Hello everyone!

This week has been another week of illness. First my companion, then he left, and now I've got it. Hopefully my new companion will survive without catching it! It's meant alot of thinking and reflection for me, on the Mission and other things. Something that keeps coming back to me, again and again, is about listening. Really listening to what other people say, and taking it in. Often Missionaries know what they have, and are so eager to share it with others, that they are not very quick to listen. The problem is, if you're not receiving anything, if you have no income, pretty quickly you're going to run out of things to give. If I have £5 in my bank, but do not get an income, and I give 50p to everyone I see, then very quickly I'll have nothing to give. It's only through receiving that we can give, and the magic of the Gospel means it's only by giving that we can receive. A commitment I'm giving to myself, the Missionaries in my District and to you, is to really take the time and listen to everything that people say, really listen. Take it in. Then speak. I promise that it will make things alot more easier, and we'll all be more effective in trying to help others, and get things done.

I have to go, I really do love each one of you, hope to hear from you!

Anziano Nelson