This first section is for everyone who doubted my conspiracy theory that Delaware is fake. Last night we had a wonderful dinner with a lady B. At this dinner we were trying to get to know her a little bit better, so we asked about her kids. She then started telling us about her daughter who moved to the east coast, she was trying to moved to Delaware but ended up in Rhode Island , these are not my words these are sister her and her daughters ,because "Delaware is fake". So my conspiracy is confirmed.
Anyways, life here in Palmer Alaska is AMAZING! The scenery is so beautiful i take 1000s of pictures everyday, ill try to send as many as i can but gmail will only let me send a few. The weather has been so weird lately. It has usually been in the high tens like 15-18 degrees in the days with lows of 0-6 at night and morning, but we had a huge rain storm that rolled in and melted almost all the snow and then a blizzard came through and doubled the amount we had before! The one nice thing about snow is when it is overcast the heat gets trapped in, so last night it actually reached about 35 degrees and today its in the high twenties, so I cracked out the short-sleeves and a sweater and I'm enjoying the warm weather. My week wasn't as hectic as it was last week but it was still pretty good!
Monday was P day, which was amazing we played basketball and I ended the day by calling my family, I got to talk to my parents and my siblings and I also got to talk to my grandma and grandpa Pugh and my grandpa Nielsen which was such a great way to spend my Pday.
Tuesday was quite the busy day we had 3 member lessons, and a 2 hour service project all three of the lessons went amazing and the service project was not bad. We had helped a couple empty a storage unit that was filled with garbage to their shed in the back yard but other than that it was just a normal Tuesday.
Wednesday was pretty fun we had an exchange so we lost elder merrill for the day but gained Elder Cazier. We had our weekly lesson with L which went super awesome. We discussed 3 Nephi 18 and taught about the importance of the sacrament. What was really neat about that was i was the one who lead the lesson! It ended up so well, she even prayed at the end and thanked our heavenly father for the book of mormon. After our lesson with L we had a member lesson with B and then after that lesson we drove to the stake center to give the Sisters in the fishbowl ward blessings, which went amazing, the room was filled with the spirit and after words they told us how meaningful and how much they needed to hear what we said was. That was a great way to finish our night.
Thursday was a crazy crazy night! We had 2 lessons early in the morning, sadly only one of them went well. Our lesson with L went the same as it all ways does. He lies about knowing the book of mormon and doesn't keep commitments, after talking to our bishop and ward mission leaders we found out that he has been meeting with the missionaries for 30 years! We came to the conclusion we are going to drop him which is rough. Out later lesson with S went super well! She even wants to start coming back to church! Later that night me elder merrill and elder Alexander went live on facebook with the Allred family! The live went really well untill me and elder merrill got pied in the face. It actually wasn't that bad but the cream smelt really bad. After our live we had to hustle to the stake center for a Bible study that we were hosting, sadly only one person showed up, our ward mission leaders. After that sad show we had to run again to a surprise lesson with an inactive member who called us because he was with a nonmember we had been trying to teach so we ran over there and had a lesson from 8:30 to 9:15 which was a pretty cool way of finishing our night
Friday we had a lesson with a non member who teaches goat yoga. When we got to the lesson she was in a emotional wreck. We had come to find out that her husband threw a huge fit hid her keys so she can't go to church and threw her bible and book of Mormon away. We comforted her and taught an amazing lesson and after she told us how much we mean to her and how thankful she is. After our lesson we had another exchange and we lost elder Merrill but gained Elder Reeder for the day. Which was fun because for service we put up Christmas lights for a lady which reminded of Christmas at our house, after that we had a lesson fall through so we made phone calls untill our lesson with a young couple and their kid. After our lesson we went and dropped elder Reeder off and got elder merrill back
Saturday was really fun, we started off the day by attending a baptism which was awesome untill I got a call from the bishop asking if i could give a talk the next day. After the baptism we had yet another exchange and we lost elder merrill again but gained elder Chavez for the day. We didn't have any lessons planned for the day so we found stuff to do, we went to two different farmers markets and mingled with people there which was very fun and then we had a nice dinner and finished the night by dropping off elder Chavez and getting elder merrill.
Sunday went better than I thought, Elder merrill and I both gave talks he talked about grace and I talked about baptism. Everyone told me i did a really good job which scares me, because now they are gonna rely on me more. After Church we had a really awesome breakfast for lunch at a members house. His name was brother H and he was hilarious! After lunch with him we had a lesson with P and A again which is always delightful. We then brought the sacrament to sister G and gave her a lesson which went really well. After our lesson we sped over dinner with the sister who says Delaware isn't real and had a really nice dinner with her, after our dinner we had one more lesson with the Ms. The lesson with them was really cool because I found out that they were related to Flo Bowers, a older woman I used to visit a lot back at home and do service for. It was reallg cool talking to them and getting to them a little more.
And that leads us to today, I woke up this morning after the blizzard had hit to about 6 inches if brand new snow and lots of ice on the road. Nothing crazy happened this week but we are at the famous Butte washtub were Elder Alexander was proposed to so maybe something is in the works. Also a little note the reason we are called the 3 virgins is because we went to a lesson with someone from a different religion, and he opened the door and said ahh the 3 virgins are here come on in.
Thats all that's happened this week I am so grateful for all your support I love you all so much!
Love
Elder Nielsen.
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