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