Embarazada

     This week was really good. First thing first -- P---- got baptized yesterday!!! It was such a wonderful day. She has such faith and has worked so hard to be here! It really was such a sweet day. I felt like a little mom helping her know what to do. She really did glow after she came out of the water. It was so great!
     The next best thing this week was a little thing I like to call mission meeting. It was pretty chill. Elder David A Bednar came and changed our lives, nbd. It really was so amazing it was unlike any church meeting I've ever been in. We had some prepared talks to read from him before and then it was just a giant question and answer sesh, but it was so much more. I have never seen such amazing teaching by the Spirit. He really talked a lot about learning things that hadn't been said. One of my favorite things he talked about was Agency and how it's so much more than having choice. It's deeper. He spoke about not being an object to be acted upon but to act and inviting our investigators to do the same. I'm sure most of what he said had been said before, but the environment was so prime for spiritual learning. It really was special. He was a little shorter than
I expected and really funny, but he emanated love and I felt like we were friends.
     Other than the really exciting things, this last week was a learning experience. We were on foot so we couldn't accomplish as much as we would've liked to. We have been having really good success with the new #hallelujah video. It immediately invites the Spirit. There has been a lot of bible bashing this week, but everyone seems to be more religious coming up on Easter (if you can believe that's possible). 
     A lot of really crazy and sad things have been happening with investigators and member and everyone we meet, but what is wonderful is that the atonement message always applies whether they want to apply it or not. Easter and spring are such a new renewing time, it's so wonderful.
One of our investigators, C---, (he's from Mexico) took a Book of Mormon from us about two weeks ago, but we couldn't see him until this last Friday. We had to meet him at a Arby's cause we can't go in his house. He had a lot of questions and had read the entire introduction more than once. He felt strongly the power in the introduction but didn't realize that wasn't the beginning of the book. It was cool because we gave him a verse to read and he explored so much on his own. He really wants to know and was deeply touched that the book was written about his ancestors.
We have such amazing members who do so much for us. See what the missionaries need in your area and help them. Go out with them because member presence is a really true amazing blessing for missionaries (but try not to talk too much. That's something we are trying to figure out how to resolve).
     Who ever invented Spanish and decided to make the word for "pregnant" the exact cognate as "embarrassed" was probably a huge prankster. The embarrassment never ends!
     The weather was way nice this week! Mega nervous for the humidity because everything is in bloom.

Love y'all
Hermana Nielson

P.S. Here is P----, and a quick, little pre-font selfie.