October 3, 2011

Hey everyone!!

So this week was really against the norm of an average missionary week but it was still really good. We didn´t get to work at all on Monday or Tuesday because we had to travel far away to a city for a zone conference with our mission president, and then on Saturday and Sunday we had to travel to another city to watch conference (although we missed the 2 Saturday sessions which was a bust). Priesthood session was super super good!! Elder Holland´s talk was incredible! I didn´t get to listen to his actual voice because we had to watch it in Portuguese, but it was still great and so true about we are in a constant fight of good vs. evil everyday. We can´t just stay in the middle of the two, we must pick the Lord´s side of the devil´s. Work here in our area is going to be a bit slower this month, too. It´s October now and Brusque is a town that is almost all Germans which means...Octoberfest...should be interesting. Also all of the banks and mail services here (in all of Santa Catarina) are on strike so ya, if you´ve sent me a letter recently then it will probably take a while for it to get here becuase once they finally do get back to work they will be crazy crazy backed up. But Conference really made this week great! We are so lujcky to have a living Prophet and also Apostles on the earth today to help lead and guide us. The gospel brings us so much happiness and there is nothing that can compensate for it! I love you all and hope to hear from you soon!! Give the little ones some loves for me!!!

Love,

Elder Michael J. Neilson

ps. Our Presdient made a rule about a month back that we couldn´t email anybody but immediate family on P-day but this week he told us that he is changing the rule to where we CAN email anybody we want on P-day, but we only have an hour to do it. So anybody can feel free to email me and I will try to at least respond back a little bit!