The weekend of Thanksgiving

ok well here goes this week, ill work to make it as interesting as a
can.  sooo stoarting monnndddaayyy.... well we just had a normal day.
Then tuesday was theday of exchanges so i went toi 3 valles and our
district leader elder moya came here, and tuesday and wednesday we did
the exchange.  I didnt like working outside of my area to be honest,
even then im getting a little borede here i didnt like how it felt to
be in another area, so those two days were really long.  THe elder i
worked with is when who has been struggling a little bit, Papi Treviño
gave him a call a few weeks before tellng himto pick thinks up or he
is getting the boot.  SO i went and did my best to animate him.  Im
starting to sound way to much like dad.  I gave him the good ol 5
types of workers skit and shared with him some of my favorite
scriptures.  So it was neat to be able to help him how i can and share
a little bit of what i have learned in all of my personal struggling
here.  I still sound way to much like dad.  But i wasnt scolding him
or anything like most people do here so thats good for him.  We worked
hard those days and found some new investigators and helped thier
current investoigators animarse.  And then in the night we had a jam
jam session.  Thats what me and elder Flores used to do wayyy back in
the days wehn i first got to this area.  He had a guitar.  Its really
neat to start inventing songs with the guitar.  But year we just sang
away whatever we had inside and would have slpet prettyy good if it
wasnt for the infinit of stupid mosquitos.  Bothnights there one bit
me on the bottom of my foot, and i spent the whole night trying to
satisfy the stupid bite with endless scrathchin.  SO those were two
longs nights.  THen wednesday we had zone class pep talk.  THe zone is
pretty similar to how its been for a while.  We are all pretty
friendly here.  In the 20th of december alot of elders go home so it
will be interesting to see what happes.  I have spent most of my
misisonin this zone (9MONTHS) so i guess you could say i know it
pretty well.  BUt thursday morning we finally switched back and it
felt really good to be here again and get back into the routine of
Elder Nellson.  r4emember how i told you all that at 18 months i
started my exercide again, well last week e ran alot, to some little
airport thats here in my area it was nothing but hills, it killed me,
but it felt good. BUt today for a almost all zone activity we played
basketball and i can already fellthe differnece so thats good.  I just
wish they wouldnt make me drink soda here anymore.  ANd friday and
saturday were normal as far as i can remember just pluggin away.  i
havebeen working on changing my mentality latley, form not what God
gives me for what i give him, to  a what more can i give actitude.  It
makes working feel alot better to be honest. And this week im gonna
wrk on with the faith GOd has helped me develope in these last weeks i
wanna work on just relaxing more, letting go more of my worldy
desires, and just seeignthe brighter side of things.  THerese threee
things are mostly just a mental tweeks and  change in my way of
thinking. It will take pacience but tis will come.  Sunday we had
xochitl in church.  HA we almost commanded her to go to church, but
thats what you have to do sometime, again im sound too much like dad.
SHe should get baptized this saturday, as long as she doesnt pecar.
BUt im just really gonna work on chilling out a little bit so that i
dont get frustated when he investigators dont do what they should do.
I dont show the frustation to anyone dont worry about that.  But it
does get annying. THis week we dropped mario.  He was just becoming a
wste of time and doesnt want to make a decition and much less was
keeping commitments. So hopefully he can calm things down in his life
and organize his minde and come back ready to make a decision.  Today
we came here to Tuxtepec to play soccer and we played basket.  I
really like playing basket here in the mission. Im trying to convice
the Zls to organize a Fut americano game with the zone.  THere ae a
few guys in the zone that played in colledge here so it couls
potentially be fun.  THen we went to the Dominoes pizza that was here
and just had a good time talking about the mission and our
Expereinces.  Dad you asked about Papi Treviño, well to be honest i
have never really talked to him.  But he is always really exited.  In
the Intervies he puts alot of effort into helping us inprove so we cna
work more efficiently.  He is a good person and a very succesfull
person.  ANd her does the best he can to help us enjoy more the
misision and work harder.  BUt thats about the week. ANd this week is
going to be about the same, just working on making the necessary
changes and keep on pluggin away and working to bapriteze every week.
I cant beleive how close CHristmas is getting.  And i dont think im
going to do anything to celebrate thanksgiving, i didnt do anything
last year, imnot even sure what day it is.  THe only Holiday we
celebrate in the mission is christmas.  BUt i lvoe you all and im
gratefull for all of you lvoe and prayers for me. I certainly coldnt
do anything without you all!