Dear Familia,
There´ll be 45 minutes to Skype for Christmas, and I´d
love to Skype at the same time with Kolby, I think that it´s just as easy as
the the Mother´s day call, when I connected with Braden and Ashley, Darci and
Joe. I think I just sign in and then start a call to the two different lines.
Hopefully that should work out. Skype doesn´t really have problems going over
foreign lines, just with slow connections. The package I sent isn´t necessarily
a Christmas package, it´s all of the recuerdos (souvenirs) that I´ve received
or bought over the time I´ve been here, so sure you can open it when it gets
there. I haven´t decided to whom everything will go yet, but there’s
a present for Mom that should match the
great room furniture well...I think haha now that I think about it, I really
don´t know if the house is still standing anymore what with Melissa home alone
sometimes. I already opened the Christmas package here, so I can´t really stop
ya´ll from opening it there right? Just don´t go distributing stuff yet, I
think I´ll have to explain a few things first. I have a full list of what was
in the package, so there shouldn´t be anything lost in shipping.
Elder S (in the offices, who we are corresponding with over travel plans) studied in an English institute before the
mission. He´s self-conscious about his English, but he defends himself just
fine. I don´t know how I could get you from the offices. I know that if I were
to meet you in the airport, I would go as if I were leaving the country, but
just to meet you there. It would depend on the time your flight gets in. The
dinner with President usually ends at 6 pm, and then the missionaries come back
to the offices and the North Americans wait an hour before going to the
airport. If that´s how we do it, I could come to the airport and pick you up
then I could hail a taxi to get us where ever we are staying. If not, I don´t
know how I could send a taxi unless I send a member to the airport to pick you
up and bring you to the offices. It all depends on timing. I have a mountain of
plans for Lima, some like visiting converts and others like going to the center
to a marketplace. I´ll be prepared to fill whatever time you give me! Will it
just be you and Dad or Melissa too? I have a ward in mind to attend on Sunday
that could go well. That way we don´t miss the sacrament.
This week went by flying, it seems like there´s more to
do than ever, and the area is so big that we have to plan well every day to
keep from spending too much time walking from one appointment to another. We
have a few families that we are teaching and starting to integrate into the
ward. R and L are doing great, they have been to church 3 times now, and
their daughter F keeps asking them every Saturday night to get
everything ready to go to church. We love this family and right now they are taking
care of some of the paperwork for their wedding. If all goes well, they should
be getting married on the 12th and baptized on the 20th. We hope that before
then, they get a stronger desire to be baptized, obviously that’s one of the
keys to helping them join the church. Right now, they want to be members, but
they don´t know about just yet, they say that the church is in their plans but
they want it to "Nacer de ellos" basically let it be born of them the
desire to go and join the church. We are helping them along the way with experiences
that should help them to realize the huge change that´s already happened in their
lives.
As for everything else, there was a multizone conference
this week with president and I didn´t have to prepare a talk...until the end
when he announced that it was the last multizone until February and that those
who are finishing in the next two changes were invited to give their
testimonies. I got up and it was like all of the changes that I have gone
through in the mission just hit me, I didn´t realize and still don´t recognize
fully what Heavenly Father has done to change me in these last two years, but
for a moment, He made me see, and I bore testimony of it. I felt moved by the
mercy that He has for me and for the many, many plans that He had in mind that
I didn´t even comprehend. I´ve felt more purpose in these last two years than
in the 18 years before, and for that purpose I give thanks. Now I just hope
that I can figure out what kind of purpose I am supposed to have afterwards.
According to my conference questions, I just need to wait and see, because He
reveals everything in His own time and according to his own purposes.
I love you all, and I know that He as well has many many
purposes to share with you. Pray to know
in what way you can serve and it will be revealed what purpose you have at this
specific time in life.
Love,
Elder Nelson
P.S. the church bought the Youtube channel on the 7th of December, go support He is the Gift on all of the social media you can! #HeistheGift #ÉleslaDádiva the video is in English and Spanish at christmas.mormon.org and at navidad.mormon.org. Go watch it!
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