7/31/17 - One of the Most Special Birthdays

This week was really good. We are working hard and finding lots and lots of people who are so good - now the trick is getting them their testimonies but don't worry, we have the power!!!!

Thanks for all the birthday wishes! This was one of the most special birthdays in my life for a lot of reasons. It's so wonderful to be a missionary, it's so wonderful helping people come to their Savior and when people look back at their life before this church and then after they are so so so grateful which translates into a ton of food for birthdays baby!! Ya know when you get too much and you don't feel good but there's homemade pie and you gotta eat it hot and you are sitting on the couch questioning if that was the right thing to do? Yeah I felt like that for 12 hours... I LOVE PERU!!!!!

Hma Conisla's dog had puppies and they are so cute - I want one. We visited famly Loyaza and they are really excited about marriage - the gears are starting to move. Marriage is a pain here in Peru but forward with faith people!!! 

Please pray for Ana Maria Conisla and Leonardo, family Loyaza and Evangelia and Sumer and Guillimina. 

We have this sweet old lady we are teaching named Gerillmina. I think I talked about her a few weeks back but she is a recent widow and is devastated. Right before her husband died he gave her a puppy. We passed by her house and the puppy just died of unknown causes and she was beside herself. Please pray for her. I feel so bad. We are trying our best to help her and it's so wonderful to watch her love grow for this work and for her Savior. I love you all.

Mariana is doing great. When she heard it was my birthday she jumped up and started running towards my voice (she's blind) - it was so funny.  Please pray for her and her kids. She is the best missionary. She is inviting all her family to be baptized and 2 of her granddaughters have baptism dates. I love this work!

Love,

Elder Nielsen