Valentines Day plus

Note from editor: two letters included below .

2/20/19

Okay well it's temple P-day today and next P-day is in four days so I'll keep this short.

But basically because of valantines day the convenience stores are going hard with strawberry flavored things. But Family Mart came out swinging hard with strawberry flavored hot dogs. Still haven't tried them. 

In other news we had a young men missionary activity on Sunday that no young men came to. That was kind of a bummer but at the library there was a huge Pokémon go thing going on and there were hundreds of people standing and walking around playing Pokémon go. It's crazy to see so many people quietly walking around. Kind of creepy but it was kind of cool to be around for a little while.

See you next week! 

Elder Neilson 倪長老

2/25/19

It's only been a hot second since my last email but here is the week since Monday:

Basically on Monday I went in exchanges and taught some fun lessons with Elder Chruch. We had this one plan of Salvation lesson where we talked a little about the Gospel of Jesus Christ as our purpose on earth and at the end the guy we were teaching asked, "so what is this Gospel you are talking about and how do I do it?" pretty much the golden question to be honest but we had to end there because we had another lesson right that second. Tons of fun though and I truly felt the gift of Tongues helping me teach and speak that whole day. 

Tuesday we had a cool zone Conference where President laid out his vision for member missionary work. President is making member work the major focus of the mission and although it is at times a harder approach than straight finding on the street, we are already starting to see some of the blessings of our efforts with the members. Im excited to see where it goes for the rest of my mission. 

Wednesday was temple pday which was an awesome day. It was pday and temple, and then immediately English class so we didn't really do much normal Missionary work. But it was a fun time. 

Saturday night we had a board game Activity with all three ward's in the "shuang he" Area which was a lot of fun. We had a pretty good turn out and it was a great opportunity to get to know members and help some less active members feel comfortable at the church. Less active members are another thing we are working on right now as a mission. President even made less actives at church a measured "key indicator" for each week to keep track of our progress. It's super cool to meet with those members too because they already have an understanding of the Gospel you just have to rekindle the fire so to speak. 

Well that's about it for this week since Monday. Today we are at the board game store again for Elder Churchs birthday. We went two weeks ago and now we are kind of obsessed with games. Kind of a problem. Haha

See you next week 

Elder Neilson

strawberry flavored hot dogs anyone?

Pokemon go event in the park