The Sneaky Chiropractor

Hello everyone who is reading this! (About 5 of you in other words)

This was a super fun week, lots of pictures will follow.

Monday was great, we hung out with most of our zone, and played a lot of Volleyball. I got to meet lots of missionaries I didn't know very well and talk with them so that was awesome. We decorated cookies as a District too. In the evening we went out with Brother Hobbs, who is super funny! It was a blast going from house to house with him. We had a pass-off lesson with the STLs for Ivy, which was cool. We read the Restoration Proclamation with her, I have no doubt she will be baptized.

On Tuesday we drove to Fairview for Christmas Zone Conference! It was a BEAUTIFUL drive, so much fun to see all the pretty countryside. There were a lot of amazing musical numbers at Zone Conference and my favorite one was a Saxophone and piano duet. Also Elder Sauer conducted Zone Conference and it was super cool cause we got to sit on the stand next to President and Sister Seitz the whole time! It was great to be able to look out at the other missionaries. I also got to do numbers for the first time. After the main meeting we had a lunch, and then played a bunch of games and had a white elephant gift exchange. I ended up with a walking fluffy pig. President and Sister Seitz gave each of the Elders an oil vial and each of the Sisters a necklace. After Zone Conference we went on Exchanges with Greenville E, I went with Elder Haws and Elder Sauer went back to Heath with Elder Cypers. 

It was a great exchange, Elder Haws is super cool. Very talkative, it was cool hearing all his funny stories. We went out with Brother Herd and had a lesson with someone they are teaching. It was interesting to see a new teaching style and also one of the people we were teaching was blind and super funny!

Wednesday Elder Haws and I went to the library and had an amazing comp study!! We were able to talk about so many things, this is why I like greenie comp studies cause you can talk for 30 minutes longer! After that we exchanged back and Elder Sauer and I went and helped someone move a ton of furniture out of a storage locker. It was fun moving stuff up and down via cargo elevator, I like elevators!

In the evening we went out with Brother Lin who's super funny haha--we went out to their boonies to stop by people. We followed google maps and it kept having us turn on to more and more bumpy dirt roads. As we went it started to get super muddy and bumpy, so we decided to turn around so we didn't get stuck. Before we left though we saw someone up ahead who looked stuck. So Elder Sauer and I ventured into the mud to see if we could help. Turns out it was a Jeep and the lady driving it had tried everything to get it out. We tried pushing to no avail, until finally we decided to check what setting she was in. We checked and she had been in 2wd the whole time haha--so we put it in 4wd and then rocked it back and forth until it was out. It was a lot of fun but very muddy. 

After that we went and taught the Bonillas which was great!

Thursday it dropped from 40⁰ to 10⁰ with windchill making it -8⁰ haha--we did service at Helping Hands and then when we came out it was snowing! We ate at Inn-n-out, and had out Zone call and then went on exchanges with some other Elders. The Elders hadn't really planning anything so we just planned as we went. Which is not good, that should never happen. But oh well, hopefully I was able to help them learn a bit about how important planning is! As we were knocking on people's doors it was soooo cold some of the coldest I've ever been I think. Which was fun because we got to get in the warm car after each one!

Friday was pretty normal, we exchanged back and had some meetings and stop by.

In the evening we went out with the McCormicks which was a blast! We got to talk with a bunch of Inactive Families. Sadly they had to go early so we were worried we wouldn't have a member with us for our lesson with Tony, but we made a ton of calls and Alex Fielding was able to come with us! We taught Tony the Gospel and it went super well. Can't wait for his baptism!

Saturday we got a call during personal study from Sister Seitz asking us to come pick some packages up from the Mission home! So we drove 45 minutes out to Lucas and got to talk with President for a while! We also picked some stuff up from the Mission office with him, so it was fun to talk about his Christmas plans and other things. 

After we picked everything up we dropped off packages in Greenville and took the Elders there to lunch at Freddy's! Then we dropped off some stuff in Royse City, and had meetings the rest of the afternoon. 

We ate dinner with the Arnesen's and had Prime Rib, and then went caroling! We were trying to do it as a District but the others didn't show so it was just us and Rockwall 1. It was super fun though! Everyone loved us coming by!

Christmas was one of the best I've ever had but I'm done writing this email so if you want to hear about it you'll have to ask me

-Elder Nielson