Elder Kimball Neilson

Tuesday, May 9, 2023

Última Conferencia de Estaca

¿Que Onda?

Welcome back to the weekly report of Elder Neilson.

This past week was pretty good. Overall a very chill week.

We had a few great lessons with our friends Teresa and Federico. They are doing superwell. We really hope they can fix their problem, and then baptism and confirmation.

The big event this week was the stake conference of Estaca Meyehualco. Which I realized will probably be my last Stake conference here in Mexico. It was great. Elder Dominguez the area seventy presided and Presidente Lyman and Sister Lyman also attended. As we were in the choir so we got to be up on the stand the entire time, it was a really cool experience. I can only remember being on the stand once before in a priesthood seccion to direct the music. The funniest part was they had the choir wear matching ties, however the thrusday before in the weekly mission Zoom meeting, Presidente and Sister Lyman told the mission that we shouldn't/can't wear matching ties (or dresses for the Sister.) Than only a few days latter we were wearing matching ties. They found it pretty funny and said that it was ok this time .

We also learned in the Zoom meeting that Elder Montoya the Presidente of the Mexico Area is coming to the mission at the end of the month for a mission tour. The thing that is coolest for me is that he came my first transfer and now is coming my last transfer.

This pday we had a surprise lesson with some members in the morning. Due to this our district leader told us we could extend our pday, win. The big thing we did was we went to Iztapasauria with the elder of buenavista. It is a outdoor anomatronic dinosaur exhibit in a park here in Iztapalapa. It was small but a fun time.

Hasta la próxima,

Elder Neilson

us at said street

view form one of the streets here

The entrance to the pueblo de Santa Cruz Meyehualco

The choir for Saturday Stake Conference

the choir for Sunday stake conference

iztapasouria

Old day of the dead paper statues left to rot in the park

Tuesday, May 2, 2023

The Home Stretch

Que Onda,

Sorry for not writing the second half of last transfer. So here is the three week run down.

We had exchanges with the Elders of Las Peñas two time. My first I was with Elder Cardona, our district leader. The second was with Elder Jones. Both were great. I was Elder Cardona's district leader months ago at it was nice to catch up with him.

Sunday the 16th we had probably one if the best Restoration lessons that I have had in my mision. Juan just understood and accepted everything. We taught about Prophets, for him it just made sense, the Book of Mormon as well, its here to help the Bible. It went great.

Than the 22nd we went to the temple as a ward and brought our friends Federico and Teresa. They absolutely loved it, and the visitors center. I hadn't been to the temple in over a year so I also loved the opportunity to be back at the house of the Lord.

On Sunday the 23rd Elder Reyes and I also got roped in to helping the ward with the choir for stake conference. It's been pretty good so far and we will se how it goes.

The 25th Elder Olson invited us to go to cheesecake factory with him and his companion, Elder Salazar, for his last pday. It was a great time.

Saturday the 29th we had the baptism of out amigita Dulce in the morning it was great. When I first got here to Meyehualco and started teaching her I wasn't so sure how she would progress. But she really started to understand and everything worked out. We also got to go to a baptism in San Pedro Martir that afternoon for a investigator I taught there. It was great to be back.

Transfers also have come around and I have started my last transfer here in the mission which is crazy to me. I still feel like I just got to México. The time has just flown. I'm staying here in Meyehualco with Elder Reyes it should be great.

Hasta la próxima,

Elder Neilson

P.s. I'll try to be better at writing this last transfer, I only have 6 pdays left.

Temple trip with Federico and Teressa

the cat that keeps coming into the church

Dulce's baptism

Wallace and I

The final district counsel with ZL as special guests

Cheesecake Factory

Elder Olson and I before he left

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Semana Santa

¿Que Onda?

Feliz late holy week.

Before my Mission I would of thought that the week of Easter would be full of work but here in Mexico it just doesn't seem to be the case. Semana Santa is a very slow week for us missionaries. All of our friends were working or outside of the city for vacations. Do to this we sadly had very few lessons this week. We did get to do a fare bit of contacts in person and digitally.

Wedsday we had district counsel and we recorded a musical number for the mission's weekly Zoom meeting on Thursday. They were both a great time. We sang an arrangement of "We'll bring the world his truth"

Friday morning while visiting a less active member we came across a huge group of catholics in a parade for good Friday. They had a large statue of Christ carrying the cross. The catholic celebrations are always a little alien to me but I do love the devotion they show.

Saturday we had a ward family home evening. We had it planed at 6 to start at 6:30 for Mexican standard time. However we ended up staring around 7 due to technical difficulties. It went great even with all of the delays, and low attendence of 8 people. We got to share a great message on the restoration, always something I love teaching about.

Sunday we had only sacrament meeting, which went great. Fantastic talks on the atonement and resurrection. The sad part was that none of our investigators showed up, but a inactive family we are working with did show up which was great.

This p-day Elder Reyes and I went to the music tiangus, because he has never been and wanted to get a guitar.

Hasta la próxima,

Elder Neilson

the super dirty baptismal font

sunrise

Lord of the Watches, me with all of the watches of the district

Exchanges with Elder Cardona

Tuesday, April 4, 2023

Conferencias

¿Que onda?

These past two weeks in Meyehualco have been great. My first pday we went bowling with the district. Haven't bowled in a year and was pretty pleased with my preformance, 100+ in two of the three games. The rest of the first week was great, pretty chill, I got to know the area and the members. Sunday I got to give a talk introducing myself in which I also talked about missionary work.

Last p-day we meet up as a district to make enchiladas and play monopoly, which I won. Than this last week we had zone conference which was great, the funny thing was that the mission office had no water so we had to switch to the capilla of ermita. This week we also found a couple to teach they are great. They were taught back before the pandemic but lost contact with the missionaries, and just recently got back in contact. They have such a great desire to learn and come closer to christ. And have a desire to be baptized.

This General conference was great, we went to the stake center to watch it. Love all the talks and especially loved the enfasis on the atonement of Jesus Christ and being a peacemaker.

Hast la próxima

Elder Neilson

Zone Conference in the chapel of Ermita

Coming back from Zone Conference in the Metro

View form the CableBus

Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Meyehualco

Hola,

A few weeks have passed since my last letter, so here is a rundown of the past couple of weeks.

On the 6th of march our friends Joana y Raul got married! We got to be in the Civil service and it was great.

The 7th as a district we went to cheesecake factory. With extra money I have accumulated over the mission I bought us a complete cheesecake, it was awesome.

On the 8th was exchanges with the Elders of Hidalgo, and as hidalgo and bosques con combined due to a problem that arose, I helped Elder Lee get to know the area a little and meet some old investigators.

The 9th were Interviews with president.

The 11th our friend Angel got baptized. He is the cousin of Emiliano, who got baptized a month ago.

On the 14th, last p-day our shower drain broke, which was a blessing in disguise because it helped us find out that the shower and toilet weren't draining correctly and all of the toilet water was backing up under the shower. We had to wait until Friday for it to get fixed. So we had a few days of not showering, and when we did what had to make sure poop water didn't come up. Fun times.

Friday the 17th after, helping out with the stake's 180th relief society anniversary activity cambios (transfers) were announced. And I'm leaving San Pedro.

Saturday and Sunday were mostly spent visiting members to say goodbye. On Saturday we also helped the elder of Topilejo with a baptism, we latter learned that after we left they forgot to turn of the water and flooded the church a little.

My new area Is Meyehualco. Back on the other side of the mission, the dangerous side. My new companion is Elder Reyes. And I'm looking forward to a great cambio with him.

Hasta la próxima,

Elder Neilson