HAPPY 2014!!!! Man, Can I just tell you that Germans know how to celebrate New Years. They have huge fireworks, music, parties, BOMBs, and THE WORKS. The only problem is... I AM A MISSIONARY. Therefore I have to go to bed at 10:30, however when there is a party right above you and bombs going off outside you window it is a little hard to do that... REALLY THOUGH!! It was CRAZY! People went NUTS. As i was nestled up in my bed all the sudden I jumped out of bed thinking something was happening when I realized it was simply just germans celebrating the new year! WOW! It was great.
My brother Gustave is comtinuing to progress in the Gospel. We had a New Years eve get together and watched Thomas S Monsons Biography and Gustave loved it. He said that he loved how there was something different about the members of the church. He then told us that he was continuing to work with his sister, who is still in Rwanda, on finding he Mormon church and meeting with the missionaries there! He is so amazing. Already doing missionary work!
We had two more lessons this week trying to prepare him for baptism, but everytime we ask him to be baptized he is very unsure. He knows that our church is true and loves the Book of Mormon, but he has been baptized before and is nervous to do it again. He said, Sisters I met with missionaries just like you before and I got baptized. Now I have learned more and know that I need the proper authority to get baptized but I just dont know who has it. We were able to bear powerful testimonies about the priesthood and the authority from god. He know that it is true but is says he still is "waiting for his answer."
We jsut love him and are patient with him. I know that he will get baptized and be like the Branch President in Rwanda one of these days. haha. He is inceredible and has SUCH strong faith and a pure love of god. He teaching me something everytime we meet with him. Just remember him in your prayers that he will be able to recognize his answer from the lord.
I love LOVE LOVE being a missionary family. I am so thankful for everyone who has made it possible for me to be here serving the lord. I am forever indebted to you. Really this is the best experience i have ever had in my whole life. I have learned so much, grown so much, seen so much. I hope that through this experience the Lord can change me into the person that he needs me to be. We always want the Lord to know that he can count on us. So always be doing the things that we know we should be doing, so that when the Lord needs an errand run he can call you up and know it will happen!
I love you all. Thanks for all your support.
Special shout out to jacob!!! I love you jake!!! Enjoy the MTC and have fun learning GERMAN!!! It is the Language of Heaven so be glad you are learning it now and not later... haha!! LOVE YOU!!!!
Sister NIlson
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