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Elder Nelson - Street Contacting and Peaches and Cream

Dear Family,

Mission NewsThis week I had to make a short presentation at 3 zone conferences on being careful with social media. That took a big chunk of the week.

We took David to see his parole officer. He is still going to Church and meeting with the elders about weekly.

We were going to take brownies to our new neighbors, but we ate them instead. Actually by the time we got around to taking them, they got old and dry so ate them in a bowl of milk. We tried to take Apple Uglies to them today but they were not home. We will try tomorrow.

Street Contacting is something I never did in Germany. We did a lot of tracting, but no street contacting. Mom and I went with Sister Snow and Sister Wiscombe and stood outside the Metro station. The sisters played and sang primary songs on a ukulele to get people’s attention. It did not work so well. People listened a little but were not anxious to talk.

We did talk with a bus driver from Togo West Africa. He has been here 8 years. He exchanged phone numbers with the missionaries and said he would be interested in talking about Jesus.


Fun StuffLast week after the party at the Seely family, they gave us some homemade cheese and 2 quarts of raw Holstein milk. I had peaches and cream once or twice a day for a week. Yum! Although the peaches were not nearly as good as Grandpa Ford’s, but it was still a treat.


WES NewsWES is doing OK. Selling the business is going slowly.

Family NewsDerek and Family were spared any significant effects of hurricane.

McKay saw BYU beat Tennessee. However, USC will be tough next week.

Kent and Lindsey are making headway on the long list of things to get ready for the wedding. They have a reservation for November 2 in the St. George Temple, so they have the critical item done. The rest is just fun fluff.

Love you all,

Dad

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