This week was a great week! I am loving being a missioanry! This week we had a baptism! Marcela was baptized! It was really awesome. After 20 years her Mom returned to the church, after ALOT of work, and now her daugther was baptized! It was a really special baptism for me. We also saw the greatest of the work unfolding before our eyes! We found 3 new families amazing!!! Peterson and his family are amazing, Maria and her children, and Simone, and her family. They will all go to the temple to see it, and make a visit there. It is going to be really special. I am so excited! My "son" Elder Aragão is doing awesome. He is finally getting in the hang of the mission, the rules and hours. It is awesome to see the progess that he is making. He is really excited about the work here! Well I have alot of stories that are really awesome that are happening in our area, but I dont have alot of time. Just know that things are amazing, and that Heavenly Father is pouring his blessing over our area. I am so excited to be a missioanry! Thanks for all the love and prayers, I know that it is the biggest difference in my area. So continue praying for me and my area, that we can continue to find the people who are praying for the blessings of the gospel. I hope that all is well in the USA. Here is Brasil, it is going great! Love you all.
Elder Olsen
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
5 Oct 2009
Hello Family,
Wow this week was really awesome! It is really fun to be a trainer! Things are really alot harder when you are training... Things are alot more emotional.. I am trying to be really a good trainer.. but sometimes I dont know what to do. We were practicing some lessons in our study one day, and I was just telling him what he can do better, and he just starting crying, and asked for some alone time.. It went over really smoothly.. After we talked and I just have to be more patiente with him. I just forgot that there is the physical and mental side to mission work.. Elder Aragão is a really good missionary.. he will defintely be a great leader on the mission. He just needs to overcome he shyness... It was really funnny. I told him that we have a rule that everytime we are on the bus, he has to talk in the front of the bus.. The first time, I will not lie it was funny.. he was sweating nervous, and couldnt talk really well, now, he is alot better, he talks. and he is willing to try and talk to everyone in the streets with me. He is defintely not going to stay shy with me. I am making all these really funny goals with him, that are way hard to do, things that he has to do every single day to overcome his shyness. He has to invite at least 3 people on the street to be baptized. talk with at least 12 people everyday. Shoot for joy at least a few times on the street. and we are doing things really funny. He is starting to really like it. At first he didnt like me very much.. he is alot more calm then me, and more shy.. but he is coming out of his shell, and he will be a great missionary. Mikey and Steve I must say that training is like the best thing on the mission. I basically can set the standard of this missionary for his whole mission. So it is way important that we baptize ALOT of people this transfer, to really help him set a high goal on his mission. Well we had one baptism this week, Arthur was baptized. It was really awesome to see him really happy. We have now baptized everyone in his family.. We are now starting to work with his uncles and neighbors. The great thing about the gospel is that everyone sees the difference, so the people always ask, what do they have that I dont.. after they ask this, the work is easy. We have really decicded to work on the families that we already have, and using the people that they know, families, friends, neighbors, and to really help everyone that we baptize have the chance to share the gospel. Milton and his family, gave us some awesome referals, of some uncles and aunts that live on the same street. They loved our message. and loved the church. We are going to baptize 4 of them this week. We are going to just start baptizing one street at a time. haha. Just kidding, well at least we are going to try too. The best moment in missionary work, is when you can leave one appointment in one house. walk next door and teach the next, then the next.. it is really awesome. We are really stressing referals of all our recent converts, and using their familes, friends etc. I am loving it here in Anhanguera. Everyone in the ward was really happy that I stayed one more transfer. I will have 7 and a half months in the same area.. it is crazy. It is crazy to think that I still havent left my first area. I have 8 months on my mission and I am in my first area haha. It is amazing. I love the mission. I am the happiest person in the world, I love this work, Christ leads and helps us when we need it or not, he is always there. Thanks for all the Love and Support. LOVE YOU ALL!!!
Elder Tyler James Olsen.
Hurrah for Israel!!
Wow this week was really awesome! It is really fun to be a trainer! Things are really alot harder when you are training... Things are alot more emotional.. I am trying to be really a good trainer.. but sometimes I dont know what to do. We were practicing some lessons in our study one day, and I was just telling him what he can do better, and he just starting crying, and asked for some alone time.. It went over really smoothly.. After we talked and I just have to be more patiente with him. I just forgot that there is the physical and mental side to mission work.. Elder Aragão is a really good missionary.. he will defintely be a great leader on the mission. He just needs to overcome he shyness... It was really funnny. I told him that we have a rule that everytime we are on the bus, he has to talk in the front of the bus.. The first time, I will not lie it was funny.. he was sweating nervous, and couldnt talk really well, now, he is alot better, he talks. and he is willing to try and talk to everyone in the streets with me. He is defintely not going to stay shy with me. I am making all these really funny goals with him, that are way hard to do, things that he has to do every single day to overcome his shyness. He has to invite at least 3 people on the street to be baptized. talk with at least 12 people everyday. Shoot for joy at least a few times on the street. and we are doing things really funny. He is starting to really like it. At first he didnt like me very much.. he is alot more calm then me, and more shy.. but he is coming out of his shell, and he will be a great missionary. Mikey and Steve I must say that training is like the best thing on the mission. I basically can set the standard of this missionary for his whole mission. So it is way important that we baptize ALOT of people this transfer, to really help him set a high goal on his mission. Well we had one baptism this week, Arthur was baptized. It was really awesome to see him really happy. We have now baptized everyone in his family.. We are now starting to work with his uncles and neighbors. The great thing about the gospel is that everyone sees the difference, so the people always ask, what do they have that I dont.. after they ask this, the work is easy. We have really decicded to work on the families that we already have, and using the people that they know, families, friends, neighbors, and to really help everyone that we baptize have the chance to share the gospel. Milton and his family, gave us some awesome referals, of some uncles and aunts that live on the same street. They loved our message. and loved the church. We are going to baptize 4 of them this week. We are going to just start baptizing one street at a time. haha. Just kidding, well at least we are going to try too. The best moment in missionary work, is when you can leave one appointment in one house. walk next door and teach the next, then the next.. it is really awesome. We are really stressing referals of all our recent converts, and using their familes, friends etc. I am loving it here in Anhanguera. Everyone in the ward was really happy that I stayed one more transfer. I will have 7 and a half months in the same area.. it is crazy. It is crazy to think that I still havent left my first area. I have 8 months on my mission and I am in my first area haha. It is amazing. I love the mission. I am the happiest person in the world, I love this work, Christ leads and helps us when we need it or not, he is always there. Thanks for all the Love and Support. LOVE YOU ALL!!!
Elder Tyler James Olsen.
Hurrah for Israel!!
Elder Olsen E mail 7 Oct 2009
Family,
Wow, this week was really interesting for me and my companion! I am loving traning but it is defintely alot harder than I thought it was going to be. I am seriously having a great time in Anhanguera. It has been 7 months that I am in the same area, ALOT of time. Conference was really amazing, for what I got to watch, I am learning to be a leader is alot more hard than I thought it would be. I have 8 different people, that any problem that they have, they call me. Wow, it is really hard. Saturday, we were watching conference when the sisters in my district told me, that I need to run to a house with them and interview somebody who would be baptized the next day. So I didnt get to watch conference on Saturday, and the worst part is that the person wasnt even baptized; so it was a little disappointing. And the same thing happened on Sunday, on the afternoon session, I had an interview during it, so I didnt get to watch Elder Hollands talk. But everyone told me it was amazing. I really loved conference, it was great to be spiritually uplifted. Well, conference works alot different here than in Utah. They only have one chapel that you can watch conference, and they ward doesnt rent a bus or anything to take people to the other chapel... so it was extremely hard to plan how our investagators would go to conference, we only have 5 people watch conference with us. It was an opportunity so golden to here the prophet for our investagators, but, sometimes, things dont work out how you want them too. We were unable to baptize Marcela... her Mom Dalva, who was already baptized got really nervous about her baptism, so she wouldnt let her. It was extremely sad, because Sister Dalva is awesome!! She just nervous at the last second to let her be baptized. Milton and his family werent able to go to conference, so they cousins werent able to be baptized too! It was really hard... They live about an hour away from the other chapel we had to go to, and in our entire ward we only had about 15 people watch conference, it was extremely sad. But the work will go on. We are going to mark all the baptisms again for this week, and work with everyone to go to church, and have an amazing week!!! Training is extremly hard!! It is such a difference for him and me, he never lived with an American, so we are completely different, but at the same time really similiar. He wants to be a judge when he grows up, so he is really like me, he wants alot of control, and he thinks he know ALOT about missionary work. We are both working on being more humble and work harder to help each other out. I love being a missionary. It is amazing, nothing could ever be better when you see someone for the first time pray, read the book of mormon, or recieve a testimony about Joseph Smith, these are the moments that help me want to be better, strong, more spiritual and to work harder. I love this work. I love all that happens everyday. I love being a member of the only true church on the face of the earth. Thanks for all the love and prayers. Everyone please pray for Marcela, Dalva, Luana, Maria, Milton, Davi, and Alexzandro. I love you all!!!
Hurrah for Israel!!!
Elder Olsen
Wow, this week was really interesting for me and my companion! I am loving traning but it is defintely alot harder than I thought it was going to be. I am seriously having a great time in Anhanguera. It has been 7 months that I am in the same area, ALOT of time. Conference was really amazing, for what I got to watch, I am learning to be a leader is alot more hard than I thought it would be. I have 8 different people, that any problem that they have, they call me. Wow, it is really hard. Saturday, we were watching conference when the sisters in my district told me, that I need to run to a house with them and interview somebody who would be baptized the next day. So I didnt get to watch conference on Saturday, and the worst part is that the person wasnt even baptized; so it was a little disappointing. And the same thing happened on Sunday, on the afternoon session, I had an interview during it, so I didnt get to watch Elder Hollands talk. But everyone told me it was amazing. I really loved conference, it was great to be spiritually uplifted. Well, conference works alot different here than in Utah. They only have one chapel that you can watch conference, and they ward doesnt rent a bus or anything to take people to the other chapel... so it was extremely hard to plan how our investagators would go to conference, we only have 5 people watch conference with us. It was an opportunity so golden to here the prophet for our investagators, but, sometimes, things dont work out how you want them too. We were unable to baptize Marcela... her Mom Dalva, who was already baptized got really nervous about her baptism, so she wouldnt let her. It was extremely sad, because Sister Dalva is awesome!! She just nervous at the last second to let her be baptized. Milton and his family werent able to go to conference, so they cousins werent able to be baptized too! It was really hard... They live about an hour away from the other chapel we had to go to, and in our entire ward we only had about 15 people watch conference, it was extremely sad. But the work will go on. We are going to mark all the baptisms again for this week, and work with everyone to go to church, and have an amazing week!!! Training is extremly hard!! It is such a difference for him and me, he never lived with an American, so we are completely different, but at the same time really similiar. He wants to be a judge when he grows up, so he is really like me, he wants alot of control, and he thinks he know ALOT about missionary work. We are both working on being more humble and work harder to help each other out. I love being a missionary. It is amazing, nothing could ever be better when you see someone for the first time pray, read the book of mormon, or recieve a testimony about Joseph Smith, these are the moments that help me want to be better, strong, more spiritual and to work harder. I love this work. I love all that happens everyday. I love being a member of the only true church on the face of the earth. Thanks for all the love and prayers. Everyone please pray for Marcela, Dalva, Luana, Maria, Milton, Davi, and Alexzandro. I love you all!!!
Hurrah for Israel!!!
Elder Olsen
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