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Hi everyone, 

This was a crazy week! One of the busiest for sure:

Last Saturday we went to the temple with Jack and Victoria. It was super fun! We drove to Dallas with them, and Jack was able to baptize us!! We did his family names, and afterwards took some necessary pictures much to Jack and Victoria's brother's chagrin. Then we went up to Plano to talk with Elder Gamett's uncle and talked to the Plano Stake President and I also got to talk to Brother Hayes from Plano 10! We ate some super good Thai food, and I also got some Mango sticky rice which was super yummy! We went out with Brother Bevan in his Dodge Hellcat in the evening which was really fun as usual. We also got to help Alex and Mackenzie move a couch and eat In-n-out.

Sunday was awesome, I love attending 2 wards! Especially when the second one has "break the fast" potluck haha--it's cool talking to all the YSAs as well, we also got to help Victoria teach mission prep.

Monday was sadly not a pday because of Saturday, but we spent the whole morning working on the SPR which is always fun. Some companionships report on too much and go into unnecessary detail when answering report questions, and others simply say "yes" in answer to questions. So we basically rewrite and edit all the mistakes so that the Stake President doesn't have to look at the mess that some missionaries send in. We also went out with Richie and were able to have some cool member lessons!

Tuesday we had Zone Conference which was really fun! They talked a lot of simple truths and basics which was really good! We got to train on having effective correlation meetings, and for lunch they had a sandwich bar! Then we went on Exchanges with Greenville E, I went with Elder Cypers back to Heath while Elder Gamett went to Greenville with Elder Haws. We had a great night going out with Brother Cline, we talked to the Davis family and the Wallace family. Both members, and we were able to have some great lessons with them! Sister Wallace even had some surprise Italian food for us. After that we went and taught Jack about Patriarchal Blessings, and Victoria gave us 90 frozen burritos.

Elder Cypers is awesome, he's been out 18 months and he seems to be happy and knows his district really well! He's also super funny. Wednesday morning we woke up at 5:30 and went and worked out at the gym for an hour and a half because Elder Cypers wanted to utilize our huge gym the best he could for his single day here haha--we had a great comp study, he and I agree about a lot of things! It's always fun to talk with people who think before they speak! After lunch at In-n-out, we drove up to Greenville and it was thundering and lightninging and raining. The frontage road next to the freeway got completely flooded and there were some trucks halfway submerged. Don't even know how that happened "oh there's a lake, well let's just power through!" 

We exchanged back and then got caught in traffic for an hour and a half coming back because of accidents. We then drove down to Forney and exchanged with Elder Cooper and Elder Nani! Elder Cooper came up here with me, and we got to go out with Alex which was fun! We visited some people in Rowlett, and found someone named Chris who's interested in learning more. He had a date with his "lover" he said so he told us to come back later. Then we got Torchy's.

Thursday we did service testing electronics, and then exchanged back. Elder Gamett and I went out with Brother Graham, and visited a bunch of people the Elders Quorum President had told us to. We also talked to Sedrick, and Brother Graham and his talked about football for 20 minutes haha

We had our SPR meeting after that, and talked about the needs of the Stake. It was super fun! I love President Ash, he has a lot of good ideas and is really supportive. The Stake is working hard to teach the wards missionary work.

On Friday we helped some members move out of their apartment, and then Elder Gamett had a doctors appointment. It was fun sitting in the chair that my mom would usually take for my appointments and nod as if I am involved. Doctors are fun when it isn't me going in!

After that we went on Exchanges with the Rowlett 1 elders, I went with Elder Nicholes back to Heath. We had some amazing burritos from Chiloso for dinner, and then went out with Justin to Rowlett! We had a lesson with Brian Garcia which was fun, we gave him a blessing as well. Justin is so fun to talk to, which made it fun because Elder Nicholes is NOT a talker. He was very quiet most of our exchange. He would answer any questions but that was it. So it was socially exhausting haha--but he seemed to like the exchange hopefully!

Saturday we exchanged back, and we had dinner with the Barisof's! They had some super good tri-tip and we had an awesome lesson on Charity with Brother Barisof and his wife and son (Spencer). Brother Barisof isn't a member but he has a calling and is more active than many of the members haha--then we went out with Spencer and had a great night visiting people! We got a media referral from this giant mansion with two big gates, but miraculously one of them was open, and they actually seemed interested!!

Sunday was super good, I love church here, and got to give a talk in the Heath ward!

We had a fun night too, but I am out of time so thats it.

-Elder Nielson