2.26.18

We get to be PERSECUTED today!


Hola todo!!!

  Well President Ballard came to Lubbock TX this week, and it was so awesome! We all got to meet him and he gave a super good talk about missionary work and how he's so proud of us! Haha something he said that was pretty cool was, "You are the best teachers in the time of the Restoration" because our biggest trial right now is social media. There's a ton of anti about the mormon church on social media and he talked about how we have to fight through that to have converts. Elder Clayton also talked about how we like Paul, can be persecuted in rough terrains. (aka like windy days, snow, rain, hail, 100 degree days) and how we should look out at the window that day and look to our companion and say "We get to be persecuted today!" hahaha

  So on that note, on Saturday we were planning on biking. Well we got dressed and looked outside and the wind was up to 28 mph !!!! And so everyone and their dog knows that wind is no fun to bike in unless it's pushing you the way you're traveling. Well it was pushing us the opposite way from where we needed to go the WHOLE way there. So finally after biking 5 miles, we got to the senior center the same time the elders got there, and when we all pulled up, my hair was covering my face and i was sweating from head to toe, and completely out of breath and i said "WE GET TO BE PERSECUTED TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" bahahaha it made the bike ride worth it. 

  We also got to go to a baptism this week! Sister Goodmansen started teaching this mom and her son, and right when i came to Clovis they had to pass them off to the elders because they were in the other ward. But we got to attend and we get to go with them to the temple this Saturday! So that will be fun :))

  Also, does anyone remember the game Heads Up? Like the iPhone App? that ellen made? Well there's this 10 year old spanish boy in our ward, and he wanted to play Heads Up LDS version, so he made flash cards and they had us (the missionaries) go first, and i knew almost every answer! It was cool because like 16 months ago i could not do that haha. 

  Anywho, thanks for everything! I love y'all mucho and pray for a lot of y'all daily!!!!!!!!!! PEACE AND BLESSINGS!!!!

hermana neilson