March 19


I am sorry but my emails do not send. I have tried, my mom has, and my brother in law. I have a blog if you guys are not getting them. Sorry no time this week but... in a few short things in no particular order.

1. Physalis Peruviana. These little fruits are super common here in my sector and are super random. It is pretty cool though how they are grown. You have to wait until the outside is brown to eat it.
2. We played soccer and volleyball today with my zone. My comp is not hand eye coordinated hahaha
3. We had 63 in church yesterday!  a record! The problem is the chileans say "oh I think I will go to church today" and then like 2 months later they say the same thing haha but they do not come consistently.
4. Chileans do not put their toilet paper in the toilet. They have a sack next to the toilet so after a while the bathroom really starts to smell when the sack fills up.
5. ZONE CONF. We had zone conf and I love ZC. My prez focused on 2 things. Mentality and the BOM. Basically there is a huge differnce between the success with the missionaries who are afuera or outside of conce (where i was the last 6 months) and the missionaries inside. He says there is a mentality that when people get transferred inside concepcion they take a nap. In my interview with him he told all about how I have to apply everything I learned while I was outside to the people inside. SO... HARD WORK and GO GO GO here we come. We have already seen tons of success and miracles. He also talked about the mentality in general. When we are optimistic we are happier. I love feeling happy. I love smiling. My challenge this weekis so SMILE more! It makes a difference. The other was the importance of the BOM and how everyone needs to develop a firm testimony of it. I LOVE THE BOM. It is my favorite hobby in the mission hahaha #missionary. Read the book and go to the temple. I am SO EXCITED for the temple to be dedicated here in october. 

Love you all. I am doing good. I get letters and packages now way easier. Talk to yal soon!

~ Elder Nord


Service on Monday

Service on Tuesday 

The grossest thing I have eaten on my mission. It was just like clumpt goo

My venezuelan family that I love that should be baptized (not for a while but they will be baptized in the future)

Zone conf.

zone conf part 2. We dressed up as lamanites/nephites

La mesa misional that we put in the entrance of our chapel

Linares crew reunited. But now I'm training, Richie is my zone leader, and Romero is the assistant! They came to try to receive permission from the parents of a couple of our investigators but sadly all their parents said no

The Saturday market here in San Vicente

It rained and formed lakes in the street

Mi amigo Igancio who lives behind my house

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