First picture: The new haircut. Elder Cox is on the left and Elder Williams on the right

Second picture: See Mom and Dad, I do keep my room clean. It's funny because a lot of the other missionaries rooms are so messy the custodians were like "finally a clean room."


Hey everyone, 

Week 2 from the MTC. This week has gone by so fast and now our district is the oldest in our residence. On Friday, we got our travel plans. There are 10 missionaries going to Perth. We leave Monday at 3:20 pm. The rest of the district is leaving earlier at 3 in the morning. 

On Saturday, we had our last TRCs (they practice teaching lessons to "investigators". Some are already LDS but others are not) with our first two investigators. We got both committed to baptism dates. This Sunday was fast Sunday. It was awesome in sacrament meeting because here wasn't any of those awkward gaps where no one is talking. After sacrament, we had a mission conference. The MTC presidency talked to us about how to teach the plan of salvation the simple and correct way. After that we had ponder time so we got to watch videos on LDS.com. Then we had choir again but this time we are singing sweet hour of prayer. 

For the devotional, we had Jenny Oaks Baker. She is a famous violin player. At the beginning, she was talking about how she went to her dad for some advice and said "my dad, Dallin H Oaks". She threw it out there like it was nothing and all of us missionaries were like "What!" She performed hymns with her family and it was pretty awesome. She also told us about how here family got robbed in Italy but everything turned out fine. I'm glad I'm going to Perth instead of Italy. 

After that the MTC presidency told us that all the missionaries had to watch the character of Christ by Elder Bednar again. I felt like I got so much more out of it the second time. Then after they announced that they had a surprise for us. Elder Bednar was at the MTC. It was awesome. He and his wife did a question and answer session. They started out in the new building and then came to the gym where we were at. It was so cool to be able to listen to an apostle of the Lord. 

On Monday, we got two new TRCs. One is a big Samoan dude. He is really cool. The other is a woman who I know for sure is not a member. We started by asking why she wanted to meet with us and she told us it was because she was getting paid $12 an hour. We also asked her if she would pray and she said, "haha, that's funny". She is one really tough person to teach. 

On Tuesday had a devotional by Elder Sitati of the seventy and his wife. He is awesome. On Wednesday, our district leader elder Williams was sick so we took lunch to him in the hospital. Heidi, Sister Nelson, was also there because of pain in her leg. Don't worry Mom, she is alright now. They did an ultrasound and everything looked good so they gave her some drugs and now she's fine. After that, we had our TRCs they were pretty good. During our second one the investigator flipped us off. Actually, it was how she told us she would react if Lehi told her of her sins and to repent. Well, that was awkward but at least we know she read. The rest of the lesson we focused on prayer and we read alma 32.  After dinner, we took turns staying with elder Williams in the residence. I missed the first hour of class but I got some time to read my scriptures. 

Today we got haircuts. It is crazy to think that in 3 days we are leaving. The next time I email I'll be in the land down under. 

Anyway, have a great week. Love you all,
Elder Nelson

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