Haircuts

This week has been crazy. On Monday, my companion and I took our trust in each other to a whole new level and we gave each other haircuts, and it actually didn't turn out that bad.
This week while tracting we have found a lot more people to talk to and one of the things that I have learned as a missionary is that God blesses us with hard times so that we can learn and change so He can use us as better instruments in His hands in the future. Some blessings come after a lot of hard yakka (work) and in the Lord's time. 
So on Thursday, we had follow up training for the new missionaries so we had to wake up at 5 and drive two and a half hours to the mission office. There we got to practice teach Pres Fife and talked about the importance of our prayers with God. 
On Saturday, we got a ride with the senior couple and were able to attend the temple with the branch. I love the temple. Then later that night we had the adult session of stake conference. Then yesterday we had stake conference in the morning. At conference they reorganized the stake presidency. And Elder Ardern of the seventy was there. Later that day we drove back to Narrogin and we shouldn't have any more city adventures for a while.
Hopefully everyone haves a great week.
Elder Nelson
 

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