January 20, 2020

This is Becoming Quite a Hassle...

What is up everyone! Sorry I didn't email last week. Actually, I'm not technically sorry because to be truly sorry would mean I'm not going to do it again, but I'm not gonna lie, I am not a fan of weekly emails! But I do it for the fans! I do it for all y'all! 

First things first (rest in peace uncle phil, for real) shoutout to anyone who gets my reference there. Let’s see where to start. We found a cool dude named Mark who we can teach. We just found him knocking doors. He told us he believes the Book of Mormon could be scripture from God so that's exciting! We have an appointment with him on Thursday so hopefully it goes well! 

I went on exchanges with the Hays Elders which is always a good time. I love being able to just go with the flow and not being in charge of everything! 

Unfortunately, we had to drop a few people this week, but I don't think I've ever mentioned them in any emails so it's alright.

We have had the hardest time getting an appointment with Sage since she came to church. Satan is working hard, but we are working harder!

Haven't had much luck with Audrianna. She is just so flippin busy! One of these days we'll definitely work something out! 

Ya that's about it! Lastly, HOW BOUT THEM CHIEFS! I know technically they're in Missouri, but I still like them now, and they're going to the superbowl! The last time they were there was superbowl 4 so everyone here is pretty psyched! If you aren't rooting for the chiefs let me know so I can remove you from my email list... Just kidding! I love and miss all of you! Except my friend Scott. I don't miss you Scott. I have a new best friend now :)

Respectfully, 

Elder Nixon 

Pics: Birthday dinner
Tree
Grass
Big egg in Wilson
The tree and the grass are a result of what we call freezing rain. If you've never experienced it you're missing out. Essentially what it is is its freezing outside and then it starts raining. Why it isn't snow, I have no idea. But the rain hits your windshield and just turns to ice and it makes it very hard to drive and see and makes EVERYTHING covered in a dummy thick layer of ice. Good thing I'm a good driver :)

January 6, 2020

What is up everyone! 

I don't have a lot of time, or content today, so I guess it works out right? 

Well unfortunately we did not get to meet with Audrianna because she had to make an emergency trip to Wichita with her sick father. Stay tuned tho because we will meet again. 

Not sure if I've ever mentioned Sage in any of my emails, but she came to church with us yesterday which was a huge boost to us. Real quick, Sage is a young lady who graduated in May. She is good friends with a missionary serving from our ward, and before he left, he gave her a Book of Mormon and since then she has read it twice and is excited to use the Come Follow Me book to study!  She knows it is scripture from God. She told us after church she would see us next Sunday, so we are assuming she meant at church which would be awesome! 

I was on exchanges with the Zone Leaders, and they had an airsoft gun in their apartment, so naturally we all started shooting each other with it. It didn't hurt too bad, but definitely still left welts... 

Sunday I had a VERY stressful experience. As I was pulling into the church I saw a car I didn't recognize and I pointed it out to Elder Robinson. He said it looked like Presidents car, but I wasn't convinced. Well we walk into the church and low and behold there was President and Sister Ernst. Now if you're a missionary, or have been a missionary, you know how stressful it is to have your mission president drive two hours to surprise you at your sacrament meeting. Well we talked and he really enlightened my mind in regards to Alma 32. I always knew it was a good chapter, but holy it is incredible. Y'all should study it, and I mean study. Not just read it. Those last three verses are absolute bomb! 

Well that's all I've got for now, and unfortunately I don't have a ton of pics! I'll try my best to repent and do better next week! 

Warmest Regards, 

Elder Nixon

My one pic: I drove up to Hays on Saturday for the baptism of this young man in the middle. I got to know him really well from teaching him on exchanges, giving him the baptismal interview, and because he comes to our District Meetings. He wants to be a missionary which is awesome!  

December 31, 2019

I Leaked a Private Video?!?!

Hello faithful subscribers! Sorry I haven't put out any content recently. It's been a busy time. On the bright side, I should hopefully have some good content in this email! And a few pictures if that's what you're about

Where to start? I'm not sure if I have mentioned this before, but a few weeks ago we were going out to eat and our waitress told us she used to go to the Mormon church out in Hutch (about an hour south east from G.B.). Silly me forgot to get her name or number so we could talk to her in the future. Well through many miracles I found her on Facebook and was able to get in contact with her and we actually met with her yesterday which was SO bomb. She is what you call a golden investigator. Her mom was a member of the church, but she passed away when Audrianna (the golden investigator) was still young. We asked her to say our closing prayer and she kept thanking Heavenly Father that we found her here in Great Bend and for sending us to her. It was pretty awesome!  

So a few days before Christmas we went ice skating to go street contacting since there were tons of people there. Well come to find out, it wasn't actually ice. It was this weird plastic stuff and if you've ever tried skating on plastic, it doesn't work, but it was free, so no complaints here. 

Christmas Eve was awesome! We spent the night with some members out in a town called Larned which we cover. It was super fun to eat, visit, play games, and have a little talent show. My talent was juggling, which I'm really not too good at, but it was fun. I definitely missed going to my Aunts house for breakfast and hanging out with family, but this was also fun!

Christmas was good, but like every missionary says, it wasn't like being home. We got taken care of out here though! 

Ah now for a funny story. So a few weeks back my dad sent me a video from when I was about 8 years old just jamming out to The Middle by Jimmy Eat-World. Great song. Anyway I showed it to my comp, but never shared it with anyone. Well a few days later, I get a text from one of our AP's asking if I liked Jimmy Eat-World. By this time I had forgot about this video. I said yes, but then commented on how random that question was. He then sent me a screenshot from the video my dad had sent me. I was blown away. I had NO idea how he could've got the video. After lots of questions he told me I had accidently uploaded it to our missions google drive for the entire mission to see! I had to do a lot of searching to find it, but it was eventually found and taken off of the drive. I don't think it did too much damage. Boy did we get a kick out of that though! 

Well that wasn't as much content as I thought, but hey, it's content! One thing I want to challenge everyone to do is watch the video "The Savior Understands Me" By Elder Holland. It's a bomb video. 

My last words of wisdom is that missions are HARD. Once you leave the MTC you realize how little you actually know, and you wonder if it is all worth it. At times you wonder if what you're teaching is actually true, or if this is all just a big lie. Well in the wise words of my good friend Scott, "Even if the gospel isn't true, the one thing I do know is true is that it changes the lives of the people for the better. Even if everything is a lie, the only thing we aren't lying about is that it will make their lives better." Now that is something I know is true. I may not have had a crazy burning in the bosom, Moroni 10 promise yet, but I do know that the gospel of Jesus Christ changes lives for the better. 

Warmest Regards,

Elder Nixon