Hello family and friends,

It's so good to hear from all of you. I miss you, I love you and I

pray for each of you daily!

Not much has happened this week, but we did go to a wedding of a

members who there were many many non-members there! One of the

speeches was 45 min and they quoted the Proclamation To The World and

quoted many General Authorities. It was a drag for everyone but us

missionaries who thought it was amazing for non-members ;)

We have been working hard and diligently here in Hyde and love the

members so much! The area is starting to really progress in missionary

work.

It is getting quite chilly and I'm not ready for cold and wet... But

it will be another Humbling experience :) I love the green and the

orange and the yellow on the trees!! I have a picture from today.

Mom and Fam: all sounds well! Thank you for your birthday greetings

and send my regards to bishop and brother Byers as well as Dave Schram

and the Stevensons. You all sound like good things are coming your

ways and have already come :) I love you all so much!!

Love,

Elder Nichols

Hello family and friends,

It's so good to hear from all of you. I miss you, I love you and I

pray for each of you daily!

Not much has happened this week, but we did go to a wedding of a

members who there were many many non-members there! One of the

speeches was 45 min and they quoted the Proclamation To The World and

quoted many General Authorities. It was a drag for everyone but us

missionaries who thought it was amazing for non-members ;)

We have been working hard and diligently here in Hyde and love the

members so much! The area is starting to really progress in missionary

work.

It is getting quite chilly and I'm not ready for cold and wet... But

it will be another Humbling experience :) I love the green and the

orange and the yellow on the trees!! I have a picture from today.

Mom and Fam: all sounds well! Thank you for your birthday greetings

and send my regards to bishop and brother Byers as well as Dave Schram

and the Stevensons. You all sound like good things are coming your

ways and have already come :) I love you all so much!!

Love,

Elder Nichols

Family & Friends!

Dear Family & Friends,

I am well, I love this area here in Hyde and I love my companion!

Yesterday we went knocking on doors, it's sad cause the sun goes down

at 6ish, but we were in such giddy moods that everyone we talked to

smiled as they slammed the door on us! It was great! We had loads of

fun. We had old ladies yelling at us from down the road asking why in

the world we were out knocking so late! The last person we spoke to

told us to come back another day and have a chat with him. He seemed

pretty interested so it will be interesting!

We just got a ward mission leader in the ward and since then the ward

has been booming with success!! Absolutely incredible! The other

missionaries in the ward have a baptism on the 21st so it's pretty

exciting!

It's been crazy to finally realise that I am so far away from Utah, it

finally hit me that I am away haha. I love England and cannot wait to

help the people find the same peace and joy that we have all felt! I

hope the Fruit Heights 7 ward grows and just keeps becoming better and

better. It is such a blessing to have a ward that size and members

that dedicated, and testimonies that strong, with a chapel that close

cause people everywhere else is nothing like it! Hyde only has about

50-60 active members. They are all incredible!

Mum and Fam: thank you Mum for your nice and excellent email! I loved

it so much! Thank you for all of your love and support :) I will be

looking out for my "birthday box". The Elections sound like a party!

Not a lot of English people like me because of the elections!! It's

strange cause I'm not even a part really! I loved everyone's email!

Dad, thank you for yours, those tips will really help and strengthen

me! Derek, it's only a 10 month wait, hang in there ;) Kaitlyn, keep

busy cause rest is the privilege and outcome of hard and diligent

work. Mom, I am glad that phone call put you in a good mood. Spencer!

Promotion! Need I say more! And Brycie... Get those merit badges and

do better than all of us older brothers combined ;) oh and congrats

dad in your new calling! It seems like you fit the part and I'm sure

you will be so great!!

Love,

Elder Nichols

Still in Hyde

Dear Everyone,

I feel old...I can recall the first district I had at the start of the

mission and most of the Elders saying ,"oh I've been out for 13 months

and I've" and,"been out for 21 months" and, " I've hit my year

mark"... Then there was me just over a week and two days old in the

mission! Now it's been 13 months and I am now seeing all my friends I

saw at the beginning are going home. In 2 months all the missionaries

from my first district will be home except for me!! Have no fear, I am

no trunkie monkey.

This week has been insane with loads of finding in the blessed land of

Hyde. We had a lot of our previous investigators drop us and all the

members have been and are out of town so it's been talking and talking

and talking some more to complete strangers that I call my "loved

brothers and sisters".

General Conference was astonishing and was the greatest one yet!!

Elder Uchdorf fired the shots off with his powerful talk in the

Saturday morning session. I loved all of the talks including the many

that focused on the Restoration and the Plan of Salvation. The two

subjects inspire and confirm to me that God lives and his Sonounts of pain his

whole life all the way up until the end of his earthly life.

I have noticed that everything we do on earth is symbolic of what we

will do in the Celestial kingdom as well as everything we do in the

mission field prepares us for our actual earth life. It's like a life

within a life within a life that lasts forever! I call it...

"LIFE-CEPTION". For example: missionary work! We do it during a

mission, and after a mission, and after our earth life... FOREVER!!

Another example: if we do not steal as a child, we will not steal as

an elder/sister or as a parent, then we will not steal in the heavens.

Think and apply to all different scenarios and use your Gospel

imagination ;)

Mom and Fam: doesn't sound like much is new, just settling down for

winter. October looks beautiful from the view from conference! If at

all possible I'd love a family photo... Just something simple but

something I can see all of you at the stage of your life you are now

in. :) is there an update on politics, news or sports or something

that might be interesting? People always ask me if I will vote for the

president and they try to bash me and the church with saying both

candidates are idiots and God wouldn't allow America to sink like it

will when the president gets elected. Anyway, life is good and the

mission is excellent!

Love,

Elder Nichols