That was fun. But not really.

With my new companion

Dear Blog readers,

Hope everyone is doing well. I cant believe how fast time is going. I cant believe I've been gone for almost nine months. I'm going to complete 9 months on Annie's birthday- 8/6/2014, weird huh?

This week has been incredibly hard. But I'm learning a lot. I'm learning patience. But I'm also learning that there is a difference between patience and letting someone do whatever they want. So its been interesting. My companion told me she doesnt think the "Senior/Junior Companion" thing is important. So its been hard to get her to listen..

Monday. The first thing we did was rearrange the house/furniture because she didn't like it. I decided to go along with it, because she wasnt hurting anything. Except she moved our studying table into the room that doesnt have a fan...so I almost die of heat when we study. But later we had some good lessons. Except our family of 4 baptism dates told us the dont want to listen anymore...

Tuesday we had our District meeting. That was fun. But not really. Later we ate with the Relief Society President and had a pretty good meeting about things that need to change in our ward and how we can work together. 2 of our other baptism dates moved without warning us. And another Investigator told us hes not really interested...

Wednesday was good. Except we are basically starting from 0 because we lost all of our hard work from the past 6 weeks....

Thursday was a bit better. We had so good planning, some lessons, found some new investigators, had a good Ward Council.

Friday was long and hot.

Saturday was awesome. We had a service project as Missionaries and Youth of the stake. We cleaned the beaches here in Ensenada. We wore "Mormon Helping Hands" shirts and someone from the newspaper took our pictures. Don't know what newspaper though, but I'm sure you can google it.

Yesterday my companion spoke in church. But we didnt have a microphone so no one heard anything. We had an open house and took one of our contacts from this week. it was pretty good.

Not a very eventful week. But there ya go. haha.

I'm feeling good. I got a blessing yesterday from the Elders and feel like I can keep working. I'm learning to be a better missionary. Only the Lord knows whats gonna happen. But I appreciate all of your prayers. 

Thanks everyone! Love you lots

Hermana Nielsen

Service Project at the beach

 

Week of Miracles and Blessings

Last week with Hermana Rosas

 

Dear Whoever is reading this blog:

I hope all is going well for you guys. Things here are pretty good. This week was full of miracles and blessings. Which is good because the next few are going to be really hard. But it's all good, because the Lord knows what he is doing.

Monday we went shopping for Blazers because my comp only had 1 and the next day we were going to meet our new Presidente in a conference. So after all the normal Pday stuff, we went shopping.

Tuesday we met our president. He is pretty great from what I can tell. He is funny. He is a little bit older and told us he is going to be like our Grandpa. The conference was pretty short though because there was an emergency situtation in Mexcali and he had to go. 

Wednesday district meeting and normal work day.

Thursday Planning Session, preparations and BAPTISM! We baptized E, who is the son of one of our AWESOME investigators, N. She can't get baptized yet, but it was so great for her to see her son get baptized.

E's Baptism

E with his family

Friday Normal work day.

 



C's Baptism

With C at her baptism

Saturday Preparations and OTHER BAPTISM! C, who is the first investigator that Hna Rosas and I found together, got baptized. It was really spiritual and a great experience. It was a miracle too, because we weren't able to have appointments with her last week. She came to E's baptism and we talked to her a little and she was totally ready to be baptized. So we called the elders, they came and interviewed her and we got everything ready and she got baptized. It was so awesome.

Saturday in the night, the elders called with the news of our changes. Hermana Rosas got transferred to Tijuana- a barrio named The Gloria, I'm jealous. haha. I am still here in Ensenada. Now I am the senior companion of a disobedient missionary. The most famous missionary in all the mission of Mexico Tijuana. Without meeting her, I knew who she was and where she had been in the first month of my mission. Now she is my companion.. Should be a fun 6 weeks. 

Yesterday was Hna Rosas's last day here, so we visited some converts investigators so that she could say goodbye. It was a sad day. We had a Noche de Hogar with our Investigator N and our convert C with the Hermana that accompanies us on the lessons with them. (Someone in our Gospel Principles class has started calling us las SuperAmigas.. we like it. haha) It was really sad. But good.

Today at 7:15 we had to be at he bus station to meet my new comp and send my old one to Tijuana. Since then we have been cleaning and arranging things in the house. Now you are all caught up.

That's all I have for this week. Wish you all a good week, Love you lots.

Hermana Nielsen

With J at the open house the week before he was baptized

 

We Went to the beach

Intercambros!

J's Baptism

At J's Baptism

At the Casa

 

 

Feliz Cumpleanos TaiLey!!

 

 

At the top of the Big Hill with Ensenada behind me.

P-Day with the Hermanas

Last Conference with Pres . Carreon

Saying goodbye to Pres & Sis Carreon

Life is good.

Hola everyone! Still no adaptor so still no pictures! Sorry. But I will be able to send them next week, so you will get a WHOLE BUNCH!

Sorry about not writing last week. I felt lazy. But life is good. I'm doing very well here in Ensenada. Even the "hot" days aren't very hot. So its pretty amazing.

Monday last week we went to Costco to print pictures. Good news! The hot dogs and churros at Costco here taste the same as the Costco in St. George. jaja. Felt a little homesick there for a sec, but then I was fine. :)

Tuesday we had Zone Conference so that was super awesome. But not really.

Wednesday my companion got really sick. So we didn't work much.

Thursday we did Exchanges. I worked with Hermana Diaz. She is super great. So amazing. She helped me a LOT.

We have already established that I don't remember Fridays...

Saturday was J's Baptism. It was really great except for one thing. J didn-t show up...For the 3rd time. This time he had a legit reason though. The people at his work had some major problems and didn-t let him go until they got fixed. We waited at the chapel for him until 8:30. He got there at 9 and no one was there.

Sunday we had a lot of investigators at church so that was awesome. J came and was super sad that he couldn't get baptized. So after church he had an interview with one of the elders and later with the Bishop and we baptized him right there and then! It was so great. We have worked so hard with him that the joy we felt was overwhelming. We still haven-t stopped smiling. 

We have another baptism planned for this week. And one for the week after.

Life is good. We just found the most golden family of investigators. Pray for me and my investigators and I will pray for all of you!

Love you lots. Still waiting to hear from many of you.

Hermana Nielsen

BOM Challenge

These pictures are  a little old - but she sent them this week

Hermana Nielsen didn't write a blog letter this week, but in the brief messages we got from her she says she is doing well.  The area she is in is small with lots of houses that look exactly the same.  The weather is getting warmer but not as hot as Mexicali - or even as hot as St. George.  She did send one brief message with a challenge for anyone who wants to participate:

I'm starting a challenge with the family. If anyone else wants to join, they are welcome. But I want each of one to send me one reference of a scripture every week. A reference of a scripture that you liked in your daily reading of the Book of Mormon. I'll send you guys one too. A while ago, I challenged TaiLey and Derick to start reading the BOM every day. They haven't been online to report to me so I don't know how they are doing. But I want to challenge everyone to be doing this. And send me one scripture every week. Love you all. Hope all is well for everyone.

Alma 5:45 and 46. I would put the entire scripture. But I only have it in Spanish. But I like this scripture because it shows that gaining your own testimony isn't always super easy. We have to work and do our part.