People of Kentucky -- Watch Out!

Hey y'all! This one won't be long! We had a very busy day and a very busy week! We had a lot of set appointments this week, which was great! We had the car the last part of the week, which helped a lot. It has rained so much this week! It's the most rain anyone can remember. Luckily we have been mostly somewhat covered (mostly). 

We had a great lesson, with C-----, who is growing in his faith and came to church. We even met with a very strange less active who had interesting ideas and would claim all church doctrine as his own personal revelation. Strange dude.

Probably the biggest change is that I am now the designated driver! There is some rule about missionaries who are about to go home can't drive, so I am taking over that! Most of the time it's fine, but anything out of the city (which is half our area) is pretty much skinny, windy country roads which hardly enough room for two cars. So I am learning a lot. 

I have hardly had time to think this week. We have had to skip dinner a couple times to keep up with our appointments and goals. If we weren't planning lessons or spiritual thoughts, I was planning my training for district meeting or preparing my talk for Sacrament Meeting yesterday. My talk was on forgiveness, and right before I got up to speak, the bishop leaned over and said, "Our other speaker didn't show up, so you can fill a half hour right?" Uh.... So that was decent considering.

We actually had 5 investigators at church on Sunday!!! That was awesome! We were just going around inviting people left and right to hear my talk and some people actually showed up! The G----- came. They were quite confused by the stake business session but said I did good and we took them on a tour of the family history library.  

Another audible was A-----. I was grabbed by a member to speak with a nice Indian man who loved family history and had been wanting to know the church and read the Book of Mormon, but the closest one in India was so far away. Now he is attending Western Kentucky University (WKU) and found out there was a church in Bowling Green and just showed up. He attended our church tour and it was the best attended church tour ever. We are meeting with him this week on Wednesday (he wanted to meet today but we have appointments pretty solid till Wednesday). 

WKU starts classes this week, so Bowling Green will start to be a bit busier. Today we spent P-Day with a recent convert who leaves so soon to move to Utah!

Here is a thought from my talk: "Restoring what you cannot restore, healing the wound you cannot heal, fixing that which you broke and you cannot fix is the very purpose of the atonement of Christ." I would take it a step further and say forgiving what you cannot forgive. The atonement can help us through everything, even the struggle to forgive. I have seen great examples on my mission of the poison bitterness can bring to a life and can derail your promised blessings.

Hope everyone has a great week!
Con amor,
Herman Nielson

P.S.  As we were knocking, a lady didn't have any water but had to give us something. So we received potatoes as a gift. The lady somehow knew my deepest desire... potatoes!

P.P.S. This is my child

P.P.P.S. That, my friends, is a tobacco field.