May 25, 2015

Well just going hard every week and just contacting and teaching. This is the life and each week goes by faster and faster. Well this coming week will probably be my last week in Chosica but I am not sure yet. haha I think I might not say goodbye to everyone cause that is what I did last time and I stayed in the area. haha but I have been here for so long and you just get really attached to the people and just the area. Saying goodbye is hard but it is good to know that I will be moving on to help more people. Well just going strong everyday and just having a lot of pacience with a lot of things. A lot of you asked me about Guadalupe and her children. Well first off in the mission I have learned that nothing is set until it actually happens. haha I hope that made sense but they didnt get baptized last week or this week either. We are still teaching them and they are doing really good. They are accepting the gospel and fullfilling all their comitments. And they will probably get baptized in the next transfer. It is just we want them to feel really strong and firm in the church and we decided that they needed more time. Which is really fine and I cant wait to see someone send me a picture of them getting baptized. Just not right now. haha but it is really intresting cause I have been thinking about this a lot. I thought to myself I have so many baptisms, maybe they wont be baptized in the time I am in the area or in 2 months or in 2 years. but when they do get baptized they will always remember those two young men that taught them first and in the eternal life they will thank me for finding them and teaching them. That makes me feel really happy and makes me feel so much more comfort. The plan of god and missionary work go hand and hand so well and it will be amazing to see all the people I have taught in the eternal life. I really just want to have a positive attitude in all the things I do in this work and just in life. It doesnt matter if I feel sad or I feel unmotivated because it will only be for one moment and after I have given all my efforts in this work and in this life, I will rest in the kingdom of God. That is all I care about and it is amazing to feel this feeling and that personal revelation.Wow it is awesome. So much I have been learning and changing in my life. I cant see how I can be beaten down when I have the scriptures and prayer. Wooooo I am so grateful for that and I am so happy to be doing this work everyday. Well that is all I have for this week and I will have to talk to you all next week. Love you all and have a good week.

Love you all forever
Elder Nieman

 Yeah, I bought a beanie cause it is starting to get really cold in the morning and at night

 Service. We built the house on the left because the Huayco destroyed it

Picture of food

May 18

Yup another week in the mission and it was super great. This week was kind of long but overall it was pretty good. Learning so much about myself and just a lot of stuff that I had no clue when I was back at home. Haha That is something that is super awesome. Well I want you all to know that my buddy Carl is going to the Phillipines and I am super stoked for him. He is going to be speaking a language that I have never heard in my life but he will just do awesome. hhaah. It is super cool to see that all my friends are in different parts of the world doing important things and great things. It is super nuts and I am so proud of everybody. I think that I grew up with so many good friends and we are just doing so many amazing things right now. And when we all get back we will be able to talk about what has been going on in these past 2 years. Wow it is so awesome and that is what I have been thinking about this week. Oh yeah and I heard that a lot of people are returning from their missions which is super weird cause I feel like they havent been gone for long. Wow time is going to go by so fast with all the expierences and just all the miracles that happen everyday. Well this week was just normal and I really enjoyed every part of this week. We had an interview with the president and that was pretty awesome. President Boswell is the man and I just feel like a get so much guidance from him. It really helps me out and this week was just really great. Well this week we have just been proselyting and searching for people to teach. It has been so great cause I love to contact. Well yesterday we taught a little bit to an investigator that has been searching for an answer for 15 years. wow he has been an investigator for that many years and sometimes it is super hard to talk with him. haha He has a different way to think and it is really hard to teach him the gospel. Well he asked me this question. What or who is the greatest miracle that has ever happend. He told me first that the greatest miracles is yourself. Well that is true cause we are all miracles but the greatest in the world. I dont think so. I told him that the greatest miracle in the world is that we have a father in heaven that created us and then sent his son to suffer and die for us. Then his son was ressuerected on the third day. And through all these things we can be ressurected and live with God and our families forever. I pretty much taught him the plan of salvation and I ended with...so that makes God the miracle of all miracles. It was kind of funny cause he just looked at me for a long time. haha. I was trying to decide if he was mad that I told him the truth or if he even understood me. haha Well after a couple minutes of him thinking and thinking. He just told me that is a great point of view. haha Sometimes the people just wont accept the truth and wont humble themselves to the truth. I know he felt it but for some reason he wont accept it. but I know in sometime in his life he will accept it, just not right now. But that is why I am here to plant the seed and help the seed grow. Wooo that was pretty awesome and really my answer came to me through the holy ghost. It was so amazing and after that it made me think a lot. God is the miracle of all miracles. The plan is so perfect and you can not find an error in the plan. Wow that was when I truely understood the power of the plan. Makes me be thankful everyday and just for everything that God has created. He created everything. wow that is amazing and I am just so amazed with this church. My testimony grows everyday. It is so awesome. Well there was a video that I really liked but it kind of is scary to watch but at the end it is so amazing. It is called falling plates. It is an awesome video that shows what the miracle of all miracles has done for us. Well that is all for this week and I am so happy for everyone that writes and helps me through the hard times. I love you all and there is nothing that can seperate me from the people I love.

Elder Nieman



Oh yeah this week I only have pictures with food but I will send other pictures soon. #gettingfattereveryday hahaha no just kidding

May 11, 2015

Well this week was pretty awesome. Especially when I got to talk to you guys. I want to say some things first about skype. Well first is when I get rushed to talk to you guys I usually dont talk very great and sometimes I just say oh that is super awesome and oh that is cool. hahahaha so sorry for that I was just really surprised to see you guys and really it was really awesome to talk to you guys. hahah I just said it again. Well another thing is that dad you are looking like a buff man and looking really good. Also Griffin and Nixon are growing up so fast. I was really surprised when shellie walked in with a baby that I didnt know and I finally realized that it was Griffin. haha Wow he is adorable and I just cant wait like always to play with them. Also Hayden is looking good like always hahaaha. Well all of you guys were just amazing. haha Well another thing is that the clock that Ben and Shellie gave you Mom is really crazy and when I saw that I kind of got a little blahhhh. haha but it is alright now. I hope that I showed how excited to see you guys and Bens big news. Also this is for Grandpa Lowe, Grandpa you are truely one of the strongest people I have ever known and I was so happy that you came. When you gave me the advice and just your testimony, that gave me so much motivation and I just really want to say that I love the heck out of you grandpa. Usted es lo maximo. hahaha but wow that whole expirence was great and it just gives me so much motivation to work even harder.

 The best day of the year!!! Joshua was happy, healthy, humble and hilarious!

 Elder Joshi son with his momma and papa!

Josh loved seeing his little nephews! Nixon said, "Hi Dosh!" and he met baby Griffin for the first time :) 

Josh was happy to hear that his release date is a big factor in the Downs' family planning!

Josh loved visiting with his Grandpa.

Well this week was pretty good. This week we got to go to the temple and truly it is the house of the lord and I feel so much peace in the temple. So many answers and just peace about all the things that have been happening. Wow it was really great and I cant wait to go again. Well I have a picture of me with the temple but I look really weird. haha The way I am standing and everything but it is a pretty cool picture so I will send it. Also this week we got to visit our awesome investigators Guadalupe and her children Cristian and ariana. They are so cool and they love to learn about the gospel. Well this week we got to have the chance to teach them about the principles in the gospel and we felt like it was the right time to invite them to baptism. So they have a date for May 23. It was super awesome and I am so excited for them. but like always I need to be patient in these kind of things. But as we teach them I trust in the lord that he will give them the right answers and come to learn that baptism is the right thing to do. It was super awesome and we are just starting to find a lot of people that say I want to be baptized. haha That is pretty awesome but still we need to be patient. I love being patient and teaching these people that are so humble and I lot of them are ready to listen to the message that we have. woooo this church is true. Well that is all that happend for this week and I feel like the next week will be even better. I love you all and I will talk to you guys next week.}

Elder Nieman
Oh yeah and happy birthday to Nixon. I love you Nixon and it was really weird to listen to him talk a little. It was really good to see them all.

 The Lima Temple and my awkward stance. haha! 

Yup. We hiked another mountain. It was really cool cause we saw Incan ruins.

May 4

Well this week was pretty good and really it is good to be on a mission. Well this week and actually today I get to talk to you guys a little bit but then I will get to talk to you more this sunday which will be pretty awesome. So you should save questions to ask me and I dont know how it will go. It might be 40 minutes or more than that. It all depends but whatever time it will be awesome. Well this week was good like I said and really my companion and me are trying really hard to find new people but some things are a little hard right now. But that is ok cause all we have to do is work even harder. Oh yeah well this week we taught a less active member and right now he is attending a church and he has kind of stopped coming to church and believing. Well he accepted us in and we talked to him for a while and we figured out that he was so confused about the things about the church and just life. It was kind of sad to see but it was really good to teach him and see a change. Well when we were teaching him he had a face of anger and really was asking questions that didnt really make sense. It is amazing how satan controls other churches to say bad things about the Church of Christ. I was really kind of surprised with all the questions he was asking when he was baptized and all that. But as we started answering all his questions I could see his face start to relax and start accept the teachings of christ. Well this has happend so many times in my mission where we start with someone that has all these doubts and just dont really believe in the things of the church. And as we start to teach them I always see a change and really it is so amazing how our father in heaven helps us in those moments. Well by the end of the conversation he told us that he wanted to change back to the church of jesus christ. The only true church on this earth. Woooww it was pretty awesome and I am so happy to change the lives of many. Well this letter might be a little short to because probably I am going to tell you all about everything this sunday. But save your questions and I will answer them all and we will just have a nice chat. haha I really love you all... Crap I forgot to tell you guys that we are going to the temple this week and I am super stoked. I love the temple and I just feel so at peace in the house of the lord. It is so amazing and everytime I go it reminds me of the first time I went through when I saw your faces and everything was truly powerful and beautiful. Wow it is super great and I cant wait for that. Well you know I love you all and I hope you guys are super stoked to talk to me cause I sure am but I will talk to you next week. And Mom probably in a couple minutes. haha but yeah Love you
Elder Nieman

 Family Home Evening

In a freaking moto!