March 18, 2019

This was a great week! We had a zone conference and talked lots about unity and the importance of working together to accomplish our goals. I could see how that helped in the teaching of me and my companion this week. 

We had a lesson this week with a GREAT couple. Jimena is a member that came back to church a few months ago and Lucas is her boyfriend. We have had some really powerful lessons with them and this week we had to give the chastity talk. We basically proposed marriage for him and they accepted but it was not easy to get to that point. I’ll never forget when my companion took off his name tag, pointed to the name Jesus Christ and declared that as representatives of Jesus Christ we promised them as His representatives that by living the law of chastity they would never again worry about where they would get the money to provide for their family. I then shared a scripture and when invited them to live the law of chastity, they both humbly responded that they would. It felt like there was lightning in the room the spirit was so strong. It was Awesome. 

There are great things happening in the Lords true and restored church. Now is the time to prepare ourselves to be able to fulfill His great purposes.

Elder Nixon

March 11, 2019

Upchuck

We are going good out here in the mission! I’m not sure how many of these group emails I´ve written during my mission, but it’s getting kinda hard to come up with things to say! :) 

I guess the coolest part of this week was when I threw up on one of the persons that were teachings porch. Luckily it was early in the morning Sunday morning and only a few little kids saw me. No one came out of the house so we just left and left my dinner there too. ;) I bet that will be something my comp never forgets. Poor elder Nixon sitting on a ghetto chair in the middle of a ghetto in his suit and tie hucking up everything. It was terrible but I can appreciate the humor of it!

I also had fun this week with my new comp. His name is Elder Packer. He’s from Washington and has been in the mission for 7 months. We get along really well. I’ve been super blessed throughout my mission as far as companions go. I’ve never had one that I can’t get along with and it could be that I’ll get along best with Elder Packer!  

I know that this is the Lords work and I know that when we give all of ourselves, the Lord gives even more. 

Elder Nixon

the sisters from our district went home and this was their idea of their last picture. Were all lined up in the order we go home...

the other pic is me and Elder Smith when he said goodbye to some kids weve been teaching. Theyre really good kids but have lots of worldy influences fighting against us. 

the last pic is when we tried to get the sisters home on last monday. We had to wait outside in the pouring rain 45 minutes waiting for a bus to pass. It was super early in the morning so the pic didnt turn out well but you can get the idea. 

February 25, 2019

Heat

Well this week was HOT. I think the highest it got to was 98 degrees with around 100 percent humidity. If you’ve never had the opportunity to sweat until literally even your tie is wet, I hope God gives you the chance someday. It’s a great learning experience ;) 

Other than the heat this week was good. It was a little harder but nothing we can’t handle. We had a few GREAT lessons with a man named Javier. We started to talk about the atonement of Jesus Christ and we started up discussing Mercy and Justice. Then my comp jumped in out of no where with a GREAT scripture that just brought the spirit. It was a great ´proud dad´ moment. 

Trust in the Spírit and it will guide you!

Elder Nixon

February 18, 2019

Conferences

This week we had 2 conferences with the Elder Juan Pablo Villar of the seventy! It was pretty awesome! I got to direct on of them so I sat up on the rostrum with him and got to talk a little with him about the mission and little chit chat like that. It was pretty cool! We received lots of training on how to better work with the members here and use preach my gospel. 

I also learned lots this week about how to commit people to be baptized on a specific date. Hopefully it helps us help more people get baptized!! 

Yesterday was going pretty rough when I remembered that a lady had told us a few days ago in the streets that another women that lived on another street might be interested in our message. It was a huge shot in the dark and usually not something I’d pay attention to but I felt like we should go to that street and the first house we contacted on that street was her. Antonela. She let us in right away and by the end of the lesson had a baptismal date and is committed to come to church this Sunday!! It was a huge testimony that God is directing His work!!

Elder Nixon

me and the zls on divisions and the sisters had a baptism in the ward and my comp got to do the ordinance so heres a pic of that too!

February 11, 2019

This week was really great. One of the highlights was the investigator I wrote home about a few weeks ago that my uncle taught, Juan Carlos, finally accepted a baptismal date!!! He still has to resolve a few problems with the law of chastity so it won´t be easy but I´m super hopeful that he can get baptized here soon! 

Well, that´s all I got time for. Love you all lots.

Actually, I’ll put in a deep thought for meditation that my presidente told me. 

Today is the tomorrow we talked about yesterday.   Live up the days that you have when you have them!

Elder Nixon

I thought you all should be able to appreciate this great baptismal photo. Also Argentina has really cool money :)

February 4, 2019

Well I won’t have pics this week because I lent my adaptor to an elder and haven’t gotten it back so sorry about that! But this week was really good! Really normal :) Something I learned this week was the importance of asking questions to verify if people actually understand. I thought we had found a golden investigator and at the end of the lesson I felt to ask some simple questions and it turns out that she didn’t understand ANYTHING. That was pretty discouraging and humbling :/ 

The man I wrote about a few weeks ago, Juan Carlos, has been coming to church these last weeks!! I have high hopes for him but he does have lots of doubts. But he also has lots of real intent so were just trusting in the Spirit right now!!

Con amor,

Elder Nixon

January 28, 2019

Siempre Gano

Hola todos!! This was another great week out here! For my birthday we bought 4.5 pounds of ice cream and ate it all that night :) It was awesome. Best birthday ever. My mom never let me do that before so you could say I´m living it up being all alone out here!! ;)

Other than that we had lots of great lessons this week about the Restoration. I have strengthened my testimony of the restoration so much out here. I know that the Book of Mormon is the word of God and I love defending it and teaching about it with boldness. This week I learned lots about how the only one we need to fear is God so I´m not scared to say things how they are anymore ;) And I know I shouldn´t do this, but I did enjoy a good bible bash this week. Everyone says no one wins in a bible bash but that´s not true because I definitely won ;) 

This week we also had the baptism of a kid named Lazaro. We reactivated his family and he had never been baptized so we took advantage of the situation and made sure to get him good and wet. It was a great service and I loved what one of his primary teachers said, "Today you did what Jesus did, and that says everything." Let’s all try and do every day what Jesus did and I know the world will be better for it!!

con amor,

Elder Nixon

el distrito, nuestro helado, y el bautismo!!