Fried Chicken

Hey All,

This was a fun week. For P-day we biked out to Costco to get some big groceries. But that took a long time and so we didn't really have time for anything else. 

This week I took Elder Zhang on exchanges. He is one of the elders in my district and he is training right now. It was my first time going on an exchange as the leader and not the normal missionary which was an interesting experience. All in all this transfer has been really interesting so far as my whole district often looks to me for help. Especially the two very young trainers are calling me or asking me questions all the time. It's a fun opportunity because you don't really recognize how much missionary experience you have until people start coming to you for answers; and you actually have answers! hahaha. 

Other highlights of the week include going to a members house for their famous fried chicken. The member's last name is Zhou and is he is this really cool old guy who is a great friend to the missionaries. He had a friend at his house today who is visiting from the south of Taiwan and Brother Zhou had us try to share the gospel with him while he prepared the food! It was way funny because the friend had met with missionaries in the past and really liked Missionaries but has no interest in joining the church so we had some interesting discussions. He kept talking about how the only 100% good Americans are the Elders. All other Americans could be evil. hahaha.

This week we had some awesome finding experiences where the Lord provided two people for us to start teaching. They are both formers (people who have been taught in the past but stopped meeting with missionaries for whatever reason). One we called and he set a time to meet with us which went really well. The second was a man who's house was close to one of the member's we were visiting one night and so, at Elder Meredith's insistance, we rang on his doorbell and he immediately invited us in and started sharing all his life problems. It was crazy, and a since he loved to talk it was a little hard to control the situation, but at least we know a lot of his needs in life and now we just need to take the Gospel to him in a way that shows him the Gospel will fix those problems! Amazing to see the Lord's hand leading His work. 

Well that's about all for this week! Hope you all have a good one!

Elder Neilson

Us at Brother Zhous house

Calvin (the recently baptized member who spoke at the fire side last sunday that I taught in my first area) and all the elders who taught him before his baptism. 

Elder Zhang and I on exchanges