11.13.17

 Holy Hereford Cow

 

 HOLA TODO!

  Ok so this week was so crazy! Leading out the area isn't one of my strongest attributes as a missionary hahaha i have been so disorganized with everything! But it's all good cause we got through the week and found 2 new investigators! WOO. Sister Davis is so awesome! She is like a total cowgirl! She's been out 7 months i think, and she is a hard worker so we have TONS of fun together. 

  We're also moving this week, sooooooo i'm so excited to be getting a new apartment! Elders have lived in the one we are in for about 7 years i think? So it will be nice to get a new place :)) and we are getting a dryer too! So we don't have to hang dry our laundry anymore!!!! #blessings

  We have a baptism coming up which is like insane!!!! No one ever gets baptisms here! haha but her name is Laura! And she is so awesome! Her husband is less active, and so he's been coming to church with her and their 2 kids, and we finished teaching her all the lessons this week, so we are going to set an official baptismal date with her this week. AHHH I'm so excited. 

  Other than that nothing too exciting is happening. Our new mission president is making lots of new rules, so there's been a lot of changes with everything, but that's ok. We also get smart phones in our mission!! in april..... the month i go home. hahaa It's all good. But I hope y'all have a great week and help the missionaries lots!

con mucho amor,

hermana neilson

ps. here's my new address 

122 E. 15th St. #3

Hereford, TX 79045

11.6.17

TRANSFER #10 Staying in Hereford! w/ Sister Davis


HOLA TODO!

  So this week was really good! We accomplished all our goals and found 4 new investigators!!!!! literal miracles!!! Sadly though, we got transfer calls and Sister Linford is leaving me to go to Odessa. She's going to be in a bike area there, with 2 other sisters. And then I'm staying here in Hereford and will be getting Sister Davis! I'm so excited I get to stay another transfer here!! I really am starting to love the work here. And the members are bomb. 

  Nothing too exciting this week but we got to volunteer at the ROTC banquet here, and after they had a dance, and wow it took everything inside of me not to go out on the dance floor hahahha. OHHHH I got my pictures of my SD card on my camera!! So I will attach some of those here, but for halloween we had to stay inside, so we painted pumpkins. Sister Linford painted a taylor swift pumpkin that says "Look what you made me do" hahhaha. 

  That's all for this week, I love y'all mucho and can't wait to hear from ya!

Hermana Neilson

 

 

10.30.17

My camera took a SWIM in the washing machine


HOLA TODO!!!!!

  So this week was so interesting!!! OH HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!!!! Well this week our branch had a youth activity, a Hay Ride, and so of course they invited the missionaries! Haha but we drove out on a tractor full of hay, and then had a bonfire! It was super fun, and this little 12 year old boy said "You guys are my favorite missionaries so far" #goals. It made our week. 

   Well then the next day, a member offered to wash our coats (cause they smelled like camp fire and we had a huge storm coming in the next day) so we gave her our coats, and i totally forgot to take my camera out of my pocket!!!! so then her husband (the branch president) grabs our coats out of the dryer and shows me my SD card and says "Is this yours?" AHHHHHHHH so all of my mission pictures and videos are gone......... i've already cried about it. Soooooo that was kind of a bummer ://

  Then we were out a recent convert's house for lunch and all of the sudden she gets a knock at the door and it was the JEHOVAH WITNESSES. And we thought she would say "Oh i'm not interested" but instead she said "Can you come back later??" AH she has been meeting with the JW's too!!!!! We felt so awkward. bahahha but it was so weird!

  But yesterday at church they had me play the organ for sacrament meeting so that was kind of fun :))) i've been playing the piano for primary for the past 8 weeks, so maybe i'll start playing the organ every sunday! haha 

  Anywho, it is week 6 so we get transfer calls this saturday saying if we'll be staying or leaving, so we will see what the verdict is! I honestly have no clue, cause we white washed so we've both been here the same amount of time. But I'll email it next week :)) Thanks for all the emails and letters, it is the best! I love y'all mucho!

con mucho amor,

hermana neilson