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Elder Nelson - Attending District Counsels

Dear Family,

Mission News
Monday, we had a Senior Missionary going away party for Elder and Sister Bloomfield. They are leaving this coming Tuesday, but they won’t be released for 3 months. The big problem is Sister Bloomfield is the mission nurse and there are no potential mission nurses “in the system”. She will be the mission nurse from Delta, Utah.

Anyway, it is always fun to get together with the senior missionaries.

I attended 3 district council meetings this week which was real treat. The missionaries in general are very open to suggestions and learning. The missionaries are trying hard and most seem to be really enjoying their missions. We seem to be getting a fair amount of baptisms in the Spanish program.

The poise, confidence, leadership and teaching ability these elders and sister have is remarkable. This generation is strong.

In one district council meeting a sister said that they did a door approach and the woman seemed receptive. She asked, “Do you like lesbians?”. The sisters said, “We love lesbians!” The woman invited them in. As they were going in, the woman said, “At least you are not like the Mormons!” The woman had a woman “roommate”. The women invited them back. Our sister missionary asked the missionaries in district council, “What do we do now?” What would you do?

I have a bit of change of assignment. I am now the mission executive secretary. As far as I know now the only difference is that I will be attending the monthly mission presidency meetings and taking minutes.

The junior missionaries in our mission are always thanking the senior missionaries for “all you do”. They must be trained to do that because many missionaries we don’t know thank us. This is not a bad thing.

Here is a note from the sister missionaries that live in the same apartment complex we do. They live in a different building 100 yard from us. (The Spanish elders live in the next building over.) We have had the sister missionaries over for Christmas and “church” last Sunday. They are a bit effusive with their praise, but that’s OK.


Fun Stuff
Saturday, we shopped for a lunch we are doing on Tuesday – Transfer Day. We went to a baptism of Chris, the man that was going to separate from his wife because his wife was joining the Church. After the baptism he came back into the room. Before the meeting continued his 4-year-old daughter climbed up on his lap and said in a voice loud enough for everyone could hear, “Good job, Dad!” It was cute!

We went into the office to do a few things. It is 6:00 and we are going to have dinner and then go shopping for some more stuff for us. We will bake brownies tonight for our neighbor who brushed the snow off our car and scraped our windows after the last snow.

It was supposed to snow today, and the government is shut down, so we decided not to do any sightseeing. It did not snow – just sprinkled a bit.

WES News
Carlos came back from vacation Tuesday. Some good orders came in this week. WES is doing fine. We still have not resolved the software dispute. I think our lawyer botched a negotiation with their lawyer. It may take another week or two to come to a resolution.

Love,
Dad

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