Well, I'm just about to have my first birthday in the mission field, and
about to leave behind the teen years. I got another birthday gift, a transfer! It looks like I will be spending this birthday on a bus going to a new
sector, the sector is Los Muermos, a small town about an hour and a half from
Puerto Montt. I think that I will be in the branch presidency there which is
exciting. I will be with another Honduran companion named Elder Vasquez. It will surely
be a memorable birthday traveling 6 hours on a bus. But now starts the goodbyes. Yesterday, I said good
bye to a kid (8 yrs old) that we taught and baptized on Saturday. It was so
cute, when I was leaving his house, he went into to his room and came back with
a stuffed animal, it is his favorite one. It was fun to teach him, we taught
the 10 commandments, and talked of thou shalt not kill, and the word of wisdom,
and right after, he went and told his grandpa who smokes and drinks. He told me that he wants to serve a mission.
It was another very rainy week. For about 3 days, it rained all
day and every day, one day the wind was so bad too that we couldn't use an
umbrella. Monday night at about 4 o'clock
(Tuesday morning), we were awakened with a thunder storm and lots of hail for
about an hour, and it happened again on Thursday night too. It's funny because I
don't think that Chileans know what to do with thunder, because everyone was
really scared.
This P-day, we went and played bowling as a district. I did
some of the better bowling in my life. I had 151 and the next game 166. There
is a bowling alley in Osorno, Puerto Montt and Valdivia.
I hope that everyone is having a great summer there and
enjoying the sun while I enjoy the nice cold rain, its great though.
Love, Elder Nelson
Dear Mom and Dad, Thanks so much for everything, I love the pictures,
especially of the dogs, my companion still thinks that our weird love for the
dogs isn't normal, but I still love it. Thanks so much for everything! Love, Jentry
