Another Great Week!

It is pretty cool to hear how it all works to call a new stake presidency. It sounds like it should be a great stake presidency, and it will be interesting to see what they do to help the stake grow and be stronger.  Elder Costa is a Brazilian you guys are aware, right??? (Side Note: One Elder Costa is Brazilian, but the Elder Costa that came to our Stake is Argentinian). I'm sure Heavenly Father inspired them to choose the right man for the job at this time from all the good and worthy men of the stake. Something that I try not to do in the mission is aspire for position. At times the thoughts come "Will I ever be this, or that?"  But its not something that we need to worry about, we just need to worry about keeping the commandments and serving where we are. It's the natural man that seeks for position.

We have two people marked for baptism this Saturday -- R-------- and M------.  They seem really excited, and we hope that it all goes as planned.  We will also have zone conference this week, and I'm pretty excited for that. 

Our teaching pool is a little weak right now. We need to search to find new people that are interested and willing to make the sacrifices to go to church and to read and pray. We think we will be able to teach R--------'s daughter, who is kind of avoiding us because she has a friend that doesn't seem to like us that much, but she will go to the baptism. I'm sure she will like it, and we have faith that with the help of the Young Womens, she can be baptized too. And M------ was a contact that we did with the Young Mens president, and he is pretty excited about it. His parents aren't married, and we are trying to help them to marry so that they can be baptized too. We are also helping them with the Word of Wisdom.

But other than that this week was pretty normal. We had some meeting in Recife that made it a little bit more difficult, but we still had some great resultados.

The pictures are of Elder A----, he is from Bolivia, and he is my zone leader.  We had a split this week. He wanted pancakes when we woke up, so I made him pancakes, but the flour was expired. They didn't turn out too good. But the pizza was great!

Hope you all have a great week. Love you so much!

Elder Nielson