Lincoln Mission October 1-7 2024

 Life is amazing right now. The people here are the best. The community is super cool. And just a lot to do every day. 

Baptism

One of the kids we're teaching decided to get baptized! He's a cool kid, loves to sing hymns with us, and knows a ton already. We took him to the river, sang, gave some short talks about baptism and the Holy Ghost, then Elder Hyde was able to baptism. He was super happy and I felt super happy for him. Quality experience

Conference

Well, I'm sure conference was amazing as always, but we watched it in Dulegaya. We didn't have the opportunity to hide away and watch it in english, so I have a lot of homework to do

Jungle Service

Today we were able to do a really cool service. All the men of the village had to go clean a jungle path and we were able to go with them. We walked for hours through the jungle, widening the trail and cutting out better paths. We just hung out with a bunch of great guys, drank some sketchy water, and crossed a cool river. We got super muddy, but it was well worth it

Other stuff

- Got some good service in

- watched some guy shoot an iguana

- found an entire family that wants to get baptized

- I'm loving every day. Life is good

Hunter Mission October 1-7 2024

How are yall doing? Hopefully awesome! Hopefully all spiritually fed from General Conference which was absolutely fire this time around. We watched it in Spanish, but luckily for me I kinda have to learn Spanish, so it was awesome.

This week was an absolute crazy week with so much happening, never a dull moment and so many experiences that will change my life 

But anyway we started this week off with Zone Conference, which was absolutely awesome. I always love to hear how we can work more effectively in missionary work because I only have 2 years and it's already going by too fast. So I am going to be working a lot on that this upcoming cambio.

We also finally had Paula commit to a baptismal date! She will be baptized this Sunday and she even watched General Conference like 3/5 sessions which shows her dedication. She has been absolutely amazing to see her progress my very first day in Chile I met her and she has worked her way all the way up to baptism. It was a very long journey but she's ready. Unfortunately I will not be here for the baptism, but I'll talk about that later.

We had a baptism this week!! Javiera is an absolute miracle and she took her first covenant step yesterday. I'm going to give a little background about her to actually show how much of a miracle she is. When we first met Javiera she was abusing drugs, smoking, depressed, and even tried taking her own life. Her amazing sister Tamara (our recent convert) had us come over to see if we could help, we gave blessings of health and comfort and left her a Book of Mormon, but she seemed to be a project for 2 or 3 transfers. She just really needed to work a lot on herself but she told us she was going to try. Fast forward a week and a half to this last Saturday, she had her baptism scheduled for the Sunday and she told us with pride how she had been clean from drugs, stopped hanging out with her friends that were bad influences, and was so excited to show is she was drinking herbal tea instead of coffee when we passed by. She offically is baptized and has changed my testimony personally so much. She's been such a great example to all of us

I just gotta say miracles exist and God exists just because of that story. Unfortunately I will have to leave this amazing ward in Limache and go to Quillota. This is going to be a huge experience. We will be whitewashing (coming in with nobody to train us on the area) the area so no one knows anything about anything, oh and I am trainning a Greenie (brand new missionary) that I haven't met yet (we'll figure that out Wednesday), and just to add on top of it, I will be a District Leader while I am trainning a greenie, and also while I open the sector . God definitely had a sense of humor and I know this will be the best thing for me I just got to trust in the Lord, like a lot, and he will show me the way.

Anyway for the spiritual thought I want you to use the story of Javiera to help you, there js always hope for you and those around you just rely on God and he will show you the way. It won't be comfortable but then again anything worthwhile never will be comfortable so change yourself to God will, take the first step in change and you will see blessings and miracles. 

Love you all so much if you need anything I am here. I can always pray for yall

Elder Nelson (Hunter)

McKay Football Game vs Lambert

The last regular game of he season was against Lambert. They got blown out the first time, but this time West did much better...but still lost. 

Kick off team. 

McKay had a great tackle. I thought for sure this receiver was gone, but McKay grabbed him and took him down. It was a horse collar, but a penalty is better than a touchdown. 

I was a great takedown and this was their best/fastest receiver!