Week 5:Puppies and Pancakes

This week has been great!

We had some really good lessons with the people we are teaching, and they are all making great progress :) we have a girl praying between two baptismal dates, a boy on date, and hope to get another girl on date this week! So exciting!! It is amazing to see how the gospel truly blesses lives and gives so much peace and comfort. 

At the beginning of this week, we contacted a guy on campus named Ryan. And he seemed cool. We set up an appointment with him, but he didn't show up. And such is the life of missionaries. But that night, the branch president, who is literally the best, bought us chick-fil-a for dinner. It seriously made my day. In the Young Single Adult ward we don't get fed like at all, so it was nice. But every Sunday night we do have branch dinner and Friday nights a lady in the first ward who cleans the institute feeds all the missionaries in the area which is so nice. And she is a hoot. 

We had exchanges this week with the Sister Training Leader's. It was awesome to go with them and do a lot of tracting. Heavenly Father definitely gave me a first great experience at it. It was a beautiful day, so be really nice people, and set up 5 return appointments with people, and got to pet a cat and some dogs :) ha ha

This Sunday was really good. We had some great testimonies, and then this kid named Matt got up. He said he wasn't apart of this church, but had some things to say. He talked about how he came from darkness and family deaths, but how he came to the light in Christ and how he feels his grandma. It was so beautiful and heartfelt. And we set up an appointment with him and his girlfriend who is a member later this week! It's so awesome! And we got fed by the Lee family. They have two daughters in the YSA. We had some delicious pancakes, and they had 2 dogs, and their aunts puppy they were watching. It was so cute!!

We had zone conference this week, and I really loved it! It sure does wipe you though. From it I am memorizing the baptismal questions, we set up a contacting board to get members in on daily contacting those we are teaching, and focusing on growing when you are already doing well. 

This week I've had two experiences of getting to feel God's love for his children this week. Like overwhelming love and admiration. So far, I think that is one of my favorite things, testifying of God's love for people.  

I know that Christ is there for me, and for each one of us! He is seriously trying to help us, and we just need to not be so stubborn ha ha. 

Keep it real and keep it really funny :)

Sister Nielson :D