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Hi everyone! 

This was a great week as usual, here are some highlights

Monday was great, we played a lot of basketball, including Butter which was super fun because Elder Van Tassell and I kept beating the APs haha

We went out with Brother Rose in the evening, and stopped by a lot of people. We also went to Braums, and got super good Shakes and of course I got the bag of 5 burgers. 

On Tuesday we went to Zone Conference which was so fun!! Best Zone conference yet. Talked to lots of people, and learned a lot. We went out with Edward in the evening and taught Audrey to Tyler. Audrey often says "I'm so sorry can we reschedule for another night?" And the key is to say, "can we just share a quick scripture?" And then that turns into a whole lesson! 

And after that everyone wanted to go to Braums again so that's what we did haha

Wednesday Elder Galbraith and I went to Plano 7 on exchanges with Elder Van Tassell and Elder Sartain stayed in Plano 10 with Elder Layton. We had a great exchange, it was Elder Van Tassells birthday so of course I got him food, and we had a great comp study. In the evening we went out with a member in their ward and taught some member lessons which was fun. I always learn so much from the way Elder Van Tassell does things. Hopefully Elder Galbraith learned a lot too. It was fun sleeping with 7 total missionaries at the ZLs apartment, it means there's always something going on. Not sure how the other companionships are doing though, there seems likes there's some wasted time that we gotta fix. 

Thursday we went to Minnie's, Elder Van Tassell stayed in the car for a while talking. After we helped out at Minnie's we went to Sam's Club afterwards. We exchanged back after that and went out with Brother Howieson in the evening. I felt like we should stop by this recent convert that was not originally in our plans, so we did and had a great lesson with her and her son, who isn't a member! They seem really cool, she's from Nigeria and has a crazy conversion story, but has been inactive for months and wants to come back to church :) We ended with Kneeling prayer and the spirit was super strong.

On Friday we went out in the evening with Brother Allred and had a great time. We taught Sister Harbison, and stopped by some others too. We went to Braums and got some food also, Brother Allred is one of the best members here cause he always gets us food haha--and he's also really cool. 

On Saturday we went in the morning to help some members in the 4th ward, and they asked us move a wood rack, so we removed all the wood which took forever and then when we had moved the rack, they started arguing and then came back out and told us to move it back to where it was hahaha-- so we moved it back and reloaded it. So basically all we accomplished with 2 hours of work is making sure the wood doesn't lean as much haha--it was really fun though so fine with me.

In the afternoon we invited an immodest amount of people to church, many of which promised they'd come. As usual almost nobody kept their word haha--but we will keep trying. We didn't have a dinner appointment so we called the Bushes and asked if they wanted to feed us and they said yes! They took us to this amazing Sushi place and it was soooo good! Some of the best food I've had in a while. 

After that we moved from the Bushops car straight to Brother Updike's car and went and stopped by a lot of people. We also taught Brother Adam's and talked about how we could help the Bishopric. 

Sunday was good, Peggy came to church. We also did some filming for a Zone Rep video. In the evening we went out with Brother Mendenhall and taught Audrey! Unfortunately it takes several times telling her something before she remembers it, but it was an awesome lesson about faith and repentance. 

-Elder Nielson