January 21, 2019

Destino Divino

Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes! Sorry if I didn´t get around to responding to every email but I wanted to write this email today because I had a pretty cool experience this week! 

I was on divisions with a new elder in my district and we were looking for a man in a ghetto that had talked to the sisters a while ago but were about to leave without having found him. As we left, we passed a man on the street and said hello to him and kept going. After he got a little passed us, the Spirit hit me super hard and I turned around and called out to him. Turns out he was the very dude we had been looking for in that area. He took us to his house and let us teach him. He is GOLDEN. The coolest part though was when we started teaching him, he explained to us that he had already received missionaries 20 years ago and had some notion about the book of Mormon and the Restoration. He asked us our names and when i said "Elder Nixon" he responded, "I once knew a Nixon. His name was Elder too!"

Well we talked it out a little and I´m pretty sure it checks out. I think he was an old investigator of my uncle who served in this same town about 20 years ago!! That was pretty cool how it all worked out!! I´m super excited to keep teaching him!! 

Well that´s long enough already. I love you all lots!!

Elder Nixon

lunch with some members. (the same members you sent me a picture with Sheldon)

New years eve with the district

The district :)

January 14, 2019

This week was great! The weather this year thankfully has been much more mild and I haven´t melted completely....yet.... but don´t worry I´m sure the day will come. Um this week was super normal and I don´t have any time. Sorry for the lame email but I will do better next week :)

con amor,

Elder Nixon

January 7, 2019

Fe

I don´t have tons of time but I wanted to put a quick experience I had yesterday and this last week here. I have learned that success is a gift from the Lord. It is something that He determines and He gives to us according to His will. Sometimes we work our hearts out and don´t see the results we want. That doesn´t mean that the Lord didn´t bless us. It just means He has a different idea of what we need! This week I had the unique opportunity while driving to church with a member to see a kid we teach with his grandma literally running to get to church on time. I will never forget that image and how it made me feel. It´s all about faith. Do we really trust that success comes with and from the Lord? I love you all tons.

Elder Nixon

splits with some missionaries from my district and some of our holiday festivities!

December 31, 2018

Navidad

Well it was a great week!! It was great to talk to the fam and have a nice calm and hot Christmas out here in Argentina! We ate with some members on Christmas eve which was really nice and they helped us feel really at home and comfortable. Then on Christmas I cooked maybe the best meat I´ve had in Argentina up till now. So yeah, we ate really good. That was kinda the highlight of the week

Other than that, we spent the week working hard and sweating lots. We were able to see a few miracles as we looked for new people to teach. Our goal is to find at least 10 new people every week and we usually get it. But yesterday on Sunday we only had 4 and Sunday is the hardest day to find here. But we were able to enter 2 houses and teach two families and ended up finding 8 people that day. It was awesome!

I´m doing well out here! Love the mission and love all of you!!

Elder Nixon

Feel free to call me a masterchef cuz that meat was as good as it looks. The other pics are me in front of our church building and the town Christmas tree!