July 18, 2011

Helllllllllllllllllllloooooooooooooooooooo tttttttttttttttthhhhhhhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

          Hey Everyone How in the world are you all doing? how is life? How is the cabin? It sounds like you have big plans for this weekend, putting rocks up all around! Sorry i cant be there to help. But thats ok. Well fist let me start by saying......THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for the birthday package. You made My birthday wonderful. and i really appreciate it. =) We used the party supplies in our coordination meeting with our district leaders, dont worry i took pictures to send to you. I haven't made the cake yet but don't worry i will. =) also I loved loved loved the pictures. You are all so great. Hannah, you are growing up...goodness gracious. STOP IT! I heard about some big news of yours and i just thought that i would say congratulations. You'll have to take me to the movies and ice cream. =) Josh, thanks for the tie, i wore it yesterday as my final hoorah. (news that i will bring up later in the email).... Jake thanks for the shirt and shorts, i am wearing them right now!!! Mom and dad thank you so so much for the money and gift cards....trust me they are appreciated, and i cannot wait to go to jamba juice. =) Hannah....that was the biggest card i have ever seen!!!!! I dance to the song whenever i listen to and read the card haha. All in all you are all incredible. by far the best family that ever walked the face of the universe!!!!!!!! THE TAPE MADE MY YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I listened to the whole thing. haha. It made me laugh, i thought it was great. I thought that was the best idea ever. so thank you so much. HAHA dont tell mikella but when i meet her i am going to have this impression of her talking really fast and like a chipmunk...haha thats horrible of me to say. but she sounds really great and seems like a wonderful guuuuuuuuuurl.
         I cant believe how big landon looks!!!!! oh my goodness. that is nuts. You are all getting old on me. It sounds like you all had quite the weekend, josh congrats on the test! You are officially baller status. keep it up. Jake, good luck on the job interview. I'm sure you will do well. Go get em. Word. haha. Hannah, how are you and gemma getting along? probably not too well huh? =P Mom, how are you doing? are you all destressed and settled down from the past few weeks. Dad, how are you doing? I've been thinking a lot about you lately. Know i love you. =)
           Well so Josh asked some questions in the tape that i will answer before i tell you about my week, and Dad you asked some in your email. I'll answer those, and any other questions you may have...but first i have one....WHAT DID PRESIDENT SAY IN HIS PHONE CALL TO YOU??????? that kinda scares me haha. But he is an incredible man huh? isnt he just the most loving man in the world????? he is great or did you mean president Lowary called you?. Josh you asked about the ins and outs of the mission, There are around 180 missionaries in the mission, And president does not like three somes so he has been opening areas and splitting them all up (more later to come in the email) On average monthly baptisms have been pretty low, they were up in the 80's but the past few transfers have been down in the 60's. If i were to have one person in the family write me more....well I dont really know.  I am grateful for how much you all do write to me. I know your all busy and i appreciate the time you take to do it. But i guess as of late it would be jake...I havent heard too much from him...other than  a quick little note in the package. which i am grateful for. And hannah, i know you like to write personal letters so i am grateful for that.You can write emails if it takes less time? =) Dad you asked how the zone was doing? It is doing really well, things have improved a lot these past few weeks, and this weekend there were five people in the zone baptized. People have a newness of life and the work, and they are definitely feeling love. Love is what its all about. =) Jake you asked if i have any funny sister stories....i'll save those. they are....sisters haha. Dad, you also asked if i needed anything..i think i am doing really good. Thank you though. I dont really need much. Just to be a better reader haha, i feel like there is so much i want to read but never have enough time to do it all. ugh haha. But hey now worries, i am doing great. Thanks. =)
          Alright so this week...has been an adventure to say the least. I guess i will start by telling you the biggest news of all. Saturday, but in order to tell you about saturday i have to first tell you about wednesday, so there is a missionary who got E-T'ed out of his area this week, and the assistants called us and were telling us that we needed to find somewhere in the zone that we could put him with someone who was in a tri companionship....so that made the rest of the week super hectic like thursday we spent 3 hours looking for an apartment with the apartment coordinator so that those missionaries could have somewhere to live, but they cant move in til friday of this week so they are living with us in our little place haha. . So saturday we spent the morning driving like 1 hour there and 1 hour back to pick the two of them up, and bring them into our area...and they are going to take over the family ward that we cover. Well...used to cover. =) It was kind of sad, we have been introducing them to the area and showing them around, and sunday was our last day in that ward...I am happy for them because there are a lot of wonderful people in that area, but sad that i wont get to see them progress. The families we have been teaching (two of them) susan and kaitlyn (the two that went to salt lake) and michelle (the girl we just started working with.) but i will say that i know the Lord knows what he is doing.  At church yesterday there was another woman who just came and wants to get baptized. haha, I guess he just needed me out of there to put someone in he could trust a little more. =) But I am excited to be strictly singles ward. IT will be an adventure, and a big test of faith. So i am hoping i grow lots, and i think i will. Pray for me. =) I love that ward, but will miss them. =) President has a lot of big plans for the singles ward and he is happy we are just going to be over them now, He has a lot he would like to try and i think our area is going ot be the testing grounds for it.
       Other excitign things that happened this week. My family sent me an amazing package for my birthday, that was pretty amazing. and a tape, where they say i am gonna come back super weird....and that i say weird things. Ok you're right i probably will. Elder knight said i already am weird...haha, and i am gonna be ridiculously weird when i go home. haha, i guess that is a heads up. ;) We had interviews this week, and Elder knight and i taught it. It was deifinitley a super long meeting haha, he and i got there at like 8:45 and didnt leave til like 5:15. Haha. it was good though, i learned a lot. =) We got to go to a fireside in a different ward this week too president wanted all the leadership in the area to be there to learn and to help with role plays. We got to have dinner with presidnet lowary on saturday, it was awesome, He is so great. they made me ribs and mashed potatoes and steamed broccoli, and got me balloons. I cant wait to introduce them to you all. You will love them. OH yeah we also lost our truck for half the week, that was totally an adventure, because our family ward is 20 minutes away, haha. luckily there was a corolla at the mission office that we could use. WHew. haha.
        All in all this week has definitley been an adventure, also i cant type very well you may have noticed haha. but thats ok. =) So it was a great week, sad but great. Learned lots and am excited for the future. =) I hope you all know how much i love you and care about you. You are the best!!!!!
     Love,

Elder Haydn Nelson

ok cool experience this week, so last week, we had a half an hour planned where we just put "miracle" and that was the plan, so we were driving at that time and there was a guy named ricky who had his car in the middle of the road with his back left tre that fell off, so we got out to help him, pushed his car to the side of the road and helped him get home, then yesterday in singles ward this girl came up to us and said "hey i think you know my friend ricky?" and we said "Oh my goodness yeah we do" and she said  "it was the wierdest thing, i saw him in the library and got this feeling that i needed to go and talk to him" (the spirit) "so i did and we had a way good conversation about missionaries and the church" So that was definiely a miracle. I will keep you updated on what happens with it. She said she was going to introduce him to us again, and bring him to church. MIRACLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo love-forever, like-for always, long - living, family -be =)

ps. you should go to mormon.org and check out one of the videos of a girl named lisa adachi. she went to my high school, it was crazy, we went on one day and i saw her and i flipped out and was all NO WAY????? it was cool. She is a funny girl.
pss. mom if you have any good recipes for me to try that are simple and cheap i would love them haha, Now that we are only in the singles ward, i am gonna have to start cooking more. We have a little tiny crockpot. but thats about it. haha.