Wow, this week was a week of miracles!! I am so excited! I will start at the beginning. This past week we had 4 baptisms! Fatima, Gisele, Rita, and Jasmine were all baptized! It was an amazingly spiritual! With the help of our members, we had something called "Minha oferta á Cristo" It is were you need to fulfill all the goals of the mission, it was awesome. We had an extremely succesful week! Arthur wasnt baptized, because he is only 8, and his mom is a member, so the bishop needs to do the interview, so we had plans with the bishop for him to be baptized on Saturday with Jasmine his sister, the only problem is Bishop wasnt there, he said that he forgot... So Arthur didnt want to be baptized Sunday either because he didnt want to be baptized alone.. So it was a little frustrating on our part. But we will see what happens with him. I hope that he will be baptized soon! Fatima, Gisele, and Rita were all baptized Sunday after church, and it was really amazing. All the members really love them, they are extremely elect!! They seriously love everything about the church and dont have any difficulities, or problems. Alot of members of the ward stayed and watched the baptism. So, I baptized first, and then Elder Garcia baptized Gisele, so as he was baptizing Gisele, he forget to spread his feet wide, so he slipped, and feel in the water too! So really he was baptized too!! After and he slipped his foot hit the ladder!! It was extremely funny, everyone was laughing really hard. So as he climbed out of the water, he looked at his foot, and he cut in on the ladder, and it was deep. So we had to go to the doctor and he got 3 stitches! It was extremely funny!!! So our week was really amazing. And Monday was worthless, because he said that he couldnt walk... I love Elder Garcia, but I must say that I am so glad that I am an Olsen, but people just dont know the meaning of pain.. He was crying Sunday night, and Monday he said he couldnt walk or work because of hit foot... it was only 3 stitches.. I tried explaining how much pain I have already seen my brothers, dad, uncles, myself and every Olsen deal with.. but he wouldnt hear it. So... Monday was the first day on my mission I didnt work. And wow it was terrible. I just read the scriputures; finally at like 4 I convinced him to at least walk a little, so he walked to an apartment were so members live and visited them.. but he wouldnt use a shoe, he kept his sandel on while we walked in the street, and he was walking with a gimpe like he broke his leg.. It was extremely embarrassing. I am so glad that I am an Olsen. Monday night we found out who was transfered and.. I stayed here! I will now stay here in Anhanguera for 6 months like Mikey just did in his area! I am way excited. I recieved a new companion, and I was called to be senior companion. I recieved Elder Araújo, this is his 2nd transfer, and he is way excited! So I am really excited to stay here and work another 6 weeks! I cant wait to get to work and stay here. It was funny yesterday 3 members called because they wanted to know if I stayed or not. So it is really awesome, everyone here in like family, and I am way excited to be here still. I am nervous about the teaching, because with Elder Garcia we both knew the lessons so well it was easy to bounce back and forth. I know that Elder Araújo wants to work really hard, so I will defintely help him and learn alot of portguês with him! I am excited to work here still! Mikey that is crazy that you are living in the same pad as 50 cent haha!!! I cant believe it! When you talk to ELder Carcasdi next say "ai cara, beleza" he will laugh alot! I cant believe he is in your zone that is way funny, I talked to his dad in the CTM, and he was a powerful man, so I am sure that his son is an exelent missionary too! Well everyone pray for me!! I really want to be the best senior companion i can be. I pray for you all every single day!!
Hurrah for Israel!
ELder Olsen #3
Falou!
Sunday, August 23, 2009
19 Aug 2009
Dear Family,
Well things here are amazing! I am loving it here in Anhanguera! I am really excited that I will stay here one more transfer! Things with Elder de Araújo are great! He is a good missionary. This is only his 2nd transfer, and I think that he trainer was a bit of a lazy missionary because he study ethic is pretty bad, but he is really ready to work hard and learn things. Being senior is a lot different then junior. Well with Elder Garcia we both have the same amount of time on the mission, so we worked really well together.. Well we tried to work our hardest. With Elder araujo it is so different. If something in the lesson isnt going right, or they have a question, he just looks to me.. So it is a responsibility alot bigger. I cant believe how fast time flies. Every single day goes by so fast! This month we have some amazing goals in the area here. We have alot of people that we are working with to be baptized this month! This Saturday Maria will be baptized. Next week we have alot of people to baptized too! So we are really excited here in Anhanguera.
Yesterday I had the opportunity to listen to Elder Ellis, he is an area 70 here in Brasil. He is from Burley, Idaho. He is really awesome. We have a meeting with him for like 4 hours yesterday and it was awesome.
Well this last week we had alot of success meeting new people. We meet a new family of 15 people!!! Wow, it was amazing. Ha, it was funny we were walking and it was pretty late and our appointed wasnt home, so we made some contacts and knocked doors, we knocked on one door and it was a lady, and she has 5 brothers, they all are married, her mom, and grandpa.. it was never ending of people. It was my first lesson with Elder araujo, and we had never had the opportunity to practice yet, so it wasnt really organized how I would have liked. but It was really good at the end the spirit was really strong. So wow, if we can help this family be baptized.. 15 baptisms.
Something really strange happened here. We meet this old couple and we were teaching them with Elder Garcia, well I went back there with Elder araujo and well the man Flavio past away.. it was a shock.. The wife is really sad, and doesnt even wanna talk to us right now. I just hope we can help her understand the plan of happiness.
I am so happy. I cant believe that I am a missionary. Sometimes it hits me harder than others. When I have the opportunity to look someone in the eyes, and invite them to be baptized. It is a feeling of peace that I have never had. When you can look someone in the eyes and say to them. I know this is the only true church on the face of the earth. It is a statement really bold, and the spirit is testifying with us missionaries, and we know that we are right. It is something amazing. 7 billion people on this planet and only 13 million are members of the only true church.. WOW!! We need alot of missionaries!! I love this work, and I love you all!
Keep me in your prayers!
Elder Olsen
Well things here are amazing! I am loving it here in Anhanguera! I am really excited that I will stay here one more transfer! Things with Elder de Araújo are great! He is a good missionary. This is only his 2nd transfer, and I think that he trainer was a bit of a lazy missionary because he study ethic is pretty bad, but he is really ready to work hard and learn things. Being senior is a lot different then junior. Well with Elder Garcia we both have the same amount of time on the mission, so we worked really well together.. Well we tried to work our hardest. With Elder araujo it is so different. If something in the lesson isnt going right, or they have a question, he just looks to me.. So it is a responsibility alot bigger. I cant believe how fast time flies. Every single day goes by so fast! This month we have some amazing goals in the area here. We have alot of people that we are working with to be baptized this month! This Saturday Maria will be baptized. Next week we have alot of people to baptized too! So we are really excited here in Anhanguera.
Yesterday I had the opportunity to listen to Elder Ellis, he is an area 70 here in Brasil. He is from Burley, Idaho. He is really awesome. We have a meeting with him for like 4 hours yesterday and it was awesome.
Well this last week we had alot of success meeting new people. We meet a new family of 15 people!!! Wow, it was amazing. Ha, it was funny we were walking and it was pretty late and our appointed wasnt home, so we made some contacts and knocked doors, we knocked on one door and it was a lady, and she has 5 brothers, they all are married, her mom, and grandpa.. it was never ending of people. It was my first lesson with Elder araujo, and we had never had the opportunity to practice yet, so it wasnt really organized how I would have liked. but It was really good at the end the spirit was really strong. So wow, if we can help this family be baptized.. 15 baptisms.
Something really strange happened here. We meet this old couple and we were teaching them with Elder Garcia, well I went back there with Elder araujo and well the man Flavio past away.. it was a shock.. The wife is really sad, and doesnt even wanna talk to us right now. I just hope we can help her understand the plan of happiness.
I am so happy. I cant believe that I am a missionary. Sometimes it hits me harder than others. When I have the opportunity to look someone in the eyes, and invite them to be baptized. It is a feeling of peace that I have never had. When you can look someone in the eyes and say to them. I know this is the only true church on the face of the earth. It is a statement really bold, and the spirit is testifying with us missionaries, and we know that we are right. It is something amazing. 7 billion people on this planet and only 13 million are members of the only true church.. WOW!! We need alot of missionaries!! I love this work, and I love you all!
Keep me in your prayers!
Elder Olsen
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