November 5, 2018

Well just like last year, this year for Halloween I stole my comps name tag so this year for Halloween I was Elder Mathias!! Pretty scary stuff ;) That was a joke, I love my comp! I feel pretty ripped off though. I knocked on more doors this Halloween than any other in my life and I didn´t get even a fraction of the candy... ;(

This was the first week of the transfer and as always the first week is one of my favorites. We had a leadership council and our president showed us some clips from the movie "facing the giants" Something I loved from it is that our true character only is shown when we´ve given our all and are tired. That´s when we have to keep going and give even more.
 

Something cool this week was that Newell´s old Boys and Rosario Central (the two big soccer teams here) faced off this week and it was so crazy they didn´t even let us leave the pension. I live in a pretty rich quiet neighborhood, but there was definitely lots of loud cracking noises that I will not identify what they were because I know my mom will read this (it´s possible she´s the only one too that makes it this far in the email ;)) but let’s just say that people take their soccer seriously here!!

Love you all lots,

Elder Nixon

October 29, 2018

Why We Serve

Well, this week was transfers and it was very surprising! Absolutely nothing changed! So I´m going to have a fourth transfer in this ward and 3 transfers with Elder Mathias as zone leaders!

This morning I was listening to the general women’s session because I was jealous there was no Priesthood session this year and I heard a talk I really loved. It talked about remembering who we really are serving and ministering when we complete assignments in the church. It´s between us and the Lord. No one else. I really did love that thought!

Well, that´s all I got. Remember that when you are out ministering as the Savior did, we are doing it because we Love HIM and His children. Not because the Bishop asked us to or anything like that. Love you all lots.

un abrazo, (a menos que seas una hermana. En tal caso te extiendo la mano. Pero para mi mamá un beso!)

Elder Nixon

I want you all to really look at the picture of my desk and just appreciate the fact that there is a cow hoof on my desk that the people here have turned into a cup to drink grass out of! #culture

October 22, 2018

Awkward

Well this week was great. I love the new schedule. I feel more focused on Sunday and more relaxed on Thursday. It´s great. This last Thursday was quite possibly the most awkward situation of my whole mission. We went outside the zone with permission to visit an aquarium but it was closed. We were close to a soccer stadium here of a club called Rosario Central. We wanted to go in and take pictures but the dude didn´t let us and was being kinda dumb saying we have to call and make a tour. Well we called and the lady told us if we gave her 100 pesos each, she would let us enter a tour with a group of elementary schoolers on a field trip. I dunno if they looked at the stadium or at the 4 foreigners more. We laughed the whole time and tried to make the most of it. Good times.

Other than that, this week we found Angel. He is super cool. He accepted a baptismal date and when we went back to visit him for the second time, he had searched our church on Youtube and had watched tons of Mormon messages and the general conference. That was pretty awesome.

Well the last thing is this week I saw the most gigantic shooting star. It literally burned for a solid 5 seconds and was one of the prettiest things I´ve ever seen in my life. I saw it after a harder day so I’m convinced it was a little boost from God encouraging me to keep on keeping on!

Love you all lots,

Elder Nixon

October 15, 2018

New Schedule

Well today technically isn´t my pday. My mission is trying out a new missionary schedule. Monday is administrative day. We have to do our weekly planning, write the family and have a district meetings all today. then we leave for a normal afternoon of working. Then Thursday is going to be our pday and we buy the stuff we need and can do whatever like a normal pday but it ends 2 hours earlier. at 4 we have to leave and work. So that's all that´s new out here!! 

wow that was incredibly boring i´m sorry for boring you all with my mundane life. Other than that this week I got to do divisions with the APs again. one of our APs has literally been there for a full year and I learned a ton from him. Something i learned is that we need to always give our best effort to God and nothing less. As a missionary, I must completely consecrate myself. Nothing else is worth it if I´m already going to sacrifice 2 years of my life, I might as well take advantage of it!!

Elder Nixon

October 8, 2018

Why We Watch

Well conference rumors spread even to Argentina and it made me think a lot. Why do we watch general conference? For me, the best moment of the weekend was not hearing that we will have only 2 hours of church. The best part was hearing the Lord speak directly to me, whispering counsel that I need in my specific situations through the Holy Ghost and His prophets. That is why we should watch. I loved the theme of staying on the covenant paths. If I´ve learned anything out here, it’s the need to make and keep covenants with God. I invite you all to reread all the talks given this weekend. That´s how they will help us most! I also thought about the need to always keep an eternal perspective. If we can see things how God sees them, we will be in good shape!

This week was super packed. We had conference and interviews with president and I did some splits with Elders in my zone. We found lots of good new people to teach and I´ve never been happier to be a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Con amor,

Elder Nixon

October 1, 2018

Asadito

This week was super good. I´m writing later and less because today we got together as a zone and played soccer in the morning and then came over to our pension to cook a good Argentine asado. More meat than you can imagine. We had a zone conference this week too and that went super as well. I dunno what else. We talk with just about the whole world out here and some people are really cool and some are really dumb. But that´s just how it goes. 

Love you all lots,

Elder Nixon

September 24, 2018

Pioneer children sang as they walked...

I wrote a new verse to a classic primary song this week.

Missionaries sang as they walked and walked and walked and walked and walked and walked and walked and walked and walked ANNNNDDD WALLLLKKKKEEDDD. So yeah this week we did a lot of walking and contacting and it went really good. We found lots of people who are interested in learning more but other than that it was a very normal week. Not much to comment on. Just that my calves are pretty darn chiseled after so much walking.

We did have our leadership council this week as well which was good. We´re trying the change the way we work as missionaries to involve the members more and it´s not easy to change a culture but we´re in the process!! Other than that, we´re just getting a few things ready for our zone conference this week and are busy preaching the good word!!

love you all lots.

Elder Nixon

sorry I don´t have pictures this week :(