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Elder Nelson - Phones, Isabella and Easter

Dear Family,

Mission News
On Easter we had a wonderful sacrament meeting with beautiful music and the counselor in the bishopric gave a great talk on the Atonement of Christ and the Resurrection.

We had Sister Banluta and Sister Withers over for dinner. After dinner we took chickees to 4 of our neighbors and introduced them to the Sister Missionaries.

This week I helped solve a couple of technical problems with phones. I am getting more comfortable working on these problems and I can facilitate faster the resolution of the problems. The tech support people in Salt Lake do the real problem solving. I now know how to faster and better to access their support.

I called and talked with some of the missionaries that are heavy users of afterhours data and phone calls. It was a bit uncomfortable, but I tried my best to put a positive spin on the conversation.

President Caplin also asked me to call some missionaries that are not writing their weekly letters as often as they should.

My things to do list in the office is growing. I should have everything under control. I even have Sister Chesbrough to help me. I think President Caplin is giving me more things to do to offload some of his burden.

We attended zone conference on Friday. It was great. I am amazed about the Gospel knowledge and understanding these young missionaries have. They are heads and shoulders above where Mom and I were at that age.

Fun Stuff
Nancy is the sister we have been helping the elders teach and fellowship. Two interesting things happened on Friday’s lesson. I contributed more than usual in the lesson and Mom kept putting her elbow in my ribs to tell me to stop. She thought I was doing too much talking and I should let the elders do the teaching. Although my ribs are sore, I enjoyed talking.

The second thing was that when we came in Mom took off her shoes in the entry way. In the middle of the discussion, Isabella, the black Labrador dog, got one of her shoes in her mouth and brought it to the living room where we were having our discussion. Mom was afraid that Isabella would chew on her shoe and ruin it. One of the elders got her shoe out of Isabell’s mouth. Isabella immediately went to the entry way and got the other shoe. Fortunately the elder was also able to get that shoe too before Isabella chewed on it. In the end all was well and Mom wore her shoes home.

Saturday Mom took Nancy to a stake RS conference on discovering your spiritual gifts. Both Nancy and Mom loved the presentation and discussion. The amazing thing was that Nancy met her first cousin, who is the RS president of the local Spanish ward.

WES News
While Mom at the woman’s conference for 4 hours, I was preparing and discussing with my partner terms for buying out his stock. We are kind of close but not close enough.

WES got some new good orders and some hope of more orders.

Family News
Olivia is showing Malia around at on open house at school
Love,
Dad

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