Week 47: Birthday Goodness

Hello Family,

Scripture of the week:

Acts 27:23

What a week! where did the time go? weeks go really fast when you spend all of your time either in a car or in meetings or on the phone correcting disobedient missionaries. The good news is we have a full pday today so i have more time to email and i hope to even get some hand written letters replied to. First off thank you so much for all the birthday goodness. It was a great day. Sister Poll made me dinner that night and we played cards with them as well, it was just wonderful, i missed you guys but we will reunite in no time. sister poll made me chicken enchilades and then asked what my favorite desert was... i couldnt decide if i wanted cheese cake or pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. So sister poll being the awesome mom she is got on line and found a recipe for pumpkin cheese cake and then put an oreo crust on it to make it pumpkin chocolate. It was so stinkin good. I love the polls.

Before i tell you about last weeks meetings and stuff i want to tell you about our new investigators! Lets just say the members of the essex ward have really caught the missionary fever. The fellows family had their friends  over for dinner and they asked if they could learn about their church. so of course the fellows said yes and called us right away. Well we were in manchester so couldnt go over so we called the polls and they played pinch hitter for us.They came to church yesterday and stayed for all 3 hours. They are like the ultimate golden couple.

So the meeting last week was great. Very cool to be in a meeting with president with just a small amount of people. like 24 missionaries or something very awesome. We discussed a whole bunch of stuff, but spent most of the time preparing for zone conference which is wednesday. Its a big deal cause we have a visiting general authority coming. Gifford Neilsen is gonna be in the NHMM. He spoke in conference and gave the awesome talk about the lords game plan. Guess who gets to have a personal 15 minute interview with him???... Yup i do. At each conference he is having a personal interview with 4 missionaries, and president chose me as one of them. I asked president what on earth i did wrong to have that ha. He just told me he wants elder Nelson to get to meet the best of the NHMM, im stoked. I think ill probably ask him how many touchdowns he threw when he was at BYU!

Probably my favorite part of the meeting last week was getting to see missionaries i havent seen in forever. I got to see elder hales for the first time since we got to the mission. Also got to see my buddy elder walker, they both just got made zone leaders as well.

Well i cant think of anything else i was really dying to tell you.

Love you guys

Hold to the rod