Progression, Not Perfection‏

Hola!

This week was absolutely awesome! We had a little bit of a rocky week numbers-wise, but it has been one of the most productive weeks of my mission. I finally feel like we have really, truly learned how to be an effective companionship this week. Which is really unfortunate because
transfer calls come in this Saturday. The Spirit is guiding all three of us in the same direction. For example, yesterday we had a lesson with a man named O----. He is the uncle of a less active
family.  W have been teaching him, and he has been really critical and almost silly about most things. We had planned to teach the Plan of Salvation and even told our member that, but somehow it morphed into The Gospel of Jesus Christ, which ended up being exactly what he
needed. I think I might have even seen tears in his eyes saying he knows he needs to be better. I really think we can work with him to gain a testimony of the other things now. We were all in unison lead by the Spirit. We really had some awesome lessons this week!

J---- is still on date for this Saturday! Everything has been going great. He has so much faith. He just graduated high school last weekend so hopefully will have more time to read his Book of Mormon more thoroughly.

We had a ward party this last week and we had investigators come. It was for La Dia de Madres. It is celebrated on the 10th instead of the normal Mother's Day.

We had exchanges this week! They were so amazing and honestly inspired. I stayed in good old Antioch with one of the STLs, Sister Gillespie. The Spanish was hard all by my lonesome, but we made it through. We were at dinner with one of our neighbors who has been investigating with the English sisters, and she announced her baptism date! She also made corn pudding which was the bomb. 

Anyways we had a lesson with a kid named E------ who we have met a couple times. He
speaks English, and we tried to get through The Plan of Salvation and it just was not working. He has a very close relationship with the Jehovah Witnesses and had gotten a lot of info from them. Long story short, he rejected the Book of Mormon, and we dropped him, which was
hard because I'd never done. But it was so necessary. He might be ready later on. I learned so much on exchanges, and as a companionship, we came back with so much added fire for the work!

I love this work! What better way to become more like Christ?

Love y'all! Have a great week!

Hermana Nielson

P.S. I am almost done with training. On Tuesday I'm done.