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This picture is from this morning. We had a bonfire in the mountains and we
all found out who was being transferred and what not.
Hola Familia y amigos,
Thank you Mom for the small package. I LOVE the
cookies and the leaves almost made me cry! So beautiful! I have not
recieved any other letters because of Transfers. They haven't sent mail
out since Friday i think.
Speaking of Transfers. I am being transfered, but not.
They are splitting our area and there will be 4 Spanish sisters covering
our Branch. So I will be serving with Sister Marcum (I've heard good
things about her) and we don't know exactly how our area is splitting but I
will be moving into an apartment in Hyde Park just north of Logan.
Hermana Marin is staying in Logan with another Visa Waiter. Hermana
Pena is being transfered to Ogden. I am very sad to see her go, we have
grown very close. The Lord truly loves me, because I did not want to
leave Logan, but I was wanting to live somewhere else (3 missionaries in our
small apartment has been a bit hard.) Now I can still go to my
investigators baptisms and everything!
This week was good. I am trying to remember what
happened. Apparently it is a mission tradition to burn things depending on how
long you have been out. So we got to go to a burning party. An
elder going home burnt a suit (pants and coat) some sisters burnt socks, elders
that have hit a year burnt ties. It was interesting, but a fun tradition
I guess.
Halloween was a fun day for the missionaries. We had a
mission conference with Elder Falabela (of the '70? or something). He
taught us some really good stuff and it was a great day of training and
instruction. I learned a lot. After we visited with a few
investigators, and then we picked up some of the English sisters, went out to
eat and were in our apartment at 6:25 (we were supposed to be home at 6).
But we had a fun night laughing and watching Mormon messages with the
English sisters. We even had one trick-or-treater. We luckily had a
little candy, so I gave it to him and then we turned our light off. We
took the sisters home around 9:30. It was nice of our president to give
us permission to have a little fun.
We have another baptismal date. Our investigator that
is 12 and went to the baptism with us is going to be baptized on December 1st.
I LOVE this gospel!
Time for some funny stories. We went to visit one of
our investigators and she lives right in front of this soccer field. So
we parked on the road right in between the soccer field and her house.
These boys were playing soccer and their ball rolls up this hill right by
the car. So I think to myself, I am a missionary, I should do service
and kick the ball back. So I do, and as I see the ball rolling
down the hill I also see my SHOE flying in the air. I kicked my shoe off
too! I quickly ran down the hill got my shoe, and we went to visit our
investigator, with my companions laughing their heads off.
Also this week we were at a dinner appointment and the
sister serving us asked if we wanted water or Ponche. I asked what punche
was and everyone starts laughing. Apparently ponche is Spanish for punch.
We all got a good laugh out of that one. (Hno. Tonson- este experiencia "reminded
me" de Hola y no nintendo.)
We eat so much! Tacos, Tacos, Tacos. The food is
really good, but they feed us soooo much. I like it, and I do a good job
finishing my food (most of the time) but it is really greasy sometimes. I
am grateful though, because a lot of these people probably don't have the money
to feed us, but they do anyway.
This week our branch had an activity at the Logan Temple.
We just met outside and an Hermano in our branch that knows a lot about
the temple talked about its history and a little bit about what happens inside.
We were able to bring the Herrera family. The parents are less
active members and want to start coming back, and the 3 children are not
baptized. Nor are they super interested. THey are 11, 13, and 14 so
it is hard for them. But we are working with them. We had a really
good lesson with them, and the opportunity to take them to the temple really
helped. The kids enjoyed it, and I think they will be more interested
now. I hope so. I sure felt the spirit, I hope they felt something.
But we took pictures of the whole family with the Temple in the
background and we are going to print them and give them to the family at an FHE
we are doing with them. It was really special to bring investigators to
the temple and to see the whole family there, together.
Hermana Pena told me this week that she was grateful for my
example of obedience. That made me feel good.
Sunday morning we had a meeting at 6:30 am and i didn't wake
up until 6:20 (my 6:00 alarm did not go off!) But then Hna Marin told us
that it was daylight savings time. So I got to go back to bed.
Sacrament meeting was so good on Sunday. It was fast sunday and my
2 companions got up to bear their testimonies and so I went too, not sure if we
had to sit together. And I had kind of been feeling like I ought to bear my
testimony, so I did. In front of a lot of people, and of course it was in
SPANISH. I know i did it at the MTC, but this was with many more people
and they all knew really good Spanish. But, I was not nervous at all
during my testimony (before is a different story). It was actually really
fun. Weird right?
Then, i went on splits with some English sisters, because
one of them was really sick and they needed someone else so that they could go
to their appointments. Since i am in a Trio it worked just fine. So
I went to a church meeting with a bunch of ward mission leaders and a dinner
appointment. The american food (chicken alfredo) was a good change.
My companions had tacos.
Yesterday we had a really cool zone meeting. Since it
was the last district/zone meeting before transfers we had a testimony meeting.
It was so fun because everyone bore their testimony. It was really
powerful! I love my zone. I am so grateful that I am staying!
Yesterday, was a good day. We got to visit a lot of people.
The best was having a Family home evening (FHE) with a less active. Although,
she has been doing really good coming to church. But we had a short
lesson and then just had fun talking to her. She is a single mother, and
we have been visiting her a lot because it really helps. I have grown
really close to her (she is probably my favorite person in Logan) and so I
wrote her a note and gave it to her last night. I really thought i was
getting transferred and wasn't sure if I would see her again, so I wrote her a
note. It took me an hour to write, but wasn't very long. I wanted
it to be grammatically correct, so i had to look up a lot of words and grammar
principals.
It is going to be an exciting transfer, with a new companion
and we are opening a new area. Kind of. I think I will have the
chance to really work hard, and i am very excited for this transfer!
Con Amor,
Hermana Olsen
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