Family,
wow i am so happy to be a missionary! It is the best thing i have ever done in my life. This week was really awesome, we had one baptism, Thayan. We had 4 people to be baptized, but Sergio, he didnt pass the interview, he is going to need to be interviewed by President. so him and his family were not baptized. But i am sure that they will be baptized this week or the next, it just depends on President and his schedule. This week we have 3 other baptisms, and it is going to be awesome. Thayá, Paulo, and Jose. It is going to be a really special week for us. And if everything goes right Sergio will be baptized too with his 2 daugthers this week too. so it could be a really special week for us. We are really trying to make our area the example of the mission. We are trying to work our hardest to show our Savior we are grateful for him. My companion is still Elder Standage, we are going to work together this transfer too. It is going to be really good. Our goal is to baptize 20 people in May. haha, and i know it is possible. We are going to really work like we have never worked before.
Our zone is doing great, but it is going to get better. We have already baptized 19 people this month!! And we have 8 more this week, so we are going to baptize about 28 or so this month in our zone. It is going to be amazing in May we have set the goal for 65 baptisms in our zone. haha it is possible. everyone is really faithful and ready to work hard.
We are really seeing the Lords hand in our work. I know the Lord loves me, and he takes care of me. I am so happy to be a missionary. I have never know the Master Savior until i served a mission.I am growing so much.
Hurrah for Israel!!!
Elder Olsen
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
14 Apr 2010
this week was great. we are working like crazy to try and do everything that the Lord wants us to do. We are going to have a great week this week. This week we have two baptimal services, saturday and sunday. This saturday is going to be one of the most special baptisms on my mission, the Lord blessed us with an amazing family of 4, 3 of them are going to be baptized, the other already was. Sergio is a great man, he is probably going to be bishop in the future. And on sunday we are going to baptized 2 people that are really amazing too. We are going to baptized Antonia, a senhora, she is great. Her husband is a member for some time, but she could never seem to stop smoking, well this week she stopped after alot of prayers. And we are going to baptized Paulo, a young man who is amazing. He is 20 and is defintely going to go on a mission. He is great. We are really excited. We are working like crazy, and teaching alot. I know that the Lord is blessing me more than i have ever seen on my mission. We are going to be really blessing in these next months. Dont have alot of time, the work never stops!!!
Thanks for all the love and support.
Hurrah for Israel!!
Elder Olsen
Thanks for all the love and support.
Hurrah for Israel!!
Elder Olsen
31 March 2010
well this week was really good. I had an amazing week.. everything was going great in my area, we were able to take 8 people to sacrament meeting and we have 5 people that are going to be baptized this week. I was extremely excited and happy, when monday morning i got a phone call from President. he told me that everything was going really great in our zone, and that it was growing alot. so after alot of pray he decided that we are going to put together 2 different zones and work in one huge zone. ZONA HORTOLANDIA. it is going to be amazing. so i was transfered... to a area called Jd Amanda. My old area Portal Bordon is going to be re opened with 2 new elders, my companion Elder Philipp was transfered too... It was a really big shock because we have 10 marked baptisms in Portal Bordon but President said that he felt the spirit really strong that it had to be fast that we put the zones together. So i trust in my president and now it was the work of the Lord. Now i am in Jd amanda with Elder Standage.. yeah another american haha, i never thought i would work with americans again, but now all i have is american companions. He is from Mesa Arizona, and a really good Elder. He has 1 year and 4 months on the mission. and we are going to be ZLs together. It is going to be amazing. We now have the biggest zone in the mission. 10 areas. wow, alot of elders not one sister. So just 20 elders in our zone. It is going to e really good.
So after i was transfered my zone is still going to have PB in it, so i went on spilts and showed the new elder the area. It was really sad because i really loved PB alot, i only stayed there for 2.5 weeks, but in those 3 week i really felt good in the area. They are going to baptize a really beatiful family this week that I wont be able to be there to watch. Regiane is a lady that we found 2 weeks ago, and she is really excited about her baptism this week. The elders have alot of luck, i left 10 people ready to be baptized. but hey you dont always see the fruits.
This zone is going to be amazing, i am really excited to work here now. This area is really blessed, and really good. We are going to have alot of success here in this area. My companion is really good and really cool, we have already know each other for awhile, so now it is going to be really fun.
I am so thankful for my calling, I love my calling, it is amazing. Pray for me ALOT.
Hurrah for Israel!!
Elder Olsen
So after i was transfered my zone is still going to have PB in it, so i went on spilts and showed the new elder the area. It was really sad because i really loved PB alot, i only stayed there for 2.5 weeks, but in those 3 week i really felt good in the area. They are going to baptize a really beatiful family this week that I wont be able to be there to watch. Regiane is a lady that we found 2 weeks ago, and she is really excited about her baptism this week. The elders have alot of luck, i left 10 people ready to be baptized. but hey you dont always see the fruits.
This zone is going to be amazing, i am really excited to work here now. This area is really blessed, and really good. We are going to have alot of success here in this area. My companion is really good and really cool, we have already know each other for awhile, so now it is going to be really fun.
I am so thankful for my calling, I love my calling, it is amazing. Pray for me ALOT.
Hurrah for Israel!!
Elder Olsen
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
7 Apr 2010
wow this week was amazing and really busy. I am really loving my new area, it is really great. My companion Elder Standage is really cool and a great Elder. It is fun to work and train new missionaries, it is his first time being a zone leader. We worked really hard this week. His last companion and him werent able to really establish a big teaching pool, so we worked like crazy this week. And we had alot of success. We were able to mark 11 baptisms and find 23 new investagatos. I really am loving my calling as a missionary.
We also saw some miracles. I really wanted to baptism our fisrt week together. So we worked like crazy with all the people that had already been going to church and on saturday we were able to help 2 men be baptized. They have been going to church for like 2 months, but never wanted to be baptized. We taught them and the accepted. On saturday after the first sesson of conferece we were able to bapitzed them.
It really was a big mircale. We found some really amazing people this week, that are defintely going to be baptized. We are helping the wife of one member be baptized. She smokes ALOT, but we worked all week with her, and last night i went there, she only smoked 2 cigarettes. So this week she is going to be baptized. We also have some other people that are preparing for baptism this week. It is going to be a great week. Our goal is to have 3 baptims this week, and 12 this month!! We are going to work really hard.
I am really loving the new zone, but it is really big!! 20 missionaries is alot of people. We had a meeting yesterday with all 20 of us, and i could just feel the power that we have. It is amazing. This week is transfers.. (normal transfers) so we are going to probably recieve some new missionaries in our zone. maybe my companion is going to leave, he already has 6 months here... but we will see, I hope not, i really like working with him.
This week we found someboday really special, that is defintely going to be a bishop one day. He has already read the Book of Mormon, and he is already inviting everybody in his family to be baptized. He is going to be baptized on the 17th, his name is Sergio. He is awesome, his wife is a less active member, who is going to a different church now, but we are going to help her come back, and baptize the whole family. they have 11 children, but only 1 lives with them.
I am so grateful to be a missionary. I am so happy to be here and working in the Lord´s work.
Hurrah for Israel!!
Elder Olsen
We also saw some miracles. I really wanted to baptism our fisrt week together. So we worked like crazy with all the people that had already been going to church and on saturday we were able to help 2 men be baptized. They have been going to church for like 2 months, but never wanted to be baptized. We taught them and the accepted. On saturday after the first sesson of conferece we were able to bapitzed them.
It really was a big mircale. We found some really amazing people this week, that are defintely going to be baptized. We are helping the wife of one member be baptized. She smokes ALOT, but we worked all week with her, and last night i went there, she only smoked 2 cigarettes. So this week she is going to be baptized. We also have some other people that are preparing for baptism this week. It is going to be a great week. Our goal is to have 3 baptims this week, and 12 this month!! We are going to work really hard.
I am really loving the new zone, but it is really big!! 20 missionaries is alot of people. We had a meeting yesterday with all 20 of us, and i could just feel the power that we have. It is amazing. This week is transfers.. (normal transfers) so we are going to probably recieve some new missionaries in our zone. maybe my companion is going to leave, he already has 6 months here... but we will see, I hope not, i really like working with him.
This week we found someboday really special, that is defintely going to be a bishop one day. He has already read the Book of Mormon, and he is already inviting everybody in his family to be baptized. He is going to be baptized on the 17th, his name is Sergio. He is awesome, his wife is a less active member, who is going to a different church now, but we are going to help her come back, and baptize the whole family. they have 11 children, but only 1 lives with them.
I am so grateful to be a missionary. I am so happy to be here and working in the Lord´s work.
Hurrah for Israel!!
Elder Olsen
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
31 March 2010
Hello family,
well this week was really good. I had an amazing week.. everything was going great in my area, we were able to take 8 people to sacrament meeting and we have 5 people that are going to be baptized this week. I was extremely excited and happy, when monday morning i got a phone call from President. he told me that everything was going really great in our zone, and that it was growing alot. so after alot of pray he decided that we are going to put together 2 different zones and work in one huge zone. ZONA HORTOLANDIA. it is going to be amazing. so i was transfered... to a area called Jd Amanda. My old area Portal Bordon is going to be re opened with 2 new elders, my companion Elder Philipp was transfered too... It was a really big shock because we have 10 marked baptisms in Portal Bordon but President said that he felt the spirit really strong that it had to be fast that we put the zones together. So i trust in my president and now it was the work of the Lord. Now i am in Jd amanda with Elder Standage.. yeah another american haha, i never thought i would work with americans again, but now all i have is american companions. He is from Mesa Arizona, and a really good Elder. He has 1 year and 4 months on the mission. and we are going to be ZLs together. It is going to be amazing. We now have the biggest zone in the mission. 10 areas. wow, alot of elders not one sister. So just 20 elders in our zone. It is going to e really good.
So after i was transfered my zone is still going to have PB in it, so i went on spilts and showed the new elder the area. It was really sad because i really loved PB alot, i only stayed there for 2.5 weeks, but in those 3 week i really felt good in the area. They are going to baptize a really beatiful family this week that I wont be able to be there to watch. Regiane is a lady that we found 2 weeks ago, and she is really excited about her baptism this week. The elders have alot of luck, i left 10 people ready to be baptized. but hey you dont always see the fruits.
This zone is going to be amazing, i am really excited to work here now. This area is really blessed, and really good. We are going to have alot of success here in this area. My companion is really good and really cool, we have already know each other for awhile, so now it is going to be really fun.
I am so thankful for my calling, I love my calling, it is amazing. Pray for me ALOT.
Hurrah for Israel!!
Elder Olsen
well this week was really good. I had an amazing week.. everything was going great in my area, we were able to take 8 people to sacrament meeting and we have 5 people that are going to be baptized this week. I was extremely excited and happy, when monday morning i got a phone call from President. he told me that everything was going really great in our zone, and that it was growing alot. so after alot of pray he decided that we are going to put together 2 different zones and work in one huge zone. ZONA HORTOLANDIA. it is going to be amazing. so i was transfered... to a area called Jd Amanda. My old area Portal Bordon is going to be re opened with 2 new elders, my companion Elder Philipp was transfered too... It was a really big shock because we have 10 marked baptisms in Portal Bordon but President said that he felt the spirit really strong that it had to be fast that we put the zones together. So i trust in my president and now it was the work of the Lord. Now i am in Jd amanda with Elder Standage.. yeah another american haha, i never thought i would work with americans again, but now all i have is american companions. He is from Mesa Arizona, and a really good Elder. He has 1 year and 4 months on the mission. and we are going to be ZLs together. It is going to be amazing. We now have the biggest zone in the mission. 10 areas. wow, alot of elders not one sister. So just 20 elders in our zone. It is going to e really good.
So after i was transfered my zone is still going to have PB in it, so i went on spilts and showed the new elder the area. It was really sad because i really loved PB alot, i only stayed there for 2.5 weeks, but in those 3 week i really felt good in the area. They are going to baptize a really beatiful family this week that I wont be able to be there to watch. Regiane is a lady that we found 2 weeks ago, and she is really excited about her baptism this week. The elders have alot of luck, i left 10 people ready to be baptized. but hey you dont always see the fruits.
This zone is going to be amazing, i am really excited to work here now. This area is really blessed, and really good. We are going to have alot of success here in this area. My companion is really good and really cool, we have already know each other for awhile, so now it is going to be really fun.
I am so thankful for my calling, I love my calling, it is amazing. Pray for me ALOT.
Hurrah for Israel!!
Elder Olsen
Thursday, March 25, 2010
24 March 2010
Hey family, this week was a really great week. I am really loving being here in my new area. It is all really going amazing. My bishop is probably the best bishop in the mission, he is really excited to baptize the whole world, so we are defintely going to have alot of baptisms in the next month. This week we had 2 baptisms, Elen and Guilherme. The are all family of members, we are going to work alot with this family. Elen is 20, and she is really cool, i think she has a crush on my companion haha, so we had to really be careful when we were teaching her. This family Valnez and Rosana are really cool, they are recent converts, and they have alot of referals for us to teach. At the baptismal service we had more than 10 investagators there watching, so we are going to see alot of baptisms in the future. I am really excited to be here with Elder Philipp, he is a really good missionary. He has like 6 or 7 months on the mission, and is really excited to work. He had some troubles with the other ZL that were his companions, but i think he is liking me. It has been really tough for him because he entire mission his companions have always been ZL or DL, so he hasnt ever really know what normal missionary work is.. so we are going to work really hard so that next transfer he can be senior. He is from Alpine or close by... he went to Lone Peak.. that is about all i know... I dont really like talking with my companion about our pre lives.. ha i just like to work. We have a really amazing family of 5 that we are teaching, her name is Regiane.. she is really amazing. We marked her baptism for the 4th, and together with her 4 kids they are going to be baptized.. everytime we go to her house she is always talking about her baptism, when we take members with us she says, hey did you know that i am going to be a member of your church on the 4th haha she is really prepared, and all of her children love us too, so it is going to be a really special family. I really feel blessed to be here, i have a feeling that i am going to be able to help the kingdom of the Lord ALOT in this area, there is some much room for growth. there is going to be alot of baptisms in April.
I love this work, i love being a missionary!!! Pray for me!!!
Hurrah for Israel!!
Elder Olsen
I love this work, i love being a missionary!!! Pray for me!!!
Hurrah for Israel!!
Elder Olsen
Friday, March 19, 2010
3 March 2010
Wow,
this week was really awesome and really hard. We are having alot of trouble with our bishop, he really doesnt like the missionaries, he is passing alot of blame for the problems in the ward to the missionaries... so it is very hard, but i know I will be able to over this. I was able to go on spilts with the AP this week here in my area. It was good to talk openly about the problems here in the area that we are having. After alot of success that we are having using our own strength, I think that President has had enough... it looks like my area is going to close. We are able to baptize alot here, but the problem is that the bishop is driving alot of RC away.. so it looks like this will be the last week here in the area.. I was able to have alot of experencies this week with my zone. I stayed with every single area this week, helping the missionaries find more people to teach. We are really starting to look into finding people that WANT to be taught.. because sometimes we teach people that dont want to be taught, so i thought of a new plan to find the people that want to be found... and it is really working! This week we have a record of baptism set. We have 20 baptisms in our zone.. it would be the new record we can are able to help all these people be baptized. we have 3 baptisms here in my area. It is going to be really awesome week. Just on saturday we have 14 interviews!!! haha, we are going to travel alot this week.
I love being on a mission, it is amazing to be an instrument in the hands of the Lord.
Pray for me ALOT!!
Elder Olsen
this week was really awesome and really hard. We are having alot of trouble with our bishop, he really doesnt like the missionaries, he is passing alot of blame for the problems in the ward to the missionaries... so it is very hard, but i know I will be able to over this. I was able to go on spilts with the AP this week here in my area. It was good to talk openly about the problems here in the area that we are having. After alot of success that we are having using our own strength, I think that President has had enough... it looks like my area is going to close. We are able to baptize alot here, but the problem is that the bishop is driving alot of RC away.. so it looks like this will be the last week here in the area.. I was able to have alot of experencies this week with my zone. I stayed with every single area this week, helping the missionaries find more people to teach. We are really starting to look into finding people that WANT to be taught.. because sometimes we teach people that dont want to be taught, so i thought of a new plan to find the people that want to be found... and it is really working! This week we have a record of baptism set. We have 20 baptisms in our zone.. it would be the new record we can are able to help all these people be baptized. we have 3 baptisms here in my area. It is going to be really awesome week. Just on saturday we have 14 interviews!!! haha, we are going to travel alot this week.
I love being on a mission, it is amazing to be an instrument in the hands of the Lord.
Pray for me ALOT!!
Elder Olsen
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