Elder Nixon in Rosario, Argentina: August 19, 2017

Shaking Hands, Exercise and Rosa

Well luckily this week has been a lot more eventful here at the MTC than the last so hopefully I won't have to think too hard what to write about!

The first cool thing is that we had 2 more Apostles visit us this week. Elder Ballard and Elder Anderson both came this week for our Sunday and Tuesday devotionals. That means we've had 3 Apostles come and talk to us in the past 10 days. That's pretty crazy if you ask me! I've loved every minute of it though. The best part of it was that after Elder Anderson finished his talk, he came down into the crowd and shook lots of people's hands. He even shook mine so I finally got my first time shaking hands with an Apostle! It was awesome and I know that they are men called by God to guide us!

I'm not sure if I've written about this yet but exercise time here is literally my life. It's such a nice change of pace and a great opportunity to not think about anything but just run around and play sports. That being said, Elder Fugal and I are pretty much legends at beach volleyball and soccer. Our teamwork is unreal. We even use exercise time to tell what time of day it is. For example, exercise time is every day at 6:30 pm, so if I were to ask Elder Fugal what time it is at 3:30, he would respond with "3 hours until exercise time!" So yeah, you could say we look forward to it!

Elder Fugal and I have been teaching this lady named Rosa three times a week. They're 45 minute lessons all in Spanish and we actually do it pretty well! Like we can fill the time and not have too many awkward pauses. She's definitely speaking slowly and simply for us but it's still a great confidence booster and it's awesome to be actually teaching someone already. My favorite part is bearing testimony in Spanish. It just sorta makes me happy that I can if that makes sense.

I'm doing well here! Thanks for all your prayers. If you could pray the cafeteria could miraculously start making food I actually want to eat would be awesome. Also pray for me in my afternoon classes because it can be hard to stay awake when you start getting around your fifth out of six hours of class for the day! It's all so good though. I wouldn't want it to be any other way here! The time is soaring by. It's hard to believe I leave for Argentina so soon! September 4th can't come quick enough!! I love you all!

Con Amor

Elder Nixon

P.S. Well sorry for the obnoxious amount of emails but I thought of something else I wanted to say! This last Sunday Elder Fugal and I were called to be Zone Leaders! So now instead of being in charge of 15 people, I'm in charge of 50! It's great fun! ;) I really do enjoy it though. It provides us lots of opportunities to meet people and serve them so that's all you could ever want I guess! Except we have so many more meetings on Sundays now so I guess it's not all fun! Love you all!