Happy Easter!

Hello Family and Friends

This has been a crazy transfer indeed, after 5 great and hard working days we (my companion and I) received a very uncommon phone call from the Assistants to the President. We got word that we were getting transferred, once again, to the So. Ribble Ward, right on the boundaries of the Preston Ward! All though the area was within our district, I got to white wash again! It has been super fun and super crazy!

Yesterday we were able to bare our testimony during sacrament meeting and my companion and I had a funny prompting to bare it on the same thing as well as the topic of that particular Sunday! I had a quite specific prompting to share Ether ‪12:27. It was curious to me, but I shared it and remembered that it was my theme for the previous week. I love how our Heavenly Father works, he does it in such Miraculous ways!

Repentance. Repentance is such a huge and amazing topic. Some time ago I saw Repentance as a really bad thing. I used to think that it was such a negative action that I pushed it aside and told myself that I was better than that. BOY WAS I EVER SO WRONG! Repenting means a changing in ones self on a physical level, emotional, mental, and most importantly a Spiritual level. Just this past week I was able to pay extra close attention to the mistakes I have made and to ask for forgiveness from my Heavenly Father. He truly has helped me make "Weak things become strong". After applying the Atonement every hour of every day, I have been able to see the greater aspects of my life become strengthened. This is my challenge to all my friends and family back home and elsewhere, to accept the mistakes we make daily, stop, ask for help and forgiveness and "make weak things become strong".

Love,

Elder Nichols 

A Crazy Transfer indeed!

Hello Family and Friends

This has been a crazy transfer indeed, after 5 great and hard working days we (my companion and I) received a very uncommon phone call from the Assistants to the President. We got word that we were getting transferred, once again, to the So. Ribble Ward, right on the boundaries of the Preston Ward! All though the area was within our district, I got to white wash again! It has been super fun and super crazy!

Yesterday we were able to bare our testimony during sacrament meeting and my companion and I had a funny prompting to bare it on the same thing as well as the topic of that particular Sunday! I had a quite specific prompting to share Ether ‪12:27. It was curious to me, but I shared it and remembered that it was my theme for the previous week. I love how our Heavenly Father works, he does it in such Miraculous ways!

Repentance. Repentance is such a huge and amazing topic. Some time ago I saw Repentance as a really bad thing. I used to think that it was such a negative action that I pushed it aside and told myself that I was better than that. BOY WAS I EVER SO WRONG! Repenting means a changing in ones self on a physical level, emotional, mental, and most importantly a Spiritual level. Just this past week I was able to pay extra close attention to the mistakes I have made and to ask for forgiveness from my Heavenly Father. He truly has helped me make "Weak things become strong". After applying the Atonement every hour of every day, I have been able to see the greater aspects of my life become strengthened. This is my challenge to all my friends and family back home and elsewhere, to accept the mistakes we make daily, stop, ask for help and forgiveness and "make weak things become strong".

Mom and family: wow lots of great things are happening back home! Mom and her bike ride (Go Mom!) Derek and Kaitlyn probably moving. well I have some pics from this last week of the river Ribble and stuff so enjoy!

Preston!

Hiya Everyone!

Wow, what an interesting week this has been. Transfers have come and Preston is quite the place! Lots of historical events have happened. The River Ribble is one of those events. First baptisms in England happened there.

I don’t have much time so this will be quick. Just yesterday my new companion, Elder Weggersen, and I went finding in City Centre and were kind of in a slump of lazy finding so we recommended that we split up and take a side of the street and contact as many people as possible. After loads of unhappy people walked by I tried to stop this man with a bright yellow jacket by asking him where he got his jacket, he looked at me and looked confused. I asked again and he disregarded my question, but started talking about us "Mormons" we had a great chat for about an hour about different gospel topics. The moment and the miracle I would like to share is a very special moment and is an answer that this church is the one and only true church. In the middle of the conversation I pointed out that if he was feeling peace, love and comfort then he was feeling the spirit. I confirmed to him in the name of Christ that he has felt the Holy Ghost bear witness that everything I have said was true and that he could find out for himself if he had a desire to know. He did not speak for another 15 sec and was speechless. At that moment I knew that I had but a small part in his first step in conversion, but it was Heavenly Father that saw that moment fit for his life to one day change and become better. With this man, we have set up another appt. soon and hopefully he will want to have those same feelings and have more miracles happen in his life.

I know this email was short, but I do know that this church is true and that I have the honor and the privilege to preach to the people in Preston. I love you all so much and miss you as well. I know that all of us are were we are right now for a specific purpose and that we can know all things by asking God.

Love,

Elder Nichols