20th Lasagna with Lasagna Love

McKay and I have made and delivered 20 lasagnas with Lasagna Love. It's been such a good experience serving our community. 

 

McKay Relay for Life Club Fair

McKay started the American Cancer Society Relay for Life Club at West Forsyth High. Pavica Paz works with the American Cancer Society and gave him some "swag" to bring to the club fair. 

He ended up having a good amount of people who wanted to be part of the club!

 

Hunter Mission August 19-25 2025

 It's gonna be another short one but it's been a great week!

We are helping Fabian, Camila, and Daniel on their path to be baptized. They have all progressed a bunch and are showing signs of repentance which are the small changes and sacrifices that they make. 

Pray for them as they keep going, They all need to feel God's help and support and through your prayers that will get an answer to that prayer.

We algo had the chance to listen to the tabernacle choir at temple Square who went to Argentina to celebrate 100 years of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in South America, every stake center had a huge activity and broadcasted it everywhere. It was super awesome and our friends could feel the spirit.

I love you all so much, let me know if you need anything 

Elder Nelson

Hunter Mission August 12-18 2025

 It's gonna be a short one today, running out of time but I got enough to get the email out.

But first of, I hope you guys are all going well and are excited for the future. Good things are coming we just have to look for them.

This week was a crazy one, we had the week full of conferences with all of the zones and overall it was super fun. We had an awesome presentation and I was able to share the awesome story about Pipe and Ana which is always a powerful story to share. So we got that rolling and then on Friday we had to say goodbye to a few missionaries who were going home in the middle of the transfer to arrive in time for school, which is crazy. Then we ended off the week with the baptism of Sebastian which was awesome 

This week I just realized how fast time flies, there are sister missionaries that got here with me that are already getting ready to go home, and Ana and Felipe are preparing to go to the Temple. This led me to thinking about how short our lives really are and I realized that whoever we want to be in the future we need to start now. We change from night to day into a different person so what we need to do is ask ourselves who you want to become in this life time, and the ask yourself in 20 years where do I need to be, to be working towards that goal. And when we continue to do that year after year, eventually we'll arrive to what do I need to do today and this entire week to start this process of becoming who I need to be. Our end goal is Jesus Christ, to become like him. That's gonna take time and effort so I invite all of you guys to start this process now.

Ether 12:27

Love you all, let me know how I can help you 

Elder Nelson

Hunter Mission August 5-11 2025

 

Hunter doesn't take a lot of pictures, so I found this from a leadership council on Facebook. If I hadn't, there wouldn't have been any for this week...

How has eveyone been this week? It's been a fun one.

We've been focused on restarting our sector this week, we started off with a day of visiting our friends and pure talking with everyone in the streets. That's something that I've learned to enjoy on the mission, just talking with a bunch of random people about their lives and being their friend for a few minutes. 

Besides that we had some exchanges, that always go super well. I love the fact that no matter what happens in the day we always have the chance to just be happy. Why get upset when you can learn from your mistakes and make sure it doesn't happen again? Enjoy the journey. If we can learn that, we'll be able to progress a lot faster and always find joy.

Anyway that's what I've learned so far on the mission and I'm still learning more every day, and I'm loving it. We have zone conference coming up so we had to work on our presentation that we are going to give and that's always an awesome time to learn more about the doctrine. Its a little easier to understand the doctrine when you teach it.

We also have the baptism of Sebastian coming up in the next weeks, so be praying for him and his family as we go through this week

Love you all so much! 

Elder Nelson

McKay First Day of Sophomore Year

He's off to his first day of school! It's so crazy he is a sophomore. With McKay being our last boy in school, I am very conscious of "lasts." 

We had our traditional pancakes, but instead of "ABC" I did "10th grade" (and did the E backward). 

I am praying for McKay to have a wonderful year!

Back to School Dinner 2025

Back to School dinner! We were lucky to have Lincoln this year! The boys asked for breakfast for dinner, which I was happy to oblige. 
 

I found some cute stuff for our dinner on Amazon and My Mind's Eye. 

 

Hunter Mission July 29-August 4 2025

 How has everyone been doing!! This has been a very weird and fun week, but we did not have a lot of actual time in the sector, so that was a bummer, but I'll get to talking about the week.

We just had transfers so on Tuesday we had to help everyone get coordinated, it was fun to see everyone in Viña and see where they'll be going. Imma still be here in Las Torres, still but i'm loving it and have great hope for these next few weeks.

On Wednesday we have the bienvenida of all the new missionaries which usually happened in Viña but we had a tsunami alerta because of the earthquake in Russia so we had to evacuate the city and we ended up just moving everyone to Huanuali to the bienvenida. We received a lot of awesome missionaries, 20 new people just got in and we are excited to see them grow. The only problem was that the members had to cancel so my comp and I went around driving from end to end of the mission dropping off all the newbies, it was an adventure.

And then we thought that we would end the week tranquilo, but at midnight Thursday morning, we got another evacuation alert and had to go pick up a bunch of missionaries to go sleep in a church that's farther from the ocean. 3 hours of sleep that day and I was feeling awesome. It was a funny experience. We had to put the church pews together to make beds for the missionaries

After all that craziness we hit up the leaders council and a little bit of rendir to end the week. Overall it was a week full of experiences to remember, so I'm a happy man.

Quick spiritual thought is about the Atonement of Jesus Christ.

We should be using the Atonement of Jesus Christ every day of our lives. We commit to becoming better and when we choose to use the Atonement God commits to helping us. This has been something that is essential for me in the mission because my goal is to always be progressing, the way to do that is through the Atonement and power of Jesus Christ.

I love you all and hope you are doing well! Let me know if I can do anything for you 

Elder Nelson