Hello,
I hope everyone had a good Mother's Day (this is the correct use of the apostrophe I decided after much meditation, if it wasn't an official holiday though it would most likely be Mothers' Day)
On Monday we went to the Shreve for Zone p-day. It was pretty fun, one of the things we played is chair soccer. Monday evening we did some walking around in neighborhoods and we talked to everyone who was out and about. We found a new person to teach also. I have started using Alma 37:37 (one of my new favorite scriptures) as one of my goto in-the-moment scriptures because it is very unique and good.
On Tuesday we taught someone on her porch the Plan of Salvation and she told us to wait a second, went inside, and then grabbed a notebook. She then took about 1.62 pages of notes as we taught. She was really excited about this plan and asked us why we didn't tell more people about it and said how her life would have been very different if she had known about it sooner. We were very glad to see such good reception, she also liked our visual we gave her to help her remember it. I have attached a picture of it. Later in the afternoon we did some street contacting and stopbys in Maud and we talked to an old lady and man and gave them each copies of the Book of Mormon. For dinner we went to a member's trailer house and ate some amazing hamburgers and fries they made. Some of the best homemade burgers I've had for sure. They even made us fry sauce which was a surprise since there are so many inferior people who do not care for fry sauce in this world. :(
Wednesday we had a few good lessons, but nothing particularly interesting happened. We helped the youth plan some activities in the evening, because otherwise they would only have the physical activities planned. We are trying to help many of them prepare for missions so we try to befriend them all every chance we get.
On Thursday we had a gigantic storm come through. As we were doing personal study at our apartment it started pouring exceedingly hard. It got super dark outside too and there was almost constant thunder and lightning. The power kept going in and out, lots of flickering, but never long enough in my opinion.
In the afternoon we did our usual weekly planning. I was the whiteboard scribe, as usual, and my designs are getting more and more elaborate. I may even clarify our latest whiteboard as "rococo" and "a modern day Mona Lisa." DaVinci would be proud. Not Leonardo DaVinci, but the much lesser-known Harold DaVinci--Leo's younger brother who was also a painter, of houses. I will not attach a picture of it, because it's best to imagine the greatness of it.
On Friday we drove to Shreveport again for mission president interviews. It was really fun to talk to President and Sister Seitz again, they seemed extremely tired though. We did district council there and then they just pulled us each out one at a time to talk with each of them separately. We sang our usual closing hymn (Battle Hymn of the Republic) and everyone must have been in especially high spirits because it was sung by some at full volume and if we had been in Jericho the walls would have come a-tumbling down.
On the drive back we played the sign game where you try to read every single thing on every sign you see before somebody else in the car reads it. We had 4 Elders in the car so it was quite the noisy drive. Mainly because there's thus unspoken rule that if you talk over the other people you don't even have to be accurate in your reading (as long as everyone can hear you are making a loud attempt to read every sign).
Because of having to go to Shreveport twice this week we have already blown over 550 of our 1250 miles haha--so we will need to he careful the rest of the month.
Saturday we went to De Kalb and did a bunch of stopbys and street contacting in that area. It was humid and hot while we walked around and almost everyone was mean and didn't want to talk with us as we walked around, but it was kinda fun anyway. There's just something about walking around in humid weather with short-sleeved Sunday shirts that's fun. I'm not sure what it is, but we just talked the whole time as we walked around (mostly about food because that's what I talk about) and it was pretty fun. Talked to some people who were high as a kite and that's always really fun too!
On Sunday I found someone on Facebook which was really fun. I invited him to church and didn't expect him to actually come but he did! He even stayed for the second hour. We gave him a Book of Mormon, got his number, and will be teaching him this week. Sunday was very hot, it was 91⁰ but it felt like 99⁰ cause of the humidity. It's nice though because then whenever we return to our apartment it's like walking into a Costco freezer haha, it feels really nice.
That's all for now I believe.
-Elder Nielson
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