Happy Birthday Sis. Nelson!!

Hi family!! Thank you for all of the birthday wishes!! Happy Birthday
on Saturday Jed!!! I can`t believe it`s birthday time again! It seems
like just yesterday we were at Lake Powell celebrating! I`m sure Jed
is happy he doesn`t have to be there for his birthday! haha Sorry Jed
you only get a year off because next year we are going!! Can you
believe on Saturday it will be one year since I got my call? And next
week my mission will be half way over! How crazy!! I never thought I
would live to see this day! And I know these next 9 months are going
to fly by even faster! I still can`t believe it! Time is so wierd! A
year and a half ago I never thought I would be where I am today! My
life did a complete 180 and I will be forever grateful for everything
that changed! Thank you for getting me to where I am today!
Well things are going well here! Lot`s of patience, diligence and
faith needed that`s for sure! But that`s how life is! Our PDF file(
Patience, Diligence, Faith- just in case you didn`t get it!) as
President Barker told me! It sounds like Jackson and I are in the same
boat searching like crazy for families to teach! I called the Barrera
Family yesterday after church because they didn`t answer in the
morning and they weren`t home when we went to get them for church, and
they said they didn`t want to listen anymore... My heart kinda really
broke and I just wanted to cry! I love them so much and I want more
than anything for them to go to the temple!! She said she wanted to
talk to us in person and explain why so we are going tonight with the
zone leaders to see what we can do. I`m sad and dissapointed but I
know the Lord will prepare their hearts and bring them to the truth in
his own time and way. We are still working with Tanya and Roberto,
Roberto didn`t come to church though.. he says he dones`t feel
comfortable with the Young men there and he is afraid he is going to
become inactive after his baptism like his parents. So we are going to
be working hard with the members to get him to feel good at church
and to get his parents active again. We found a family on Saturday who
have potential but they can only see us on saturdays because he works
late, and they didn`t come to church because he likes to play soccer
on Sunday`s so we need to work on that.
Other that that not too much is going on! I don`t know if I ever told
you about Manuels cousins we were teaching before we got transfered..
They were baptized!! All except Ines. And Manuel baptized them!! We
got to go to the baptism cause they meet in our ward building! it was
such a neat experience to see him exercising his Priesthood!! Sorry if
I already told you about that.. I can`t remember. When I sit down to
write my mind goes blank because there is so much going on I don`t
know how to organize my thoughts!! Anyway Thank you for all the love
and support!! I love you all and I am so grateful for this Gospel and
that I get to share it with others!! Have a great week!! Happy
Father`s day Papi!!!! I love you!!!! xoxoxoXo
Love forever and always,
Hermana Nelson