Short Last Letter
I had the best last week any missionary could ask for, and today I will have an awesome P-day. Tomorrow night Elder Romney and I will drive to East London and stay the night with a companionship there, Wednesday morning Elder Giles and I will fly to Cape Town and have our Final Interviews with President Wood. We will then spend the night at the mission home, all of Thursday we will have the opportunity of doing whatever we like in Cape Town before our flight to London on Thursday night. I am sure most Elders will want to get some curios and other little African Trinkets, I think I might as well ha.
But I want to thank you all for all the support that you have given me, I love you all and I can't wait to finally see you!
2 John 1:12, I was thinking of just writing this reference down and calling it good but Rapport rather than Report.
Love you,
Elder Nielsen
Showing posts with label East London. Show all posts
Showing posts with label East London. Show all posts
Monday, September 10, 2012
Monday, July 2, 2012
Week 95: July 2, 2012
Congratulations Colin and Whitney, Welcome Oaklyn!
Wow you are parents now! that is awesome, Another June baby in the family haha, the best month to have a birthday! She's a cute little one :)
Mom I understand you had a lot of things going on this week and weren't able to write me but reading e-mails was too short without one from you! hah
The picture attached was taken before district meeting Friday morning with all of the elders that live in Queenstown, however only two Elders proselyte in town and the rest of us drive out to our areas.
On Tuesday evening, my companion and I drove 2 1/2 hours to East London and stayed with Elder Naylor (one of my old companions) and his companion Elder Giles. The reason we went down to East London was for a Zone council which usually happens every other transfer but this one was a skype with President Wood and other missionaries around the mission. It was cool to catch up with Elder Naylor and talk about the people we taught and baptized in Bellville over a year ago. That was probably the last time I will see him on mission because he goes home in 5 weeks. I am so glad to be on mission and create these wonderful memories.
There are a couple of investigators that we have who are really progressing. One is named Lubabalo, he is a young man who has been coming to church a lot. He is really receptive to the lessons and we are working hard to get him ready for baptism, he was first introduced to the church through his relatives who are members. Another Progressing investigator we have is named Nangamso, she is also very receptive to the truth and has enjoyed the lessons very much. She is a bit busier than Lubabalo with work so it is more difficult to have many appointments to teach her but when we schedule appointments with here she won't drop them. There are some other people that we are teaching who could really make some progress but many of them have not yet read the Book of Mormon and received an answer that it is true so we are working with all of them to get them going. I loved this week, we were able to keep busy and stay focused on the work. I fasted and prayed that such will be the case for the rest of my mission.
I look forward to the updates on the house, the new member to the family and how the fourth of July goes!
Love you all,
Elder Nielsen
Wow you are parents now! that is awesome, Another June baby in the family haha, the best month to have a birthday! She's a cute little one :)
Mom I understand you had a lot of things going on this week and weren't able to write me but reading e-mails was too short without one from you! hah
The picture attached was taken before district meeting Friday morning with all of the elders that live in Queenstown, however only two Elders proselyte in town and the rest of us drive out to our areas.
On Tuesday evening, my companion and I drove 2 1/2 hours to East London and stayed with Elder Naylor (one of my old companions) and his companion Elder Giles. The reason we went down to East London was for a Zone council which usually happens every other transfer but this one was a skype with President Wood and other missionaries around the mission. It was cool to catch up with Elder Naylor and talk about the people we taught and baptized in Bellville over a year ago. That was probably the last time I will see him on mission because he goes home in 5 weeks. I am so glad to be on mission and create these wonderful memories.
There are a couple of investigators that we have who are really progressing. One is named Lubabalo, he is a young man who has been coming to church a lot. He is really receptive to the lessons and we are working hard to get him ready for baptism, he was first introduced to the church through his relatives who are members. Another Progressing investigator we have is named Nangamso, she is also very receptive to the truth and has enjoyed the lessons very much. She is a bit busier than Lubabalo with work so it is more difficult to have many appointments to teach her but when we schedule appointments with here she won't drop them. There are some other people that we are teaching who could really make some progress but many of them have not yet read the Book of Mormon and received an answer that it is true so we are working with all of them to get them going. I loved this week, we were able to keep busy and stay focused on the work. I fasted and prayed that such will be the case for the rest of my mission.
I look forward to the updates on the house, the new member to the family and how the fourth of July goes!
Love you all,
Elder Nielsen
Monday, September 12, 2011
Week 53: September 12, 2011
Reaping and Sowing
Siyonela was a golden investigator found last transfer who fell in love with the message of the Restoration and has really found great happiness in the gospel thus far. She was so excited to be baptized and confirmed, which will happen this next Sunday. What is nice is that we have even more baptisms coming up, and we are setting up our investigators well into the future so it is very exciting
Yesterday we took a trip down to East London for Stake conference, usually it's about 2 1/2 to 3 hours drive so we spent a total or about six hours in the car, it's a pretty drive although not as green as Cape Town. Our car is a manual transmission so it's a lot of fun to drive, I kind of like having to shift gears and use more of my body to operate a vehicle I guess it makes me feel less lazy than an automatic. Around here there is a lot of Farming going on, so we got to see a whole lot of livestock on the way. As a district we are thinking of getting all of our fellow shippers together and buying a goat or sheep to have a big Brie (Bar B Q), we think it would be a great P-day activity to Fellow Ship our fellow Shippers hah.
This Wednesday we will be taking another Trip to East London for Zone Conference, there we will be able to meet president Renlund and his wife who are doing a mission tour. You might remember a talk he gave in October 2009 "preserving a hearts mighty change". I am really excited to meet him and to see President and sister Wood again.
I might have said before but most of the teaching we do in our area is done at the university here, there are plenty of people to teach and they are super smart. On friday we went to a follow up appointment and there were 5 people hanging out in the persons dorm room, so we taught them all and picked up a bunch of new investigators. So basically we just meet so many new people all the time and will have a never ending supply of smart people willing to learn more. I love it!
Dad wow lots of people from Issaquah are playing in colleges now, very cool. congrats on having a good background haha, I knew there wasn't going to be a problem with that. I am really happy for you and Mom to have another opportunity to be in Peachtree city.
Looks like you all had a good weekend with the family and with Baby Ava. Momma not going to lie I am kind of glad the lease on the bug is up, I know you loved it but I am glad the it's time ran up ha, Good luck on finding a perfect house!
For P-day we are going to play some basketball with some fellows hippers and people from the township , so it will be pretty fun.
Love you all So Much,
Elder Nielsen
Elder Nielsen
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