November 30, 2015

Well another week and it was pretty good but wow there are a lot of things to improve in this area. haha I am not going to lie that the ward is kind of falling apart but I think that is why I am here. I really do believe that I can help this ward have more unity. haha it is going to be interesting but already I am gaining so much experience. haha Oh and I would like to tell you guys that for thanksgiving I had the good old cow liver. I think it might have been the tastiest thanksgiving of my life. hahahaha Also yesterday we went to a ladies house and wow did she feed us good. ha we started up with a bowl of soup and then a pile of french fries and fried chicken. Really when I finished that, I was full but then she started coming out with more food and more things to eat. So we started to eat that and when we finished and we thought that she was done...boom, she comes out with a freaking watermelon and slices a huge piece and gives it to us. haha I will send you a picture because it was super huge. haha Also I am super red in that picture because I was laughing so hard because she kept on giving us stuff and when I saw the watermelon I just burst out laughing. ha But wow thanksgiving was pretty fun and really I enjoyed it. It made me think a lot of why it is so important to thank our heavenly father for the little things that he does for us. I was able to see the people here recieve the gospel and apply it to their lives. It is so important that if we know that the gospel is true, it is something that is going to give us blessings, We need to recieve the gospel and work our butts off to recieve all the blessings of the gospel. That is so awesome to see it in these peoples eyes. Well this week was awesome because we are teaching a couple that havent been married yet. Their names are Coki and Daniella. They are super awesome and I feel like I am building a good relationship with them. Well here in Peru it is super hard to get married because they have to do a lot of requests and have to go to the doctor. Also they have to pay a lot of money to get married. Well they almost have all their papers and have done all that they can do. But know we needed to help them know that the church was true. Daniella believes that it is the true church but Coki is missing a little bit. Well we start to teach them about Faith, Repentance and baptism. I feel like they felt the spirit because at the end of the lesson they started to think a lot. They started to think about how they can become clean from sin and enter the door to the eternal life. They started to think a lot and it felt like 5 minutes. They just looked at each other and I feel like they could read each others minds or something because they just started nodding their heads. hahaha It was kind of funny but finally they told us that they wanted to be baptized and they wanted to get married as fast as they could. We are still planning when they are going to get married but they are ready to be baptized. I feel blessed to be a servant of God and to help people enter the door, enter into happiness. Wow it was amazing and I hope I can carry the motivation into this next week. Well I feel like that is what has happend this week but the mission is awesome. Well that is all for this week and also my package arrived but I might get it tomorrow. But I love you all and I hope you have a wonderful week.

Elder Nieman

The watermelon lady

This is my room or others might call it a garage

November 23, 2015

Well this week was good but just to let you all know, I got transfered from Villa Hermosa. I really am going to miss all the people there but now it is time to focus on my new area. My new area is Santa Anita, Santa Anita. And you know what it is right next to my first area in Andahuaylas. hahaha I have seen a couple people I have know from my first area already. hahaha But wow it is good to be back here because the people here are just really awesome. Also I feel a lot more safer because I probably didnt tell you guys this when I was in Villa Hermosa but that place was really sketchy. hahaha it was a little dangerous but now everything is good. hahaha Well my new companion is Elder Moreyra and wow I am going to be killing him this transfer. He is ending his mission this transfer and yeah... I am super pumped about that. haha Really I am going to learn so much when I am with him but I am going to need to be really focused to help him complete his mission. But he is from Iquitos. He is from the jungle and he has a really cool and funny accent. The people from the jungle have a really wierd accent but it is super cool to listen to. Well this week I have just been trying to get used to the area and trying to get to know a lot of these people. Also this area isnt very big so I am pretty sure I got to know everyone in like the first day. That just means I am going to have to preach the gospel harder and with more of my heart. ha It will be great and I hope that everything goes wonderful. We have a lot of people to teach and I feel like these next couple of weeks will be great. We are helping a couple get married and there are just a lot of chosen people here. I think the biggest challenge with this area is that we will need to help the ward become more united. They are good people but they just need energy to work. Something really cool happend to me when I got to this area. When we started to proselyte and visit people, during all this time i felt something really strong in my heart that this is where I should be and this is the area that I should be in. I feel so connected to the people even though I dont know them. It just showed me that the transfers that we have are inspired and they truely come from God. President Boswell has recieved that feeling and now I have recieved that same revelation. I really feel like this area is for me and I think I can work really hard here. That is what I have been thinking in these days but wow i feel good right now. Well i believe that thanksgiving is this week or the last week but I just want to tell you guys that I am so thankful for God and you guys. There are so many things that I want to thank you guys for but that would take a very long time to complete. I just want you guys to know that I am thankful for my mission and our Heavenly father that loves us. It is so great to be in the mission and learn these things for myself. I see myself last year and now I just see myself more strong in faith and love for everyone. That is something that I am always going to do is just remember all t he things that God has given me and in return thank him everyday for these things. Well that is all that has happend this week but i really hope that your week is wonderful. I love you guys and I will talk to you guys next week. Oh and shout out to my Dad. I can barely see him because he is so thin. But wow dad you are amazing and if I was there I would have ran with you. That would have been so fun but you are the best to keep firm in your goals. Well I love you all and talk to you next week.
Elder Nieman

 My new companion, Elder Moreyra

This is pretty cool. One of the members drew me in a football uniform.

 Cute little boy with my stuff haha. This was in Villa Hermosa with investigators. We started to teach them but then I left.

Look! I am sewing like crazy...not too bad.

November 16, 2015

Well this week was really good and it sounds like this will be my last week here in Villa Hermosa. I am not sure but I will probably be going. We get our transfers today and like always makes me super nervous but I am sure that I will end up going to a place where the Lord wants me to go. Well this week was really awesome because we got to teach a lot and find a lotof new people. It was kind of depressing because the people we found were really awesome and I am pretty sure they are going to be baptized pretty soon but for the most part I am happy because I was able to plant the seed. But anyways we met a lot of humble people this week and it was kind of funny cause there were a lot of old people that we found. hahaha I love old people and I think they are super funny. They also have super awesome stories like one guy was talking about his teenage years and he was talking how he hunted for his food with a spear. hahaha that was super crazy and it was really cool to hear. ha But right now we found a woman named Leoncia and she is super awesome. She is cathlic but wanted to hear our message. So we start to teach her and she was super awesome because she understood everything that we said. She was participating and answering all the questions. At the end of it we invited her to baptism and she accepted a date for the 9 of December. Wooooooo that was pretty cool and I am so happy that she is going to make that decisiobn to be baptized. After that I gave her a handshake and she started to kiss my hand. hahahah it was pretty funny because she had a super strong grip and I couldnt pull my hand away. haha Finally I got away and I was free. hahha but she is super awesome and always someone that I will remember. If I go I think my companion is going to invite me to her baptism. That would be super awesome. Well also this week I gave a talk in sacrament meeting and really I wasnt that prepared. haha Like always but when I got up and started talking, it got easier to talk about what I needed to say. Also my bishop said Good bye in english like 5 times because he wanted me to say good bye to everyone. haha Well what I started to say was something really simple. I started to say just having a good attitude and a smile on your face can show to others that you have a hope in your life and that the church really does help you in your life. It is so simple but in the end it makes a huge diference. I hope I left them a good message and it was a good expireance to talk to my ward. I am going to miss this ward a lot and I have been in this area for long time. I really hope I dont go but it will always be like this. haha but we will have to see next week. Well I think that is all for this week and I would just like to tell you guys that I love you and I hope you have a wonderful week this week.
Love Elder Nieman

November 9, 2015

This week was super great and I think I just noticed that I always start off my letters with that. haha But wow this week was great and really want to tell you all about my experiences. First I think I am going to send you the statement that I sent to Sister Cantwell. She asked me what are some of my greatest experiences. I want to put that in this letter because that is what happend this week. But yeah here it is:

I would love to share some of my experiences that I have had but that is kind of hard to pick just one cause everyday I see miracles. Everyday I feel the spirit and everyday I truely feel like a true light here in Peru. I would say before my mission that I knew that this church is true but now I not only know it is true, I FEEL it is true. Everyday walking on the streets is a blessing that my Father in Heaven has given me. It helps me feel like I am literally saving lives and I am helping people come to Christ. One of the people that I have been teaching and has been baptized told me this week that she is going to be sealed in the temple. I just helped someone create a eternal family. But I do always have to remember that it wasnt by me but it was by the power of God and the Holy Ghost that helped Yolanda to be baptized and then make the decision to be sealed in the temple. Honestly that is something that I will always remember in this life and the life after. Well that is what I love about the mission and I hope your lesson goes wonderful.

Mom, if you wanted to wait to hear that in Relief Society... sorry. hahaha but that was super awesome to hear from Yolanda and her husband Jaime. They are preparing to be sealed in the temple and I think I will be able to go to their sealing. That would be so amazing but I just absolutly love what I get to see in the mission. Even if I dont get to see a lot of the results in the mission I always remember that I have helped someone recieve the restored gospel. The way my companion and I teach is so awesome because we always have the spirit with us. Ohhhh and this week was super crazy cause we taught a teen from the jungle. haha It was super cool cause he told us all about the things that happen in the jungle. haha Also he started to speak a freaking weird language, it was weird because he was making clicking noises. hahaha but we started to teach him and I guess never in his life he has heard of the bible or Jesus Christ. It was really weird because we had to teach him stuff super super basico. But he started to tell us that he has never learned that there was a god or that we could heal people. His mom is really sick and he is very interested to hear how Jesus healed a lot of people. That was something super awesome this week and I am sure I will be able to tell you more about him next week. Well that is what happend this week and I hope everyones week is wonderful. Also shout out to my sister Shellie. It is her birthday today and I want everyone to know that I never forget her birthday. Even though I am pretty sure it is on the 6th. hahahah but no Happy birthday sister. love ya.

Elder Nieman

 Me in my new suit, Elder Mamani and members

 My area - Villa Hermosa

Playing some soccer

November 2, 2015

This week was so great but I want to start of saying happy birthday to my good old nephew. hahaha He is getting so old and I cant believe he is 5 years old. Wow that is so crazy how the time goes by so fast and I am just happy that it is his birthday today. Tell him I love him and that his uncle Josh is thinking of him. Well this week was pretty cool and I could really feel the guidance of God with me. I could feel like our heavenly father has been helping us accomplish our goals and have success. This week my companion and I were really wondering how we could achieve our goals for this week. Normaly we have to teach 20 lessons with investigators and 10 new people to teach each week. Also we needed to contact like freaking crazy. We werent achieving that so we just decided to find ways to find new people to teach and new ways we could contact. haha Some of the things we came up with were pretty funny but it was so fun to think of the ways we could find people. So at the begining of this week we started to pray diligently and with real intent. I think a lot of us get used to praying for the same things but this week we really concentrated on praying for specific things. Every time we leave we say a prayer and we say the things that we know we can achieve but we would need the spirit with us to do so. I can tell you guys that God has been directing us in this week. I could feel us opening our mouths and teaching like crazy. Well we started to teach and teach and we reached a point where we only needed one more lesson and one investigator to find. Yesterday was so crazy cause my companion and I were going crazy in the streets saying one more one more. hahaha It was kind of funny because we were like running to find this next person to teach. But really we got tired so we decided to sit down to rest for a bit because we were freakin tired. So we sat down in a park and started to decide where we were going to go. While we were waiting and resting we saw two people walking closer and closer to the place we were sitting. haha We started to whisper there they are. haha I hope you guys can imagine us just getting excited because these two people were walking towards us. It was like the Best Two Years when Elder Calhoon was going to contact for the first time. When he starts yelling hes got something in his pocket,,, ITS GUM. hahaha That is exactly how we were. Well they get closer and we notice that one of them is someone that we have talked to before. So we start to talk with them and we start to talk about the gospel and all that. It was so awesome because we started to teach the lesson and when we finished they told us that they wanted to learn more. Woooooooo That was probably the best ending of a week for us. So by the end of this week we taught 20 investigators and found 10 people to teach. That was so amazing and really I could feel the spirit of the Lord with me. That was a expirence that I will always remember. haha I love you all and I hope you all are doing well. I really hope that in this week you can feel the comfort of the Lord and feel my love for all of you. You guys are so awesome and I will talk to you next week. Also I have my suit but I have no idea what is up with this computer but I cant send pictures. I will keep trying. Talk to you all next week.

Elder Nieman
Oh and tell Shellie happy birthday on the 6th of november. hahaha no the 9th. I love you Shellie and I hope your birthday is amazing. haha Loves