Elder Kimball Neilson

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

the District and the Las

Angel's baptism

Raul and Joanas Wedding

Cheesecake Factory with the district

Saying goodbye to familia Flores

Maria de Los Angles we ate with her every Monday while eating with SPM2

Emiliano

Familia Moncada

Jobana and Donovan

Elder Reyes and I

Bowling as a district in Las Antennas

Utah shirt

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Locked Out.

Hola,

Great two week here in San Pedro Martir.

Week 15th - 21st:

Thursday we had Zone Conference and the theme was "Did you think to pray." We talked about all aspects of prayer. President Lyman focused on Prayers of Faith.It was a great conference. I learned a ton.

Friday our friend Ricardo had his baptismal interview, and everything is a green light for his baptism this Saturday the 25th.

Saturday we had two noteworthy experiences:

1. A Lady stopped us in the street and told us that in these days "four bishops will arise and lead the people into darkness" and "that these evil people will eat those that proselytize. The Jehovah's Witnesses and the Mormons." And that she has seen this happen. Misioneros al carbón. Since that moment we have been very alert for these satanic cannibals .

2. When we got to our house we found that we couldn't open the door. Our neighbor had shut it with the security lock. That was fun so we talked to President and went to go sleep with the elders of Rosal.

Sunday we left Rosal´s house right after waking up to make it to our 8am church. Church without suits in the same clothes that you wore the day before is a different experience.

The 22nd Pday we went to Hidalgo to play soccer with a few other elders and then went to Chilies for lunch.

Week of 22nd - 28th:

Wednesday we had exchanges with the elders of Hidalgo. I got to spend the day with Elder Carrazco, our district leader. It was a great day of misioneros work and we were able to find a family of inactive members with few nonmembers. When we started the exchange I wasn't feeling the best and when we were eating lunch it got really bad, I ended up throwing up in the street. That fixed everything and I didnt have a problem for the rest of the day.

Saturday was Ricardo's baptism. It went great, and we had a pretty good turn out from the ward in support. I got to do the ordinance. I haven't gotten to do a baptism in a while so that was great.

Sunday Ricardo got confirmed, we gave talks in the 1st wards sacrament meeting. For lunch we got to go to a member´s who was having a gathering of family and friends and we got some really good barbacoa.

For this pday, Elder Olson and I decided to visit some members in San Pablo. It was where I was serving a year ago and Elder Olson was the Elder that took the area over after me. It was great to go back and visit those members. We both agree that it was one of the best areas of our missions.

Hasta la próxima,

Elder Neilson

P.s.

The secretaries told me this week that I'm going home on the 16th of June. The CCM is changing the day that they release missionaries so I get 4 more days here in Mexico. It was originally the 12th.