First they helped sand this boat
Another delicious dinner with E and her Mom
They had stuffed eggplant and strawberries with cream
Elder Nielsen explained a little bit more about the phone call the couple missionaries made to Ryler for him…
I was feeling so bad that I didn’t have any chance yet to do anything for him and I was telling Sister B about that and she suggested that we call him since they can! I readily agreed! It was so fun!! I am SOOOO glad he enjoyed it so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m glad that you got to hear from them as well! That was just a fun day! I’m sure that Dad could hear me in the background since I was right there straining to hear you all in the back ground!
He said he and his comp. found an awesome Japanese food place called Wagamama’s and had yakisoba and some delicious gyoza!
They met an investigator at McDonald’s because this investigator loves McD’s! He joked:
Who knew that Ronald would be an effective missionary tool! lol!
He gave an update on their Maltese lessons:
Friday was great as well!! We did our planning in the morning and then headed out to Maltese lessons! They were great! We learned past tense! We are just trucking through this! It is incredible! The amount of time that we are taking compared to a usual language class and the amount we are remembering is incredible! I can’t believe how real the gift of tongues is! It was a fun class! Our teacher is so fun too! I love classes! It is a blast!
I’ll just share the rest of his letter now because its so awesome and so fun to read his enthusiasm!...
After that on the way home we got a call from the Beresfords at church that someone we had left a pamphlet with called and wanted to talk!.....wait a sec did I just say what I think I just said!? I did! And it's TRUE!!! SAHWEEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That was the greatest phone call ever! We set an appointment for as soon as possible (Saturday evening) and walked on could 9 for the rest of the evening!
Saturday was the greatest day ever! MAN IT ROCKED!!!!!!!!!!! We went and had the appointment with this family.....yes family....that had called and it was awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We walked around for a little bit looking for the house until we finally found it! We went up stairs and then began one of the greater lessons of my mission! YEAH it was THAT good! Not the teaching we did but how THEY were throughout! It was AWESOME!!! Let me tell you why! “C” (from Austria! Yes we asked about the Sound of Music) was there to greet us! He is an AWESOME guy!! He is trying hard to be a good father, which is one of the reasons he called us over! His wife “I” is half Korean/middle eastern and was born in Libya but moved and grew up in the Ivory Coast! They have a daughter from Japan, who is 14. Another daughter who is 6, another who is I think 2 and then one in the oven. They are a great family! SUCH A GREAT FAMILY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The cool thing about the appointment was that instead of us really teaching a lesson they were interviewing us! It was so cool! Because they agreed with EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You see what happened was that while Elder Jones was on splits with the Assistants he left a pamphlet with them and C couldn’t stop thinking about it so he went and did some research! BUT he told us that he didn’t want to read things completely against it and completely for it so he found a really un-biased article called what to expect when you become a Mormon or something like that. And that is where most of his questions were from. So when we got there we sat down and they gave us cornbread and juice! They knew we were American! lol! The wild thing was this totally felt like a member appointment! There is a really great Spirit in their home! They are so awesome! Anyway so we sat down at the table and he pulled out this notebook full of questions that we answered! We ended up being there for a long time as well! Some of the great things that they told us were, just to name a few, "we saw that you don’t drink coffee so we are quitting just to see if we can do it!" Among questions about dress and other things “I” asked us she said "phew! It looks like I won’t have to change that much!" OH MY GOODNESS!!!!!!!! Then in the conversation and question answering we talked about church and how that Sunday was fast Sunday and we invited them and she yelled to the kids who were being loud "HEY GO TO BED WE ARE GOING TO CHURCH IN THE MORNING!" WOO HOO!!! HURRAH FOR ISRAEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We talked about so many things and they were so cool with it all! They are all so relaxed! Oh another thing that she talked about was that she was afraid of how to raise her kids since she never had a mother around and she never learned how to do it! What a perfect question/statement! THE GOSPEL COVERS EVERYTHING!!!! I LOVE THE GOSPEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MAN I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was the greatest appointment I have ever had! And the first time I have taught a full family! MAN THAT WAS SO GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! C gave us a ride home and we small talked as we would with a member and then he said see you tomorrow!
Sunday was the next greatest day that ever existed on Malta since I have been here! MAN IT WAS SO COOL!!!!!!!!!!! Ok so first off the other Anziani had two investigators come to church which was awesome! Then Elder Jones and I were waiting to direct a couple that was here on vacation from South Jordan [this is the woman who had called us!] when who should pull up but the FAMILY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I CAN’T TELL YOU HOW EXCITED WE WERE!!!!!!!! The WHOLE family came all dressed up in their Sunday best! IT WAS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The funny thing was that the whole branch treated them like members because they all thought they WERE members! So it was the greatest fellowshipping ever!! It worked out so well! They had a great time and are really excited to meet again! We have an appointment tomorrow! They are all really excited to come back to church next week too! IT WAS THE GREATEST EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then after church and everything we were on the street doing some pros. and we ran into them and they asked us if we had ended our fast, we had and they said they were on their way to end theirs! THEY WERE FASTING!!!!!! WHAT THE HECK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOW GOLDEN CAN YOU BE!?!?!?!?!??!?!? WOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Monday was great too!! Tuesday was the usual meetings meetings meetings! It was great though! Because at the end we all sang happy birthday to my BRO BRO!!! And Sis. B talked with my Dad! SWEET! That was so so so so so so so so so so so so so so much fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In the evening we had a lesson with D that went really well! We met a man at her house that we were able to teach and it was awesome! MAN I LOVE TEACHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This morning we went and taught a lesson to R with the Beresfords! It went great! Again here a lady showed up and we taught her too! We are planting seeds everywhere! It has been so cool!!!! MAN WHAT A WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This week has been the greatest ever!!! I LOVE IT!! I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY!!!
Love,
Anziano, Anzjan, Elder Nielsen
