General Conference (shown this week for us!)

This week was pretty interesting. First of all, Tuesday we had exchanges with the zone leaders. Elder Doane from Arizona came to Manapla. We went to Punta Salong. He loved it there being on the ocean. We got to eat crab there mmmmm... Then Wednesday we looked at the house for the Punta Salong missionaries and after we were told that President Lopez doesn't want it. We talked to bishop about this because we have to go through bishop to talk to the land lady. He then talked to the stake president who then talked with the mission president. Make a long story short, we are now taking the house. It was a long process. Then we had general conference this week!!!!! The missionaries here were amazed at what Elder Nelson said. We like it but it will be hard to get to the point where the ward mission leader is filling our planners. We really like Elder Bednar's talk as well. It gave us a greater aspect on how to teach the law of chastity here because a lot of people don't marry. They don't have the money to marry so it gave us some insight of how we can help them marry and enter into the waters of baptism. We also liked Elder Holland's talk about how a desire is good enough. If they have a desire it should move them forward so that they will follow Christ and then enter into the waters of baptism. Those are some things some of our investigators are struggling with right now.

As far as investigators, we have quite a few progressing. Renelyn came to church this Sunday so we held her interview for baptism. She will be baptized on Saturday!!! One referral that we received came to church as well. His name is Joemar. He is the cousin of our ward mission leader. We will start teaching him this week. We also had a girl that is a part member come to church. Her name is Cherry Mae Oca. We are hoping to baptize her on May 11 but it is hard to teach her so we will see. Brother Negad didn't come to church this week. We were sad. He is still progressing though. Brother Tabligan is starting to progress again. He wants to make the right decision so he is praying and studying. Nono is also progressing. He would have come to church this week but he had to stay and watch the crab business this week. He will attend next week. We started teaching the Padernal family this last week. We taught his parents but they weren't interested but now they seem very interested. They really like what they teach. They are inviting us to eat right now. We are a little bit shocked. They have a true desire to come unto Christ.

We set up our dinner appointments. Sometimes we set up lunch appointments as well. It depends on us if the members feed us or not. We are responsible for set them up though.

I love you all. Remember the words of the prophets.

Elder Nielsen

PS we had a bus take us to general conference.