Just Roll With It

This week was pretty awesome. We have seen all sorts of weather! Tornado warnings, crazy rain, crazy heat, humidity. Gotta love the south though.

We are doing great in Antioch. Today we were going to visit the zoo, but it was closed due to heavy rain. We were only 15 minutes from downtown, so we took to downtown on foot and explored around. It was a really fun p-day!

But now for the actually exciting news of the week! We have a baptism date! It was the most amazing thing. His name is J-----, he is 5 months in this country, and 18 years old. He is the nephew of a less active member, and he came to church last Sunday. Our first lesson with him was The Restoration. He accepted an invitation for baptism. We gave him a Book a Mormon, and when we came back on Thursday, he had read a good chunk of it. That day we taught The Plan of Salvation. He was so relieved that this life wasn't just a punishment for Adam's transgression. He asked a lot of questions just make sure he understood. We had a baptism calendar we had received the day before at Zone Conference. We set that before him and prayed to set the date. He opened his eyes and pointed at the 21st of May. We are so excited for him!

A funny experience from this week was when we were visiting A-------. Visits with her are always interesting. After one of the most difficult lessons we ever taught (i.e., eggs flying off table, her two

year old screaming for a hour and just throwing yogurt and pop and silverware everywhere, etc.), we were getting ready to leave when a lady from her church started knocking and kept
knocking and demanded to come in. So we ending up hiding in the bathroom with our ward member for 15 minutes while the anxious parishioner assessed the damage in her soul. This is my definition of opposition. It's crazy sometimes, but you just have to roll with it.

We taught a lot of formers, less actives, and a lot of people we hadn't seen for a while. It hard to see people who were once strong fall away because of a principle or two. I definitely love this work and seeing how these changes can be made through the atonement. I love seeing the miracle and the look in peoples' eyes when they figure it and and feel the Spirit. I hope everyone has a
great week!

Love,

Hermana Nielson

P.S. It was raining hard and I was posed like this.

P.P.S. We like gumbo real good