Happy Easter!

I hope it's been a wonderful week with Easter and everything! It's been a great one out here. Its actually been really dinner and warm, and it feels good to have Spring (and the warmth!) here.

We had an in person district council this week in Halmstad with exchanges directly following. It was way fun honestly! We are lunch after District Council at a really nice place that made us some fancy Schwarma and it was super tasty! Then Elder Seely and I were on exchanges. We found some, taught some, and ended the evening off with some homemade cheese filled burgers. It was a great day!

This week in preparation for Easter Sunday and church we gave out tooons of fliers inviting people. Because the Sisters that used to be in the area left we were left with all 600 fliers but were able to get them all out! It felt good to be able to invite so many people to come and focus on Christ this season. On Sunday my companion and I watched the bible videos under the Final Events category the church made. It began with the triumphal entry to Jerusalem until after the resurrection, and it was amazing actually. It really brought my focus onto the Savior and the incredible message that comes with Easter. I would also encourage you to read "The Living Christ" to hear the testimonies of special witnesses about the Savior. So much power and knowledge comes with proper knowledge about Christ and a strong testimony that He lives.


Have a wonderful week!


Elder Nelson

General Conference and Happy Easter!

Well, I didn't write last week so some of the exciting news can be talked about a week late. We got transfer calls and the Sisters here in Helsingborg have been transferred out so it will be just one pair of elders here. And we have actually moved to their apartment as well and will be returning the one we used to live in in Landskrona. It's some pretty crazy stuff actually! It is sad that the sister have left and the ward is pretty bummed out!

They moved out on Tuesday so we have since moved in all out things and last Monday we cleaned a TON! It's been good though. And shout out to the sisters for leaving everything so clean, we appreciate it! It's been a strange transition but I am really excited for everything moving forward!

Besides that we have also been teaching whenever we can and giving out lots and lots of fliers inviting people to come and celebrate Easter with us this Sunday. It's been lots of fun!

I also just wanted to quickly mention general conference here. Firstly, we bought and consumed a ton of candy for it which was fun. But the actual conference itself was amazing. I felt a power from the words and testimonies of everyone in the conference but especially President Nelson. I would encourage anyone who has not seen his talk on Sunday morning to watch that. There are living prophets today!

Have a great Easter everyone! Don't forget to celebrate and remember why we have Easter in the first place amidst all the candy and fun!


Elder Nelson

Watch conference this weekend!

Happy Monday everyone!

Hope it's been a good week for you all so far. We have general conference coming up this week so I'm excited and looking forward to that! I really am interested to see the messages and focuses that we have in store for us. The last week was a good one too though!

This week we had Zone Conference down in Malmö! It is always fun to meet old mission friends, talk to new people, and learn a ton of good stuff. Put mission President is such an inspired man! I love being around him and catching the vision for the mission and for the country. The focuses were really good and it was great to be able to meet, talk to, and give a Book of Mormon to someone on our train back to Landskrona after Zone Conference.

We helped a family move from one side of town to the other and it was nice. Haha, the best part was the partially working elevator that led to us having to walk a total of around 35 flights of stairs throughout the move. It was good exercise and it felt nice to help some members that needed it.

This last week we planned to go out to a little tiny village outside of the city where we live. It was a little community of around 20 houses and there was apparently a less active that lived there. So we went out, knocked them, and went by the member. And it turned out that the member had actually moved away around 10 years ago, but his ex-member mom still lived there. After avoiding death from her 3 rambunctious dogs we ended up talking for a while. We talked about the area where she lived, her family, and eventually why it was that she left the church. And her answer had made me think some. She said she didn't like all the rules and how she just felt so restricted, so she made the decision to leave them behind. If we do not feel the joy or spiritual feeling that comes through the gospel and by living it, we won't last in the long run. I don't think anyone can really just obey out of pure feeling of responsibility forever or else they will burn out. So I encourage you all to take a step back and think about the joy, peace, belonging, and internal spiritual growth that comes through the day to day obedience and remember why it is we actually choose to follow God.

Have a wonderful week!


Elder Nelson

Elder Nelson's Mom here: a sister from the ward in Helsingborg sent a few pictures after church yesterday.

happy birthday joseph (2 days late...)

It has been a pretty awesome week for us here in Landskrona and Helsingborg! Things are good as always. Spring keeps taking over more and more, and I'm looking forward to the leaves coming out on the trees (hopefully) soon. Here's how the week was!

Because of some last minute cirmumstances we had a temporary 'tripan' (3 people in a companionship) one of the days last week and it turned out way good! We couldn't use the buses because the third Elder didn't have a buscard but everything turned out really good actually and we found a really positive man who wants to be taught and come to church. That, and the awesome lunch we had, made it a sweet day!

On Sunday we had a really good day with several less active members that came to church as well as an exciting activity at the bishops apartment. We ended up being 27 youth/YSAs/missionaries (with a good amount of visitors from neighboring wards) in his apartment playing games, eating food, and having a great time. It was awesome!

On a sidenote, there was a shooting in our city last week, so there's that.

To end on a little bit of a spiritual note, we taught an amazing lesson this last week. It was with a Swedish man we'd met before and we finally got back to teach him more. It was a solid Restoration lesson where the spirit was able to be present quite strongly. It was really impressive to see how quickly my companion has been able to learn and grow his ability to teach because he was able to be a big part of the lesson and teach and testify. What hit me while we were teaching is how powerful the message of the Restoration of the Gospel really is. It is very powerful to promise people that if they read and pray about the Book of Mormon with an open heart they will get an answer. It is a very strong claim that can't easily be explained away without actually trying it out. So do it! Read and pray, and see for yourself.

Have a great week!

Happy pi day

It has been a fast week! I honestly don't know where the time went! But here we are again at another Monday. Some really good things happened this past week, so let's get right into it!

We had exchanges with the Elders in Malmö this week and I got to be in Malmö this time. It was really fun and it was also good to be able to see more of Malmö and feel the big city feels again. We did a lot of good work and were able to teach a lesson to someone with a baptismal date there. And we also contacted someone and they said they were interested, and it turned out they were actually living in Landskrona (the city I live in) and visiting Malmö for the day. It was pretty that I went there but ended up finding people for my own area!

We also were able to help set up for and them attend a funeral here in the ward. It was of the old stake patriarch and was a really good service. It was sad in a way, but I am grateful for the peace that comes by knowing what is happening after this life.

We had a really sweet experience this last week, and it actually began the week before. We had received a referral from some sisters in Slovenia and hadn't been able to get in contact with her. But then this last Thursday we went and stopped by them and it was super cool! She was really positive and we will hopefully be teaching her more this week. Thanks to all those Slovenian missionaries out there!

It's been a good week, and I hope this next one is as well!

Elder Nelson


Also, we celebrated pi day the right way

Fettisdagen, pastries, and tons of asian food

It has been a week full of delicious food and honestly tons of really good things within the work. It was also a really rainy week, but luckily has become a sunny one today! Here's how the week went though.

We were finally let into the home of someone we knocked into a while ago, and their house was pretty amazing! It was built 1924, has some grounds and a gate, and the inside was beautiful! The man was really kind and we were able to teach him about the restoration. We hope to be going back soon!

On Tuesday it was fettisdagen, which is a Swedish holiday celebrated by eating a pastry called a semla. They were pretty amazing, and because of some surprise semlor at ward council, we actually ended up being given 2 of them that day! No complaints here!

It was very very windy and got pretty rainy last week, and while we were tracting in an area along the ocean, we went out on a dock and I was convinced I was going to get blown away! But the weather turned out to be for our benefit because a Swedish couple ended up inviting us in because of how windy and rainy it was. We were able to get to know then, and then share the message of the Restoration with them and invite them to keep learning more. The coolest part about it was that they had seen the Book of Mormon musical in Stockholm, and it turns out that they were they when I was serving in Stockholm and was able to give out copies of the Book of Mormon after the showings. It was a super neat coincidence.

Life is just great for us out here. I am loving it and really feel grateful for the chance I have to be here, to experience what I am experiencing, and to help those around me. It is amazing to be a missionary!


Elder Nelson

Training Week 1

It has been a busy week!

So on Tuesday I sent off Elder Ahonen to go up to Umeå where he was transferred and spent the rest of the day on a train up to Stockholm. It felt really good to be back in the first area where I was trained! It was also really fun to spend the night with the other trainers that were waiting to pick their new missionaries up. And before I knew it the next day had come and I had received my new companion! His name is Elder Merrell and he comes from Washington state. He is an awesome missionary! We came back home that night and arrived pretty late. It has been really fun to have a new companion!

Life with him has been really fun because I've made an exerted effort to try to experience all the amazing things here in Sweden. It has been way cool and we have done some good work. Life is exciting here for us!

It has been pretty amazing to see the help we've received from God in the last couple of days since training has started. We've received a lot of guidance and help with planning things as well as just having help with everything. We are blessed for sure!

Have a great week everyone!