hello family,
this week was really great. we are starting to form a new teaching pool right now, and it is going to be really rough, but i am excited for the challenge. we are going to change our neighboorhood where we teach, we are going to start working in a neighboorhood where nobody has ever worked, it is going to be great. i am really loving being here in this area and this zone, it is a huge blessing for me. i am really loving being a missionary, it is great. this week we went through some hard times, we are having to leave alot of our investagators because they dont want to fulfill with appoinments. but, i know the lord is on my side, and is ready to help me overcome everything that i need to go through on my mission.
this week we are going to try and do somthing never done before on the mission, we are going to try and really start an explosion of baptisms in our zone, so we are going to work really hard. please pray that this week we can see a miracle and baptize 20 people in our zone! we need lots of prayers. so please pray for us.
I love you all, thanks for all the love and support!
Elder Olsen
Hurrah for Israel!!
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Thursday, July 15, 2010
14 July 2010
so this week was amazing, i am really happy for all the blessings the lord is giving me right now on my mission.
This week we saw a true miracle, Marcelo and his whole family were baptized!! It was a truly amazing experence. On thursday they were married in the chapel, it was awesome. marcelo used my suit, and he looked right stunning haha. and i bought a tie that matched his wife´s dress Marina. She was really beautiful as she walked down the aisle and everything. i was supposed to be best man, but it didnt work out, because i would have had to walk down the aisle, and here in brasil you have to give the bride a kiss... and well since i am a missionary that really wouldnt work out. so we chose a member to be the best man. it was really awesome. i took alot of pictures i will show yall some day. On saturday the whole family was baptized. it was awesome, i got something that every elder has tired to do, the bishop baptized! haha, he is like dad, fat.. so he never gets in the water. well after this family we got it. he baptized marcelo and his wife. it was awesome. it was really special to see another family being baptized. the lord is blessing us so much right now it is amazing. i love this work. we are trying our hardest to baptized every single week this transfer. so everyone please pray for us. i love being a missionary.
hurrah for israel!
Elder Olsen
This week we saw a true miracle, Marcelo and his whole family were baptized!! It was a truly amazing experence. On thursday they were married in the chapel, it was awesome. marcelo used my suit, and he looked right stunning haha. and i bought a tie that matched his wife´s dress Marina. She was really beautiful as she walked down the aisle and everything. i was supposed to be best man, but it didnt work out, because i would have had to walk down the aisle, and here in brasil you have to give the bride a kiss... and well since i am a missionary that really wouldnt work out. so we chose a member to be the best man. it was really awesome. i took alot of pictures i will show yall some day. On saturday the whole family was baptized. it was awesome, i got something that every elder has tired to do, the bishop baptized! haha, he is like dad, fat.. so he never gets in the water. well after this family we got it. he baptized marcelo and his wife. it was awesome. it was really special to see another family being baptized. the lord is blessing us so much right now it is amazing. i love this work. we are trying our hardest to baptized every single week this transfer. so everyone please pray for us. i love being a missionary.
hurrah for israel!
Elder Olsen
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
7 July 2010
so this week was really great, and i have alot of good news. the first is that i am going to stay here in Jd Amanda. it is going to be awesome. I am so excited. I stayed with my companion, Elder Feitosa, so we are going to work really hard together. I got to meet my new presdient, President Tanner, wow he is really awesome. he is a great leader in the church. he was in a stake presidency for 18 years in california, so he knows his stuff. when he got here he brought alot of change from the first presdiency, all about the new mission. alot of stuff is going to change on the mission, there is a new method of teaching and alot of stuff. I think Mikey has already been working with this stuff for a while, but this week it is all new in brasil, so it is going to bring alot of change here on the mission. it is going to really focus on preparing the missionaries to teach and testify, so alot of missionaries are going to get better. also, some exciting things happening with the zone... it is now even bigger!! i am not sure what is going on, but we received 2 new areas, so we now have 12 areas in our zone haha, it is huge!!! 24 elders just in our zone, with only 3 dls. so it is alot of work. i am working alot in spilts and with the dls. and i know the Lord will help me. I recieved a big help Elder Greener who was the assisant, is ending his mission this transfer, he is going to train in my zone, and so i will really learn alot from him. we know have 6 elders that live in our house. our area is having alot of success, so there is going to be 3 (sets?) of missionaries working in the 2 wards here in Amanda. it is going to be alot of work. This week is going to be really special, Marcelo is going to get married, and he has chose me to be the best man. he is going to use my suit for his wedding, i bought him a great tie to go with it. on thurday they are going to get married, and on saturday they will be baptized, it is going to be awesome!! The 2 children will be baptized, and the oldest is going to have to wait another few weeks, she is having problems with the law of chasity. but i have faith that she will stop. My companion took them all to the temple to visit, and they loved it. i was sad i couldnt go, i had to open up a new area, which is alot of work. new beds, desks, phones, and zero investagators. so i went there to open up the area and it was awesome, in 1 day we recieved 20 referals and marced alot of baptisms. so the Lord is really going to bless this area. I recently found out that this stake, the Hortolandia stake is the 4th fastest growing stake in the world. WOW! what a blessing that i have to be here. the stake presdient is awesome and all the bishops too. I have been working in this stake for a long time!! (my whole mission exvcept 3 transfers..) so i know alot of the members and basically everyone in the stake, and it is really awesome to see the work move foward. In august it is going to spilt, so it will be really cool too see!!
my presdident is awesome, he is a lawyer, so that will really help me. i am already going to start talking to him about how to get into the business and everything. his wife doesnt speak any portuguese, it must be really hard for her, but she is really smart, so i am sure in not time she will speak. Well i love being a missionary, it is the best time in my whole life. i love this work so much!!!
Hurrah for israel!!!!
Elder Olsen
my presdident is awesome, he is a lawyer, so that will really help me. i am already going to start talking to him about how to get into the business and everything. his wife doesnt speak any portuguese, it must be really hard for her, but she is really smart, so i am sure in not time she will speak. Well i love being a missionary, it is the best time in my whole life. i love this work so much!!!
Hurrah for israel!!!!
Elder Olsen
30 June 2010
Well this week was a really good week. we didnt have any baptisms... again.. wow it has been rough these last 2 weeks. we have alot of investagators, but non of them want to comitt to be baptized. but hey, it is part of the plan, everyone has a choice. But, we are still with a beautiful family Marcelo and Mariana, and their 4 children, and will able be baptized on the 8th. They are already getting ready for the weeding on the 8th. Marcelo is going to use one of my ties and shirts haha he is really excited. Their children and really great, the oldest daughter Kayla is being a little difficult about baptism on the 8th... so everyone please pray for her, she is 18 and has a really annoying boyfriend that is trying to stop her from living the law of chasity. But, i know the Lord will prepare the way. Well this week is week 6, so we are going to have transfers this week, i am not really sure what is going to happen, because my President is leaving today, and then we are going to have a new President... i dont know how much he will be able to change in 4 days.. but you never know. I just am praying alot that i will stay here... i really want to see Marcelo get married with his family.
I am really sad these days about the change of President.. it is going to be really weird.. i really am not sure how to act, probably alot of going to move and stuff.. so i am not sure what to do. but hey, the Lord will help me. Everyone is really weirded out about how it will be. so we will see.
Things with my companion are alright, he isnt the type person i would want to marry lets just say that, but hey we work hard and that is all that matters.
I am glad to be a missionary. Everyone pray alot of me, so that we can organize a new teaching pool.
I love you all. everyone also needs to pray that Brasil can lose in the world cup. haha, it is getting in the way of everything. The entire country is shut down while the soccer game is on. Our President gave us orders that during the game we need to have a district meeting or a zone meeting, so like 2 times a week we have meetings. they are going to play again on friday in the quarter finals, i hope they lose so our work can go back to normal. But at least i am seeing things i never thought i would see. On monday night after the game, a flood of drunker people went in the streets.. it was about 2 thousand people... the police had to come and throw gas and beat up alot of people haha. and of course some missionaries were right by it when it all happened. so they got to see some cool sights. it is crazy how much they love soccer.
Well i love this work. i love being a missionary.
Elder Olsen!!!!!
I am really sad these days about the change of President.. it is going to be really weird.. i really am not sure how to act, probably alot of going to move and stuff.. so i am not sure what to do. but hey, the Lord will help me. Everyone is really weirded out about how it will be. so we will see.
Things with my companion are alright, he isnt the type person i would want to marry lets just say that, but hey we work hard and that is all that matters.
I am glad to be a missionary. Everyone pray alot of me, so that we can organize a new teaching pool.
I love you all. everyone also needs to pray that Brasil can lose in the world cup. haha, it is getting in the way of everything. The entire country is shut down while the soccer game is on. Our President gave us orders that during the game we need to have a district meeting or a zone meeting, so like 2 times a week we have meetings. they are going to play again on friday in the quarter finals, i hope they lose so our work can go back to normal. But at least i am seeing things i never thought i would see. On monday night after the game, a flood of drunker people went in the streets.. it was about 2 thousand people... the police had to come and throw gas and beat up alot of people haha. and of course some missionaries were right by it when it all happened. so they got to see some cool sights. it is crazy how much they love soccer.
Well i love this work. i love being a missionary.
Elder Olsen!!!!!
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