tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4267940505611926622024-02-18T21:18:01.009-08:00Elder Tyler OlsenBrazil Campinas Mission
Rua 10 'Setembro
38 cambui campinas
sp 13023-100 BrazilSteve Ohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00225755742926527752noreply@blogger.comBlogger128125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-426794050561192662.post-58868329197804003352011-01-26T16:11:00.001-08:002011-01-26T16:11:35.700-08:0026 Jan 2011t's a strange feeling writing my last email on the mission. I prayed everyday that this moment would never come. I don't want my mission to come to an end. But, everything has a purpose. <br />I don't know who I would be with the mission. The things that I have learned during these 2 years have changed everything about me. It has changed the way that I am, the way that I think. The mission really opened my eyes on what is important in life, and what isn't. I have never been more thankful for you, the family than I am now. I know understand what I always took for grantee. The best part of my life is my family. After meeting so many people with run down homes, I finally understand how impossible it is to have a happy home without the teaching of the gospel of Jesus Christ. The world is to hard, there isn't anyway to overcome the hardships in our days if it isn't for Jesus Christ. I am so thankful for the wonderful helped that I have recieved from all of you over these 2 years. The countless emails, letters, paackages, and pictures have helped me so much. <br />The biggest lesson that I have learnd on the mission is that the Savior Jesus Christ lives. That he loves me, and that he paid for my sins. I learned for myself that the Savior Jesus Christ knows me. He knows who I am, He knows what I need and what my problems are. I know in a very real way that the atonement is real. That we can recieve forgiveness for our sins. I love you all, i hope that we can have a eternal family. I love this gospel, I look forward to starting my next mission.<br /><br />Hurrah for Israel<br /><br />Elder OlsenSteve Ohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00225755742926527752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-426794050561192662.post-12624782395651882102011-01-19T12:31:00.000-08:002011-01-19T12:32:05.316-08:0018 Jan 2011Hello,<br /><br />well i dont have a lot of time today, I will be going to the temple today, somebody that i baptized in my first area will be going through the temple this afternoon. I am really happy, she is also currently serving as President of the young women, she is a really special lady. This week we had 3 baptisms, it was great. I have the privillege to baptize 2 of them. It was really awesome. I love this gospel so much. I love you all.<br /><br />Elder OlsenSteve Ohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00225755742926527752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-426794050561192662.post-67049646322465169302011-01-19T12:27:00.000-08:002011-01-19T12:31:20.974-08:0018 Jan 2011<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_Q4S8aNurr1H-63p_KY-0AwLO8PO5uA1K8vo3CxKTBRjjAkc202Xs8TxIZbzbb1hjiNL9mKJDVg4VWookhNROPSERa4g5EhrJIMoB4I4keNbdCLjwXwH2usf00cFnLWdwhDHaUeFkqho/s1600/tyler+2+.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_Q4S8aNurr1H-63p_KY-0AwLO8PO5uA1K8vo3CxKTBRjjAkc202Xs8TxIZbzbb1hjiNL9mKJDVg4VWookhNROPSERa4g5EhrJIMoB4I4keNbdCLjwXwH2usf00cFnLWdwhDHaUeFkqho/s320/tyler+2+.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5563997309605389298" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhCPCVuUD1LEdkBhZpcTpSIqZSKTTo632a8vb5QZJ15ADHedialGP7OR9XFgx8PmKi8YZHzcHhLRtPjDkKerEexQMz60JsPHaF-1dc_LhUrYGkozzPiGynTTVakT11tXnjR1iENsSmXkA/s1600/tyler+.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhCPCVuUD1LEdkBhZpcTpSIqZSKTTo632a8vb5QZJ15ADHedialGP7OR9XFgx8PmKi8YZHzcHhLRtPjDkKerEexQMz60JsPHaF-1dc_LhUrYGkozzPiGynTTVakT11tXnjR1iENsSmXkA/s320/tyler+.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5563997301606867762" /></a>Steve Ohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00225755742926527752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-426794050561192662.post-22127962611022937662011-01-13T15:22:00.002-08:002011-01-13T15:23:19.370-08:0012 Jan 2010Family,<br /><br />hello family. I am really excited. I have never seen so miracles in my entire mission. I am so blessed!!!! This last weekend Liliam was baptized, it was amazing!! She is definitely going to be a firm member of the church. On Sunday President Tanner went to my ward and talked, and Sister Tanner as well. It was a really good sacrament meeting. I talked, then sister, then president, all about missionary work, it was a great sacrament meeting. After i received 3 referrals from members, it was really cool. We are going to have 3 baptisms this week!!!!! I am so happy. Robson is by far the biggest elect i have ever met in my entire mission. He is amazing. I had a life changing day with him on Monday. On Monday we had a family night at the chapel with 4 families. and we left about 930, so i called Robson and told him we wouldn't be able to pass by his house, he was all no no you have to come by i need to talk to you urgently. So we went to his house we got there really late, it was funny, as i was walking, i am just going through my head all the things that i could use scriptures and stuff. I was totally ready to use "my knowledge" to help him be baptized. We got to his house and he said please sit down elders. He sat there quietly, and said, "elder's i have something to tell you, I just want you to know, i know that this is the true church of God, I have received a testimony..." he went on a bore his testimony to us about how he gained his testimony, he is already half way through the bom, he read the entire gospel principles book. he bore his testimony, started crying and said, i can't wait to be baptized on Saturday. It was an extremely special experience for me. I loved it, it showed me that I am nothing, i was getting all ready to show my missionary knowledge, and i realized that this isn't my work, it is the Lord's. he is in charge of this work. He leads and guides it. He prepares the hearts of people to hear the gospel. This week we are going to see a lot of miracles as well. We have 3 great baptisms. Robson, William, and Gisele. I am so happy. I am enjoying working with my new young comp. Elder Durate. Haha, he is really funny. President Tanner calls him the assistant's assistant. He really is excited. He is young and fired up. I am so thankful for all the blessings that I am receiving on the mission. I love the mission, it is going amazing. I need a lot of prayers. We are teaching a man named Aparecido, he has been going to church for 13 years, his wife and children are active members of the church. well he has never wanted to receive the missionaries. well his wife had a dream that i baptized her husband. well i told her, sister, for that to happen he would have to be baptized in the next 2 weeks. She said she really felt that it was a sign from God, well i went to her house and her husband said, you can enter... well we taught a powerful lesson. He accepted to work towards a baptismal date. He is going to need a lot of help.. so please everyone pray for him. I am really nervous... he is already an active member of the church, he just needs to be baptized. I need the Lord help a lot with this man. I love you all.<br /><br />Hurrah for Israel<br /><br />Elder OlsenSteve Ohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00225755742926527752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-426794050561192662.post-49978656001734473452011-01-13T15:22:00.001-08:002011-01-13T15:22:43.117-08:005 Jan 2010Family,<br /><br />Wow, i am really happy to be a missionary. I can not believe the blessings the Lord has given me. I have so exciting news! I recieved a new companion! I have been spending alot of time with President making plans for the future leadership of the mission, especially the role of the assisents on the mission. So we both felt the assisent would do better if they had jr companions and worked in seprate areas. So my companion Elder Hansen moved areas, to a area close by, and I am staying here in costa e silva, with a newbie. His name is Elder Durate, he is brasilian. He is really cool, he is in his 2nd transfer on the mission. it is going to be a lot of fun the new model. This way the assistents will be able to grab a nwebie and train him up alot for a couple of weeks, then he can become senior after that. So it should be a lot of fun. Things in my area are going great. We are really seeing the Lords blessing here in my area.Lilam is going to be baptized this saturday. its all set. She is amazing, defintely the future relief society president. She has been going to church for about 6 months now. Also we are teaching a man named Robson, I can not believe him. So we found him last saturday, we taught him, and he loved it. He accepted all the inviatations. I gave him my number to confirm that he would be able to go to church. Well we left his house, about an hour later i recieved a phone call. "hey elder, it is robson, hey i read and prayed about the book of mormon, dont worry it's true, i'm going to be baptized!" Then the next day, we went to pick him up to go to church, we said we would be there at 845. we were about 5-10 minutes late. he called me, "hey where ya at? I dont want to be late my first day at church!" he is awesome!!! He went to church, made a ton of friends, he is really smart, he is psychiatrist. really smart. He is going to be baptized on the 15th. We are really excited. I am really happy to be a missionary. I kinda get sad a frustrated sometimes, i mean right now i feel i finally got it, i am finally the missionary that i needed to be all along. I know to how find, teach, and baptize. and now i have to go home? not cool. But I am praying alot so that the Lord will help me understand that. I love this work, i love serving. I have gained a real testimony on service. I know that it is amazing to serve others. I love you all. Pray for me.<br /><br />Hurrah for Israel<br />Elder OlsenSteve Ohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00225755742926527752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-426794050561192662.post-59012456453704757762011-01-13T15:21:00.001-08:002011-01-13T15:21:58.265-08:0029 Dec 2010hello family i am so thankful for the wonderful family that I have! It was great to talk to everyone on the phone. Wow, everyone seems to have changed alot. I can't believe it. It was good to hear sammy tell me that I am still his best friend, and that mikey is still in second place. Haha, if i can matain my best friend mantle from another country game over!! when i get home we will still be best friends. I hope that Justin is good. I have been praying for him alot lately. This week was great. We had a baptism on sunday. Benedito was baptized. our third companion Elder Carlstrom got in the water for his first time on the mission! He was really excited. It has been fun working with a third companion, especially a new american. It has reminded me how much i have grown in 2 years. The struggles that I had to go through. the langauge, the food the culture, I had almost forgotten what it was like. Unfortunely we will be losing Elder Carlstrom this week.. A missionary will be going home tomorrow due to sickness, so he is needed else where. But these 2 weeks were alot of fun. I am really enjoying working hard at this time of season, the Lord has preparerd alot of people for the gospel this given time. I really hope to be able to help alot of people these last weeks of my mission. The Lord is so great. We are doing alot of training meetings on the mission, and alot of exchanges with missionaries, so time is going by even faster than normal. I sure dont like that. It is strange. My companion and I are doing great, I love him like a brother, we get along great (just like 2 brothers we get in alot of heated discussions, but that is what makes it fun.) He is a great missionary. We have alot of amazing people that we are teaching right now. We should have around 8-10 baptism in January. We are really excited. We have alot of special people. Especially Liliam. We already baptized her family, but now it is her turn. She has been waiting for her wedding papers, and now they are down after the new year, so she will be baptized on the 8th. We also have William, Henrique and Robson, who will be baptized on the 15th. They are all really special as well. I have seen the blessings of forget yourself and go to work. It is an amazing feeling. Serving others is the cure to all problems. When we serve we really can feel the Lord's presence. I got 2 new ties from recent converts, that was the best christmas present I have ever gotten. They are a very poor family, but to see them give away 2 ties was just a special moment, they have really embarced the gospel. I love them alot. I love you all, you are the best. I am so proud of my family, I consider it the best and most important thing in my life. I love you all. Please pray for me in all moments, so that I can continue to learn and grow as a person and missionary.<br /> <br />Hurrah for Israel<br /> <br />Elder OlsenSteve Ohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00225755742926527752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-426794050561192662.post-20823845477836086602010-12-15T11:29:00.001-08:002010-12-15T11:29:51.714-08:0015 Dec 2010Family,<br /><br />this week was a pretty busy week. filled with lots of exciting changes in the mission. We had 2 traning meetings and others preparations for the transfer that is coming next monday. The last 2 weeks of the transfer are usually filled with lots of meetings with President and other mission leaders. We are starting to establish a teaching pool in our area, we are really excited about all the people that we are meeting. We have a great group of people that we are teaching. This week we had a great activity here in the center of the city. We all put on santa hats and went and sung hymns, we had a table out with tons of flyers about the church. So while 4 of us sang, the other 4 were out writing down address's and talking with everyone. It was a great sucess. we got over 200 adress's! It is going to bring in alot of results for the center's area. It was alot of fun. It is really interesting the christmas season here in Brasil isn't nearly as strong as in the states. Very few families put up christmas trees, nobody knows christmas hynms. it is a different culture. In our ward there are alot of wealthly people, so they all have a "normal" american christmas. but it the poor neighboorhoods, it is very normal for people to work up until the 24th of december and then start working again on the 26th. It is defintely a very different christmas. It is raining alot here. I think it has rained everyday for 2 weeks straight! Let's just say i am wet all day.<br />The mission is amazing. It is so amazing to feel of the spirit of the Lord during this great time of the year, I love you all and hope that we can all find a way to show our graitude during this wonderful season.<br /><br />Hurrah for Israel<br /><br />Elder OlsenSteve Ohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00225755742926527752noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-426794050561192662.post-9297341475084069142010-12-13T18:19:00.000-08:002010-12-13T18:23:42.131-08:0013 Dec 2010Hi Hansen and Olsen Family! <br /><br /><br />I just wanted to share a few pictures of your cute sons. <br />Yesterday we had our ward Christmas party with a huge bbq and I got a picture of all of us (my husband and I are the ones on the left closer to Elder Hansen) and today I brought my camera to church to snap a few shots. <br /><br /><br />They both are doing a great job and working really hard to teach and baptize. I know their old Mission President, Pres. Castro Deus (He is my Husband's brothers father-in-law) and I've heard good things about the new President. Both elder Hansen and Elder Olsen have really been having a lot of success in our area and everyone loves them! <br /><br /><br />The area they are in is a great area, the ward is awesome and everyone is super sweet and has strong testimonies of the church. <br /><br /><br />Thanks for sharing your boys with us! <br />Enjoy the pix and happy holidays! <br /><br /><br />Brooke<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOvjvVx4t-CmLvtJ9jSiaGJVDI7cZ3pXkIrhxEhM0MDjhIv7-HRwl_9gVNkmVty3zh7jv_hkNxOgeE7gYhQnvvB9M41StKErirUOV9mH91-HP6Uoe65EC-KwkWMWNEQSwh4zbCfVozuSg/s1600/tyler+4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 257px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOvjvVx4t-CmLvtJ9jSiaGJVDI7cZ3pXkIrhxEhM0MDjhIv7-HRwl_9gVNkmVty3zh7jv_hkNxOgeE7gYhQnvvB9M41StKErirUOV9mH91-HP6Uoe65EC-KwkWMWNEQSwh4zbCfVozuSg/s320/tyler+4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550357820504131762" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc_UmrgOF8SFQKhZgyRr2qxy2m-ulkXxZVjK6GMNS3a50SxqSoYEIopG22lXQNGXuP1oThPCju-cLCj6QsJz6rECmGPZjUPZmZN0_E9A7cy1AvV-5GyInle_FreWGexsbhCYXZSeVrPDY/s1600/tyler+3.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc_UmrgOF8SFQKhZgyRr2qxy2m-ulkXxZVjK6GMNS3a50SxqSoYEIopG22lXQNGXuP1oThPCju-cLCj6QsJz6rECmGPZjUPZmZN0_E9A7cy1AvV-5GyInle_FreWGexsbhCYXZSeVrPDY/s320/tyler+3.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550357811787902690" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNeb-Ov8Ad0okvmstwAF__wBYgEphklqTdx5ihAVUe9P202B8A57mBgyjDvttY_N1tZdmIF9e4YFkvK09bZQ3F8aQNVG4oPZGTmx1T8nlMRzHVwzkcfW7mST2vl_dpRAcryUkeF6XB6Hc/s1600/tyler+2.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNeb-Ov8Ad0okvmstwAF__wBYgEphklqTdx5ihAVUe9P202B8A57mBgyjDvttY_N1tZdmIF9e4YFkvK09bZQ3F8aQNVG4oPZGTmx1T8nlMRzHVwzkcfW7mST2vl_dpRAcryUkeF6XB6Hc/s320/tyler+2.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550357805490051490" /></a>Steve Ohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00225755742926527752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-426794050561192662.post-7878930840519335112010-12-08T14:20:00.001-08:002010-12-08T14:20:35.197-08:008 Dec 2010Hello family!!!<br /><br />This week was amazing!!! We saw alot of miracles in our area!! Adilson was baptized on saturday. It was a really great baptism. Now the entire family is baptized in the church. They are really excited. They are all really excited to enter into the temple here in a year. They are a really good family. I really love them. We had 8 investagators at church. They all should progess until baptism!! We are really excited about a few investagators in special. William and Iago should both be baptized this month, and we also marked a wedding for a lady named liliam, she will be baptized on the last week in december. we are really trying to work really well with the members of the church, so that we can really edify the church here in this ward. I am loving the mission. we are going to have alot of sucess if the Lord continues to bless us like he has. Yesterday and monday i was in another state, minis gerais, it is the last zone in our mission, it was really cool to go there, it is a really different place then here in campinas. I am really excited about this month, the Lord has prepared alot of people for us here in the area. <br /><br />I love you all, thanks for all the love and support.<br /><br />Hurrah for Israel<br /><br />Elder OlsenSteve Ohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00225755742926527752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-426794050561192662.post-84561426307135742072010-12-08T10:13:00.001-08:002010-12-08T10:14:26.762-08:008 Dec 2010 Adilson's baptism!!!! It was awesome<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8lLMneLdjEl81XHkVdktjVOxtigUnajoJmlhfDgylL36ewYa7fRipDUJYjAaNgby8zK59tX_hnmenk2slvWK7-ftcnvM4ipU_IxrC3Jk0eb2jXGeS9P4y-4_jxUNHexIDFmNyoNAfrsY/s1600/Tyler+1"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8lLMneLdjEl81XHkVdktjVOxtigUnajoJmlhfDgylL36ewYa7fRipDUJYjAaNgby8zK59tX_hnmenk2slvWK7-ftcnvM4ipU_IxrC3Jk0eb2jXGeS9P4y-4_jxUNHexIDFmNyoNAfrsY/s320/Tyler+1" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548376353775911842" /></a>Steve Ohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00225755742926527752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-426794050561192662.post-45706873295700714702010-12-01T07:54:00.002-08:002010-12-01T07:57:23.205-08:001 Dec 2010<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRvWVk9O40hi4I0EpkdRy20lSIEcSX22jRvo7ktkj4tp9hVVUwq8rDGSsEn1szvKod3mMNlM32u23MCQgK4LLUWITYXOzTRw9TDlX9-6jwS0ICJZYCUTUvbzCTFO4ckptUYcpopeMNxOc/s1600/tyler+3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 221px; height: 166px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRvWVk9O40hi4I0EpkdRy20lSIEcSX22jRvo7ktkj4tp9hVVUwq8rDGSsEn1szvKod3mMNlM32u23MCQgK4LLUWITYXOzTRw9TDlX9-6jwS0ICJZYCUTUvbzCTFO4ckptUYcpopeMNxOc/s320/tyler+3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545743421069994066" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDKo3wzqfeWUso_oGwk7MQs6-7IJJ0eHPJokn-uTnU0DVUVevXJyrOmEUJp7n-7592n0XgdZPhCcw0y9ntWi2YtEDao1KJxUqh6gew0lB-c3SW4fM-XGU03ZNkI-X05gjcCdfeUO5iVcs/s1600/tyler+2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 221px; height: 166px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDKo3wzqfeWUso_oGwk7MQs6-7IJJ0eHPJokn-uTnU0DVUVevXJyrOmEUJp7n-7592n0XgdZPhCcw0y9ntWi2YtEDao1KJxUqh6gew0lB-c3SW4fM-XGU03ZNkI-X05gjcCdfeUO5iVcs/s320/tyler+2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545743418535483554" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwJTKqEx9EZqP20sFKpQtgpliG7iC4QBh0HlXXPFsB_wpbuhzc4srFVBeQOXWFqY0h_qRBhbnP-rRjnY5xANTnO5p7GMRii23Psx6Cg94XaUG9q056os24uhvY4PbCKBj7E7fLXNq9D0w/s1600/tyler+1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 221px; height: 166px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwJTKqEx9EZqP20sFKpQtgpliG7iC4QBh0HlXXPFsB_wpbuhzc4srFVBeQOXWFqY0h_qRBhbnP-rRjnY5xANTnO5p7GMRii23Psx6Cg94XaUG9q056os24uhvY4PbCKBj7E7fLXNq9D0w/s320/tyler+1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545743413108288722" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Here are the pics from the 5 baptisms this week! Love ya lots!!<br /> <br /> <br />Aniley and her mom and brother<br />jose and aladia and the members that help work with them<br />rosangela and leticia together with wesley her son who is already a member.<br /> <br />love ya lots!!<br /> <br />enjoy<br /> <br />elder olsenSteve Ohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00225755742926527752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-426794050561192662.post-37853261727226952972010-12-01T07:54:00.001-08:002010-12-01T07:54:51.490-08:001 Dec 2010Family,<br /><br />This week was fantastic. I am loving my new area, and me and my companion are doing great together. This week was an extremely cool, we had 5 baptisms in our area. The Lord has truly blessed us. We saw 2 families enter into the church. Jose and Aladia are like my grandparents now, they call us their grandchildren, they`re 77 and 75. It was by far one of the coolest baptisms on my mission, since she has cancer and a broken back, it presented certain problem to baptize her, we had to overfill the font, and then really heat up the water, it was the temp of the temple fonts, it was cool. Then she was baptized by 2 people, to make sure she didnt get injured. They are awesome, Jose is a really sucessful businessman. He owns a lot of tire companies here in brasil, he lived in england and the us for a while, she has a MD.. he is REALLY weathly, i was nervous when we taught thithing, but he accepted easily. He says that as a retired man he still earns over 1 million a year, haha. He is awesome. Rosangela and her daugther leticia were baptized as well. she has a son that is already a member, which really helped the process, the dad Adilson wasnt baptized on saturday with them because he works every other sunday, so he couldnt be confirmed on sunday, but he will be baptized this week and confirmed this sunday. They are a great family as well! and then anily was baptized as well. she is a members sister, she is 15. She is really a great young woman. Her mom and step dad just need to get married to be baptized.. but the process is really slow here in brasil, so it may take awhile. <br />This week we have 2 more baptisms. Adilson (rosangela`s husband) and william. a members brother. We also are being really blessed with a lot of elects. We have a ton of people to teach and baptize. We are really working hard. I love my area, and I love the mission. Yesterday president told me that I will be staying with my current calling on my last transfer. I am happy to serve with whatever calling, but i kinda wanted to train again, but it is the Lord`s will not mine. Pray for me so that we can continue having success here in our area.<br /><br />Hurrah for Israel!!<br />Elder OlsenSteve Ohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00225755742926527752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-426794050561192662.post-59459911257852818442010-11-30T09:30:00.002-08:002010-11-30T09:32:17.794-08:0024 Nov 2010 Here is the pic from the baptism!!! :) Families can be together forever!!!!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2J-EEPQUvyyCVuZWsSu2kGE1McUHMrVHPp6WGfVNUODnI6INDNpyLcD7g0XP74BXa3FOgrkVzMebBGIMYt2TGhutgMgeguGR5Vsjs3jykqviNRsKz303JaGYXBbjj_yrdm7kRS2bcXYs/s1600/elder_olsen.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 210px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2J-EEPQUvyyCVuZWsSu2kGE1McUHMrVHPp6WGfVNUODnI6INDNpyLcD7g0XP74BXa3FOgrkVzMebBGIMYt2TGhutgMgeguGR5Vsjs3jykqviNRsKz303JaGYXBbjj_yrdm7kRS2bcXYs/s320/elder_olsen.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545396810920376850" /></a>Steve Ohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00225755742926527752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-426794050561192662.post-58422835684343975472010-11-30T09:30:00.001-08:002010-11-30T09:30:37.478-08:0024 Nov 2010Hello family,<br /> <br />wow this week was incredible!! I am so lucky to be a missionary. I will not lie, i love being out of the office alot, as a leader i feel i can accomplish alot more being a good example, instead of preparing a training or something like that, so i am really happy. This area is amazing. I love the members already and the investagators that we have, the lord is really blessing us alot. This week we saw one of the best baptisms on our mission. Brother Wesley and his whole family were baptized on saturday, what a special family!!!! the have the cutest kids in the whole world, the have baby twins, that are 1, and also have a daugther that is 8. WOW! the baptism was amazing. President Martins (a man in our ward, he is AMAZING!! ex mission president, fantastic member of the church) he baptized the dad, i baptized the mom and my companion baptized the daughter. it was awesome. The dad wesley went to his baptism in a suit and tie, he was just really prepared to be baptized. They were confirmed members on sunday, it was awesome. We are working A LOT, i cant remember ever working so hard in all of my mission, but the Lord sure is blessing us. We had 13 investagators at church on sunday!!! 2 full families, and a lot more people as well. This week we are really blessed, we will have 6 baptisms this saturday. Jose and Aladia are amazing. they are a older couple, the oldest i will ever baptize. they are 77 and 75. they have been going to church for ALONG time, but nobody seemed to be able to mark their baptism. Well they really liked us, so the first time we went to their house they accepted baptism for this saturday, they are awesome, they gave us lunch today, the wife has cancer, and she is going through kemo threapy right now, but she is strong enough to be baptized. We also have Adilson, Rosangela and Leticia. They are another family, their son was baptized about 6 months ago, but the parents didnt want to at the time. Well we have really been blessed to touch the hearts of alot of people in these 3 weeks here, all 3 accepted baptism for this saturday as well. We also have a Anielly, she is a young women, a member's sister, she is going to be baptized as well. We are really excited and really happy. The ward members are excited to see so many families entering into the ward, so we are planning on recieving a lot of referals from the members. I am so thankful for this great opportunity to serve the Lord. I want to baptize alot more people before my mission ends. I have to reach my goal. The Lord will bless me. I am so thankful to be here, I couldnt imagine doing a more important thing than working in the Lord vinyard. I love this work, I love this gospel, i love helping these people.<br />Have a great thanksgiving!!!!<br />Elder OLSEN!!!!Steve Ohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00225755742926527752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-426794050561192662.post-88551474923644621882010-11-17T09:19:00.001-08:002010-11-17T09:19:23.307-08:0017 Nov 2010Family,<br /><br />That is pretty cool that now justin has been to brasil as well, i know that he is jealous because brasil is the best country in the world(alright its still behind the big usa, but it is close.) this week was a fantastic week. i am really motivated to work as hard as i possibly can. me and my companion are getting along great and working really hard. we had ALOT of sucess this week. our new ward is amazing. everyone is amazingly excited that we are here. our president helped us out a little with a phone call to the bishop saying that he was sending his aps to the area, so now the whole ward knows we are the assistents, so on sunday we were recieved really well in the ward. we recieved over 20 member referals during the week, all of families, and we marked over 10 baptisms!!! we recieved a referal from a fantastic family, that has already been going to church.... their names are wesley and luciana. they have 3 children, a set of twins that are 1 and way cute, it is an amazing family. they have already been going to church, but the missionaries before had never taught them! we taught them, and they already know everything about the church. so they will be baptized this saturday! they are a special family!! their 8 yr old daughter will be baptized as well!!! it is going to be amazing. We are also teaching another part member family, where there are 3 non members in the house. the dad never wanted to accept the missionaries, but for some odd reason he met us and really liked us, he accepted to be baptized on the 27th. we are extremely excited. and we are ready to work like crazy!!! we have to baptized alot this transfer, the lord wants us to!! I LOVE this work, it is amazing!!! <br />Please pray for me.<br /><br />Hurrah for Israel!!Steve Ohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00225755742926527752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-426794050561192662.post-10391725140017310762010-11-10T12:33:00.001-08:002010-11-10T12:33:25.587-08:0010 Nov 2010Family,<br /><br />I am so excited!!!!! Today is my first full day out of the office. And I am loving it. I have really missed serving full time, but at the same time I am very thankful for the opportunity that I had to serve in the office, I learned alot. But now I feel like we will be able to be more effective APs being in the field full time. During our visit that the area presidency made he had told us the importance of the aps being examples in the work, that we need to be baptizing the most on the mission, and so it was hard to really establish a teaching pool while only working limited hours, now working basically full time we will be able to have alot more success. I am really excited. Elder Castleton my old companion went home on monday, it was hard to say goodbye.. we worked for 3 months together and he really became one of my good friends. I gave him our address and he is going to stop by this month and get to know the family. Elder Hansen is my new companion. He is awesome!!! He is a little nervous to be ap, but he will do great. He has about 1 yr and 5 months on the mission. I cant believe i only have 2 more transfers. it is crazy. I get a little sad sometimes thinking about how fast time goes by. but i am really excited to be here. This area is called Costa e Silva. It is a really good area. It hasnt had alot of success. Only 3-5 baptisms in 8 months, but last night we got here for the first time and we talked with the bishop(he served a mission in the states speaks english) and the ward mission leader and they are both really excited. We are going to baptize alot of people. Our goal is at least 20 people this transfer!! 4 families!! we know that is possible. I really want to end my mission just going all out, working as hard as i can. I am really excited. We got here and we had to break into our house, and then there was nothing inside of it, so we had to sleep on top of matresses on the ground. It was awesome. well i loved to read justins letter. I laughed alot.. i love him so much. It was weird i started crying reading justin's email.. I just couldnt help but feel like alma in the book of mormon. I felt such joy hearing my little brother tearing it up in the mission field. I felt so much peace, i just started crying. I love this work, i love serving the Lord with all my heart, to just be here working and serving the Lord. I love you all, i love this people here in brasil!!! I love my Savior Jesus Christ!!<br /><br />Hurrah for Israel!!!<br /><br />Elder OlsenSteve Ohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00225755742926527752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-426794050561192662.post-34495823058582105682010-11-03T12:31:00.001-07:002010-11-03T12:31:50.796-07:003 Nov 2010This week was great. We have been working really hard with the transfers coming up. My companion Elder Castleton is going home next monday. So my new companion is going to be Elder Hansen, he is a good young missionary. He has about 1 yr and 5 months. It is going to be fun. I have really enjoyed my time working with Elder Castleton, he has become one of my greatest friends on the mission, we have had a lot of great experiences together, i am going to miss him alot. I have given him my home address and he said he is going to go visit the family, he lives in sandy. I am really excited to be working this next transfer, I have the greatest blessing. After our visit from Elder Soares from the 70, he told us that the assistents should NOT work in the office, he said that they should not be office elders, but should be working and training elders. So starting next transfer I will not longer be working in the office as assistent. Instead we are going to work in a nearby area called Costa e Silva, this way we will no longer lose time doing office work, but we will just focus on training the missionaries on how to work and baptize. I am so excited about this, because it has been real hard working in the office, it is sometimes really boring work, so it will be alot of fun to be working all day everyday again. We will still have to have meetings, and trainings and stuff like that, but we will no longer live in the office. So please pray for me and my new companion so that we can work really hard and so that we can baptize. I really want to have the greatest last 2 transfer ever. I cant believe that i ONLY have 2 more transfers, it can be really sad to face that fact. so please pray for me family, i still want to accomplish all my goals that i set at the beginning of my mission, and the Lord has blessed me with amazing miralces throughout my mission, I have seen his hand in this work, and I know that if everyone continue praying for me, it will help me become a bigger instrument in the Lords hand. I love this work, it has changed my life. I know that they are many people waiting for this message!! <br />I love you all,<br /><br />ELDER OLSENSteve Ohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00225755742926527752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-426794050561192662.post-4000904289623762412010-10-28T09:29:00.001-07:002010-10-28T09:29:52.632-07:0027 Oct 2010This week was a great week. We had alot of great experiences. We are preparing for a new transfer, which is going to bring in alot of changes here on the mission. I will recieve a new companion and a new area... I am really excited. This week we saw the miracle of Brother Henrique being baptized. He was baptized by his good friend a member of the church, it was fantastic. I am so grateful to be a missionary. Things are really busy and great here on the mission. I love being here in the field. Things are going great. Please pray for me, I want to do excellent things here during this short time I have left. I love you all so much.<br /><br />Love,<br /><br />Elder OlsenSteve Ohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00225755742926527752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-426794050561192662.post-38559224257022344562010-10-20T14:54:00.000-07:002010-10-20T14:55:46.980-07:0020 Oct 2010<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH7svalIDOXoZG-5OLO5A45acDDj_EEXjeBb4dGEwXBU8XPE1dTidCNDrh-TnxJ-oU7e-fwVk6Gj0LC60xQdLtb3A-0TEtIeG98k6UrOACfXuwUTRaPhJg5_WCwY9meHAtPs08miVQH0E/s1600/tyler+5"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH7svalIDOXoZG-5OLO5A45acDDj_EEXjeBb4dGEwXBU8XPE1dTidCNDrh-TnxJ-oU7e-fwVk6Gj0LC60xQdLtb3A-0TEtIeG98k6UrOACfXuwUTRaPhJg5_WCwY9meHAtPs08miVQH0E/s320/tyler+5" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5530250321277856834" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjDdsXkvcah6KGPBpxquoG7mwQPKkkgoHco16RcR93zc6-zqQM2MW4F5I82NSkswaNttiVqPDp8ni1E6eCSc5qrw2GqJ5rPjISBu8owfgU2-dET91cOhLSNnwjD3kYLVKCcQholbRGxTM/s1600/tyler+4"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjDdsXkvcah6KGPBpxquoG7mwQPKkkgoHco16RcR93zc6-zqQM2MW4F5I82NSkswaNttiVqPDp8ni1E6eCSc5qrw2GqJ5rPjISBu8owfgU2-dET91cOhLSNnwjD3kYLVKCcQholbRGxTM/s320/tyler+4" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5530250309308548434" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_JgCk-7vpyylJcwTNnlIwBUXPjG-MKp6VzSSoBFPGwkvCriGlkphipBxOsLUj7letkqpguwMg_GgXcBCgLWM_a-kmrAp7a8hxio2zFsFysxICPas9KFOh9Q6TdPJOiyM_dVeBsstUtD8/s1600/tyler+3"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_JgCk-7vpyylJcwTNnlIwBUXPjG-MKp6VzSSoBFPGwkvCriGlkphipBxOsLUj7letkqpguwMg_GgXcBCgLWM_a-kmrAp7a8hxio2zFsFysxICPas9KFOh9Q6TdPJOiyM_dVeBsstUtD8/s320/tyler+3" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5530250306208370754" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZiCUNxadcol8oMrIpShuE5uRuJQAra4E6-dLgeb0J8B3C2NDGg07FAqwhDWQvXyIWMelKs2E8q0hXpjL8kjVF946kb4KFrHZFG7cWULGkFQUjo05psJ_R0bgWKNiuN1x02wAxau1dG40/s1600/tyler+2"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZiCUNxadcol8oMrIpShuE5uRuJQAra4E6-dLgeb0J8B3C2NDGg07FAqwhDWQvXyIWMelKs2E8q0hXpjL8kjVF946kb4KFrHZFG7cWULGkFQUjo05psJ_R0bgWKNiuN1x02wAxau1dG40/s320/tyler+2" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5530250300782119746" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsK5Huemy6ryhqPwZF9ss7Hkx5Fl3lfTStB2luodOxUyj-uv36geqSEfsVF4xpUpstY4ZVgXVJ-ESW3bO3ko7euFQRFGvzi6Dsw30QOOxNpfHSIaZt1NVVz4HRIbTZ59cCVEXtvU3PDy8/s1600/tyler+1"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsK5Huemy6ryhqPwZF9ss7Hkx5Fl3lfTStB2luodOxUyj-uv36geqSEfsVF4xpUpstY4ZVgXVJ-ESW3bO3ko7euFQRFGvzi6Dsw30QOOxNpfHSIaZt1NVVz4HRIbTZ59cCVEXtvU3PDy8/s320/tyler+1" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5530250298790481042" /></a><br />the first of our temple trip with luis and aline<br />then a pic of the baptism, the two ladies are aline's mom and sister (our next baptism :)<br />then just a pic of them<br />a pic of their wedding. the couple with them is the couple that introduced the church to them.<br />and then elder soares and his wife.Steve Ohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00225755742926527752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-426794050561192662.post-34683351077199599622010-10-20T14:53:00.001-07:002010-10-20T14:53:19.139-07:0020 Oct 2010Family,<br /><br />this week was increible! It was defintely one of the best weeks in my mission. It was just great. Last wenesday we had a special visit from Elder Soares, the area president, and also a member of the first quorom of the seventy. He came here in the office and visited with us, it was really awesome! He asked alot of questions about our mission culture (the type of work we do) and also about our mission design, or how we work. I learned alot with him, he knows alot about missionary work. He served a mission and was a mission president in Portugal. so he knows alot about the work. On thursday we had a zone conference with him with half of the zone on the mission. It was fantastic. He really motivated the elders and sisters to work. He is a powerful man. We also had another zone conference yesterday with him and his wife with the other half of the mission. They are incredible people and really love the missionaries. I learned alot with him about missionary work and how to lead. We had special leadership meetings and he really did teach us alot.<br />Also this week we had the amazing blessing of Luis and Aline's wedding and baptism!!!! It was the best i have ever had on the mission. It really was just great. They are so happy and they so happy to have the gospel in their lives. Their wedding unfontunetly we didnt get to watch. we had a meeting with Elder Soares, but we sent the secertareis who took alot of pics for us. On saturday, we went to the temple with them during the afternoon! It was really special, we had their baptismal interviews at the temple, and we talked about sealing and eternal families, they loved it alot, and are really excited to enter into the temple here in one year. Later that day on saturday was their baptism. It was awesome. they were really happy and aline's mom and sister watched too!! I am certain that here in a little they will be baptized too! On sunday when they were confirmed Aline cried alot, they are just so special.<br />This week we are really blessed to have 2 baptism again! Henrique who we have been teaching for a while is really ready for his baptism. and we also had a huge miracle. A young woman called me on friday. I answered my phone and didnt know who she was. She said hello my name is Rieza, i was being taught by the missionaries, and now i want to be baptized! haha. It was increbile! She is a member's girlfriend (the member lives in another city) and she has been going to church for a year with him, but never wanted to be baptized. Now she wants to. We didnt even really need to teach for anything, she had already been taught by the missionaries for 8 months, and has been going to church every sunday for a year, and all of the institue classes too. So she is super ready for her baptism. It is what we like to call a miracle!! I love being a missionary, the blessings are so amazing. I have never seen so many day-to-day miracles in my entire life. It seems like everyday something just happens, that i never thought could happen before. Somehow some way the Lord just blesses us with miracles. I love this job!! haha. <br />Thanks for all the prayers and support that everyone gives me. It makes the difference. Everyone please pray for Henrique and Rieza. I LOVE THIS GOSPEL!!<br />HURRAH FOR ISRAEL!<br />ELDER OLSENSteve Ohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00225755742926527752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-426794050561192662.post-5449280750115379102010-10-12T21:16:00.001-07:002010-10-12T21:16:50.531-07:0012 Oct 2010<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgveG-slkdwmHXeggZ4aAyTMVK90UvrVId03M4HMGDJi8Ktd-8sNzWY8wkC2ER9DfzqqpQaSnAU34RUGcXkzuVsmL8zIxChnu1eqTHwbUxKd7yqD0w1dxua3HIt6zeDZ8TVFyFz6yY4_p0/s1600/tyler+4"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgveG-slkdwmHXeggZ4aAyTMVK90UvrVId03M4HMGDJi8Ktd-8sNzWY8wkC2ER9DfzqqpQaSnAU34RUGcXkzuVsmL8zIxChnu1eqTHwbUxKd7yqD0w1dxua3HIt6zeDZ8TVFyFz6yY4_p0/s320/tyler+4" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527379824312207778" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2xC2512ps1Nq4hg8vZ_Pq37xQZIHfkzcw8hn9u0gC9uDuvAj8d_rgr7cUS-YKrrmMkSZxCA7quA_vLdDmq78wTs4_WEOIM9zsY9KX_M-oiimq4FbyegH_O01zkXjbqh8aNCiM_Jvh0FA/s1600/tyler+3"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2xC2512ps1Nq4hg8vZ_Pq37xQZIHfkzcw8hn9u0gC9uDuvAj8d_rgr7cUS-YKrrmMkSZxCA7quA_vLdDmq78wTs4_WEOIM9zsY9KX_M-oiimq4FbyegH_O01zkXjbqh8aNCiM_Jvh0FA/s320/tyler+3" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527379823622017378" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4Z7lZqvlHKAN-p4oayOomFafuiT1iOGP65tDiQWqBGI8Kw3bGiYk8GRARcrY2_xds29ef0d8td8Tt2MUTlIXWiDS8em_he3TH4JLmxL15Zl-zcm5aDfiX6N8LZb2NTmokU3bAAAjtb3A/s1600/tyler+2"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4Z7lZqvlHKAN-p4oayOomFafuiT1iOGP65tDiQWqBGI8Kw3bGiYk8GRARcrY2_xds29ef0d8td8Tt2MUTlIXWiDS8em_he3TH4JLmxL15Zl-zcm5aDfiX6N8LZb2NTmokU3bAAAjtb3A/s320/tyler+2" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527379819814856754" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhza-aXaS2gonxzsuYaarfTWS1Hmddc12y5iZ1PIy4SpdzKua8b9I-8ZcWvCTpKrNAs4HrrxND3lnLtC-SIf186aOJ__3tfIprZEX9JwsLaToWlLQk4ARpLlxzuRMOg5uw81ujqIJk0HO8/s1600/Tyler+1"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhza-aXaS2gonxzsuYaarfTWS1Hmddc12y5iZ1PIy4SpdzKua8b9I-8ZcWvCTpKrNAs4HrrxND3lnLtC-SIf186aOJ__3tfIprZEX9JwsLaToWlLQk4ARpLlxzuRMOg5uw81ujqIJk0HO8/s320/Tyler+1" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527379816070570498" /></a>Steve Ohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00225755742926527752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-426794050561192662.post-16721363077523591672010-10-12T21:15:00.000-07:002010-10-12T21:16:13.204-07:0012 Oct 2010Oi,<br /><br />Hello family. I am so grateful to be a missionary! This week might possibly be the most busy week of my mission, but i am really excited for the upcoming events in the next 7 days. It is going to be amazing. It all starts tomorrow. The presidency of the Brasil area is coming to visit our mission. Elder Soares, who is the President, comes here tomorrow. We are going to have a long 4 hour staff training, and he is going to interview us! Yikes! But it will be incredible. Then we are going on a mission tour, on thursday we are going to have meetings with half of the mission, and then next tuesday with the other half. He hasnt given us or our President any details about what is going to happen during the meetings or training, so we are preparing for everything and anything. It should be a real blast. We have been working on cleaning up and organizing the office, and putting together mission stats and stuff like that. So we are having to prepare all this stuff for the meetings that will happen this next and early next week. But it is alot of fun. <br /><br />This saturday we had pedros baptism!!! It was a really special service. Pedros dad is totally reactived in the church, and we are really happy to see him come back. He bore his testimony during the service and started crying alot, he has had a rough life, he lost his wife in an accident 5 yrs ago. They were a strong active family in the church, but he couldnt overcome the death of his wife. We have talked alot about eternal families, they are a special family. I really hope that Richardo (pedros dad) can find a new wife, and get sealed in the temple. He is a special man. He went to church in a full suit and everything on sunday for pedros confirmation. The bishop interviewed him to a new calling! We are really excited!<br /><br />Also this week, we have Luis and Aline's wedding!!!! On thursday! I am so excited. It has been a long time since we started teaching them. Almost 2 full months. Here in the city of campinas marriage takes longer than in the surrounding cities, so we are very anixous to have their wedding. Unfortunetly we are not going to be able to watch the wedding. :( we are really sad about that, but it is marked exactly during the time of our meeting with Elder Soares.. but the ward member will be there to do the wedding, so it should turn out great. Also we will have their baptism on saturday!!!! we are so excited. It was so funny, on sunday at church they got up in sacrament meeting and asked everyone to go to their baptism. The members are really excited about this family, every member wants to go out with us and visit our teaching group because we are being blessed with alot of families right now, which is great. On friday we found a new family, which was incredible. Me and my companion established the goal with Heavenly Father that we would talk with everyone that crossed our path, but the Lord would bless us with a extremely special family. So on thursday night we were talking, and this young couple went by with a baby boy in a stoller, and my companion talked with them, and we felt that we should invite them to be baptized on the street. They got really happy and accepted!! They are a special family Araujo and Patricia. Like Luis and Aline they're not married.... which is a bummer.. but they are extremely excited to mark their wedding. We also have brother Henrique. He is great. He is just pure elect. He went to the baptismal service on saturday and loved it. He always talks with the members about his baptism on the 23rd. We are really excited about him, he has alot of potencial to be a future leader in the church. He just needs to get married. Which we are already working on finding him a wife :) haha.<br />The Lord is bless us more than i could imagine. We are teaching alot of people in just a short few hours. The Lord is blessing us alot with prepared people, that want to hear the restored gospel. Aline's mom and sister are progressing really well! They were going to get baptized together with Aline on saturday, but her mom(Neide) suffered a car accident on saturday and is in the hospital. But she is out, and is going to watch Aline's baptism this saturday, we are going to work with them both to be baptized on the 23rd. <br />I love being a missionary. I see miracles everyday. It is incredible! The Lord truly blesses his servents. We are seeing alot of progess in such a short time, I am so thankful for the Help the Lord gives to me. I know that He loves me. and that he wants me to succed as a missionary, and as a child of God. I know that all things are possible through faith and hard work. I love you all, your prayers and letters help me with encoragment and exciment for the work. I talk about my family everyday, people just love it. I can truly testify of the importance of the family and of unity in the family. I am so thankful for you all. the great love that you give to me. Continue praying, it REALLY does HELP, and ALOT!!!<br />I love you all!!!<br />Elder Olsen!!!!!!!!Steve Ohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00225755742926527752noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-426794050561192662.post-72505570484866937402010-10-06T14:13:00.001-07:002010-10-06T14:13:56.368-07:006 Oct 2010Hello!!!<br /><br /><br /> Well this week was a great week. We are really happy with all the blessings the Lord is giving us. We are seriously being blessed alot, and I know that we really need to work a lot harder to show apprecation for these blessings. This weekend we were really blessed with alot of investagators at conference, and all of them loved it. We had luis fernando and aline, who are just as excited as ever for their wedding and baptism this next week. we also started teaching aline's mom and sister, who live really close, they both went to church and loved it too. we marked their baptisms for the same day as aline and luis, which is going to be great. we also had pedro at church again, he is a member's son, and is really excited about his baptism. he is going to be baptized on saturday! We are really excited about that. We also had brother henrique, he is a single man, about 35 and great. he has been reading the book of mormon nonstop, and loves it. we marked his baptism for the 23rd of this month. we have really firm baptisms for every single week this transfer. we are really excited, and we are going to continue working hard to be able to do even better. we established a HUGE goal for this transfer and we know that it is possible. we are really excited, we want to work really hard. The Lord is blessing us alot.<br />Hey, cool story, i totally got to drive our presidents car!!! haha, that has never happened before, no missionary has ever droven a car on the mission, but yesterday president was here in the office and needed the car moved but he was busy, so he gave me the keys and said go crazy elder. haha. it was awesome. one of the coolest things that has happened on the mission, just kidding, but it was really cool. <br />well i am really happy. I love my companion, we are getting along great. he is a great man. I am really liking my area and all the investagators that we are teaching. i am really thankful for this work, it is amazing to be a missionary. <br />i love you all, thanks for all the prayers and support.<br />Hurrah for Israel!<br />Elder OlsenSteve Ohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00225755742926527752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-426794050561192662.post-18575710222271696852010-09-22T16:41:00.000-07:002010-09-22T16:42:36.085-07:0022 Sept 2010<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghKSZ78nK194d2xA5Hk96bfFfG5cNwLNmdE5FVjf7MVfbJTNaVPer5WaLsJhftIR5sfzTdVE6CalfUHQFQp1R1DtzeT67xIta5FV-Nkz18ulZmrwy93ZvkfBomU3rI-95P3LRCnv8Do5U/s1600/tyler+2"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghKSZ78nK194d2xA5Hk96bfFfG5cNwLNmdE5FVjf7MVfbJTNaVPer5WaLsJhftIR5sfzTdVE6CalfUHQFQp1R1DtzeT67xIta5FV-Nkz18ulZmrwy93ZvkfBomU3rI-95P3LRCnv8Do5U/s320/tyler+2" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519887467088946466" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinTI95lvrNFwBebXgVbhB0cTyvkHT1u5UGQ0Pfll42BdQG_RX98KDJGy_4WBIF5yddYlttIWoQk0bxd8Ednp7dtRptBIPg0w8QdqVYu0iDCCs7IHf6CmPXzQyfnxo-EnCXnkL55R1TC4o/s1600/tyler+1"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinTI95lvrNFwBebXgVbhB0cTyvkHT1u5UGQ0Pfll42BdQG_RX98KDJGy_4WBIF5yddYlttIWoQk0bxd8Ednp7dtRptBIPg0w8QdqVYu0iDCCs7IHf6CmPXzQyfnxo-EnCXnkL55R1TC4o/s320/tyler+1" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519887463308735858" /></a>Steve Ohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00225755742926527752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-426794050561192662.post-15952070717141105092010-09-22T16:38:00.000-07:002010-09-22T16:41:01.598-07:0022 Sept 2010Dear Family<br /> <br />Wow this week was amazing. We really saw a lot of miracles, and the Lord has been blessing us so much. First of all Dalila was baptized! It was amazing! On Saturday she was baptized, it was really amazing. The service was really special; the spirit was really strong throughout the entire service. The coolest part was that the family had such a huge role in the baptismal service. The dad said the prayer, the mom gave the message, and Joyce who was baptized just last week bore her testimony in front of everyone! It was amazing to see how much this family has changed during this past month. What a blessing! We had a pretty amazing lesson with her and her family, in which the whole family cried a lot. It was probably one of the greatest lessons on my mission. Dalila loved Amanda’s letter. She really did, she and Joyce are extremely happy because of Amanda and Janessa’s letters. It is awesome that my sisters made the difference with them!<br />Luis and Aline are great! The wedding is all set for the 14th, and the baptism on the 16th. I am so excited! It is going to be amazing! They are already members. They know everyone in the ward, and they are really excited to work in the church, they are going to be a major blessing in the ward and in the church. Well my companion is going home this week. I am really thankful for everything that I learned with him, he really was an amazing companion.<br />This week I had to travel to the furthest zone in the mission. I left the state of Sao Paulo, and went to Minis Gerais, which is about 4 hours by bus! It was pretty sweet there; it is a beautiful city. Unfortunately the church is very weak, it is only a district, and we only have 8 missionaries there, which don’t baptize a lot, but it was cool to visit the district and to do some teaching, the people that live there are all catholic. So, it represents a different type of challenge on the mission. I got back at midnight after two days there. It was a fun trip.<br />Our mission has two districts, both are really weak. So this week I really wanted to get to know the districts and the attitude of the members and missionaries, so tomorrow I am going to the other district, we is on the opposite side of the mission, and is also 4 or 5 hours away by bus, but it should be a fun trip, where I will be able to get to know the mission a little bit better.<br />I love the mission, it is amazing, I can’t believe that the Lord has given me this opportunity to be a missionary. It is the greatest time of my life. It has changed who I am, what I believe and what I think. I can’t believe how grateful I am to be a missionary. I love you all, thanks so much for the prayers, they mean so much to me, I can really feel them, and they work!!! Keep praying!!!<br /> HURRAH FOR ISRAEL<br />Elder OlsenSteve Ohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00225755742926527752noreply@blogger.com0