June 15, 2015-Dying in Cle Elum

Stayin in Cle Elum for my last transfer, I guess tracting it out 4 times wasnt enough so I gotta do it a 5th time! Keepin Elder Potts around as well. I it was a hate love thing to stay I feel like I have been here forever but I guess there is more work here. And one of the members has a sooped up Semi truck that hes gonna drive me to the mission home in. They are trying to get me to come meet there daughter after I get home because they dont have a son in law that wants to take over the company yet haha. They were really pushin that on me at dinner last night.

  This week went pretty well. We found a potential investigator who is 11 years old and from England cutest girl. She comes running up to us begging us to preach to her. She is very spiritually mature and knows her bible really well. She needs to get permission from her dad before we can start really teaching her. She was there with her aunt who is one of our investigators but the girl Maddie seems way more interested so hopefully her dad gives her permission. 

  We went on a hike this morning before one of the Elders in the district went home. He was trunkin me out the whole time. "Hey Elder Nelson whats your favorite thing to do? Picture me doin that in 48 hours!" But it was a fun hike though. Everything else is goin well. Thanks again for the shoes they are awesome and swag nasty! You really didnt have to get that expensive of ones though but I do love them:)

Thanks everyone and love you all!

Love,

Elder Bubba Nelson

June 1, 2015-57 Days and Counting!!!!!!

 This week was pretty good. Last week for P-day we went to the Stake Presidents house and had a memorial day BBQ and also played ultimate frizbee and volleyball. I was so sore the next day ha but it was fun.

  Went on an exchange with Elder Wilkey in Ellensburg had a good time there did some service cleaned up a back yard. One of the kids there made steak and shish cabobs and asked me to finish the steaks and I cooked em medium rare ( the only way to cook steak) and he was like thats not done so he grilled em till they were jerky but it was nice of him. Also I finally had sushi for the first time in 2 years while I was there:))

  Then came back and one of our Zone Leaders came up here and did an exchange with us, it was a fun time and worked really hard. Havent worked that hard in a lil bit I was so tired the next day ha. But we did find 3 new people to teach that week and a total of 6 people to teach through out the week. Elder Barnes ( my ZL) definitely taught me to teach in every situation. One of them we tried by this guy Shawn who we talked to about a month ago and said we could come back. Well we finally contacted him again and when we went there his girlfriend was there so we talked to her and as we were talking to her Shawn pulls up and says " What do you want?! Im havin the worst day of my life!!" So we just said well you said we can come over and share a message with you about Christ. ANd he said alright i'll give you 5 minutes so we start talkin with him and then I ask him if we can go in his house and sit down with him and his family. It was an awesome lesson we were able to see the Holy Spirit soften his heart as he heard the message of the Restoration.

  As we were getttin in our car Elder Barnes was like Elder Nelson you got some huge Juevos to ask him if we could go in side I was afraid he was gonna tear our heads off. The Spirit really softens peoples hearts!

IT was a good week!

Love you all!

Love,

Elder Bubba Nelson

May 25, 2015- Gettin' Weird

Hey Ya'll,

  Sorry gonna be another short one, not like I do a lot of long ones anyway. But I just emailed Wednesday. Thursday we had Zone Conference, and I had to give my departing testimony! So it was hard to be focused for the rest of that day when I had to do that 9 weeks before I go home ha. But it went well I haven't been that nervous to bare a testimony ever!  So I don't think I can give my homecoming talk sorry Bishop...:) haha jk. 

  Nothing else really happened, its still been a struggle to find elect people. We are gonna try to start working with the branch more. They need to get excited about the work.  There has been 9 baptisms in the past year here! But everything else is going well.

  Love ya'll

Love,

Elder Bubba Nelson

May 20, 2015

This week was great! We had some great experiences, we had a great lesson with a lady Mary Canfield she is reading and praying about the Book of Mormon right now. She had a daughter commit suicide about a year ago and is still torn up about that. Taught her the Plan of Salvation and she loved it. She wouldnt commit to a date for baptism or to come to church. We couldnt understand why if she wanted peace in her life so much, come to find out she was in an abusive relationship and is nervous around big groups of people right now. Hopefully she will find comfort and strength to be able to commit to come to church.
Also found a new investigator Gloria, we tracted into about a month ago and havent been able to contact her since. But Elder Potts and I tried by one last time yesterday and she finally answered. She said " remember that old guy (Elder Taylor) that was with you last time and how he asked if there was something wrong and I lied to him and said no but there was. Then he prayed for me and I felt a weight lift off my shoulders" She kept saying she wants more of that feeling. It was awesome. She has a friend thats a member in Yakima and she is moving there next month maybe to Elder Taylors area, we will find out.

  Everything else is going well. Went to the Temple today that was really good. Have Zone Conference tomorrow those are always fun to see old friends. Got to get an interview to renew my temple recommend means im getting old!

  Well hope yall had a good week. Sorry I dont have a lot of time to email. Love yall!

Love,

Elder Bubba Nelson

May 11, 2015

It was good to talk to y'all yesterday!  Happy Mother's Day again Mom and all the Mothers reading this!

   After I skyped,  my comp skyped and I was talking to the family whose house we were at , we are teaching there neighbors the Thrush's.  We talked about how to help them and they are still reading the Book of Mormon and Sister Thrush came to Sacrament even though her Son was coming in for Mothers Day.   That was good to see!  They gave us 2 refferals while we were there and we went and contacted them right after .  The first one wasn't interested, said he is atheist.   He was like 50 years old and still racin' motocross.  Then the second one,  was a part member family.  They didn't have time yesterday because they had company, but said we could come back.   So we are excited to see where that goes.

   Nothing else really happened this week.   Just got my staples out. Trying to build our teaching pool back up.   And I got untrunked from yesterday, so that's a plus!  :-)

Love you all!

Love,

Elder Bubba Nelson

P.S. Oh, I'll be emailing on Wednesday next week, because we will be going to the temple. 

May 4, 2015- Eventful Week

 What an eventful week!  Started off going to urgent care on Tuesday to get some staples in my head from some pruning shearers hitting me in the head.  But that wasn't bad i'm doing great!  Then Thursday we get a call from the Spurgeons ( who are housing coordinators) saying they are moving us in a day early so we had to rush to get all our stuff ready.  Then on Saturday the greatest event of the week Daniel Coburn got baptized!  He was shinning so bright and so happy!  On the way into the font he slipped and fell pretty hard I was worried he would be hurt since he is 79 years old and hit pretty hard but he got right up and proceeded with the baptism.  He came and talked to me after about how this has changed his life he said,   " Once I just stopped fighting it and humbled myself it just came".   Which I never saw that he was fighting it, maybe it was before.  But, it is so true!  Once we just let God help us it comes easily, He is just waiting for us to accept his help.  His daughter joined the church when she was 8 but went LA and came back 8 years ago.  She gave the talk on baptism and in it she said " My dad came to me about a month ago and said when are you gonna tell me about your secret religion?  She said now, and then she reffered him on mormon.org to us." I have loved watching Daniel grow closer to his Savior and watching him find the happiness this Gospel brings into lives.   I'm staying here another transfer but getting a new comp. Elder Potts, who is Chase Allens cousin.  I guess Karalee was right about me being comps with him! Gonna be a fun transfer!

Daniel Coburn's Baptism

Goin' to Urgent Care

8 Staples

April 27, 2015- Elder "Bubba" Nelson

 Pretty good week! Went throught the whole week with out finding anyone one new to teach till Friday and Saturday then we finally found some people! Daniel is doing awesome! He is ready for his baptism this Saturday! Really excited for him! He asked my comp to baptized him and me to confirm him.

  Got sick this week. Havent decided if its the bi-polar weather not knowing if its winter or spring or the black mold thats in our house! But we are moving into our own apartment this week im so excited to have our own place!!

  Everything else is going good. Just working and working. Hope all is well with everyone who reads these!

Love,

Elder Bubba Nelson