December 16, 2019

Not a Whole Lot

I don't have a whole lot of time or content unfortunately so I guess it works out. These week it felt like I was super busy. 

Wednesday I left to go to Hays for DCM and then exchanges. I left from there to go to Salina to do another exchange with the ZL's and then on the way back I had to stop back in Hays to give a baptismal interview. That was actually pretty exciting. The only weird thing is the kid was 11 so it was a little weird asking him some of the questions...(if you know, you know) but we made it through! I finally got home and then turned right back around to go to a dinner 45 minutes away. 

The other day we got a call from some Sister missionaries in another mission who had a referral for us. I'm pretty excited to go meet her and see what's up. 

Lastly I gained a new respect for all my friends in foreign missions. While in Salina I went to a dinner with a bunch of Spanish people and they spoke Spanish the whole time. I understood very little, but I just wanna say I respect everyone serving in a foreign country and learning a new language. 

Also I will be staying in Great Bend for another transfer so I'll be here till about February! 

That's all I got for this week. I love and miss you all. Make sure all y'all are always good examples because you never know who is watching you!

Warmest regards, 

Elder Nixon

December 9, 2019

We're Having a Baptism?!?! Or Are We...

Hello my faithful readers. It is great to be with you again on this wonderful day. This week was pretty average, but hopefully my email is anything but average! Who knows though.

Tuesday we had a really good lesson with one of our investigators named Brain. We were reteaching the restoration because there were some parts he didn't quite understand, but when we were talking about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon the topic of baptism came up. I asked him if he wanted to get baptized and he said yes! We set a date for January 12. It just felt like the right day since I have a friend with a birthday on the 11th and one with a birthday on the 13th! We were pretty excited (but only for a few days...)

Wednesday we had interviews in Salina which meant leaving the house at 7:30 to make it there by 9. It wasn't too bad driving that early. Interviews were super great. I accidently deleted all of my notes from it though :( I do remember we talked about determination and grit. We also got Little Caesars since Salina is the closest one. It was some good pizza. 

Thursday I was very grateful for police officers. We were helping some lady change her tire, and all we had was a little jack, but this officer showed up with a floor jack, so we were able to get her car jacked up real quick and the tire changed in no time! 

Friday we had our ward Christmas party which was nice. I was hoping to get some investigators there, but none came. Who doesn't want free food and a message about Jesus? Oh well, their loss and more food for the hungry missionaries. 

Saturday was a sad day. We kept trying to visit with Brian who we had put on date earlier in the week, and he sent us a text saying he was going to keep going to his church because his mom doesn't want him going to ours. We were pretty sad. We are going to work pretty hard with his mom and step dad to get them all to join the church. 

Sunday we thought we were going to have a good amount of people at church, but then we had 0. Sad boi hours. We'll get em next week for sure. 

Today has been pretty fun. We went around to all the thrift stores in town looking for decorations for our second Christmas tree. We had a tiny pink one, and then we got a bigger white one from a member here. It didn't have lights or decorations though, so we went on an adventure. I'd say we came out victorious as we managed to decorate this tree for about 10 dollars! 

Well that's all I've got for this week. Missions are hard, no doubt, but I don't have any regrets serving. Sure I'll be away from my family for two years, but that is nothing compared to eternity. Some people don't even know they can spend eternity with their families. Sad. But that's why we're here! I love my mission and I love Kansas! It also has some pretty baller sunsets.

Oh I almost forgot my funny story. That would've been tragic. I found out last night that my comp sleepwalks! I was sleeping and I woke up to him over by bed and then he said "this is my blanket now" and then he yeeted my weighted blanket off me and threw me his blanket and so in the morning I just waited for him to notice and he was so confused when he found out. We laughed about that for the longest time. 

Unfeignedly,

Elder Nixon

Pics: Elder Robinson and I at a train

clouds

Pic with Elder Nielson from our mission conference a few weeks back

Those Kansas sunsets I was telling all y'all about

Jumping for joy because of the Gospel of Jesus Christ

Our Christmas tree

December 2, 2019

I cast out evil spirits?!?!

What is up everyone! I don't have a whole lot of time today, so I'll try and get everything in! 

Since I'm a District Leader I get to do training for my district. I also get the wonderful opportunity correct people when they are doing things they shouldn't and I had to do a lot of that on Wednesday in my DCM. Consider the evil spirits cast out.

Thursday was a very amazing day. We drove up to Salina to play games with our zone before everyone had their meals. It was snowing pretty bad, and looking back, we probably just shouldn't have gone, but we did anyways lol. Salina is about an hour and twenty minutes from here, but it took us a little over two hours to get there. We had so much fun tho! We drove back, and thankfully the roads were nicer, and we hosted our own Thanksgiving dinner at the church. We just invited a ton of people who didn't have anywhere to go or just simply didn't want to cook. We had a good turnout and it was a great opportunity to talk to lots of people! 

Friday we just did a little bit of Black Friday shopping...

Sunday I think was my official 4 month mark! Pretty crazy! Time really does fly. Church that day was pretty strange. The heater in our chapel is currently broken, so we just held our sacrament meeting in the relief society room. It was a little tight, but we all fit! Perks of being the only ward in a building! We went and stopped by Kelsey and Dewayne's house, who I don't know if I've ever talked about, but we stop by there weekly to invite them to church. Kelsey has been a few times, and Dewayne always says he knows he needs to come, but he never does, well we went by and had a really good talk with him and got him committed to church. In the past we've got like a maybe, but this time we got a solid yes. I'm pretty excited!

Well to end this I'd like to challenge everyone to watch The Christ Child and think of who you will share it with. It is an AMAZING video and if you haven't seen it, you're missing out! 

Warmest regards,

Elder Nixon

Pics:

We celebrated a birthday in my district, so we all got party hats. 

This is how we spent a lot of our evenings. We go to Walmart and buy discount bakery garlic bread and pound it while playing battleship.

November 25, 2018

I'm a Murderer?!?!

Howdy folks,

This week flew by, as most do. Not much happened Monday and Tuesday, but Wednesday night we drove down to Wichita because we had a mission conference at 7:30am and Wichita is 2 hours away. We spent the night with some Elders there and then went to our mission conference Thursday. It was SO good. We had Elder Gifford Nielson come to preside. We learned a lot from him. One thing I really likes was that we talked about is we are all children of God and that we were born to be Kings and Queens. I always knew that, but for some reason this just hit different. It was a day just filled with the spirit. My comp and I sang in the choir which is always fun. Near the end of the conference the AP's got up and said they were gonna call a few people up to bear their testimony and of course I was called. Normally that kind of thing would give me a good amount of stress, but I wasn't stressed at all. I bore my testimony and as I was walking off Elder Nielson shook my hand and told me it was a beautiful testimony. I wish I could remember more of what we talked about, but I don’t have my journal with me. Oh well.

Friday I drove home from Wichita on a quarter tank of gas which is unheard of, but I had such exceeding faith I made it home. Friday we had snow stick to the road and sidewalk so we spent all morning shoveling sidewalk. Last night I was driving up to Hays to spend the day with the Elders up there and as we were driving I saw a pair of eyes looking at me. I didn't have enough time to stop and even if I wanted to I wasn't going to get a driving violation so I ran over a raccoon. I smooshed it good and sent it back to its maker. We laughed for quite a while about that. 

Well that's all I've got for this week. If you're contemplating whether or not to serve a mission, just do it. It'll bless you so much more than you realize. Full send. 

Cordially,

Elder Nixon