A Wonderful Thanksgiving

Everything was amazing this week. We worked hard with our investigators this week and got one to commit to baptism. The other is suppose to be baptized on Friday and we are hoping that will go through.

 

Thanksgiving was a lot of fun. We started by having Elder Holland talk to us. So you know, he adopted all of us so this might be short because I need to write them as well. Jokeslang (joking). He did adopted us though and he told us we had no agency in this decision. He gave a wonderful talk, as always, about how we should be grateful for living at this time because we have the whole gospel and it is everywhere. We then had a wonderful dinner which we wanted to eat more but there was a lot of people around. Right before I got to eat we went on a temple walk and someone yelled "Happy Thanksgiving" from their car and one missionary yelled back "Wait, it's Thanksgiving" jokingly. We fill like we have no connection to the outside world. We then did a service project for Ouelessebougou which sends supplies to Malia to help educated them. It was a lot of fun. We had a Thanksgiving program which was fun and helped us relax. We finished by watching 17 Miracles. It was a great day.

We are at the point where we just want to get out of the MTC. We feel like we have been here forever. There is a saying here that the days go by like weeks and the weeks go by like days. Everyday sees to pass like a lifetime but we look back and it seems so short of a time. We just move forward. We are hoping to leave on time still but we don't know the date. We still have a group from before us that are waiting for their visas but the only visas that had problems for them are the missionaries going to the Eloelo mission. So we are hoping to go out on time. The work just goes on.

I love you all. I hope everything goes well this week. I'm happy everything went well last week.

Love,

Elder Nielsen

 

PS: We have lots of fun in class. We were practicing the language and Elder Lungren said that a dog was his friend. Our teacher came up and told him that he was Elder Lungren's friend and that they should eat the dog. It was funny.