Alright I think I am missing the point as well. I was under the impression that if I couldn’t have my nameservers here at Netlify I couldn’t have a certificate provisioned by Let’s Encrypt. I added the A record and www record that was mentioned in this article
I see this after doing so
It says “We’re ready to provision a TLS certificate from Let’s Encrypt and install it on our CDN.”
Then I get this:
I’ll wait the 24 hours suggested in the guide.
Sorry for misunderstanding, web dev is new to me and I am learning.