Well who would have thought that Lyle Mangum would be the one to fool the Almighty haha Jk. Let me explain this joke I discovered that to be called to a German you have to have German on your application all of the other elders have taken atleast 3 years of german and a few of them are already conversational. When they ask me if I have any German experience i start laughing and say "technically yes but in reality no ;)" but KEINE ANGST!!! Also I was called as a District leader so yea that happen... Also two missionaries in my zone are from Timpview and of course took German and they speak rather well its Elder Billings and Elder Blake (that is a frame of reference for that Franks Family) but i am loving it and i have never felt the spirit stronger.
KEINE ANGST!!! NO FEAR! I have decided that is my motto and i am loving it! with every step those words go through my mind!!! Wow this is so crazy that i am really here it all seems surreal!! I got this impression on my first day that these two years are going to fly by and that i need to cherish them all so I said a quick prayer and asked Himmlischer Vater to help me be happy and enjoy evvery moment the good and the bad!!! And boy did it work.! I love being here and i love deutsches lernen. (i dont even think that is right but whatever) so i am loving life and when they say make it to sunday that is definitely the truth. BUt for some odd reason I had a really bad day. It was so great until we ran into the Anti-lds protestors outside of the temple. I was on the verge of beating the living tar out them but then i remembered that I am a missionary now and i should probably love them. Well i tried to push what they were saying out of my mind but for some reason it was sticking and i could doubt started to creep and i got angry! If it wasnt for the awesome elders and sister in my zone i would have attacked them. As Kimberlynn can attest I love a good debate and these fellas were ripe for a smack down. James might have to come up next sunday and put the beat down on them, break their white-washed 2x4 crosses over their heads ;) JK i love them and i am so sad that is the life they have chosen to go. Well we had choir after that and as you know nothing is better then singing :) and we sang Nearer my God to thee. I started looking around to see if angels were helping us because we sounded that good! After we got to listen to a talk a recorded talk from Uchtdorf. It was awesome! Well we went home and i started to go to sleep and those words of the protesters came back and i could not shake them! and for the first time this week tears hit my pillows I started feeling like Joseph Smith in the Sacred Grove when he was assailed by Satan. ANd then i Said, "Elder Cobbley" mein mitearbieter (companion) "I need a blessing." and then the other two elders woke up and said hey we can help! The other two elders are my ZL's and the greatest of all time. Elder Melanson my zoneleader gave me the blessing that was sooooooooooooooooo powerful it cast all of my doubts aside!!!! I was weeping very hard ;) and as we were getting back into our beds Elder Melanson said, "Elder Nilson, I have a really hard time sleeping and so for the past two years I have taken Melotonin every single night. I have only missed about 3 days in those two years, and tonight was my 4th time forgetting. There is a reason I forgot and it was god's way of helping you." Well that for sure didnt help the crying and I effectively turned my mattress (if you can call it that s/o to intelligel) into a waterbed! but my doubts were thrown out hardcore!!! yep so that was my first sunday in the MTC
We went to the temple today and if that wasnt the cherry on top of the blessing sunday I dont Know what was I have never been so happy in my Life!!!!
I love you all and i got to go!!! See you sooon!!!!
Elder (Beaca) Nilson
P.S. Ich war spiele basketball und this elder was like wow your unreal did you play in highschool?? i started laughing and said "Nein i did theater ;) But theater but a national champion might be my trainer so I have to practice."
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