I finally got a good picture of a moose well actually 4 moose, at one of our service projects we saw the huge moose in the back yard probably 70 yards in front of us but I could get a picture because we were working and it was ducking in and out of trees but on the way home we saw a field and down in the field there were 4 moose so down at the bottom is the picture!
Before I start, I just wanted to say earlier this week we got put on a restriction for missionary work, we can no longer go into homes like we were able to do. We now do almost everything remotely over zoom. We are still aloud to do service but the service has to be outside. The one thing keeping our sanity is that we can still drive around and stop at the three bears for the occasion soda. So after all that p day is gonna be kinda lame today since we can't meet as a district or play basketball at the church, send me an email back I'd love to talk with you guys. Any way this is how my week went .
Tuesday a legacy came to an end, Monday right after we finished our laundry at the Butte Washtub we got a call from a member named Bro. Clawson saying he had an extra washer and dryer that he was gonna give us. So Tuesday morning we drove up to his house and got them and brought them back to our barndaminum. After that we went on our last exchange for a little while. We lost elder Merrill and got elder Swartout for the day. After lunch comp study and personal study we had a super fun activity with the primary kids, we got to dress up as the 3 Nephites and bear our testimonies from their perspective! I think i have pictures ill make sure those go out as soon as I can!
Wednesday was really good. We had a lesson plan with L again at the Mullins house Which is about a 5 minute walk. After a little bit of persuading Elder Merrill and I got Elder Alexander to walk there with us. We took our nice 5 minute walk in the 17 degree weather (which is quite nice because the wind had stopped) and got to Sister Mullins house. We got there and when we got there L wasn't there, so we waited for a little bit but she never showed up, so we had to trek back up to the barn. We had another lesson plan fall through which really got our hopes down and we were all kind of down, but then we got a call from the Thompsons saying they had service we could do, so we hopped in our truck and went over, the service went amazing and after were done she made us cookies and hot apple cider and they were so so good! She then welcomed us to dinner on Saturday and said we would love to come. We finished our night with a lesson with LL, as usual the lesson went amazing the spirit was so strong that her family started joining after hearing what we were saying.
Thursday was a crazy busy day. We started off buy helping our good friend Brother Allred move a huge Soapstone Furnace which was so crazy heavy, after our service with him we drove over and joined our district for a service for a hoarder. It was super fun because everyone was there and we are all really good friends but it smelt soo bad. After about an hour and a half we ran home got cleaned up and ate dinner and headed over to the Owens so that we Could start our Facebook live. It went pretty well not as good as our other live but it was still super fun. After our live we hustled over to the church for our Bible study, but this time people actually showed up which was awesome. To end the night we went to check the mail at the post office and I got my first package! But that's not the best part, we ran into this super nice lady there and we talked to her for a bit she even offered to start writing us letters because she saw that none of us had any. She thought we were super awesome and wanted us to come meet with her more, it was pretty heart breaking to find out she was part of the fishhook area, but we sent her contact over to the fishhook sisters.
Friday we had an amazing miracle. After we had sent that contact to the sister we headed home and went to bed when we woke up we had a text from some sisters in Oregon. They had a non member friend who had moved right into our area so they sent us her information and we were able to meet her that night. She was super nice and loved us immediately. She wants to keep meeting with us and after p day today we are meeting with her again.
Saturday was super awesome we had three service projects, but our second one was probably the best, I think this is the story you have been waiting for. We did service for L who does goat yoga. So after we were done she let us play with the goats, and let me tell you a goat on your back is the best feeling ever! She also had a rabbit which probably weighed the same as my neices! It was crazy. Anything else we did doesn't even come close to compare to that. Saturday was the day we got the heart breaking news that we would no longer be able to meet in person or have church meetings, we are doing what they call a physical distance so we don't have to be on lockdown but we can't be near anyone for to long so we can still grocery shop but we can't go into members houses.
Sunday was weird, we had church over zoom which was awesome our bishop gave an awesome talk about the sacrament and the Atonement, then we went to Sunday school over zoom, and then the weirdest part was all the lessons we had planned got moved to zoom which was a first for me but all the lessons went pretty well!
I really appreciate all the support and love you guys give me! I love you all so much!
Sincerely your favorite Elder,
Elder Nielsen
Ps the elder in this picture is Elder Hoopes. He is so freaking cool!
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