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Hello again,

This week was kind of fun

Monday evening we had a lesson we had set up with someone on Facebook who "wanted to learn about our beliefs but had no intention of converting." We of course set up the lesson anyway. Our plan was to hit her unexpectedly with truth and THEN we would see how much her note that she "wouldn't convert" would hold up hehehe

Unfortunately though she never showed. :( 

Tuesday was very strange because it was a normal day for me and Elder Clark, but our whole district we knew was in Allen for transfers. Me and Elder Clark each made a video at the church since we didn't have lessons set up on Tuesday. We also did a lot of Facebook work and we are starting to have lots of success! We are talking simultaneously to so many people through messenger and slowly finding ways to set up in person meetings.

Wednesday we got to meet our new DL and he's hilarious. His name is Elder Nelson and he has so much energy at all times that it's hard to keep up. He's great though and I think this will be an intense transfer. 

We also did a bunch of stopbys here in New Boston after district council. As usual hardly anybody answered but I don't mind because then I get to leave one of my beautiful cards and put a note in Area Book saying "Left a card." 🙂 It's very satisfying. I hope people appreciate the cards Elder Clark and I leave--each one is hand-crafted genuine leather and sharpened with the newest window-cleaning technology.

Thursday was pretty busy. In the afternoon we helped an inactive member with some wood. The amazing ward missionaries were there with us and so they used their chainsaw to cut the wood into manageable pieces while we then moved and stacked it. I'm so glad chainsaws were invented (on March 23, 1337 at 9 am if you were curious) otherwise that job would have taken 10-50 times longer haha

After service we ate dinner with the ward missionaries and their house is so clean and cozy! It seems like the perfect house to retire in and do missionary work from. 

After we ate Elder Clark and I had a lesson with a new family who past missionaries had taught at some point. When we got there they were making dinner and fed us a second dinner! They gave us no warning otherwise we wouldn't have eaten before. Their two kids talked and talked to us the whole time, it was really fun. The parents apologized not realizing that both Elder Clark and I come from huge families so if there is one thing we can handle, it's kids talking to us. The lesson went well and the parents had lots of hard questions but I could definitely see this family getting Baptized sometime in the near future. 

Friday was pretty normal, although we did have mission conference which was fun. I especially liked Sister Seitz' address on delighting in the Gospel. She challenged us to think of a list of things we delighted in and so far I have added the Book of Mormon and food to my list.

On Saturday we had our ward Easter Activity so that was fun to attend. They had all sorts of games and unfortunately Elder Clark and I were bamboozled by some youth into doing the sack race while in our proselytizing clothes--it was not a comfortable experience, although we did beat some people.

Saturday evening a member got us some Texmex food and it was probably some of the best Mexican food I have ever had. 

Sunday was pretty average, in the evening it rained while we were sitting at a table in a small gazebo so that was fun! It was nice to hear and see the rain and not get wet.

That's far from all that happened this week

-Elder Nielson