Nathan is serving a 2-year mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Anaheim-California Mission. He started May 13, 2009 after completing his Freshman year as a Chemistry Major at Brigham Young University. His first 9 weeks were at the Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah. He arrived in Anaheim on July 14, 2009. The following are snippets of his letters so friends and family can track his adventures.

Monday, August 16, 2010

08/16/2010 - Week 66

The Lord led us to this amazing lady, Christine, and we taught her this week! She is a young single mom of a funny toddler, Eva. She knows a family in our ward very well, so we had the lesson at their house. She is excited to be baptised on Sept. 4th. (She wasn't able to come to church this past Sunday because she wasn't in town, though.) We had a good lesson with Derek, again, after dinner, and we were blessed to teach a loving less active sister.
This was a crazy week. The MTC changed their curriculum to the new "Simplified Curriculum." So, all of the Trainers, District leaders, and Zone leaders had meetings to learn this new perspective on Preach My Gospel teaching. It was from 8-4, Tues-Fri. Those leaders needed someone to take care of thier areas and companions, so we got pulled into it, too. Elder Bickmore was in Costa Mesa with Elder Earle (Wisconsin's greeny). I was with Elder Nielsen durning those times in my area and the top part of Irvine (the housing looks the same as in my area, lol). He is a good missionary who has 2 months left. He has a get it done, get them in the water attitude. That was good. I have been my own leader for a while now (senior companion); it is good to get other perspectives. I think I probably give people too much agency. What ever, I do my best. It was a fun but stressful week. Things are good.

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