January 15, 2018

s...w...e...a...t

I´m writing this email in a gas station so that´s cool. I´m definitely not in a little town anymore. Rosario is big and bad and honestly pretty dope. I love living here. We have a shopping mall close to our house and I about died walking in because it seemed so foreign to have a place selling clothes right next to one selling food.

It´s been hard having this "whitewash". Neither of us ever know where we are and the old missionaries didn´t leave us ANYTHING TO WORK WITH. It´s the worst but lots of fun too. We do lots of contacting and walking and sweating.

Speaking of sweating, I had a night this week where I literally woke up over 5 times from the sensation of sweat falling off my face. So maybe you understand a little better just how hot it is here.

We had one day this week where we arrived at the pension at 8:45 but I didn´t want to go back until 9 like our rules state so we decided to contact the streets around us and found our only investigator that we have now. He already had a Book of Mormon and has read it completely. The only problem is we actually aren´t sure if he lives in our area cuz we don´t even have a map of where our area covers.

Life is good people. God is good and loves us each so much.

Con demasiado amor

Elder Nixon

One of the pics is me and my first ward mission leader and the other is me and Elder Cabrera on the roof of our apartment complex after a rainy day of contacting!

January 8, 2018

Trucho

Well world, I'm sorry but this email is gonna be pretty pathetic and I'm not gonna have time to write any of you individually either. I just had transfers and they moved me to the City in an area called Las Delicias. Apparently, it's one of the most dangerous in the mission. It has a ghetto in it that is pretty dang bad. 

My new pension is pretty cool. It's got a little patio and it looks out over the city. I'm in an apartment on the second floor of some complex but it's really small and dirty. It'll take some love to clean up for sure. 

My new comp is from Chile and his name is Elder Cabrera. The fun part is he just barely arrived here too. It's called a whitewash. We're both new to the area so we're always lost and have no idea about anything. 

I'll do better next week. 

Elder Nixon

January 1, 2018

Feliz Año Nuevo

Feliz año nuevo gente! This was a pretty great week. 

We had a baptism this Saturday for Yuliana. She was pretty excited about it and our President even came! So that was really fun! 

Honestly, I'm struggling to find stuff to write about which is sad cuz I know I did a lot this week. We celebrated New Years in a members house and then had to come back to our pension by 10:30. My comp and I stayed up talking til midnight in hopes of seeing fireworks but mostly we just heard horns honking and explosions of little toy fireworks and saw the light of one firework just barely peak over some trees. So yeah that was kinda depressing. Other than that we have eaten a ton of sweet bread and asado this week. 

I dunno what else you wanna know if you're still reading this. Sorry for the lame email. I'll repent and do better next week!!!

If any of you want a good New Years talk to read, look up "Remember Lot's Wife" by Elder Holland. It's pretty great. Go set some goals that will last you past February and become better people every day through the atonement of JESUCRISTO!!!

Con amor,

Elder Nixon

I wrote this email to my fam and my mom said I should share it with everyone because people can benefit from it so I'm just gonna be a good obedient son :) It's about the baptism we had this week.

Well fam I had my first baptism this week! It really was a complete miracle. The full story is very complex and would be very hard to put in email without using hours but the jist of it was we found this little girl (9 years old) on Wednesday and baptized her Saturday which is crazy crazy fast. We had 8 investigators scheduled for this day at the beginning of the transfer and all of them failed. My comp and I were feeling pretty sorry for ourselves about that and started praying for a miracle. This was all Tuesday. We started a fast and Wednesday while we were proselyting we saw Yuliana in the street with her aunt and Elder Mallett leaned over to me and said "there's our baptism" Yuliana received all the lessons earlier this year and really wanted to be baptized but her parents (inactives) said no. Well now she's living with her grandparents (active members) and when we asked her parents if she could be baptized, there had no problem with it all of the sudden. When we asked her what day she wanted to have the service, she told us this Saturday! So that's what we did! We're working to use it to reactivate the whole family now!

God answers prayers in mysterious ways fam. We had been working our hearts out with 8 other people, thinking that our miracle would be one of them and then right when they all fell to craps, out of nowhere came Yuliana walking in the street, asking to be baptized. Remember that God will stretch you to the breaking point of your faith sometimes before giving an answer. It's what he did with me this week! 

Remember to hold on to the faith and always stay happy. God is a God of miracles.

con amor

Elder Nixon

Moroni 7:33

The first pic is what happens when missionaries get bored on new years eve. It's also my favorite way to kill flies in our pension. The second pic is me with my favorite machete. The amount of service we do with that thing is impressive. Also if you think I wouldn't wear a long sleeve thick shirt in the blazing heat just for the pic, you're dead wrong. The third pic is the baptism we had! Good times people!

December 26, 2017

Feliz Navidad

Well world, they told me to write on Tuesday so I'm so sorry for the stress and pain I caused all of you by not being able to read my emails on Christmas and have to wait an extra day. The best things in life are always worth the wait though! ;)

This week Argentina kinda got wrecked on the economic field. We've had to stay in our pension a few times this week because people are rioting in the big cities against their president and it's gotten pretty violent. Nothing to worry about where I'm at though so don't worry!

We had a special zone conference this week to celebrate the Navidad. We talked all about Light and how we can be the light of the world and follow the Light which is Christ. Also, Silent Night is so much better in Spanish. It literally translates to "Night of Light, Night of peace."  We got to play soccer with all the elders which was super fun too. Anyways the world is getting darker so step up and be the light it needs!

The last thing would be a quick debriefing on Christmas culture here cuz I know you're all curious! Basically, they eat dinner at 11 at night and then spend the whole night dancing and talking and don't go to bed until 9 in the morning. They also throw little fireworks everywhere that just make noise and sound like gunshots. So that was how I spent the night- lying in bed listening to car horns and firecrackers. It was awesome :)

Love you all so much and hope you had a very, very merry Christmas while I had a Feliz Navidad! 

Con amor

Elder Nixon

On a side note, if you give a little boy a kilo of salt (2.2 pounds) he might put it in his mouth all at once and start vomiting after. I am an eyewitness!

here are some pics. One is me with the family we spent Christmas Eve. We had this super good asado (basically bbq but there's really no comparison) that was a good 3 inches thick and was cooked with hot coals beneath and a live flame over it for two hours so to say it was the best meat I've had in my life would be an understatement.  One is me at our Christmas conference. They let us wear p-day clothes which may have been the best part. The other is a dope picture from a service project we did in the mud cutting out roots.  

I thought about it and the meat was too good to not to send a picture of it.