Hello everyone, 
So last Monday we had zone p-day where 20 other missionaries came to a park in our area and we played sports. Then on Tuesday we started our exchanges with the district leader. My companion went with the district leader and I got his golden he is training whose name is Elder Tiikana (pronounced like Sikana). He is from Kiribati an island in the pacific. I taught him how to make chili dogs. During exchanges we went to a follow up lesson with one of the recent converts.
The next day after exchanges we traveled down to the bottom of the stake and met with the self reliance senior couple to help Elder Liao apply to BYU- H. He had to translate his transcript for them because it was all in Chinese. 
On Saturday we had a really fun activity in the ward called a service auction. So it started with a quiz they gave us with heaps of random questions about church history, sports, and everything you can think of. they scored our quizzes and our score was the number of dollars we had for the auction. Everyone that came to the auction with a service that they could offer like making food, electrical work, activities and other things. And they auctioned these off. It was a lot of fun. One of the councilors in the bishopric offered 1 year without talks in sacrament which was pretty funny. The bishop said it was only valid after he gets released. 
On Sunday we got to teach a class of 12 year olds and taught them the restoration. Then after church we dropped by one of our investigators and taught him the plan of salvation. It was awesome because he has real intent and is so keen to read the Book of Mormon. 

Anyway I hope everyone has a great week. 
Love Elder Nelson

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