bruce progress so much, I just wish I could still work with him until I see the day that he comes back to church! Hopefully I am still in North Platte for that day.

This past week was pretty good. We actually got to go on exchanges with President Weston last Saturday. When he came every appointment that we had made for that day fell through, so that was a little embarrassing, but it all worked out in the end. We actually went to go see an inactive family, the Spradlins. We have been going to play card games with the kids the last couple of p-days so we could have fun on p-day and try to get closer to the family so that we can eventually get them to open up. So we stopped by with President and talked with Brother Spradlin for a while and it turns out that Brother Spradlin had been involved in some big ordeal where a lot of members of the church accused him of things and even after the Stake came out and told everyone that there will be no sides taken, there still were and he just decided that he wouldn't go to church anymore. He still has a testimony though, so President asked him if he wouldn't mind us coming back and teaching his family a bit. He said he would let us know. President then told us after we left that he will come back to church, we just have to keep working with him. He also said not to even bring up attending church with him and to not even let the ward know that we are teaching them. He said just go over there and teach them the doctrines. So that was some pretty powerful stuff!

Well that's all I have for this week. I'll try to remember more for Monday! I hope everyone is doing well! Keep up the good work everyone!

With tender love and care,
Ofa atu,
Elder Timmy Nelson