Lincoln Mission September 24-30 2024

 

This week was amazing.  

Goodbye to Nargana

Well, I finished my time in Nargana and had to say goodbye to everyone. It was awesome to be comps with Elder Hulme again and I 100% would've done a second transfer with him if that was asked. He's the best. My relationships in Nargana are so strong and I'm definitely going to miss the people. Good thing my boys Elders Hulme and Tanner are gonna work hard and help it become a great branch. 

Along the sand

I love my new area. It's amazing. Stick huts, sand everywhere, no Spanish, etc. It's so fun. The people here are super nice. A ton of kids helped us take our stuff to the house and everyone treats us like family. Our branch president Josue is a legend, and we have a lot of cool members and families to work with. The culture here is super strong as well and I love it so much.

Sunday

We had 90 people show up to church! We're hoping to keep the momentum and help it continue to grow. The night before, the branch president let me know that I had to give a talk, so I had to use all of the Dulegaya that I know. Not that much. I kind of managed to get my point across and didn't insult anyone, so I'll call that a win. We had a good day and just a wild crazy night. We were so tired afterwards.

Well, thats basically it. I love it here. These people are my family. The experiences in Guna Yala are irreplacable

Elder Nali 

Hunter Mission September 24-30 2024

What is up my fam and friends, I hope you all are doing great and are living life to the fullest with God by your sude!

This week was picked full of milagros, first the fact that we put two fechas de bautismo this week which is so awesome. Javiera and Samuel are showing their desire to changed their lives and out the date for the 6 of October so we are going to keep teaching them and preparing them. These two people really are examples of change, both of them have pulled a full 180 on their lives and are using the spiritual momentum to grow closer to God and are doing so fast.

We also had entrevistas with President Trythol who is absolutely amazing as ever, he reminded us we still got to be working hard at finding people which I realized we've been slacking in recently, we've been slowly losing more and more people either being baptized or not responding to our messages so we're going to have to hit it hard this week with find the rest of those who are prepared for this gospel.

We also had our stake conference this week which was awesome two of our friends showed up which is a miracle because it was a lot farther away than the normal Church session and it really showed their faith in this Gospel one of them was Paula the mom of Vicente who had showed the desire to drop smoking and be baptized so we will be working with her this week. Unfortunately Vicent told us that he just like to talk with us and doesn't have interest in learning more about the gospel so he's slowly falling but we will keep teaching his mom and he will listen so hopefully the example of his mom can change his heart. Only God knows but we will keep acting in faith.

I think that about wraps up the week I'll hurry and leave a spiritual thought real quick, this comes from a general conference talk by Elder Costa, who we were able to meet a few weeks back,

"The source of that strength is faith in Jesus Christ as we intentionally seek to come unto Him each and every day."

This life is full of trials challenges and is straight up exhausting at times but when we actively and intentionally seek to come unto Christ each day he gives us the energy that we need. I have seen this in my mission, every morning I wake up not knowing how I am going tk get through the day. I'm exhausted, my brain is dead from spanish, and sometimes I just can't see the end of the road. But I show the act of faith by not taking a few extra minutes to sleep in but to get to work with the little energy I have and when I am actively trying to do his will that is when I find this energy and the desire to work harder and be better. We just have to put forth that first step of faith and we will see his power.

Love you all hope everything goes well, talk to you next week!

Elder Nelson (Hunter)

McKay YMSL Meals By Grace Detegent Team

McKay, Dad and I did Meals By Grace again, this time on the Detergent Team. They make their own detergent and then give it to needy families. They can make 70 bottles for the price of one bottle from the store. They have it down to a science (literally). 

We filled up the bottles with detergent. 

After this, we delivered food to some of the families who couldn't get to the pantry to get it themselves. They were all so kind and grateful. 
 

Apple Picking 2024

For a few days we have sat through storms from a hurricane. The scary part missed us and totally wrecked Augusta and North Carolina. We headed to do some apple picking Saturday morning to finish up our Fall Break. 

We drove up to Elijay and read Frankenstein on the way. Perfect fall book to read! We also saw a naked old man holding a Trump sign. We called 911 to get him some help and she said "is this about the naked guy?" They had people help him and we laughed and headed on our way. 

McKay was pretty excited about this old pay phone.

He's such a good sport about hanging out with his parents and no brothers. I know he misses them. 

It was such a beautiful morning. 

The apples were beautiful and delicious. 

McKay spent most of his time trying to figure out how to juggle. 

Josh is the pro. 

It was a good day!