Hi all!

This week was great!

On Monday we had a birthday celebration with a part member family that we are teaching. They made me wear a cowboy hat while I ate.  We taught them the plan of salvation, a perfect way to start off my birthday.  The little daughter that we are teaching is so excited to be baptized she can barely stand it.  In fact on Friday when we had a lesson with her and her mom, she had one of her friends come and learn more, now her friend wants to get baptized!! They are so cute!  Kids that age, (11) have so much questions, they saw a movie about heaven. I am not sure what it’s called but they had so many questions.   The child we had been teaching was like yeah I know all about that, the sisters taught me last time :) so cute!

On my birthday we had lunch with our investigator and her returned missionary son, it was so fun she made breakfast for us, we taught the Ten Commandments and because her son went to Portugal they made a Portuguese tart for dessert!! It was a lot of fun and she is making a lot of progress, a lot.

On Wednesday we had exchanges, two days before I caught a nasty bug and could not keep in any food, both ways, and so we stayed in, but we did not waist any of our time, me and sister Hegstrom, we redid our area book.  I called all of our investigators and set up a bunch of appointments, it was fun and we hope that it will help our work. We had an awesome lesson with a investigator who has a lot of problems with the church, but his wife wants to know more, it going very good and we invited them to take the lessons and its going very well.

Thursday we had zone conference and it was all about getting ready for Elder Neilson! Our mission is so excited.   We are preparing!

On Saturday was the big day!
Elder Neilson was amazing! We got to hear testimonies from President Castro, Sister Castro, Elder Garns and Sister Garns.  It was so spiritual, then we heard from Sister Bowen it was so awesome and she told us so many great things, Elder Bowen set down the law on being obedient, he told us to follow every rule and to talk to everyone and do not drag anyone down.   That really hit me because sometime I feel like we shut down things before we even see if that might work.   We heard from Sister Nielson and she talked about how the people that are learning about the gospel right now, their ancestors have all accepted the gospel and they are pushing us  and them to learn more so they can get the work done.

Elder Neilson spoke to us and reminded us of why we were here, and who we are here for.  He is so full of the spirit it drips off of him.  He LOVES the lord and loves this work!

We then had a question and answer with him, and it was amazing, he was able to quote scriptures and said the right things that answered my questions! The church is true, and Elder Nieson is so cool! We all got to shake his hand is that was one of the best parts!!!

On Sunday Sister Mason and I, set up a game plan on how to best work in our area and follow elder Nielsons instructions, it was really fun and we have such a bigger drive to do missionary work!

After church on Sunday we had an awesome lesson with one of our investigators he still is excited to be baptized we just need to get him to the church!

That was my awesome week!!!
Tell me about yours!

Love you all
Sister Mady Proctor