Thursday, June 24, 2010
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
23 June 2010
so this week was a little rough, but it had some bright spots. Edson and his family were not baptized, Marcia the wife is really really sick, so we are going to wait to see if she gets better.. she has been in the hospital, so everyone please pray for her to get better. this family is amazing, they are really special and we really want to see them be baptized. We also had a great thing happen. We took a family to the city center to get married!!! Marcelo and Mariana, we have been working with them for awhile, but they really didnt want to get married, they have already been to church 3 times, but they really dont want "commitment" ( oh by the way the have already lived together for 14 years and have 4 children!!!!") so one day we didnt know what to do, so i went there and just told them all about the blessings of seeing my parents married and happy in life... Mariana started crying, and said she wants to get married.. so we took them on thursday and marked the wedding!!!! on the 8th of July they are going to get married!! It is going to be awesome! everyone in the ward already knows them, so we are going to have a big party in the church, with everyone, and i am going to be best man!!!!! haha :) it is going to be awesome! They have 4 children, and 3 are old enough to be baptized (11 yrs, 15, and 18) and they are all going to be baptized together on the 9th of July!!! It is going to be way amazing. me and my companion are fighting aobut who is going to be here (transfers are on the 6th) but i am like 99.99% that he is going to leave and i will stay :) haha. but it is going to be way cool. we had 3 confirmations in church on sunday, and that was really cool, Elis and Tulio who were baptized are really excited, Elis already went to choir practice of the ward and is going to sing in the choir, and tulio went to church in a blue shirt and tie!!! ( i gave him a awesome tie on his baptism) things here are really going amazing, i love being here and i love this area. please everyone pray for Edson and his family.
Hurrah for Israel!!
Elder Olsen
Hurrah for Israel!!
Elder Olsen
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
16 June 2010
Wow, so this week was amazing. i have never been more blessed on my mission than i am being blessed right now. we are really seeing the Lord in our work. So this week we had 2 baptisms!! I have already talked about them, Elis and Tulio, they are the mom and brother of tales, who we baptized like 2 months ago. after 5 times in the church we finally were able to baptism them. The mom was really hard, she had been hiding something from us, but the spirit lead me. On sunday we were all ready to baptize just tulio.. because she had said that she didnt want to be baptized this week.. so we decided to just baptize tulio.. well i was filling out the forms with her about her son, and i just bore my testimony about the word of wisedom, and about eternal families. she started to cry, and said, "do you still have more white cloths?" haha wow, it was amazing. so she and her son were both baptized. she had been drinking coffee and didnt want to stop, because she didnt understand why she needed too. but she was to nervous to tell us, so every time we asked, she said she had already stopped. the spirit is amazing!! I totally thought the problem was the law of chasity, but the spirit knows all things, and lead me to know the truth! I love the spirit. This week is going to be just as special too!! Edson Marcia and Danielle are going to be baptized! This family is really special, and they are going to change lots of lives in the future. we are going to visit the temple with them tomorrow and go on a tour of the temple. they are all set for this sunday. it is going to be awesome. i am really excited and loving the area here. i really hope that i can stay here for like 6 more months or so. but who knows, we will have a new president here in 2 weeks, and i hope he doesnt take me out of here.
things with my companion are going good, he is a good elder. i like him. i just think all these blessings that we are recieving are going to his head a little.. i try to remind him that we are doing nothing, that it is all the Lord, but i think he might be getting prideful. in our zone meetings he talks himself up in front of the elders.. yeah, i am a little worried. i think that he suffered so much in the beginning of the mission (6 baptisms in one year) and now in two week he has already doubled that. he thinks that it is because of him.. ahh... the enemy works really well. he knows how to try and stop the work.. but it will all work out great.
I am really excited to work in the field. i love being a missionary.
Thanks for all the love and prayers!!!
ELDER OLSEN
things with my companion are going good, he is a good elder. i like him. i just think all these blessings that we are recieving are going to his head a little.. i try to remind him that we are doing nothing, that it is all the Lord, but i think he might be getting prideful. in our zone meetings he talks himself up in front of the elders.. yeah, i am a little worried. i think that he suffered so much in the beginning of the mission (6 baptisms in one year) and now in two week he has already doubled that. he thinks that it is because of him.. ahh... the enemy works really well. he knows how to try and stop the work.. but it will all work out great.
I am really excited to work in the field. i love being a missionary.
Thanks for all the love and prayers!!!
ELDER OLSEN
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
9 June 2010
I agree with Mikey, when you get over 1 year on the mission it looks like no one likes to write anymore, but hey its part of the deal. This week was amazing!! It was one of the greatest weeks on my mission. It was really awesome because we had 4 baptisms!!!! It was really amazing! I had alot of special expeineces this week that really changed my life! Well i will share two really quickly. first is that on friday i went to anhanguera and did some interviews, anhanguera is my first area, where i stayed for 8 months. well i am not sure if you all remember jose milton and his family.. they are the family of 5 that i baptized when i was there towards the end, well when i was there i didnt baptized one of the daugthers.. she had had a problem and didnt want to be baptized, and how it was the first transfer that i was senior i wasnt a very good missionary so i just let her go and just baptized the parents and the other 2 daughters. well on friday when i was in anhanguera, all the appoinments feel through, so i decided that we could go to their house and try and teach the daughter. the elder told me that they had already try lots of times, and that ever since i had left the elders had been going there to try and teach her, but she would never accept anything. but i told him that that day she was going to accept. It was a really crazy thing, because i have already dreamed alot of times with this family in the temple, and every time that i have this dream the daughter was never there, and then when i leave she is on the outside and she starts crying and telling me how because i didnt help her be baptized her life was runied. and alot more stuff that has happened since i left anhanguera. so i have always felt really strongly that it was my purpose or calling to baptize her and her family. so we went there and when i got there they didnt believe that i was there. they said that they had been talking about me that day, and all the things that i did to help them. we started of the lesson singing a hymn and then the elder bore his testimony and then let me talk. the spirit was really strong as a testfiyed of eternal families. after teaching about the importance of following the savior, i invited her to be baptized on the next day on saturday. she accepted. it was amazing, everyone was crying so much. so on saturday she and her family went to my area in Jd amanda and i baptized her. it was really awesome!!! the whole family was really happy to see her be baptized. now the whole family are members of the church! I know that they will enter into the temple!!!
On sunday we had 3 more baptisms. It was really amazing!! We have been teaching a part member family for a while. the husband is a member, and his wife was from a different church, and she would always go to church but didnt want to be baptized. on wends. i went there with a member and we taught about the book of mormon, the spirit was really strong and she and her child accepted to be baptized on sunday and they were!! The husband was so happy!! haha, he hasnt recieved the priesthood yet so i had to baptized them, but it was still really amazing!
And Reginaldo was also baptized on sunday. he is sergios friend. sergio is our recent convert that is amazing. he is really excited about the work. our teaching group is basically his friends and family that he has. we are going to try and baptize all of them.
this week we have 3 more baptisms. we are going to help complete another family of the ward. it is going really awesome.
We also have a family of 3 that will be baptized on the 19th. defintely the most beautiful family i have taught. they are way ready for the gospel. they are well off and have 2 children (12 yrs and 4 yrs) on saturday we had stake conference and the dad of the family Edson, he went in a white shirt hhaha, his wife went in a skirt and all dressed up. it was really awesome. they are going to visit the temple tomorrow night with us, and we are going to enter in there with them in one year. they say they cant wait to be baptized.. really they were prepared to hear the gospel!!
I am loving my mission. i am loving everything about my area. please pray for:
Edson, marcia, daneile, elis, tulio, valeska, marcelo, mariana, kasia, maria and carlos. all them have a date for this month, but they will needs lots of prayers!!!!
Hurrah for Israel!!!
Elder Olsen
On sunday we had 3 more baptisms. It was really amazing!! We have been teaching a part member family for a while. the husband is a member, and his wife was from a different church, and she would always go to church but didnt want to be baptized. on wends. i went there with a member and we taught about the book of mormon, the spirit was really strong and she and her child accepted to be baptized on sunday and they were!! The husband was so happy!! haha, he hasnt recieved the priesthood yet so i had to baptized them, but it was still really amazing!
And Reginaldo was also baptized on sunday. he is sergios friend. sergio is our recent convert that is amazing. he is really excited about the work. our teaching group is basically his friends and family that he has. we are going to try and baptize all of them.
this week we have 3 more baptisms. we are going to help complete another family of the ward. it is going really awesome.
We also have a family of 3 that will be baptized on the 19th. defintely the most beautiful family i have taught. they are way ready for the gospel. they are well off and have 2 children (12 yrs and 4 yrs) on saturday we had stake conference and the dad of the family Edson, he went in a white shirt hhaha, his wife went in a skirt and all dressed up. it was really awesome. they are going to visit the temple tomorrow night with us, and we are going to enter in there with them in one year. they say they cant wait to be baptized.. really they were prepared to hear the gospel!!
I am loving my mission. i am loving everything about my area. please pray for:
Edson, marcia, daneile, elis, tulio, valeska, marcelo, mariana, kasia, maria and carlos. all them have a date for this month, but they will needs lots of prayers!!!!
Hurrah for Israel!!!
Elder Olsen
Friday, June 4, 2010
This is another one out of order sorry 26 May 2010
Wow this week was really exciting and filled with new news. This week we had one bapitsm. Henrique was baptized. I was really awesome to have one more baptism with Elder Standage... in 8 short weeks we accomplished alot together.. we had 10 bapitsms which was really great. Then on Sunday night he was transfered. And I recieved another companion.. Elder Feitosa.. Brasilian. It is the first time that he is going to be zone leader too.. so it will be the 3rd time i will train a zone leader haha. i think i found out what my calling on the mission is. He is a great Elder. He has 1year on the mission and works really hard. The only thing that will be different is that he really hasnt baptized alot on his mission.. haha he only baptized 1 person in the first 8 months of his mission, and in total he has about 6 or 7 baptisms.. so when we sat down and i told him that we are going to baptized at least 10 people together.. he really didnt believe it.. So, it will be a great adventure to help him get a great vision on baptizing. He works really work, and is really dedicated.. he just needs a little help baptizing :) our zone had alot of changes too, so it will be a interesing transfers for alot of reason.. this transfer started out with President Castro Deus and is going to end with a new President.. President Tanner.. he is going to be here in about 4 weeks.. so it is going to be really weird to move presidents.. i am not sure if i am really ready.. i am so used to working with my president, but i know that it is going to be a great opportunity for me. President Tanner sounds like a really great man. We will see what we can do together.
This week we have 2 baptisms that are going to be great. I dont know if ya'll remember when i told you about Tales.. the young man that we baptized.. that basically lived on the streets because his mom was never home.. well he has changed so much because the gospel that his mom and brother have now been to church 3 straight times!! On sunday we taught his mom and she started crying, thanking us for all the changes that have happened in her life and her sons lives... it was a really special moment for me.. to see the changes that happen in peoples lives through the gospel.. she and her son are going to be baptized this week :) it is going to be really special. There is going to be alot of work this week. My companion needs to learn to work :) and learn to bapitze. So, i dont have alot of time. but please pray for me, that i can have the strength to always work hard and never give up... :)
Hurrah for Israel!!!
Elder Olsen
This week we have 2 baptisms that are going to be great. I dont know if ya'll remember when i told you about Tales.. the young man that we baptized.. that basically lived on the streets because his mom was never home.. well he has changed so much because the gospel that his mom and brother have now been to church 3 straight times!! On sunday we taught his mom and she started crying, thanking us for all the changes that have happened in her life and her sons lives... it was a really special moment for me.. to see the changes that happen in peoples lives through the gospel.. she and her son are going to be baptized this week :) it is going to be really special. There is going to be alot of work this week. My companion needs to learn to work :) and learn to bapitze. So, i dont have alot of time. but please pray for me, that i can have the strength to always work hard and never give up... :)
Hurrah for Israel!!!
Elder Olsen
Sorry I have been slacking because of my broken arm.. 2 June 2010
Well it was great talking to everyone. I cant believe how grown up the kids are. I cant believe that Sam, Andrew and Adam all sounded like they were 10 now!! They are growing up alot. It sounds like everything at home is going great. I am so thankful for my wonderful family that supports me. Today I just wanted to tell you all how much I love you, and how i am so grateful for every single person in my family. I am so very grateful for all the examples that you are to me. I am so blessed to have been born in the gospel. To have been raised in a family where I could feel the Lord in my home and with my family. I dont think that I ever appreciated the blessings that I have been given until i came on a mission. I know that the blessings are real. I know that the Lord has blessed our family alot. I am so humbled by the feeling of love the Lord has shown our family. I am so grateful for my calling as a missionary, for the opportunity that I have to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ.. I know that he lives, and they He loves me and trusts in us. I am so happy to know that he wants us to be happy here on the earth.
This week was really great. Yesterday we had a great district meeting. I left the spirit really strong as it guided me on what I needed to say to the zone to help every missionary know how much I love being a missionary. We had a "fire demostration" it was really cool. I used the story from 1 Kings 18 as part of my message to the zone.. haha you will all have to see the video after the mission, we got it on film. Afterwards I made a soap box.. which was really cool, i painted it and it is beautiful. It's blue and says on it "what would Christ say.." then we went to the bus stops in the city, and a few Elder's had to show their faith and climb on the box and preach to everyone.. I know that every single one of them will remember it forever! It was really cool. I got the idea from Steve. haha. We also got it on film. I will show you all after the mission.
This week we are preparing alot of people to be baptized. It is oging to be awesome. But, we are going to need miracles in our zone. We have established the biggest goal in the history of the mission in one week. The record is 19 baptisms in one week... This week we want to baptized 41 people!!!! We need ALOT of prayer and fasting. We are working hard then we have ever worked before!!!
I love this gospel. The Lord is preparing the way for us. He is with us and loves us.
Hurrah for Israel!!
Elder Olsen
This week was really great. Yesterday we had a great district meeting. I left the spirit really strong as it guided me on what I needed to say to the zone to help every missionary know how much I love being a missionary. We had a "fire demostration" it was really cool. I used the story from 1 Kings 18 as part of my message to the zone.. haha you will all have to see the video after the mission, we got it on film. Afterwards I made a soap box.. which was really cool, i painted it and it is beautiful. It's blue and says on it "what would Christ say.." then we went to the bus stops in the city, and a few Elder's had to show their faith and climb on the box and preach to everyone.. I know that every single one of them will remember it forever! It was really cool. I got the idea from Steve. haha. We also got it on film. I will show you all after the mission.
This week we are preparing alot of people to be baptized. It is oging to be awesome. But, we are going to need miracles in our zone. We have established the biggest goal in the history of the mission in one week. The record is 19 baptisms in one week... This week we want to baptized 41 people!!!! We need ALOT of prayer and fasting. We are working hard then we have ever worked before!!!
I love this gospel. The Lord is preparing the way for us. He is with us and loves us.
Hurrah for Israel!!
Elder Olsen
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
2 June 2010
hello,
hello family. This week was a really good week for us. We had alot of work that we needed to do with the transfers and stuff, so it was alot of work, but it wasnt too bad.. after awhile you get used to this type of work. something really weird happened this transfer.. i have offically been a zone leader for longer than i was a regular missionary. 6 transfers as zone leader and 5 as a normal missionary. wow, that is really weird. It really is no fun getting old on the mission. I am the oldest missionary in my zone.. wow that is terrible. but my zone is really young so that is my excuse. We have some exciting news that is going to happen in our zone this week. We are going to open 2 new areas in our zone. One ward is going to spilt this week, and the other our stake is going to recieve a branch that is really weak right now. So we are going to have 12 areas in our zone now haha. i am not sure what i am going to do. It is really hard to keep up with all the interviews and stuff. I hoped that our President will call another dl to help me. because i am basically having to do spilts and interviews like 3 days a week.. leaving hardly anytime for me to work in my own area. But, President said that for now i will have to continue working as we are, so pray for us alot that we can still find time to work in our area.
This week our zone had 8 baptism. in my area all of our baptisms feel through, we had to move them to other weeks. Elis and Tulho were all ready to be baptized, but on friday i had to go do an interview, and my companion went to their house and "felt" that they needed another week.. so he re-marked there baptism for this week... ahh.. it was a little frustrating. but, i know that it is all going to work out. My companion doesnt really know how to baptize alot of people.. so he is a little stressed out, he is not sure how to do it right. but, with time he will learn. Exciting news, we found 2 new families!!! Edson and his family of 3 and Marcelo and his family of 7!!!! It was amazing. Edson and his family went to church, and they loved it. They are legally married and really a special family. we left the book of mormon with them and when we went back they told us that they felt that they should read the book in family, so they all read together. I asked the 12 year old daugther what part so liked in the reading and she said "i really like ver. 29. because it said that we should not contend against others I know that this is true, and i know that when we are fighting heavenly father is not happy with us." yeah. really EXTREMELY specail family. I didnt even believe it. Marcelo isnt married, but he has 5 children and they always wanted to get married.. so i am sure that they will be married quickly. They are really excited about the church and want to change their lives.
I love my mission. I am so excited to be here. Brasil is amazing. I am loving every minute of my mission. I hope that everyone is doing good. Please pray for: Reginaldo, Luis, Elis, Tulho and Valeska.. we need to help them be baptized this week!!!! I love you all.
Hurrah for Israel
Elder Olsen
hello family. This week was a really good week for us. We had alot of work that we needed to do with the transfers and stuff, so it was alot of work, but it wasnt too bad.. after awhile you get used to this type of work. something really weird happened this transfer.. i have offically been a zone leader for longer than i was a regular missionary. 6 transfers as zone leader and 5 as a normal missionary. wow, that is really weird. It really is no fun getting old on the mission. I am the oldest missionary in my zone.. wow that is terrible. but my zone is really young so that is my excuse. We have some exciting news that is going to happen in our zone this week. We are going to open 2 new areas in our zone. One ward is going to spilt this week, and the other our stake is going to recieve a branch that is really weak right now. So we are going to have 12 areas in our zone now haha. i am not sure what i am going to do. It is really hard to keep up with all the interviews and stuff. I hoped that our President will call another dl to help me. because i am basically having to do spilts and interviews like 3 days a week.. leaving hardly anytime for me to work in my own area. But, President said that for now i will have to continue working as we are, so pray for us alot that we can still find time to work in our area.
This week our zone had 8 baptism. in my area all of our baptisms feel through, we had to move them to other weeks. Elis and Tulho were all ready to be baptized, but on friday i had to go do an interview, and my companion went to their house and "felt" that they needed another week.. so he re-marked there baptism for this week... ahh.. it was a little frustrating. but, i know that it is all going to work out. My companion doesnt really know how to baptize alot of people.. so he is a little stressed out, he is not sure how to do it right. but, with time he will learn. Exciting news, we found 2 new families!!! Edson and his family of 3 and Marcelo and his family of 7!!!! It was amazing. Edson and his family went to church, and they loved it. They are legally married and really a special family. we left the book of mormon with them and when we went back they told us that they felt that they should read the book in family, so they all read together. I asked the 12 year old daugther what part so liked in the reading and she said "i really like ver. 29. because it said that we should not contend against others I know that this is true, and i know that when we are fighting heavenly father is not happy with us." yeah. really EXTREMELY specail family. I didnt even believe it. Marcelo isnt married, but he has 5 children and they always wanted to get married.. so i am sure that they will be married quickly. They are really excited about the church and want to change their lives.
I love my mission. I am so excited to be here. Brasil is amazing. I am loving every minute of my mission. I hope that everyone is doing good. Please pray for: Reginaldo, Luis, Elis, Tulho and Valeska.. we need to help them be baptized this week!!!! I love you all.
Hurrah for Israel
Elder Olsen
26 May 2010
Hello family,
Wow this week was really busy for me and my zone. We did alot of working and alot of teaching. But thats the best part about missinoary work. I love being a missionary, it makes my blood race. Well this week we had a pretty good week in my area. It was supposed to be alot better, but we still managed to have 1 baptism and we had 8 people in the sacrament meeting. It was a ok week. We baptized Igor, a friend of a member here in the ward. Well our zone we had only 6 baptisms... it feel alot this week.. but its alright, something that i always say to the Elders.. it doesnt matter what we do.. we could ruin everything about this zone and mission.. and still the work of the Lord will go foward.. But we need to work to be able to be part of the great work of the Lord.
We are teaching a really great family. John and Apercida. They are about 65 and 60 years old and really great. they went to church and are really excited, but his wife is really sacred.. she has been cothlic her whole life and is scared to change.. but this week she accepted baptism.. so we are going to prepare everything to help them, maybe they will be baptized this week, or maybe next we are sure.
We also had a great family night this week with our recent converts.. Sergio was there with his family, and confessed that he wants to have another kid.. that is going to be awesome. He also had an interview with the bishop and will recieve the priesthood this week.. and has already been planning his sealing in 11 month. He told me that i have to come back, or else he wont enter. haha so me and my companion have already started plans to return to Brasil in May 2011.
I love this work.. this week we have transfers again.. wow its amazing how time goes by so fast.. its weird to think that i only have 5 more transfers... wow i really dont like to think about time.
I love my calling. Thanks for all the love and support.
Love,
Elder Olsen
Wow this week was really busy for me and my zone. We did alot of working and alot of teaching. But thats the best part about missinoary work. I love being a missionary, it makes my blood race. Well this week we had a pretty good week in my area. It was supposed to be alot better, but we still managed to have 1 baptism and we had 8 people in the sacrament meeting. It was a ok week. We baptized Igor, a friend of a member here in the ward. Well our zone we had only 6 baptisms... it feel alot this week.. but its alright, something that i always say to the Elders.. it doesnt matter what we do.. we could ruin everything about this zone and mission.. and still the work of the Lord will go foward.. But we need to work to be able to be part of the great work of the Lord.
We are teaching a really great family. John and Apercida. They are about 65 and 60 years old and really great. they went to church and are really excited, but his wife is really sacred.. she has been cothlic her whole life and is scared to change.. but this week she accepted baptism.. so we are going to prepare everything to help them, maybe they will be baptized this week, or maybe next we are sure.
We also had a great family night this week with our recent converts.. Sergio was there with his family, and confessed that he wants to have another kid.. that is going to be awesome. He also had an interview with the bishop and will recieve the priesthood this week.. and has already been planning his sealing in 11 month. He told me that i have to come back, or else he wont enter. haha so me and my companion have already started plans to return to Brasil in May 2011.
I love this work.. this week we have transfers again.. wow its amazing how time goes by so fast.. its weird to think that i only have 5 more transfers... wow i really dont like to think about time.
I love my calling. Thanks for all the love and support.
Love,
Elder Olsen
19 May 2010
Hello family,
Wow this week was really busy for me and my zone. We did alot of working and alot of teaching. But thats the best part about missinoary work. I love being a missionary, it makes my blood race. Well this week we had a pretty good week in my area. It was supposed to be alot better, but we still managed to have 1 baptism and we had 8 people in the sacrament meeting. It was a ok week. We baptized Igor, a friend of a member here in the ward. Well our zone we had only 6 baptisms... it feel alot this week.. but its alright, something that i always say to the Elders.. it doesnt matter what we do.. we could ruin everything about this zone and mission.. and still the work of the Lord will go foward.. But we need to work to be able to be part of the great work of the Lord.
We are teaching a really great family. John and Apercida. They are about 65 and 60 years old and really great. they went to church and are really excited, but his wife is really sacred.. she has been cothlic her whole life and is scared to change.. but this week she accepted baptism.. so we are going to prepare everything to help them, maybe they will be baptized this week, or maybe next we are sure.
We also had a great family night this week with our recent converts.. Sergio was there with his family, and confessed that he wants to have another kid.. that is going to be awesome. He also had an interview with the bishop and will recieve the priesthood this week.. and has already been planning his sealing in 11 month. He told me that i have to come back, or else he wont enter. haha so me and my companion have already started plans to return to Brasil in May 2011.
I love this work.. this week we have transfers again.. wow its amazing how time goes by so fast.. its weird to think that i only have 5 more transfers... wow i really dont like to think about time.
I love my calling. Thanks for all the love and support.
Love,
Elder Olsen
Wow this week was really busy for me and my zone. We did alot of working and alot of teaching. But thats the best part about missinoary work. I love being a missionary, it makes my blood race. Well this week we had a pretty good week in my area. It was supposed to be alot better, but we still managed to have 1 baptism and we had 8 people in the sacrament meeting. It was a ok week. We baptized Igor, a friend of a member here in the ward. Well our zone we had only 6 baptisms... it feel alot this week.. but its alright, something that i always say to the Elders.. it doesnt matter what we do.. we could ruin everything about this zone and mission.. and still the work of the Lord will go foward.. But we need to work to be able to be part of the great work of the Lord.
We are teaching a really great family. John and Apercida. They are about 65 and 60 years old and really great. they went to church and are really excited, but his wife is really sacred.. she has been cothlic her whole life and is scared to change.. but this week she accepted baptism.. so we are going to prepare everything to help them, maybe they will be baptized this week, or maybe next we are sure.
We also had a great family night this week with our recent converts.. Sergio was there with his family, and confessed that he wants to have another kid.. that is going to be awesome. He also had an interview with the bishop and will recieve the priesthood this week.. and has already been planning his sealing in 11 month. He told me that i have to come back, or else he wont enter. haha so me and my companion have already started plans to return to Brasil in May 2011.
I love this work.. this week we have transfers again.. wow its amazing how time goes by so fast.. its weird to think that i only have 5 more transfers... wow i really dont like to think about time.
I love my calling. Thanks for all the love and support.
Love,
Elder Olsen
5 May 2010
Hello family,
wow this week was amazing. We really saw the Lord is our area and in our zone. I feel really blessed to be here in my area, i feel like i am a new missionary here. I am really loving my area and my zone. This week we had a great week. It was really awesome to see the Lord in our zone and in our area. This week we had 2 baptisms here in our area. The first was on friday, a man named Jose. He is really awesome. He is like 55 or so, and his kids are already members of the church, but he was never baptized. So we have been teaching him for like 3 weeks, and every single week he goes to church, and every single week he reads the book of mormon, but for some reason he didnt want to be baptized. so on thursday night we taught him, and as we were saying the opening prayer i felt the spirit guide my thoughts in a really amazing way. So right when my companion said amen, i took of my name tag and held it in front of his eyes. And i asked him he if knew the importance of my calling. I told him all about my calling as a missionary in the Lords church, and talked about Christ and his Atonement. He started crying, and i told him that he needing to be baptized the next day.. he was! It was really cool. I have never done anything like that before, but it was really aweseome to feel the spirit leading my thoughts and actions. On saturady we had another baptism, Tales, is a friend of one member here. He is a young kid, he is 14. But he is really awesome. Him and his brother basically live alone. There dad left the house a long time ago, and there mom is kind of a work-a-holic. so she is never home, she works every day 7 until 10 at night. So it was good to help tales get off the street. Now he is taking seminary and going to church. His brother is 16, but he is a little harder. He is already caught up in some bad things of the world. So it will take a little bit more time to baptize him. it was really special, because his mom supported him being baptized, but said she wouldnt be able to go, then at the last minute she showed up and cried alot. then on sunday she went to a part of sacrament meeting. so we are hoping that through Tales example his whole family will be baptized.
My zone is going awesome too. We had 9 baptisms this week! It is going really well. Our goal is to bapitze 65 this month! It is going to be amazing!!
I love my calling. I love being a missionary.
Hurrah for Israel!
Elder Olsen
wow this week was amazing. We really saw the Lord is our area and in our zone. I feel really blessed to be here in my area, i feel like i am a new missionary here. I am really loving my area and my zone. This week we had a great week. It was really awesome to see the Lord in our zone and in our area. This week we had 2 baptisms here in our area. The first was on friday, a man named Jose. He is really awesome. He is like 55 or so, and his kids are already members of the church, but he was never baptized. So we have been teaching him for like 3 weeks, and every single week he goes to church, and every single week he reads the book of mormon, but for some reason he didnt want to be baptized. so on thursday night we taught him, and as we were saying the opening prayer i felt the spirit guide my thoughts in a really amazing way. So right when my companion said amen, i took of my name tag and held it in front of his eyes. And i asked him he if knew the importance of my calling. I told him all about my calling as a missionary in the Lords church, and talked about Christ and his Atonement. He started crying, and i told him that he needing to be baptized the next day.. he was! It was really cool. I have never done anything like that before, but it was really aweseome to feel the spirit leading my thoughts and actions. On saturady we had another baptism, Tales, is a friend of one member here. He is a young kid, he is 14. But he is really awesome. Him and his brother basically live alone. There dad left the house a long time ago, and there mom is kind of a work-a-holic. so she is never home, she works every day 7 until 10 at night. So it was good to help tales get off the street. Now he is taking seminary and going to church. His brother is 16, but he is a little harder. He is already caught up in some bad things of the world. So it will take a little bit more time to baptize him. it was really special, because his mom supported him being baptized, but said she wouldnt be able to go, then at the last minute she showed up and cried alot. then on sunday she went to a part of sacrament meeting. so we are hoping that through Tales example his whole family will be baptized.
My zone is going awesome too. We had 9 baptisms this week! It is going really well. Our goal is to bapitze 65 this month! It is going to be amazing!!
I love my calling. I love being a missionary.
Hurrah for Israel!
Elder Olsen
28 Apr 2010
i love this work. it is the greatest thing in the entire world!!!!! This week was amazing for me, it was one of the greatest weeks of my mission. We had 3 baptisms this week, and they were all amazing. Brother Sergio was baptized!!! It was a miracle. President came to our ward on sunday and interviewed him, after the interviewed we all gathered together with president in the room and he told us that Sergio was REALLY prepared to be baptized. and that he felt that we should not wait any longer. He said that he needed to be baptized that day. So we threw together an amazing baptismal service for Sergio and his Daugther ( we had already baptized last week the son Thayan and the Wife Neia.) and they were baptized!!! It was amazing. It was seriously an spiritual experence. The Lord really blessed us with a special family, i have no doubts that here in one year this family is going to be in the temple!! It was really special. Last night Neia (sergios wife) was interviewed to be called the new visiting teacher leader of the ward!! haha!! amazing! The bishop has already interviewed sergio to recieve the preisthood this sunday, their daughter thaya is going to seminary everyday, and the son is loving the primary! It was seriously an amazing blessing in my life to see this family be baptized. I think that they are as special as Marcos and Elisangela which i baptized last year.
We also baptized on saturday a young man named Paulo. He is 20 and way cool. He is going to go on a mission. He lives alone, and he already said that here in 1 year he is going to go on a mission. It was seriously a great week for me, the Lord is really blessing us.
The zone is also doing really awesome. we had 26 baptisms in april. the highest on the mission! It was cool. He have set the goal to break the record of our mission in may and baptized 65 people!!! We are going to work ALOT!!!
This week is going to be really great too!! We are going to baptized the dad of a member, jose, he has been to church 4 times now, he is just wanting to play hard ball with the Lord, but he will be baptized this week. and we are going to baptized Tales, he is a friend of a member. and Antonia.. she is our hardest one.. she is the wife of a member that just doesnt seem to stop smoking 1 ciggarte. she smoke 1 a day.. ah how annoying!!! every day she just smokes 1.. she just cant seem to stop..any ideas
I love this work, I am really really happy. I am way happy Justin is going to go on a mission.. I know where he is coming BRASIL!!! But i think that he will go to a different mission... Salvador South, Brasil Mission, he will enter in August 15th!!
This work is amazing, i love this gospel!!
Hurrah for Israel!
Elder Olsen
We also baptized on saturday a young man named Paulo. He is 20 and way cool. He is going to go on a mission. He lives alone, and he already said that here in 1 year he is going to go on a mission. It was seriously a great week for me, the Lord is really blessing us.
The zone is also doing really awesome. we had 26 baptisms in april. the highest on the mission! It was cool. He have set the goal to break the record of our mission in may and baptized 65 people!!! We are going to work ALOT!!!
This week is going to be really great too!! We are going to baptized the dad of a member, jose, he has been to church 4 times now, he is just wanting to play hard ball with the Lord, but he will be baptized this week. and we are going to baptized Tales, he is a friend of a member. and Antonia.. she is our hardest one.. she is the wife of a member that just doesnt seem to stop smoking 1 ciggarte. she smoke 1 a day.. ah how annoying!!! every day she just smokes 1.. she just cant seem to stop..any ideas
I love this work, I am really really happy. I am way happy Justin is going to go on a mission.. I know where he is coming BRASIL!!! But i think that he will go to a different mission... Salvador South, Brasil Mission, he will enter in August 15th!!
This work is amazing, i love this gospel!!
Hurrah for Israel!
Elder Olsen
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