I made it through a week! I wasn't sure if I was going to or not.  It's true when my companions say that weeks feel like days and days feel like weeks.  The week has flown by! 

Hmm...so....I think that my visa is on it's way!  Happy happy day!  I actually have an awesome story to share with that one :)


So....Thursday.  We had to go to transfers because I was new, and they do the new orientation film/training then as well.  I am so glad that I still have Sis Kimball and Blackham here with me.  So one of the members had to drive us to the meeting because it is out of our area.  Well, the Sisters devised a plan to have Sister Robinson, from the ward, take us.  Guess where Sister Robinson is from?!  Well, you probably didn't guess it, because she is from Ireland, but she lived in London for a time, and her husband is from London.   So she told me all the places I needed to visit, and what it was like.  It was so great actually!  I got totally pumped.  then we went into the training and that was good, but I was reminded over and over again how this wasn't my mission, so that was a little hard.  Then people are always asking me. . .

Anywho...so later that night, when I was getting ready for bed (reds for beds >.<) the thought hit me that maybe I should fast for it.  Well, then (of course)  all these other thoughts came into my head about how I didn't really need to, and that we were eating lunch with a member the next day, so that might be weird.  I kept thinking about it, and, I know this is bad of me, but I didn't decided to really fast until the next morning.  So, I started fasting that I would be able to get my Visa, beacuse like Uncle Steve said....God doesn't have Visa problems. 

So...later that night, I called Sister Niu (new) who works in the mission office, and guess what?!  She had just gotten an email that day about my visa and how it is on it's way to Colombus Ohio, and as soon as it gets here they will be making plans for me to leave!  I was so super excited!!!  Fasting works.  If I could tell all my stories about fasting, you'd be surprised, especially with the attitude that I had about it, but I do have a strong Testimony of answers to prayers and fasting.

We met this awesome family the other night.  We had the entire family standing at the doorway and they talked to us for like, thirty minutes.  They were really great, a very strong Catholic family.  But by the end of our talking the mom asked if she could have a Book of Mormon.  It's awesome too, because the reason I think they even talked to us was because their son, who was also there, was a friend of a mormon at school.  We have been stressing so much the last few days how important it is to recognize that members are missionaries!  Without them, we don't really have much of a job as missionaries.  So I would challenge (to whoever reads this) to remember that you are a missionary, that through your baptismal promises and covenants you told the Lord that you would be so!  :)  So remember, you have to stand as an example always!


Ok...I'm running out of time, but one last thing.  The Book of Mormon changes lives.  We have an investigator who is just starting to read the it.  It truly has changed my life, and I know that it brings us closer to God, which is closer to our dreams, closer to our happiness, closer to our families!  Simply closer to all those good things in life that we want and that bring us joy!


Life is great!  God is great! And I shall continue, like Alma, to rejoice in Him!  I love you all so much and I appreciate all that you have done and do for me daily!!!

Love, Sister Nelson

Ok...Wow. Well...Hello Everyone! here I am in Ohio with two of the best Sisters in the mission field. They have been so patient and loving towards me and I am so grateful for the tender mercies of the Lord. They truly are great! It's amazing how much I missed every day of my life before, because He really is everywhere and I am so grateful to be a little bit more in tune with it now!

So! I am in Ohio! Who knew I'd ever come to Ohio :) I am in an area called Powell, and it's do different from Utah. Number one, it's way green here, which I love! Number two, there is like...one church within a 30 mile radius, instead of 12. It really was crazy when I found out yesterday that there was only one church in our area...and ours is a smaller area for only one church.

My companions are amazing. Sister Blackham and Sister Kimball. They really have been patient with me, and were amazing to let me sleep when I got off the plane. I was so exhausted, so it was good to get an extra couple hours of sleep.

Obviously the flight went well, and I met this awesome returned missionary who sent a picture to mom. He even offered to let me use is phone to call home again after our first flight. I told him that I probably shouldn't, and it would just be harder the second time...plus...we literally got off our one flight and walked to the second one and just made it in time. It was good, and he said he'd call mom later, just to tell her that I was fine, and to get my information so that he could send me a letter while I was out. It was good to see a "familiar" face....because really...I was living in the ultimate mormon bubble, and so...it was just different being out into the world :)


Hmm...We have two investigators...both of which I helped find! It is awesome! This one guy that we are teaching is so ready for the gospel and is searching for the truth! It really was so great to just talk to him and learn more about him. I feel like my capacity to love others is growing so much as well. It's weird to simply just love people without really knowing them.

The ward is awesome, and it seems like everyone I've met has ties in Idaho and Utah...so that's been kinda cool. They have all been really nice to me, which is good. I also got to attend a baptism on my first day! Who knew?! haha, but it was just a member of the wards son, but it was great. It was the Knight family, and they really are so awesome!


Things have been really good, and I am really glad to be here. I am still excited to go to England, but I'll get there when the Lord wants me there! I just have to continue to learn and try to be a great missionary. One step at a time! My companions have really helped me out so much as well, so that's been great...because I still have so much to learn about everything!

So...we went to the zoo today! That was great! I guess Colombus has the biggest zoo in the nation, so it's kinda cool that I can say I've been now...


Well, here is my address here in Ohio, for anyone that wants to write. I don't know how long I'll be here, but if I don't get it here then they should forward it to me in England, when I get there.

Sister Kaitlyn Nelson
3366 Bear Pointe Circle
Powell, OH 43065

I love you all! Keep me in your prayers!

Love, Sister Nelson

P.S. Anne and Steve. I finally got my answer! I CAN have both!!!! Thanks for all the love, patience and listening ear! You're great!

Hi Again! Guess what?! I have been out for a month! Where has the time gone?! I am still at the Provo MTC, but should be getting my temporary assignment "call" tomorrow, so I might be able to call home, which I love! It will be great wherever I go :) Life has been good. I have moved into my third district, and I absolutely love the sisters! I have, kinda, three new companions. Sister Barton, Sister Anderson and Sister Barber. They are all such great sisters and I love them already and have only been with them for a day! I think we just all get along...we all just kind of clicked, and that's why it's been good. Sister Barton is so awesome! She's been my roommate at night, because I have a residence all to myself, but I can't sleep in the room alone, so I have to have someone in the room, and she is so awesome! It's been great to have her there. And then technically Sister Anderson, who went to BYU-Idaho!!!!!, and Sister Barber are my companions. Sister Barber is awesome! She is actually from Ireland, and she had to wait in the London South Mission while her visa was coming through, so she started on the mission, was there for two months, almost three, and now she is learning how to teach. It's been such a blessing to have her, and I love her to pieces! The Lord really does give us so many tender mercies, sometimes they hit us in the face and sometimes we have to look, but they are definately there! Hmm...Elder Ballard came on Sunday, that was really cool! But, for anyone that has ever served a mission, and can relate, time flies here and the days all run together, so I'll be honest, I can't remember exactly what he talked about, but it was good, and I did take notes, and I know that I was spiritually uplifted :) I'm trying to think what else. OH! The other night my residence mates didn't end up going to bed till 12 am, because two of the sisters were leaving, and I didn't sleep very well through them talking, then the fire alarm went off at 1:30. We got back in around 2, and then the one Sister was leaving at 4, so we got up with her, then we got up around 6. It wasn't the best night for a full nights sleep, but I didn't fall asleep in class or anything, so I guess I'm ok! The fire alarm thing was really funny actually, there was just a malfunction in one of the alarms, but you can't and could never sleep through those things! Life has been great, and I am still learning and growing a lot! Don't worry tho...I try to give people a hard time at every chance I get ;) So I'm still me! haha. I love you all, and hope that all is well! Love, Sister Nelson

Happy Day! Hola everyone! How is the going? I hope well, and I hope that Easter was amazing for everyone! It's been good to hear from you (you know who you are) and really uplifting to me. Your letters give me power and strength that is sometimes hard to find from anyone but those that know and love you! So...Easter was Great! President Boyd K. Packer came to speak to us. He is such a great man! Well, they all are, but he spoke about a power that we have when we are missionaries, and one thing that he said that really really struck me was that fear and concern are different things, and we need to replace our fear with faith. I don't know, it hit me hard just because I had been kind of worrying about it...and I know I shouldn't have been, but I'm a worrier. Then that night, before anyone left in our district, the Elders gave us priesthood blessings, and Elder Swain (who was the one I asked to give me a blessing) promised me that I didn't need to be afraid! It was so amazing to see how the Lord really does listen, because I hadn't been praying about it or anything, but he is so aware of silly little me! Which means that he is aware of you too! Hmm...Easter wasn't that different from the other Sunday's here, other than that, and we all had Sacrament Meeting together, which was cool. It was also fast and testimony meeting, which we met with our zone group (a group of about 30 people or so) and did that. It was awesome to hear testimonies of other awesome missionaries who I admire and look up to. Speaking of which....there are two Elders from Sweden, not sure where, but Pat served there and I told the one his name (Elder Davis) and he said it sounded super familiar. I am probably going to slaughter his name, but it's Kariaa. It would be really cool if he knew him. Brynne Burwell is also here (one of my great friends) and I haven't seen her yet, but I know where her room is and know that she has checked in...so yes...I'm totally being stalkerish and I'm going to go and find her tonight :) But other than that....life has been good. Another sister came yesterday, Sister Barber, and guess what!? She just literally came from serving in my mission. It was great to talk to her a little bit about it. Then I ran into another sister who is from England, and she told me that the peole are sarcastic and blunt...so hopefully I won't get scared away :) Well, sorry this is another short letter, but it's been a good week, and I'm getting excited to go to England! I pray for you all and hope that all is well! Love, Sister Nelson

I forgot....HAPPY EASTER ON SUNDAY!!!!!!! Love you all!

HOLA FAMILY and FRIENDS!!!!
I love you all and miss you all. This week has been great! I feel like I'm learning and growing more, and just trying to learn as much as I can. I should be going out in the field...aka England...next week! Crazy, Right? Things have been good, I have learned so much about how you just need to love people and trust in the Lord, He really is behind all of us 200%, if we will let him. I kinda feel like I've been on a mission forever, even though it's only been two weeks, but it will be good to get out into the field. Thanks for the letters and notes! I'm excited to get stuff from the boys in the mail, and I hope to hear from you again this week. I hope that you were all able to go camping, and that you got to listen to conference, because it was awesome! It was good here, just sat in the gym all day :) So I had a dream about interior design last night, with people from my class and one of the Sisters here, Sister Yates, she was in my class and kept bossing me around. I also had a dream that I was at some ward activity, so you can tell the Bishop, Brother Gale and Brother Thorton that I miss them, because I'm having crazy dreams about church activities :) Lets see...what else?! Hmm...Lots of studying....Oh! We had an awesome devotional on Sunday, and Tuesday night, both of which I needed to hear really badly. Sunday it was Vai Sikahema and he spoke just about how we all have one person to touch on our mission, and if we do that we will not fail. It was a lot more in depth, but it was really awesome because he told a story of how him and his companion went into this sporting goods store and the clerk said he'd never seen two guys with the name of "Elders", and then they started teaching him, and what was even cooler is that....some thirty or so years later, His companion was here and so was the guy that they taught and converted. It was such a touching story, and he said something that really stood out to me, that if we help one person, we're really not helping just one person, but it effects so many people. Then the guy that got converted got up and told about how his daughters had gotten married in the temple, and now had children of their own, it was really awesome! Then we had Brother Wickman, who talked to us about sacrafice, and how most of us think that to sacrafice means to give something up...which it kinda does, but ultimately means that we're giving up something good, for something better. Both were really good and answered some prayers for me! If there is anything to get from what I'm saying it is that God does hear and answer prayers! I love it so so much! I'm excited to get to my mission, but it will be sad to see my district go. They are such awesome people, and I can't believe that the boys are 19 years old! They really are so strong, and I look up to them so so much. Again, I know this isn't long, but I'll keep in touch and let you know more next week (if I'm not traveling). Thanks for everything! Keep me in your prayers, because you're in mine! Love, Sister Nelson