Dear America,
This week was amazing. First things first: Elder Bednar came on Saturday. It was the best. The entire mission met together (a very rare occasion) in Kumasi to await his arrival. By the time he arrived, we were all standing on the hill outside the chapel, ready to take a picture. Then it was straight in for the conference. Elder Bednar is such a powerful servant of God and he's a such a neat person. He reminds me of Dad. A lot. It made me miss my father a little bit. It also helped me to be even more grateful for the great parents I have. He taught us a lot about the most basic doctrines in the gospel. We had plenty of time to ask questions and to answer his questions. All in all, I thouroughly enjoyed it. President Cosgrave also had the opportunity to get up and bear his testimony. He loves us a lot. You can tell every time you shake his hand. I love it. Then we all shook Elder Bednar's hand. There wasn't any personal time with him, so I never told him that I was Nikki Nelson's grandson or anything. I figured it wasn't worth disrupting the entire flow of things because I didn't know if he would even remember or not. The rest of the week since that meeting has been full of the Spirit.
One thing that I thought was cool was how much Elder Bednar really loves his work. He loves being an Apostle and representing Jesus Christ and traveling for insane amounts of time and never being home and talking with millions of people and standing behind a pulpit for most of his life and always being the center of attention and having an immediate overload of work in the spirit world as soon as he dies. OK he doesn't necessarily enjoy those parts, but there is nothing in the world that he would rather do. It made me never want to be an Apostle. It's a lot of..... just a lot.This week was amazing. First things first: Elder Bednar came on Saturday. It was the best. The entire mission met together (a very rare occasion) in Kumasi to await his arrival. By the time he arrived, we were all standing on the hill outside the chapel, ready to take a picture. Then it was straight in for the conference. Elder Bednar is such a powerful servant of God and he's a such a neat person. He reminds me of Dad. A lot. It made me miss my father a little bit. It also helped me to be even more grateful for the great parents I have. He taught us a lot about the most basic doctrines in the gospel. We had plenty of time to ask questions and to answer his questions. All in all, I thouroughly enjoyed it. President Cosgrave also had the opportunity to get up and bear his testimony. He loves us a lot. You can tell every time you shake his hand. I love it. Then we all shook Elder Bednar's hand. There wasn't any personal time with him, so I never told him that I was Nikki Nelson's grandson or anything. I figured it wasn't worth disrupting the entire flow of things because I didn't know if he would even remember or not. The rest of the week since that meeting has been full of the Spirit.
Love, Elder Nelson
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