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Hi everyone, 

Monday was Labor Day supposedly (still not sure if this is true) so all the missionaries in the Plano Stake got a bunch of food and gathered at the Stake Center. We played Volleyball and a game called Love Letter. It was pretty fun! 

We went to Starbucks as usual for Facebook and calls, and they gave us a ton of free pastries and donuts and bagels! It's the least they can do, since they get to have our presence there so often!

On Tuesday we had District Council which was really fun as usual! My district us awesome, its too bad transfers go by so fast. Afterwards Elder Barton took us to Braums again which was super good. In the afternoon we had a lesson with Bebe over Zoom cause she's traveling. We also had a member on that lesson too. We knew Bebe had a lot of questions about the temple so we decided to show the Rome Temple Tour Video. It was just exactly what she needed, she said it answered every single one of our questions. So that was that. They are planning on visiting the Rome temple after she gets baptized! Some people with money can just do things like that on a whim :)

In the evening we ate some really good Chinese food and then we went with Brother Balley to a lesson with Lee. Nobody answered the door so we tried calling him and his phone is disconnected! Luckily we always have backup plans, so we walked down the hall to knock a few other formers. On our way a lady randomly peeked her head out of her door for no reason at all, so we asked if she wanted to hear a message about Christ. We ended up talking for 40 minutes with her! I'm getting really lazy, so I am just going to copy what I put in the lesson notes and paste that here:

 "So we just ran into her in the hall. She happened to open her door as we were walking by with Brother Balley, so it was a huge miracle! She's super elect! Loves the word and is looking for a church. She's interested on reading the Book of Mormon! She's awesome! She wants to come to church. Taught her about the Book of Mormon simply and about Christ. She talked about how she's looking for a church. Brother Balley told her all about church and invited her to come! We gave her a Book of Mormon! She was super thankful for it and seemed to really appreciate it. Invited her to read and pray about it. Brother Balley bore his testimony of the Book of Mormon. Also she told us about her life a bit and it's crazy. She said she would come to church in 2 weeks!"

Wednesday we helped at Lorna's place again. This time we scooped some horse droppings and moved a LOT of wood. Later in the afternoon we had a lesson with Melissa and a member at a park in downtown State Farm. It was super nice outside and the lesson went really well! The Social Media Specialists also made us the Interactions Response Team for the Mission Facebook Page (they merged the Zone Pages) which is what I get for doing a good job at it before when we were Zone Reps tsk tsk

On Thursday morning around 7 we helped a referral from the West Mission move in. She was moving into an apartment on the 3rd floor in a retirement community, so us and her moving team got really good at loading and unloading elevators! It was kinda fun, I've never helped someone move via elevator. 

Later in the morning we had a lesson at the Bushops house in Murphy with Peggy. It went super well! She said church is her happy place, so we will definitely put her on date this week. (If I had my way she would already be on date 😤). It was great having it at the Bushop's house cause he and his wife shared such great insights throughout the lesson.

In the afternoon we went back up to Murphy because someone called us wanting a Book of Mormon. We gave him one and talked about it, he's really weird and funny haha--he says all members of our church are better-looking then everyone else in the world. He also wants to be a missionary like us but he just can't get the look down he says. 

In the evening we had some fancy corndogs from Two-Hands Corn Dogs. We also had some Horchata Slushies. It was all really good and interesting. This ward hasn't missed a single night of feeding us :)

Friday we did a lot of calls and studies, nothing too interesting happened. We had some super good Costco Pizza and Cheesecake at the Woods house. It was really good, Costco pizza is better than most pizzas, and I had forgotten that cause it's been so long. Also Brother Wood is a Rush, Muse, Boston, and more artists I love fan! He's met Tom Shultz and has some signed stuff from him! He's a software developer and a singer for a band by night :))

On Saturday we had the Stake Day of Service activity! One thing we did is we packaged 30k meals for some kids and refugees from Ukraine. It was super fun, even President Seitz showed up by surprise! After the service project a member took us to Liberty Burger and it was really good! I got a burger with avocado, salsa, chips, and refried beans and stuff on it.

Sunday was Stake Conference, and us and the Sisters sang in Stake Choir which was great! I can't remember a Stake Conference when I wasn't on the stand to be honest. 

Nothing else of note happened this week that comes to mind. A bunch of pictures are coming.

-Elder Nielson