Namaste

This is my last email from my mission.Yes its about time for me to go home.

I am grateful that i served my mission.Its been the best decision of my life.

It's so amazing to see what i was and what i am right now.The Gospel of Jesus Christ is here to change our life in a good way.

I just wanna thank y'all for everything!!Each one you has helped me to grow spiritually and be strong on my mission, without you guys my mission would not have been great.

I love you all i will be in touch with you.I hope and pray that all of you will see many miracles from our Heavenly father.

I know this the church of Christ and i know that book of Mormon is true and fullness of the gospel has been restored by prophet Joesph Smith.Atonement of Jesus Christ is for everybody.He loves us all.

Thank you again! I will always remember you and pray for you.

God be with you till we meet again.

My contact info

nischal.shrestha010@gmail.com

Phone : 01-4424364

Kathmandu,Nepal

Much Love

ELder Shrestha

Namaste

I have less than 10 days left on my mission now.

And i am not looking forward for my plane ride back home.

Its gonna take me nearly 25 hrs to get back home.I still remembered when i came here for my mission and  after my long flight i felt like a zombie.

But anyway i am doing super well and today we went to a state fair and it was awesome.I will send you some pics week.

Oh i will tell you about my flight so i am flying from here to Chicago Wednesday sep 3rd evening and then from there i am catching a flight to Istanbul, Turkey and from there i will catch a flight to Kathmandu, Nepal.

I will reach home on 5th September at 6:45 in the morning.So my dear families and friends plz come and pick me up.

I am very excited to see my family after 2 yrs.Its gonna be the best.

I am so thankful to the Lord for the blessings he has given me on my mission.I am grateful for all the trial and tribulation that i went through.All those things were needed for me to be me what i am today.

I love you all and i will be in touch with you all after my mission.Have a great week.thanks you so much.

Much LOve 

Elder Shrestha

Two more weeks!!!!!!!

I am not really sure that i am saying that in excitement or in sadness.:(

But yep that's the truth.I am enjoying every bit of my time right now coz i don't have lot of time right now.

I think the only thing i am super happy about is, i don't have to spend my winter biking again.I biked both of my winter here in Minnesota and it was cold very cold. So good bye winter of Minnesota.

We had a super good week this week and yesterday was the best Sunday for me coz i got the special permission to go mission president fireside and meet with some Nepali people.They came and were super happy to see me.They wanted me to come to there house and meet with them before i go home.I wish i was able to do that.They are very dear to me and most wonderful people i have meet on my mission.I am going to miss them dearly.

I just also got a call from a member from  our ward.He is kinda less active but he loves meeting with us and he think i am the most crazy brown kid he have ever met.He calls and says" i made a painting for you".I bet he made some crazy painting for me.I'm super excited to see it.

And i thought oh how much i love all the people in my mission.They are so kind and loving.And i am so thankful for our heavenly father that he has given this time and opportunity for me to serve him.I am thankful that i could so many wonderful people in my mission.I love my mission and i'm blessed to be part of Lord's work.I am also thankful for y'all.Y'all had my mission the best experience in my life.I have so much love and respect for all of you.Thank you so much.

Much LOve 

Elder Shrestha

Dear family and Friends

How grateful i am for all of you.I am so astonished by your emails and your love.Thank you so much for all you do.

I think i have 3 more weeks to go.My heart is pounding fast as the days are going so fast.I am also excited to meet with my family.

I am still staying strong on my mission and doing the Lord's work.Its been a greatest joy of my life to serve my mission.I will recommend to go on mission to all the youth.

Lately i have pondered a lot about what could i have done better? Did i serve the lord with my full heart? and as i think of all these things i thought about a missionary i was with for an exchange right before he was going home.I asked him whats been the best thing about your mission and he said " the best thing is to know that God is happy with you". and that's stood out to me.

I hope and pray that God is happy with me and for all the things i have done to bring his children to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.I have my ups and down in my mission but i am grateful for those ups and down. I am grateful that God gave me trials and helped me grow and learn many things.I see Lord's hand on every part of our life and he loves all.

I love you all and thankful for your support and love.You guys are the best part of my mission.All of you have helped me a lot.Thanks. I am eternally grateful to you.God Bless you.

Much love

Elder Shrestha 

 

Pics We went to temple .

Hello and Namaste

How are you??God bless y'all.

My love for my mission has grown so much in these last days of my mission.I am thankful for every moment that i can be a missionary.

Yesterday was my last fast and testimony meeting and i bore my testimony.The reason i wanted to bear my testimony so bad was a boy name Paul who is 12 yrs old bore his testimony and said "I was thinking how can i be a good missionary without being called as an missionary or have a calling related to missionary work.I came to a conclusion that i don't need to be called as a missionary to be a good missionary ,i can always be a good missionary by being the example that Heavenly father wants me to be." And i was so touched by the things he said.I felt that was the thing that i needed to hear at that time.So as i bore my testimony i said "Paul i wanted to let you know that you are right." I also said " it is very true that we don't need a missionary Tag or have calling as ward missionaries to share the gospel.We can be the example to everybody and share the gospel by our example. I told him he is going to a Great Missionary.

I am always amazed by the faith of the saints here in Minnesota.They have helped me a lot to grow in the gospel of Jesus Christ.

I am thankful for the gospel.I am thankful for our savior love for all of us.He love us  and he is there for us. I know that for sure.

Thank you for your love and kindness.You guys have really shown me the example of what does gospel can do for all of us.You guys live the Gospel.

Thank you for everything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOve 

Elder Nischal Shrestha

P.s:some picture from the place where we go and do service every Wednesday.

Hello and Namaste to Everybody

Its a great day to go swimming here but we cant go swimming.

I hope y'all had a great week. Life is exciting and filled with things that amazes you all the time.My weeks are always like that.We think and plan do so many things in a week but some day we end up doing way different things than our plans. Missionary work is like that most of the time you end up doing things that were not planned by us but planned by God.

This week was a great week of service for us , we did a lot of service and i can still see the marks of service in my hands.

This last week i came to know that i can paint. When ever i took a colors and brush to paint i always thought i can never be a painter but this last week we went and did service and our service to paint a room.And we did pretty good job.I loved painting that room and than i thought even though i cant paint painting i guess i can paint walls.I was truly grateful that God let me knew that i can still paint.My hands still have tiny dot of paint on it and every time i see it i say to myself "I can Paint"!!!!!!!!!!!

I am grateful for these opportunities that God has provided us.There is no greater joy than joy you have when you are in service of your neighbor.

I hope and pray that y'all also have opportunity to serve others.I pray for you and remember you.I hope you have a great week ahead.

Lots Of LOve 

ELder Shrestha

p.s here are some pic when we went for mountain biking!!!!

 Dear family and Friends and Brothers and Sisters

How are u?? I hope and pray that y'all have a great time.
So this is the beginning of my last transfer on my mission and it last for 6 weeks. Oh my goodness i cant believe its happening.
I am still in my area right now and i am still with my companion.So Maple Grove is gonna be the area where i will end my mission.
As i am coming close to the end i have been pondering lots of things that i have learned in my mission.I am reflecting upon the tender mercies that Heavenly father has show us and i can see and feel that i have been tremendously blessed in my mission.Most importantly it has changed me in a good way.I will always remember these things for the rest of my life.
Our work in this area been good. Its been super tough to find people to teach in this area.Everybody here in super Lutheran or Catholic.But we are working hard everyday to find somebody.We do have our ups and down but its ok coz its the way it suppose to be.These ups and down has given us so many experiences that we can apply for the rest of our life.
So we had super fun this week. We were at a place dropping by our investigator to see if they are home and they were not.So as we were going out we saw these African kids playing basket ball so we thought hmmmm lets go play some ball with them. So we went to them and said y'all wanna play a game with us?? and they looked at us probably thinking 2 guys in white shirt and black pants wants to play basket ball with us.They must also thought that they will beat us in a min.
So we played a game with them and we destroyed them. hahaha it was so funny.It was a good game. Those kids can play super good.
The Gospel is true and whosoever will live the gospel it is gonna be a great blessings in there life.I have seen that blessing in many peoples life in my mission.Atonement of Jesus Christ is real and its for us.We can be healed through our savior.I love you all and i am eternally grateful for your kindness and love.It means a lot to me.You guys are my family and have been great example to me. Thank u.
Much love
Elder Shrestha

Hello and Namaste 

How are you???I hope everything is going good, great and awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

​You probably are thinking what in the earth he is doing????????

So last Friday we got free dinner at Chick fill A because we dressed like a cow.It was cow appreciation day.So the member we were staying did it first and we asked them how did it go and they said it was awesome there are so many people dressed up like cow for free dinner.So they told us that we can use the costume they have and get a free dinner. We said sure and dressed up like that and got free meal at Chick fill A.It was the funniest thing i have done in my mission.That was the highlight of my week.

We also had a parade in our area that we went to. It was great. I liked it. There were so many people for that.SO went there and we tried to talk with couple of people and some thought we are Jehovah Witnesses.We talked with good number of people there.Our work is also going so great here.We are doing service almost everyday.

Saturday we went to help some investigator pull some weed from her yard and she had huge yard.She feed us breakfast and lunch. She was really kind lady.She also had tenant from India and we were able to talk with him. I was able to talk Hindi with him and he was happy so he gave us bunch of snacks from India. It was great.We also invited him to church and he came to church.We also met another family from India and again i spake in Hindi with them too and he was super happy and invited us for dinner.

I was super happy that i could speak Hindi with so many people. 

Life is still super good in mission and i am trying to stay focused in my work.There is so much to do still but time is going fast.

I love y'all and keep up the good work. Y'all are awesome.Love ya

Elder Shrestha

Hey

How is everybody??? Hope y'all are doing great.

We are doing great too. I forget to tell you in my last email HAPPY 4TH OF JULY.It was a great day for all of us coz that day was our p-day. So our day started with doing some awesome service for a less active sister in the ward.

So her basement got flooded and we had tear down all her walls and everything from that basement.So it was so awesome destroying somebody's house and have fun while destroying it.I was also able to punch a hole in the wall.It was great.

So we found out there is a Hindu temple in Maple Grove so we went and tour that temple too. We are a big temple. So i was kinda of tour guide to other missionaries and telling them whats going on there.

So on 4th i wanted see the firework but i couldn't coz we have be inside our house by 9:30 and and firework didnt start till 10:00. So we are living with a member family right now and there son who is back home for summer from school went down to Wisconsin and bought some firework so he can show me nxt day. And that was awesome to see. 

Everything else is going great. The fear of time going fast is still there.

But other than that Maple Grove is a nice place to be. We have so many service opportunity in this place and we are always super happy to serve here.

It remind of scripture from Mosiah 2:17 "And behold, I tell you these things that ye may learn wisdom; that ye may learn that when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God."

And service does bring that joy in our life.

I love u all and thank you for all u do. God bless u all.

Love

Elder Shrestha

Hello and Namaste

How is everybody?I hope everything is going great.

WE are doing great in Minnesota.I think the rain here in Minnesota is breaking record from 1879 or something. Its all rain here.

But ya everything else is going great.Our Beloved President and Sister Clements is gone now and we have a new mission president.

They are President and Sister Forbes.We had a conference call with him yesterday and it was great.

We all are super excited to meet with him.We will be able to meet with him on Wednesday so we are looking forward to that.

President and Sister Clements made me think of how important it is for us to have mighty leaders.And it reminded me of scripture in Jarom 1:7

"And it came to pass that they came many times against us, the Nephites, to battle. But our kings and our leaders were mighty men in the faith of the Lord; and they taught the people the ways of the Lord; wherefore, we withstood the Lamanites and swept them away out of our lands, and began to fortify our cities, or whatsoever place of our inheritance."

They really were mighty leaders who taught us the ways of the Lord.We will miss them dearly.

My mission is still going fast and i am still staying strong and doing my best. Missionary work is the best work ever.

Thank you so much for you encouragement and your letter and emails.

I love u all.

LOve Elder Shrestha 

Hello and Namaste to everybody

I hope everybody is doing super awesome.Thank u for y'all emails and letter , it always makes me happy to see them.

So this is a very sad week for all the missionaries here in Minnesota Minneapolis Mission. Our Mission President is leaving for his home next week.

He has served for 3 yrs now and he will be going  back. We are having a new Mission President. He is coming here on July 1st , i think his name is President Frobes from CO.

It gonna be a big great change for all of us.Our whole mission is doing super awesome right now.Everybody is working in super missionary mode right now and we are having lots of success in our mission.

I am loving this area right now. Its been a great change for me here in this area.I am constantly learning everyday.
We were able to get one of our investigator to church yesterday.At first she said no but we were persistence on getting her to and after couple of no's she finally agreed to come to church and she did come to church and she loved it and she said she will come again.That showed me the importance of being persistence.I have seen many miracles from being persistence and i know that this principle will help me rest of my life.

I love President Clements and he always reminded me of this scripture from Jarom 1:7"And it came to pass that they came many times against us, the Nephites, to battle. But our kings and our leaders were mighty men in the faith of the Lord; and they taught the people the ways of the Lord; wherefore, we withstood the Lamanites and swept them away out of our lands, and began to fortify our cities, or whatsoever place of our inheritance."

I love him dearly and he will be missed.

I love y'all to thanks for being such an great example to me.

LOve Elder Shrestha

Dear family and friends

Hello and Namaste!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hope everybody is doing awesome and fantastic.

Well i am having a great time in my new area too.

So little bit about my new area. Its is absolutely different than my last area. Last time i was in heart of Minneapolis and there was so many things going on always and crazy things happening all around and it was ghetto.But i loved that place. Now i got transfer to this place called Maple Grove and it is straight suburb. This place is rich and big.There is big houses every where and no apartments.I kinda felt out of place for couple of days.But ya now i am adjusting and we have a car in this area so no more biking:(.I loved biking in my last area so hopefully we will be able to bike someday.

I am in process of learning the area , names and ward right now. Every time i go to mew area i feel like the name gets harder and harder.Learning how to say the names is a tough thing.Sp people here thought my name is too hard to say so they compared my name with a soda drink called Shasta. So they call me Shasta here.

I hope y'all have a nice and awesome day.Missionary work is the best work to do.I love u and thank u so much.

LOve 

Elder Shrestha

Hiiii and Namaste

So today is our transfer day and guess what....i got transferred.

So i am getting transferred to place called Maple Grove.Looks like its very very suburb. Hmmm its gonna be very  interesting for me to go from twin cities to suburb.So ya i had great time in this area and was able to learn so many things here.I will always cherish the things i have learned in my mission.

With this transfer getting over i only have 2 more transfer left in my mission.

Its going fast.Faster then i thought right now.

So today morning we were playing basketball and one of the elder who played football in high school nailed me to the ground.My left hand is hurt at wrist and i am typing with my right hand only right now.I don't think i broke it but it hurts pretty bad ,so its all wrapped in bandage.So i hope everything goes well.

Missionary work is going awesome  ,we are preparing a family to get baptize this month and couple of other people.I am sad that i will not be here for that.But i know Lord has better place for me to be at this time.I will send some pictures with my companion.I love u all and thanks for everything.

Love Elder Shrestha

Hello and Namaste to everybody

How is everybody?I hope and pray that everything is well with u guys!!

We are also having a great time here.It is always an excitement when u are a missionary.We have blessed with baptism of the sister we taught this week.

We were also filled with great joy this week by our baptism of sister Good Buffalo.Our baptism went great!!!!!!!!! We felt the spirit.She will be awesome member missionary.She is already inviting her family members to come to church.She will be great blessing to this ward and great example for all the Native members.

I will send you some pictures from baptism. I got a summer haircut this time so i may look very different in my pics.

It is our great privilege to work at this area right now.Heavenly father has always people prepared for us on all the things we do.I was reading Preach my gospel this week at Christ like attributes, i really felt the spirit and i pondered about what does it mean to have "pure love of Christ"?It does have a greater meaning in it.I felt like i can love anybody but to have pure love of Christ is different than just loving them.And that will be my goal for rest of my life to be able to have pure love of Christ for everyone.

I hope and pray that y'all will have increased charity for everybody and that u will be able to bless many peoples life.

I love u all and for everything you do.Thank u for your love.

Elder Nischal Shrestha