1/16/17- We Picked It Up and Gave It Some Love

This week was all in all really good. Time is flying - its insane. And it even rained!!! It like drizzled but everyone kept saying how it was just pouring and pouring and how scary it was - it made me smile. My Spanish is really coming along. I had 3 families guess how long we have been serving, my comp has 23 months and I have almost 3 and half here.  All of them guessed I've been here for over a year!!!! It was fantastic!!!

One of our investigators has a little brother who is honestly one of the craziest 8 year olds I've ever met. He is a sweetheart but I swear every time we see him he is choke slamming some random dog or throwing stuff or rolling around in the dirt. I love David. We were walking from a lesson and I heard this really faint meowing. I pushed the grass aside and found a little tiny kitten!!! It was a stray and it was in bad shape so we picked it up and gave it some love and then left. I turned around and it walked right off the end into the drain with fast moving water!! It was about to die!!! It was holding on to a little shoot of grass and so we ran and scooped him up and gave him to David for a present. He's crazy with animals but they all LOVE him. I honestly don't understand. He has 3 cats, 4 dogs and one of his dogs just had puppies, 10 of them!!! I want a puppy - they are so cute.

There was a riot Thursday and it was insane. All of the missionaries around us could not leave their rooms. The sisters even had some people from the mission office come and pick them up and take them to a safe place. It could have been scary but our area is wayy chill. We ordered chicken and I read a ton and watched some movies we have. "Meet the Mormons' is really excellent. I've never seen it before and I was really impressed. "Making Meet the Mormons" is great too by the way. It's a crazy world but I was reading in Corinthians and I love Pablo so my mind was safe. It makes me really really not want to get sick and have to stay in though -  I wanted to go teach so bad!!

The family we had Christmas lunch with, she's blind and I asked you all to pray so I wouldn't get sick hahaha (thanks for that by the way, I never had any problems.) We had a little lesson with them the other night and I asked her to bear her testimony. I will be forever grateful I did. She talked about how she can't see and so she can't read the scriptures but she can listen. She talked about how she knows God knows her and He loves her and the spirit was overwhelming. God really does know you perfectly. He knows exactly what is happening in your life and He LOVES you!!! I love people. They are so amazing to me.

I'm learning a lot and as I'm understanding more it just keeps getting better and better. I LOVE THIS WORK AND I LOVE MY SAVIOR. There is nothing like bearing your testimony of our Savior- it's the greatest work in the world. I KNOW HE LIVES! I love you all so much. Thank you, all of you, for your prayers and for praying for my investigators. Please pray for Luis and his family, Ruban and Segundo. I love you all!

Love,
Elder Nielsen