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Elder Nelson - Selling WES and Transfer Week

Dear Family,

Mission NewsMy heavens this was a busy week. It was transfer week and we sent 13 missionaries home and received 27 new ones. Mom and I were talking about this and it seems that transfer day was (Tuesday) was three weeks ago. Part of the reason is that we had a number of late nights and early mornings. Working tired is harder.

Today we had our mission “family prayer” at 6:30am. All the missionaries pray for their friends at 6:30am. We then did a half hour of “come follow me” study. At 7:00 we went back to sleep until 9:30am. It felt very good to get a little extra sleep.

I initiated with the departing missionaries a 20 minute debriefing session where the missionaries talked about some of their missionary experiences. I was impressed by the faithful, heart-felt responses of all the missionaries.

We read another chapter of the Book of Mormon with Nancy on Friday. There was a good spirit. I don’t know if she is really progressing to baptism, but we all enjoy the visit.

Fun Stuff
On Saturday we went to a baptism where the sister missionaries who taught the young sister who was baptized, were the witnesses of the baptism.

We listened to 3 sessions of conference and I worked on WES stuff. I missed my walk. Chelsea called on her way home from Keri’s. I enjoyed the visit with her until I fell asleep at 11:55pm.

WES News
On top of transfer week we signed a sales agreement on Thursday to sell WES. We no longer own any assets and we no longer have employees. We still have a couple of dozen little tasks to close out the business and dissolve the corporation. As part of the sales agreement I will assist in the “safe” transfer WES customers to the Accurate Technology Manufacturing. That part I actually look forward to.

Family News
Kent and Lindsey are working on wedding stuff like announcements (that should go out this week – congratulations) and getting a wedding ring for Kent.

Kent is super busy at work.

Next Wednesday Keri and the girls are flying to Orlando to visit Derek’s family and McKay will fly out a day later to help with the broadcast of the BYU Football game. They will fly back on Tuesday. We wish Keri good luck with the girls on the long flights. I am sure they will have fun with their cousins.

This week Chelsea had her annual three day trek to Clear Creek with her 5th grade class. She said it went really well. The activities went smoothly and the children had fun and so did Chelsea.
Love you all,

Dad

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