January 27, 2014

HOLA HOLA HOLA!

So this week has been kind of all of the place! Definitely the longest week of my mission so far! It's been super slow! But still good! Sister Williams is getting better, but there are still times that we have to go back to the house cause she's in pain or exhausted, so our schedule is never very set. I've also gone out on splits with english and spanish sisters while she sleeps. Which is good, but I just want to be in my area working with all the people here! Which has also made it hard to keep people progressing cause we haven't been able to see them very much! Sonia hasn't really kept her commitments, and we only got to see her once, so I don't know what's going on there! But her granddaughter has been there and she's SO awesome! She's 12 and she reads the bible all the time and she went to church, and mutual and we just gave her a BOM. So I'm super excited about that! I love her! We have also been visiting Maria, who has been meeting with missionaries off and on for 30 YEARS! Crazy! But I really feel like we have broken through with her! I think she just needed sisters! She's so close! She's come to church a ton! There's just something that's she's not telling us! But yesterday when we visited her, it went sooo good! The Holy Ghost was TOTALLY telling me what to say to her. Oh and ps she's fluent in both spanish and english, so our lessons are in spanglish so I love it :) But oh my goodness! So we had lunch at a members houseyesterday at 2, super good and we were soo stuffed from it, then we went to visit Maria at 4 and she decided to make us dinner? We just look at eachother like oh my heck how are we going to do this! I thought I was going to explode! But of course I ate all of it cause she's our investigator! She's super sweet! But holy cow I thought I was going to blow! HAHA! But I didn't, so it's all good! Oh and Luna is SO awesome and drives us everywhere cause we still don't have a car yet, but hopefully we get one this week! We have a lot of fun though, I'm excited for you guys to meet her one day! She's hilarious and keeps me happy :)

I also realized that I don't know spanish. So that's fun. It's super frusterating and I feel like it will never come. But oh well haha it will! OH MY GOODNESS! So when we were doing OYMS the other day, I went up to talk to this guy, and he was CRAZY! I'm just this nice little pleasant girl and he's just RAGING on me about how the church isn't true, they're brainwashing me, get out while I can, Joseph Smith is an abomination, everyone has so many wives, we don't believe in Christ, just ALL this stuff that I was just standing there while he was just yelling at me for NO reason! Holy cow Satan has hold of that man! I didn't know if I should like cry or just laugh cause he was so crazy! Then Hermana Bomgard came and he was like, "I don't need to be doubled teamed on!" And she's like, "oh sir I'm just here to protect her" and he just yells, "THE ONLY THING SHE NEEDS PROTECTION FROM IS YOU!" we just get in our car and drive away and he's just yelling, "CULT CULT CULT!" HAHAHAHA we were just dying! Every time we think about it we just die laughing! He was crazy! So that was fun! But that's pretty much it! I hope everyone is doing great! Read the BOM everyday! Even if it's just one verse! It seriously is the best thing ever! LOVE IT. Have a good week! 

Hermana Nelson

January 20, 2014 Pictures

2 a.m. the people going to Riverside from the Mexico MTC

Luccion and Dulong

Sister William's and Kylee

January 20, 2014

What a crazy week! Cali is great! I love it here! I'm serving in Perris, in the Tres Lagos ward. My companion is Hermana Williams and she's 6' 1" so I basically look like a midget next to her. I'll send a picture! Everyone thinks it's really funny. She's awesome! She reminds me of a mix of Megan Harmon and Bonnie Reid. It's so funny! I also saw Hermana Luccion, Dulong and Juarez! So that was super fun! We're staying at a home share with a member that is English speaking. Her name is Kristi and she is the sweetest! Her house is like brand new, so it's super nice! I really like it there! Feels more like home and it's really clean so I love it! 

So! Not only did we get doubled in, but we also opened up a brand new area! Which apparently is super hard, but I don't really know any different, so it's been good! We literally had to start from scratch! We had a brand new area book, a new phone with no contacts, it was crazy! So for the first couple days we were just trying to figure things out. But we've been teaching people and it's been so good! We have like 5 investigators now? The first time we taught Sonia I could tell right away that she is so ready to have the gospel in her life. I invited her to be baptized the second lesson and she said yes! WOO WOO! We set her date for Feb. 9th, so we're just working to prepare her for that! My spanish is.. coming haha but everyone just thinks I'm really cute cause I'm so little and just stare at them confused. So they love me ;) 

And oh my goodness, the members here are AWESOME! We get fed every night! They're so nice! And Luna has been helping us so much with finding people, introducing us to people in the ward, and feeding us. She's so awesome! I love her so much! And she speaks more English then Spanish, so we can actually talk! She cracks me up. 

Oh thanks for the packages! So great! I dyed maaa herrrr so it looks a lot better. I'm cutting Hermana Williams hair today, so I'm excited :) Just make sure when you send future packages send it using USPS so they can just forward it to wherever I'm living. Send all letters and packages to this address:

Hermana Kylee Marie Nelson

California Riverside Mission

5900 Grand Avenue

Riverside, CA 92504

Also make sure you put my first name cause there's another sister Nelson here! 

Also! The family knows this, but everyone else doesn't, so we got in a car accident yesterday! Pretty crazy stuff! First car accident, and first ambulance ride! So that was fun! We were having a recent convert follow us to stake conference, then we had to make a U-turn cause we were going the wrong way, so we pull off to the side (Sister Williams was driving) go to flip around, I yell, "CAR!" And BAM. They hit the drivers door going about 40 miles an hour. It was the weirdest feeling ever cause I knew it was going to happen, but there was nothing I could do about it. It was crazy! We just sat there for a minute collecting ourselves and I couldn't breathe it was so weird! Finally I realized we needed to get working on things, so I took the "what to do if you're in an accident" packet and got out and started getting people's info. Our zone and district leaders came, and so did a bunch of other Elders. So they took care of everything while the ambulance took us to the hospital. President Smart came and Luna came. We were there for like 5 hours? Sister Williams broke her clavicle, so she has a brace on and I have to basically do everything for her now. I have to dress her, do her hair, seat belt her in, carry her stuff, etc etc. Great service opportunity right?? I'm good though! I can't remember exactly what happened or what I hit, but I'm pretty sore today, I have a few bruises, but I'm just taking meds for the pain. ALL IS WELL! But hey, at least I got to call the fam! It was so nice to talk to everyone! 

But anyway! Quite the exciting week! Nothing is ever boring with me around thought right? ;) I love being a missionary though! It's seriously the best! And once I get spanish done, it will be even better! Hope everyone is doing great! 

Hermana Nelson

Pictures - January 13, 2014

Some of the Missionaries in Kylee's Zone

Hermana Tyler that Kylee Played Soccer With 

The Hermanas in Kylee's Zone with Elder Barlow Creepin' in the Back

Kylee's Zone

Kylee's District with the Branch Presidency  

Kylee Walking Back with the Elder's for a Last Time

January 13, 2014

They actually let us email the day before we leave! So I'm still in Mexico, and I don't know if I i get to email when I get there or not, but next Monday will be my pday! Thanks for sending all that stuff! Much needed! I said goodbye to Hermana Hamlin this Morning and it was so sad! She's in the Ventura mission! So I've just been passed around with different companions today. Hope ya had some fun in Texas! My layover is in Dallas so I'll be there when you are! Pretty funny! I don't have a lot of time, but I'll talk to you next week!

Love,

Hermana Nelson

Pictures - January 9, 2014

Mexico City 

Mexico City Temple Visitor's Center

Mexico City Temple Visitor's Center

January 9, 2014

LAST P DAY IN THE CCM! Oh my goodness I can't even believe it! So crazy! We said goodbye to Hermana Hyde and Westover this week and it was so sad! Crazy how close you can come to people in such a short amount of time! I can't even imagine saying goodbye to Hermana Hamlin and our district! Hamlin leaves Monday and I leave Tuesday, so I'll have to be with someone else for a little while.

 

Our teaching is becoming so much better! We don't have to write down a bunch of spanish things anymore and we teach with more unity! Right when we have to say goodbye to eachother! We taught Willy for the last time yesterday. So weird! But it will be so awesome to teach people that we can actually see their lives change and their baptism!

 

So I'm improving a lot of my skills here! Elder Kay and Elder Stewart both ripped their pants.. in multiple places... don't know how, but they don't know how to sew at all, so I sewed their pants, their ties, I'm like the sewing lady here which is weird cause I don't even like sewing. They gave me 5 packages of Chokis though (cholocate chip cookies filled with chocolate-VERY good) so it made it worth it! I also have been juggling the soccerball a lot cause I'm getting sick of playing volleyball all the time, so I got my high score in juggling! I practice more here then I ever did at home! Kind of funny! Oh my goodness. The FUNNIEST thing happened the other day, so I went to the bathroom in the room next to ours, and literally got locked into the bathroom! Don't know how! So I was just laughing and had to knock on the inside of the door to Hermana Hamlin. I thought I was going to have to jump out of the window. It was so funny! Probably one of those "had to be there moments" but we were dying.

 

OH! Guess who's here! Kaden Bramall! So weird seeing him! It was like a piece of home was here in Mexico and felt out of place! But fun to see him! This morning we went to the visitors center at the temple because the temple is closed now for 18 MONTHS! But I'm glad we at least got to go once!

 

Have a great week! Next time I'll be in Cali! WOO WOO! And I'll probably email when I get there? But I'm not sure how everything is going to work, but then my P days will be Mondays! Love you!

 

Hermana Nelson