Quoth the Raven

Hello everyone,

I hope everyone is doing well, and is staying away from feral badgers. They get especially feral at this time of year sadly. 

This week was fun so here we go:

Tuesday we had the last district council of the transfer and Elder Crane from our district is going home :( 

District council was really fun and we did something called "false prophecies" where we all make guesses about who is going to be transferred and where. For anyone going home we make guesses on how many months until he/she is married haha

On Tuesday I also realized to my dismay that when it comes to storage space I may care more than I thought. A week or so ago I had been telling someone with disdain that my parents loved storage space so much that they would get drives and things with unfathomable amounts of storage space, before it seemed to even be necessary. But this week I noticed that I had 15 GB of trash on my SD card that my phone couldn't delete. I tried to click "empty trash" and nothing would happen. Nothing I tried would work, and even though I have plenty of storage left on the SD card I couldn't bear the thought that 15 GB were just sitting there, out of reach. :( Luckily I was able to fix the problem by putting the card into a different phone and deleting the memory before transferring it back. :) So I guess I am more like my parents then I thought.

Wednesday it was really rainy! It poured all morning, I will attach a quick video. Luckily in the afternoon the rain finally stopped cause we were going over to a non-member's house to do some service. We helped put up some fencing, and also loaded up a trailer. Luckily because of the rain the ground was very wet so working on the fencing was pretty easy. 

In the evening we had another phone lesson with one of our progressing people and we taught the Word of Wisdom. I don't know how willing she is to keep it though, she seemed pretty hesitant so we asked her to pray about it to gain her own testimony about it. Also she hasn't really been committing to come to church even though we keep inviting her to come, so if she isn't interested in keeping those commitments we will probably drop her until she is more ready.

Thursday in the afternoon we sent out mass texts to hundreds of former investigators in our area inviting them to watch General Conference. 😀 It was fun to watch the phone send out text after text haha--hopefully a few of them watched it. Also on Thursday a member family invited us over "for dinner" and I thought nothing of it until we arrived and a encountered their giant German Sheppard, which was none too happy to see us. It went insane with barking when we entered, but luckily its trainer was there. Apparently they are trying to train their dog to not freak out around new people and we were their first test. Dinner was pretty good though, we had homemade pizza! 

Friday was a fun day, we went out with the ward missionaries and stopped by a bunch of inactive members. I got to give someone a blessing and we also helped someone move in.

In the evening was when the real fun began. A former investigator randomly reached out to us and said he would love to meet the "new guys" and asked I'd we wanted to come over for tacos. We, being the type of people who like tacos, said, "Sure!" He loves talking with missionaries and even though he isn't interested in becoming a member right now he loves to talk with us about the scriptures because they fascinate him. The tacos were amazing (made with his own deer meat) and maybe someday we will get through to him.

Saturday and Sunday we watched Conference which was really good. We lounged at the church using 3 chairs each since we were the only ones there. On Sunday we watched with our Elders Quorum President and his family. What was y'alls favorite talk?

Some pictures will be attached with no captions, as is my custom :)

-Elder Nielson