Sab qaum teb Highlands

Happy Easter Week, everyone!

I will explain the subject line. Don't you worry.

Good things happened this week. We are working hard and the work is definitely progressing! I am glad I am serving here in North Highlands. It is an awesome place, and it is where I am supposed to be at this point in my mission.

We finally got our bikes this past week, so we aren't walking anymore. We have been able to get around a lot quicker now, so it has been great!

We found a new person to teach this past week, and she is awesome! Her name is Rachel. We met her when we were trying to visit some of our investigators. Elder Inman and I don't know them very well so we wanted to get to know them more. While we were there on the porch Rachel came out and started talking to us. She talked about some of the things that have happened in her life and explained that she wants to start going back to church. She said she was planning on coming to our Church on Sunday, so we offered to give her a tour of the church before she came. She accepted and we gave her the tour on Saturday night. She came on Sunday with her two young boys and she seemed to enjoy it. Unfortunately, her boys got a little rowdy so she took off early. We visited with her yesterday and she said it was nice. We are meeting with her again tonight in a members home, so I hope things continue to go well!

I also wanted to explain something cool about our area. There are a lot of Hmong people who don't speak any English in our area. We have one Hmong Elder down in this part of our mission, and luckily he's in our zone! He has been teaching us a little bit of Hmong so we can train talk to some of the people that don't speak any English. I've picked up on a little bit of it, but it is pretty difficult! The pronunciation of the words is very technical, and there are differences in pronunciations for different words that I don't even hear yet. It is fun though! We kind of stumbled our way through street contacting a Hmong person the other day, and they accepted a Book of Mormon! Definitely a cool experience. That explains the subject line - it means "North Highlands" in Hmong.

I am super pumped for general conference this week. I always look forward to hearing the talks from certain apostles (Christofferson, Bednar, Holland), and then there are always awesome talks from members of the Seventy. We are probably going to watch a few of the sessions in our stake center, which is huge! It has two chapels in one building. Going to be pretty sweet. The church really should rent a movie theater for general conference and sell popcorn, but only on the Saturday sessions. That would be super cool.

I love you all. I hope you have a great week!

Elder Nielsen