The Urrutia Family

Hey everyone how are things going? Things are going great here. This past week was a little slow but we had some special moments. The man that came into church last week, Marcelo, has accepted a baptismal date for the 15th of May but I dont think that his family is really aware of what he is doing so we will see what goes on. He came to church yesterday and a member of the ward, Hermano Moller, was in the same class in school and have known each other for a long time and was good for Marcelo to have a friend in the church.

Urratia Family

Other great news is that the family that we are working with, the Urrutia family, all came to church again and in the evening we went by and taught them the Plan of Salvation. We invited all of them to get baptized on the 22 of May and they all said yes!!!!!!!!!!!! They are all excited for it. Now we will need to work with the ward to help keep them strong. I attached a picture of the family. Their names are Carlos, Aliet, Allan, Valentina, and Selena. It is really cool to have a complete family coming to church and that are going to get baptized. Something really special for us.
I am almost getting over my sickness. I dont know what it was but it really hit me hard this week. After about 10 days of coughing my head off, they put me on anitbiotics and its helping now...
Well have a great week everyone! The Gospel truely blesses families. Les amo.

I'm sick....

my sick face with my swollen lip that i woke up with ..it was as big as shaq's i swear. it has gone down a lot though...dont know what caused it. the flash made me start to blink. apparently i start to blink first with my right eye haha.
The Rexburg 9th ward elders in Chile, elder Nelson and elder Allison

The Moller Family

(April 19)

Hey family how are things going? This week has been an awesome one for me with a lot of spiritual experiences even though I got sick again and this time with a cough that hurts down to the hair on my toes haha…
This week was the first week with my new companion, Elder Allenbach. He is from Farmington, Utah. Well in the ward, our pool of investigators was about as shallow as a puddle in the street. We didn’t have much going but we worked really hard to find new people to teach and we had the opportunity to see miracles unfold before our eyes. We still did church tours which are working great for finding families to teach.
While knocking doors, we found a family that was kind of hesitant to listen to us, but they let us in to teach them in their front yard. They have this big rotweiler dog that wouldn’t leave us alone while we were talking outside the fence so what they did so they could hear us was spray it down with the hose to get it to leave. When they let us in, there was a soaking dog to greet us. They set some chairs out for us and listened to us. The dog, Sasha, got a drink and then came around to meet us. Let’s just say that my left hand was used to keep Sasha from ruining my clothes and to keep her still during the prayers. It was covered in slobber, water, and dog hair by the end of the ten minute lesson about the Book of Mormon. Well, we invited them to come to church and they came! The entire family of 5 came to church. They are the Urrutia family. Their names are starting with the parents; Carlos, Aliet, Allan (13), Valentina (8), and the youngest one has a name like Celia or something like that but she is three. They all loved the church and the ward did a really good job in making them feel welcome. They were all invited to the activities during the week and are going to go to church again next week. During church, Hermano Reyes, the first counselor in the bishopric, came and got us and told us that there was a guy in the entry of the church that wanted to talk to someone about getting to know the church. We have a lesson with him tonight in the church with our ward mission leader. What a blessing to have these investigators as well as other families that have said all they need to know is if the Book of Mormon is true and then they will get baptized. We are focusing on lending the book out to as many readers as possible. We are keeping track of who has it so that if they don’t read it or aren’t interested, we can get it back and give it to someone else. These are just a few of the people who have been touched this week.
Well I hope all is going well at home and that you are all enjoying the spring weather that is there or that should be around the corner. Have a great week! I love you all and know that this is the Lord’s work here on the earth. His blessings are for everyone but we need to be the ones to open our mouths and tell someone about it. I have strengthened my testimony about that this week.
Chaíto del sur,
Elder Nelson

My new companion Elder Allenbach

My new comp Elder Allenbach

(the Arnold's from Rexburg's grandson) Bermudes...the famous dog in Limache that follows the missionaries all day, everyday.

Tania, a recent convert and her family, Miguel, Sergio and Francisca

My spider bite

the big group is two families with whom we had an evening of desserts....we made the cheesecake. (below)

completo chileno with spicy mayo...que rico

hey everyone
dont have much time today but wanted to say hi. This weekend, we found a lot of good people to teach doing tours of the church building. We have changes today. I am going to be staying here with Elder Allenbach and Elder Rojas is leaving to Achupallas to be with Elder Halverson. Well gotta get going. have a great one! chao
elder nelson

President Gerardo J. Wilhelm called to 2nd Quorm of the 70

hey everyone how are things going? this was a spiritual week for me. On wednesday, we had interviews with President Gillespie and Sister Gillespie. President talked to me about how i was feeling as my mission was coming to an end with only a couple changes left. It was weird to talk about it with him as it brought up a lot of mixed emotions but i always enjoy the time that we have to talk. He always teaches me something. On Friday, I had Zone Counsel in Viña. It was a great time and always a blast. This weekend was an excellent General Conference. One of the special moments was in the Saturday Afternoon session hearing that my old mission president, Gerardo J. Wilhelm, was called to be a general authority in the 2nd Quorum of the 70. Nobody in our little room of missionaries listening to the conference in english realized it but me. Out of the 6 american missionaries there, only one other missionary besides me was even here when President Wilhelm was here. Priesthood session got over at 11:00 pm becasue of the time difference haha. Daniela and Thiare were supposed to have their baptismal interviews yesterday but they didnt even show up to the conference. We will have to see what is going on with them this week. They still might be able to get baptized this weekend. It was a week full of sickness as i got sick with a cold and then my companion caught the same thing two days later. We are still getting over it but in 2 days or so it should all be over. :)
hey well hope all is well everyone. have a great week and talk to you next week. Oh, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANDMA DOROTHY! Chaíto
Elder Nelson