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Elder Nelson - Baptism for the Office Elders and Closing Down WES

Dear Family,

Mission NewsThe missionaries met a student on the George Mason campus and invited him to institute and four weeks later he was baptized (yesterday). He kept all of his commitments – read the Book of Mormon, prayed, attended church and kept the commandments. At his baptism three other friends attended that were invited by the missionaries. Two of them were Chinese and the other (a Caucasian) is majoring in Chinese translation. They had a 20 minute discussion in Chinese after the baptism.

Elder Carper, Greyson, Elder Fowler, Elder Tahi after the baptism. These elders are the office elder that we see a lot.
The sister missionaries are assigned to serve only in the YSA ward. They spend most of their days on the campus of George Mason University. They love it. “We never run out of people to talk to.” The university has 38,000 students and very large, beautiful campus.

We had 3 Zone Conferences this week. Mom and I got to one of them. The one we went to, the missionaries ate all of the food that was prepared – every crumb. That has never happened before. Our estimate of the number of people that would come was low.

We have a neighbor, Tom, who lives up on the second floor. He visits with us from his balcony a few times a week. We have tried several things to get him interested – Book of Mormon, family history and others, but nothing has worked yet. Our next attempt will be a “come and help” invitation. I think there is going to be an eagle project coming up and maybe he will help us with that.

Fun Stuff
We did not do much of anything in the fun category. We did have dinner out Saturday at a nice deli. We don’t eat out much, so that was nice.

WES NewsI spent a lot of time working and worrying about WES things. I have decided to stop worrying and also I will try to tie up all loose ends quickly. This is an unwelcome distraction. I will still help with transitioning customers, but that is not so time consuming or anxiety creating.

Family NewsKeri and Family are visiting Derek and Family. From the pictures I’ve seen they are having a great time – except that BYU lost. They went to the warm beach and Tampa Bay to see the game. Derek’s family has lots of new fun toys and cousins.

Go Cougars and Cougarettes!
Love you all,

Dad

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