The End!

Hi family!!  I can't believe I am coming home tommorrow!!  It doesn't seem real.  I'm excited to see you all though! This week was..... not so good.  I got really sick Monday night with the flu and then my companion started on Wednesday so we couldn't work all week.  It was not fun.  But the good news is.......................... Juan Caros and Mauricio got baptized and confirmed this weekend!!  It was a great end to the mission.  I am so grateful I got one more chance to see my investigators in white and to feel that joy.  It was awesome!!  Thank you family for all the love and support you have given me these past 18 months.  I couldn't have done it without you.  i have learned and grown so much.  I love being a missionary, I love this gospel, I love this country and I love these people.  I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.  Wherefore I conclude this record, declaring that I have written according to the best of my knowledge, by saying that the time passed away llke as it were unto us a dream.  Now my brethren, we see that God is mindful of every people whatsoever land they may be in; yea, he numbereth his people, and his bowels of mercy are over all the earth.  Now this is my joy, and my great thanksgiving; yea, and I will give thanks unto my God forever.  Amen.

*2 Timothy 4:7, Jacob 7:26, Alma 26:37

We Thank The Oh God for a Prophet!!

Hi family!  I hope you are all doing well! I can tell you are all getting excited!  haha I am excited to see you all too don't worry!  Conference was AMAZING!!!!!  I loved it!  We were so excited all week for it to come! And it came and went way too fast!  I love that we have prophets and apostles!!  I can't wait to get the Ensign!!! 

Well..... Juan Carlos was supposed to get baptized this weekend but he didn't show up!  And then Saturday night we ran into him and he said he wanted to go to conference so we said we would meet at 10:00 to go together and he wasn't there so we called and he said he would meet us there and never came.  I am kind of frustrated with him.  I don't really know what to do now.  He says he wants to get baptized but isn't doing anything to make it happen so we are going to have a talk with him and then wait to see what he does to show that he really wants to do it. 

Mauricio came to conference and liked it!!  He is going to have his baptism interview tonight!  He has a baptism date for this Saturday and we are excited for him!  He is really sweet and humble!  So keep him in your prayers please! 

We really don't have a lot of progressing investigtors right now but we are working hard trying to get a program together so that Hna. Bailey will have something to work with.  I always tell her she is going to be training and I don't want her hija to be bored just contacting all day long because I didn't leave a program behind!  haha 

I can't believe this is my last week in the mission!  It is so crazy how fast time goes by!  But I have loved every single minute and wouldn't change a thing!  Thank you for all of your love and support!  I couldn't have done this without you all!  I love you!!!  Have a great week!!! 

xoxoxoxoxXo

Love forever and always,

Hermana Nelson

To Be Continued..........

Hi family!  Well I don't have a lot of time today, we got our email time cut down to 30 minutes so it will be short... Shorter than normal!  haha Well this week was good!  We were getting all excited for Juan Carlos' baptism, we went by Saturday morning and everything was ready and he was excited! And then we went by to get him for the baptism and he wasn't home so we called and he said that he didn't feel like he was ready, that he wasn't sure and he wanted to wait until next week.  So I told him to come to the chapel and we would talk!  So he can and the district leader and a zone leader talked to him with us and we asked questions, shared scriptures, testimonies and experiences but he still wanted to wait until next week!  So this week he is going to be praying and reading and be ready to be baptized this Saturday!  Which is alright because if that is what will make him feel more comfortable and sure than that is what we are going to do!  So keep him in your prayers please!!  I love you all! Sorry I can't write more.  Have a good week!!!

 

xoxoxoxoxoXo

Love forever and always,

Hermana Nelson

2 More Weeks Until Conference!!!

Hi family!!!! 
Can you believe it's almost conference again???  I can't!  We just had it!  I'm so excited!!  Conference is like Christmas in the mission!  haha So good news!!!!  Hna. Bailey's brother just got his mission call to Honduras San Pedro Sula!!!  We are so excited for him!!  This week has been good!  We have been studying and sharing with members Pres. Uchtdorf's talk "Forget Me Not" this week.  I love that talk!  It has helped me look for the little forget-me-not flowers in my life and not just wait for my ¨Golden Ticket¨ to get here.  So on Sundays we always go as a zone to visit all of our investigators and sing them a hymn and yesterday a lady in our ward, Luzmila, who lives alone asked us if we could do a FHE with her that afternoon.  We told her we could do it on Tuesday because we had appointments.  So then we get to the stake center and the elders tell us they have a Priesthood meeting and we weren't doing the zone visits!  We were so mad because it's Sunday afternoon, we have no appoinments and no one is ever home on Sundays!  So what the heck would we do?  So we called Luzmila and told her we could do the FHE if she still wanted to!  So we went and we were stilling there giving her the message about the forget-me-nots and I thought I shouldn't have had such a bad attitude about not going to do visits with the zone.  It was just a sweet moment to share with Luzmila who is all alone and doesn't have anyone to spend time with very often. I felt so grateful to share 20 minutes with her sharing a thought and feeling the Spirit and brightening her day! 

So Juan Carlos came to church yesterday and is getting baptized this Saturday!!!!!  We are so excited for him!!  He has grown a lot!  We had an awesome lesson with him on Friday!  It has been so hard to get him to church because something was always coming up Sunday mornings.  So we taught him keeping the Sabbath Day holy and the Spirit was so strong working through us!  We were super bold and promised him specific blessings if he came to church and it was a really powerful lesson!  I loved it!!  The Spirit is always strongest when we are really bold and direct but with love of course!  I love being a missionary!!  How many times in your life can you say ¨as a representative of Jesus Christ I promise you...¨?  Not too often!  It is so cool!!  I memorized Our Missionary Commission this week in Spanish - next week in English - and it is so awesome! 

                                                                             

 My Missionary Commission

¨I am called of God. My authority is above that of kings of the earth. 

 By revelation I have been selected as a personal representative of the 

 Lord Jesus Christ. He is my master and He has chosen me to represent Him-

 to stand in his place, to say and do what He Himself would say and do if he 

 personally were misitering to the very people to whom He has sent me. My 

 voice is His voice and my acts are His acts; my doctrine is His doctrine. My

                              Commission is to do what He wants done; to say what He wants said; to be 

                                a living modern witness in word and in deed of the divinity of his great and 

                                                marvelous Latter-day work. How great is my calling!¨

                                                                                                                Elder Bruce R. McConkie  

I love it!!  It is so awesome to be a missionary!  I am going to miss it.  I know it is time to move on and start the next chapter.  But I will always remember this time, it will always be a part of me.  Thank you family for everything you have given to love and support me here on the mission!  It definately isn't easy but it is so worth it!!!  Love you all!  Have an amazing week and don't forget to recognize the little forget-me-nots along the way!!! 

xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoXOxo

Love forever and always,

Hermana Nelson

Cotopaxi!

Hi family!  How is everyone doing?  Things are going well, it doesn´t seem real to me that my mission is ending soon. But I feel so unprepared.     I don't feel like I am who I need to be yet, like I am the missionary I should be.  I have never felt so unperfect in my life.  I just feel so weird and I don't know how to handle all of this.  I'm excited to come home and see everyone and start my life but I don't want to stop being a missionary.  But don't worry I am fine!  I love you!!

We went to Cotopaxi today and I am so tired!!  But it was pretty!  I sent you pictures!  Well our week was good!  Tuesday my companion was sick so we were in the house all day!  It's tiring doing nothing all day long!  But she is doing good now!  We are getting along great!  She is helping me a lot dealing with all these mixed emotions I have!  I am kinda freaking out that my mission is coming to an end and I don't know how to deal with it.  But she is very supportive!  

 

Well Juan Carlos didn't come to church today so his date fell.... We were really sad.  I don't know what happened because we went to visit him on Saturday and everything was all set but when we went by to get him for church he wasn't there and I called him but he left his cell phone at home.  We have an appointment with him today so we will see what happened.  We are going to have to be super direct with him because he needs to come to church! He is really excited for his baptism though so I'm not sure what the deal is..

 

Elena, we haven't been able to teach her all week.  She is never home for our appointments.  So I don't know what to do with her.

 

Liliana came to church with her husband's sister and cousin!  We taught them the Plan of Salvation but the husband still doesn't want to get married.  I don't know how to help him.  But Liliana is awesome and loves going to church!

 

We have another Liliana, Liliana Villagomez. I don't know how to help them get married either.  It's a huge paperwork process and she doesn't really want to get married either.  But we set a date with her daughter Zaida for the 24th!  She couldn't come to church though cause her mom was sick and she was taking care of her.

 

We taught Jose, that guy we found last week and it was an awesome lesson!  We talked about the Atonement and he really wants to change his life.  He has a lot of problems with his wife though.  They aren't married either and he isn't living with her right now.  I think she kicked him out because she doesn't trust him.  But she doesn't want to talk to us so it's kinda hard.  They have a girl and 4 little boys and he wants them all the get baptized but when we went by for them for church he wasn't there either.  But he accepted a date for the 31st!  So keep them all in your prayers please!!

Things are going well, it doesn´t seem real to me that my mission is ending soon. But I feel so unprepared. I don´t feel like I am who I need to be yet, like I am the missionary I should be. I have never felt so unperfect in my life. I just feel so weird and I don´t know how to handle all of this. I´m excited to come home and see everyone and start my life but I don´t want to stop being a missionary. But don´t worry I am fine! I love you!!

xoxoxxoxoXo

Well family I love you all and I am so grateful for all that you do for me!  I love this gospel and I love being a missionary!!!  Have the best week ever!!!  Love you!

xoxoxoxoxXo

Love forever and always,

Hermana Nelson

Cotopaxi!

Happy Birthday Sis. Nelson!

Jacque's mission Pres. wife sent me a surprise email for my birthday with some pictures.  SO sweet!

Dear Sister Nelson,

 

Happy Birthday from the Ecuador Quito Mission.   We love Hermana Nelson and we are so grateful to have her serving here in Ecuador.  She is a wonderful missionary, she works hard and is blessing the lives of the people here.    Pictures make a lovely birthday surprise!

 

Con cariño,

Hermana Ghent

My Missionary!

Such great smiles!

Hot Cocoa at Christmas Dinner and Family Night

Happy Birthday!!!

Happy Birthday Mami!!!! I love you!!! Have the best day ever!!!!!!

Happy Birthday Mami!!!!! I love you! You are the best mami ever!!!!

 

Well this week has been really good!  Juan Carlos - We went to visit them with the zone leaders on Wednesday and it went really well!  They told us that we need to teach them the Plan of Salvation and so Friday we went and taught them and it was a good lesson!  They had a lot of questions but in they end they understood it all and really got them thinking!  I love the Plan of Salvation!  His mom still is being stubborn but his dad seemed a little more interested so we will see!  Juan Carlos didn't come to church though and we went by after and his mom wouldn't let us in because they are all sick and she said that we couldn't come back until the weekend.... I don't know.  So much opposition!!!  I don't like Satan!

 

Liliana - we went to visit her on Tuesday but her husband wasn't there so we made an appointment to visit them both Thursday night.  So we brought a newly married couple with us but they weren't home!  I was finally able to get a hold of her on Saturday and her aunt got sick and she has been taking care of her.  So she didn't come to church either.

 

Elena - We found a new lady this week, Elena.  She is awesome!  She accepted a date for the 24th and she asked us what to do if her husband and kids disown her for getting baptized so we talked with her a little bit and then she said I don't care if I end up alone I'm going to do it!!  haha It was awesome.  And then we invited her to church and she said she couldn't this week because she sells flowers and on Sunday a lot of clients come by.  But she started making plans with us of how she can arrange it that she can come to church every week!!  WOO!!

 

So the point is no one came to church this week but that's okay!  There is always next week!  This month is going to be a good one!  It is March of Miracles!!  And we are going to see a ton of miracles!  Even more than we are alreay seeing!

 

Well....... my trunky paper came... I started hyperventalating!  haha I'm in shock still.  It doesn't feel real that my misison is ending.  But I am leaving April 10th, Tusday morning at 6:40 and I have a layover in Miami  and my plane comes in at 6:25 p.m.  I know you are all jumping up and down right now but I am freaking out!!!!  I'm excited to see everyone and to be home but I don't want to leave the mission and I don't want to take my placa off! But that just gives me more reason to work even harder these last weeks of my mission.  I am going to finish the race sprinting!  haha  And when I am done I will be able to say I don't need or want to go back to the mision field because I gave it everything I had!!

 

I love you family!  Thank you for all of your love and support!  Thank you for helping me make this the best 18 months of my life!  You are the best!!!!!

 

xoxoxoxoxoxXo

Love forever and always,

Hermana Nelson