April 9, 2018

Humidity

It has poured here for 3 days straight so working has been fun but basically, it has made so much humidity I have had clothes hanging up to dry for 3 days and they´re still wet. I don´t know what to do cuz I am running out of clean clothes and what I just cleaned won´t dry. It´s a problem peeps. 

This week was really good. We have been working our hearts out. One cool experience was right after Conference it was raining and we found a guy in a wheelchair rolling himself and were able to push him across our whole area and give him lesson 1 while doing it. that was pretty neat and it felt good to serve like that. 

This week we received a reference from 2 sister missionaries in the united states that have been chatting with a lady who lives in our area. So shout out to online missionaries and my brother in law who served one! The woman’s name is Ivana and God sent her directly to us. She was searching for God online and found this Mormon chat service and now we are teaching her! the craziest part of the story is she shares a lot of land and her next door neighbors just happen to be active members of the church. It was pretty awesome and there is no doubt that God is in the details of His work. there are no coincidences gente!!

I love you all lots

Elder Nixon

here are the photos for the week. One is me and my new district, another is what conference looked like for me as we watched and the last is a picture of a traditional Easter egg here. It´s just a chocolate shell filled with little candies. 

April 2, 2018

Conferencia General

My comp is pretty sick so this will be quick, but transfers have passed and nothing happened to me. I`m still with Elder Bailey. 

I just want to raise my voice to everyone about the importance of what we witnessed this General Conference. It was something special and I pray that we all recognized what really happened. We need to study those talks and seek to understand them. We need to seek the guidance of the Holy Ghost in all things. Please don´t take lightly the words of the prophets. Follow them and sustain the prophets not just with your raised arm, but with your actions. I know they are called of God and we need to follow them.

Con amor,

Elder Nixon

This was my district this year and the other pic is when we cooked some chicken and took it out, the handle fell clean off and all fell on the dirty floor. It was a solemn day.

this is a traditional Easter egg here. It´s filled with little chocolates. And the other photo is me and my ward with some recent converts at General Conference!

March 26, 2018

Los capos de los capos

Well, first things first, GENERAL CONFERENCE IS THIS WEEK!!!!!!!! Ask me how excited I am. I`m pretty psyched. General Conference is literally like the Christmas of missionaries so it´ll be really good. Make sure to do everything possible to listen to the prophets this week and search for answers to your questions. God will answer us through his servants!

This week was really good. Transfers are coming up this next week and I'm hoping to be able to stay with Elder Bailey here a little longer. We´ll see though. It`s not about what we want, it`s only what He knows we need. 

That's all I got folks. Love you all lots.

con amor,

Elder Nixon

March 19, 2018

How the Mighty Have Fallen

Well, this morning it was probably a brisk 70 degrees and I´m ashamed to say I was straight up freezing. I don´t know if it’s the humidity or if I really have just become a wimp to the cold. It was a pretty sad realization. 

This week will mark one year that I received my mission call. That´s pretty insane. Time keeps flying! 

This week was really good. We are teaching this 11-year-old girl named Magali and her aunt, but this week had to stop teaching her aunt for complicated reasons. But this little girl is a stud. She loves to read the book of Mormon and always reads what we leave her, so this last week we told her to start with 1 Nefi 1. When we came back a week later, she was in Mosiah 18. that´s pretty much a third of the book so it was definitely a really cool experience to listen to her talk about all the stories she liked. It would be my prayer that all of us read this book of Mormon like Magali. 

That would be my thought for the week. I started my mission talking to you all a lot about the Book of Mormon and maybe it´s time to remind everyone just how important it is. PLEASE READ IT EVERY DAY and you will never fall. 

Well, that´s it. I love you all lots

Elder Nixon

One of these photos is our district when we went bowling and the other is a lunch we made in the church.

March 12, 2018

Down with Lone Peak!

We had a good week out here in Rosario! The weather is starting to calm down thankfully. Still killer hot some days but there`s usually a nice cool breeze so we get by :)

This week I had divisions with a brand new elder- Elder Fackrell. He´s a super good dude, but he went to Lone Peak in High School so I dunno how I feel about that...

During those divisions, we entered a little ghetto that we have in our area to teach a recent convert but instead found ourselves in the house of their sister as she explained to us that evil spirits lived in her home and she wanted up to cast them out. We said a prayer and I think it went good. I honestly still dunno what to think of it all. It was mostly just weird. Like voodoo weird. BLEHH

That recent convert family that we went to visit though are amazing. They are super humble and really trying to make an effort to come to Christ. I´ll send a picture of us with them. Their last name is Verdun and I love them so yeah. Christ is changing me out here people!!!

Con amor,

Elder Nixon

The pic of us in baptismal clothes was for an open house that we did in the chapel here to invite investigators and give them tours. So, of course, we decided to take a basic mirror selfie because stuff like that is fun as a missionary.

March 5, 2018

Alma 38:5

It was a really good and really long week of work. The best part was yesterday. We found so many people just ready to hear the message of the restoration. 

I´m sure many of you already know but this week I was faced with a pretty big trial learning that my Dad has some pretty serious problems with his health. It was really hard for me to focus, especially Saturday morning but my comp read to me the scripture I needed to hear. Alma 38:5. You should all read it but basically it talks about trusting God and receiving His help. I decided to do that and just got over my own worries and focused on the work. That day we did splits with the Priests in our ward and had an incredible experience. All three of the kids said they have so much more desire to serve a mission now. We really did see miracles together and I was really happy to be able to work with the youth. 

We will each choose whether trials break us or make us stronger in Christ. I encourage each of you in your own situations to turn to God more and trust Him more. That is how we will be able to come to Christ and be perfected in Him. Choose to be awesome :)

I love you all, 

Elder Nixon

here is a photo of the splits we did!

February 26, 2018

The power of the Book of Mormon

Well world Imma keep this one short and sweet. We met some crazy people this week. We had an evangelist call us to repentance and a less active try to explain why Diego Maradona is a prophet. 

The best part of the week was a lesson with a man named Rogelio. He told us after we explained the first vision and the Book of Mormon that he wanted to open the book randomly and then have me read it so he could decide if the book is true or not. He opened randomly to Helaman 13:7 and I read to him "I have been sent to you to declare glad tidings of great joy" The spirit was really strong for sure. 

That’s all I got guys. I love you all lots and always have you in my prayers and heart.

Con mucho amor,

Elder Nixon