Bobbed

Hello!! Happy Easter!

I hope everybody is having a great week and doing fun easter preparation stuff!

Things are going great here in Chikushino- but the only problem is that the computers at the church crashed because microsoft went crazy or something? what happened? any way so we have to be at the community center and only have about a half an hour to email so gomen if this is short!

We had a great experience with fasting yesterday. We fasted for Nozomi San that she could have a spiritual expierence and feel the spirit. She has been praying and wondering if this is true. She is also reading the Book of Mormon and is doing great! She says its really easy to understand because its a story (Nobody says that...) so its awesome. She came to conference and had a really good expierecne! I think she was a bit overwhelmed but I know she felt the spirit. SO we didnt have a huge miracle from that but it was progress!

we did however have another miracle. When you fast and expect miracles, the Lord delivers.
We had a prompting to visit this lady who gave us her information but cancled our appointment so we had been trying to contact her. She was never home.　so we went to go contact her and her neighbor was home and was lilike no you guys went to the wrong house she lives over there! So we went to the Right house and she was home, let us in, and we had a great lesson about the  Book of Mormon and Prayer! it was a miracle! she made a return apointment for wednesday. She is so cute and has a 17 year old daughter and a 2 year old daughter. She was born in greece but speaks english and Japanese! way cool. Anyways she was lilike I ve never had THAt experience that people have where they know that God exists. So we shared our testimonies about how we came to know. I was lilike do you want to know? and she was like yes! so we promised her that through reading and praying she can have that type of experience and can have a relationship with her Heavenly Father. I told her about one wime when I was little (the day we got Lucy the cat) and she got stuck in the car and I went and prayed- immedietly affter that she was unstuck. I knew that God answereed my prayer. Also I told her about how I made a goal to read the Book of Mormon every day (when i was about 14 or so) and then in my fathers blessing before school Dad said in the Blessing that Heavenly Father was proud of my goal to read the BOM. But I didnt tell anyabody about my goal! so I knew he was aware of me and Loved me. I encourage everybody to share  in FHE or something about how you came to know that you have a father in heaven!

Also conferecne was great! I prayed to know how to help my family even thought I am here and I really feel like through PMG and studying it together we can become more united and recieve the direction we need as a family. So I was thinking of just starting with the Christlike attributes chapter and picking an atribute to do as a family or individually and we can both report on how it went! or something? what do you think? Also I wanted to challenge you guys to invite somebody to hear the discussions- and to pray about it as a family! I am going to ask some people I know from home to take them and follow up with people who I have given book of mormons to. I am excited to do missionary work together!!!!

Okay I know that they may have already done the mission prep class, but I found this awesome talk by Gordon B Hinkly of the list of 10 things to take home from a mission and I thought it was really great mission prep! And kind of lays out goals for your mission and things to work toward before your mission too!

1. Knowlege and love for God the Eternal Father and his son Jesus Christ
2. Knowlege and love of the scriptures
3. increased love for parents
4. love for people among who they labor
5. an appreciation for hard work
6. the assurance that the Holy Ghost will  always inspire us and comfort us when we need it
7. understanding of the importance of teamwork
8. the value of personal virtue
9. The faith to act
10. The humility to pray.

Wow arent these awesome things to work toward? I am still working on them but can testify that  I have been developing all of these things on my mission and have become a better person because of it. I know that as we ask for help with these things that god will help us achieve them! even if you arent a missionary these are all greata goals to work for! You can do it- we can becase we think we can, and he knows we can!


Okay so you may be wondering about my subject heading. Bobbed....
what do you thnk it means?



I also read a greatttttt fantastic little discourse on the fig tree that Jesus Cursed. He cursed it, a withered dying plant instead of something full of life to demonstrae the power he had to do anything -even destroy.He was tender and merciful and smart even in that demonstration of the priesthood. So it makes his sacrifice even greater- the fact that he let people do cruel and terrible things to him in order to bring about the eternal purposes of Heavenly Father. (thank you Sister Neuberger!!)


Yes! I cut my hair! I have a bob!

I look like Kiera Knightly in Princess of Theives,....except for obviously not that cool. Its probably a bit longer than hers.

I love it!!!!!!!!!!!! SOrry I cant send pictures on this computer...Ill work on that.... But I really lilike it and I was like why did I not do this four hundred years ago!


Love you all!!  Have a great Easter!

Sister Nelson