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

Great Miracles!

Hello family and friends,

Great miracles have happened this week but as well I received some

surprising sad news. I have been called to serve in Preston for this

next transfer! It has been a extremely short 6 weeks in Stockport and

I will truly miss it. There are amazing members, amazing

investigators, less actives, part member families, and the list goes

on and on.. I have loved my time spent with Elder Lee and I will take

many of the lessons he has taught me with myself and use them with the

brilliant area of Preston! The best part about moving to Preston is

that I am again white washing there! My new companion and I are

starting from scratch. It will be another amazing experience, I know

it will be.

Like I have said before, many great miracles have happened starting

with exchanges with the Manchester Zone Leaders. On exchanges we had a

street display in the heart of Manchester and it was booming! Tons of

people and tons of return appointments! I felt like a wizard, but in

reality Manchester always gets a load of new investigators each day,

but it was a confidence booster that lifted both myself and my

companion to finding 8 new investigators this week alone! We met with

a young man here in Stockport and he has a baptismal date coming very

quickly, I am so excited for him! This past Friday we were coming home

late from the chapel but my companion had a prompting to talk with

this lady on the bus. She is amazing and we set up an appointment for

tonight! She is solid and I hope she gets baptised. Also on Saturday

we were contacting close to the church and started poaching one of the

bus stops and within 1 hour we had 3 new investigators from that stop!

It was crazy!

I remember a quote from my choir class that says "attitude is

everything, so make yours a good one". I know that after the exchange,

my attitude has changed and I have been doing the lords work more

effectively and more productively. I have to find those friends who

are truly needing the blessings of the gospel in their lives.

Love,

Elder Nichols

Twinkies

Hello family and friends!

During this past week I have been studying faith, hope, and charity.

In all the scriptures that include these three attributes I've noticed

that they all come in the same order "And faith, hope, charity, and

love, with an eye single to the glory of God, qualify him for the

work." (D&C 4:5). It's a commonly simple topic that is frequently

spoken of, but I was curious as to know why is it always in this

order. It is similar to a tree; a seed is planted (Faith). As that

seed/faith grows, hope for things to come or hoping for greater things

to grow is constantly there. The seed/faith grows into a small sprout

(this is the beginning of our hope process) as the seed/faith

continues to grow, roots will grow deeper and larger and the tree

trunk/hope will grow as well. What I believe is that as this tree

grows bigger and taller, the leaves and branches symbolize our love

for ourselves, but not in a prideful way, in such a way that we are

defining ourselves into what the Cultivator (or God) intends us to be.

Now comes the last part of it all, blossoms are the burning, physical

desire that builds into charity towards one another. These blossoms

turn into fruit and the fruit is then shared with whoever/whatever

decides to take it. Then from that fruit comes seeds. Now one seed has

grown into a tree and has produced many seeds that are able to be

planted. This is what I believe is the reason for the order of faith,

hope, charity and love.

On Saturday we had a culture night activity with the Stockport ward.

We had presentations from Africa, South Africa, Lithuania, Germany,

Brazil, and the blessed land of America. My companion and I held down the American presentation with talking about our differences in the

American English language compared to British English language,

American football, Kool-aid, and the thing that kept everyone involved

was twinkles. BRITISH PEOPLE LOVE TWINKIES!! It was so funny to see the reaction when we took out the twinkies, eyes grew larger and

everyone was super anxious to try some.

We had a miracle the other night. Elder Lee and I were on the bus

coming home just a little late, but as we were coming up to the stop

we needed so we could take another bus home, Elder Lee told me that we should get off the bus a stop early just because, so I just kinda blew

it off and followed. As we were walking we started talking with this

22 yr old boy named Tom. Tom has had some traumatic times so we shared with him the Plan of Salvation. The Holy Ghost was there and I

shared an experience and found myself in tears because the whole

conversation touched my heart. I feel a little bit bad for the

unbelief I had for getting off the bus a stop early but I now know to

"never postpone a prompting".

Mom and family: it's been a great week! Stockport has a lot of

potential. Oh spencer... You had a birthday shout hurray, to want to

sing to you today. One year wiser and older too...

Hhhhhaaaaaaappppppppyyyyy birthday tooooooo you! 18 wow that is

insane, it's been about 16 months since I was your age! Im a dinosaur

;) I am so proud of you for finishing your eagle! I expect pics! I

love you all, I am doing really well. Haha dad, I've said it once and

I will say it again... I LOVE curry and Indian food! I have been

craving it for the past 2 weeks and when I eat it I just cannot get

enough. Mom, I now enjoy a good lasagna! And yes, sushi is amazing

haha but the food I just cannot eat are tomatoes... Bleh! Anyway, I

LOVE MY FAMILY!!!

Love,

Elder Nichols