Well. Things are going well. How fun that you are going back
to work. I hope that this year is a good one! I know it will be for me! Thanks
for getting all the information about the Mission! That was really great! Not
excited to miss carpet, but I know it will all be worth it. Um. So I think it
is safe to say that you don’t need to worry about a bad at all. If I need one
when I get down there and they don’t give me one than I’m sure I’ll be able to
find one. Thanks a lot though. So today I got a new CTR ring in the book store
but instead of CTR it says HLJ. Hace la justo. Basically it means do the just! Which
I like a lot more than choose the right. Pretty cool! I love learning all the
differences between Spanish and English. Like the phase "feast on the
words of Christ" translates to "delight in the words of Christ".
Slight differences but still pretty cool!
I got emails from both Hunter and from Taylor. They are both
doing well. They both got to their areas and are loving it so far. Today or
yesterday Hunter got to go to the beach in Savannah and go play sand
volleyball! So jealous! Hunter also gave me a testimony of the truthfulness of
the Book of Mormon that was really cool! They both are having their struggles
but they are both loving the work and loving the people. For Hunter for church
they just have like a Spanish section in the back and they have to translate
for the Spanish speakers. That'll get him speaking Spanish real good! And then
with Taylor, he had something in his scriptures that would fit in the lesson
but it was in English and so he prayed and prepared himself and actually
translated it for the investigator! CRAZYY!!! They can also have 4 baptisms if
everything goes right! It’s so cool! I cannot wait to get out into the field.
Let’s see. On Sunday we watched a talk from Elder Holland
called "Missions are forever". SO good!! Right now I can’t really
think of what exactly to say about it. I probably will right after this haha. But
yeah. I’m finding it easier and easier to stay awake and such. On Sunday during
Priesthood we got a lesson from Brother McGee in the branch Presidency. He is
my favorite! He is so funny and fun to talk to but he gave such a good lesson.
He started off testifying. Talked a little, testified again, and through out
the whole talk was constantly testifying! And he was getting the Elders
involved and it was just a good lesson! After wards I went up to him and I was
going to say "that was a good lesson, it actually kept me awake" but
instead he beat me to the punch and said “WOW elder Olsen you actually stayed
awake for my lesson. I was ready to call on you whenever you fell asleep"
haha! He is a lot of fun!
Let’s see what else. So yesterday we had TRC. And in there
we were teaching about the Book of Mormon. I tried to tell stories about my
passed and reading and I realized that my Spanish really needs some work especially
while telling stories. I challenged the District to tell 5 stories in Spanish
by the end of the week because we just learned how to talk like that and such
haha! Any who. In this lesson I was trying to say truthfulness. And to say
truth in Spanish is "verdadero" so I used my Spanglish and said
"verdadero-ness" Haha!!!
SO this morning we had scheduled to get our hair cuts at
1130. Right after we did our laundry. While putting our laundry away at like
1115 I realize that I am pretty tired and would kind of like a nap and I asked
my companion what he wanted to do and he said he didn’t care so I took and nap
and I think he wrote letters! We both totally forgot about our hair appointment
until we went to lunch and I saw someone who had gotten theirs done. And you
have to have it done on Pday and have to schedule in advance. So we have to
wait till next week, Haha!
So reassignments and travel plans come out 10 days before
you leave the MTC so I will find out where I am going on Friday, like in 2
days! I can’t wait to see. So stay tuned. Hopefully I will find out that my
visa is here and I’m going straight but that probably won’t happen!
But yeah things are good! I am learning so much! And I am
learning so much from reading in the book of Mormon! There is no way that it isn’t
true! Things with my companion aren’t necessarily better it is just different.
He was made DL and he wasn’t prepared and he still doesn’t like being it.. Today
one of his nephews (I told you he has 41 nieces and nephews right? his oldest
brother is dads age) came into the MTC today and we tried hard to stand out
there and wait for him and when we saw him my companion hugged him and his
nephew had to go into the building and as we walked around to the other side to
meet up with him, my companion just started crying and his face got all red and
he said he couldn’t explain why it was happening. I was there, comforting him. Telling
jokes so he laughs and helped him feel better. It was a good moment. Haha!
Oh! So I am out of the drink mixes! So if a package is
coming I need more of that! If possible, maybe like mio or something different.
Its not that I didn’t enjoy the Great Value stuff... its just if it was me I
would have got different. But whatever. It is your call. =D also, if not a big
deal. A hackie sack. The sand bag one that you can get at Zumies. Like we got
for Spencer haha! uhhhhhh.... I think that is it. I’m not sure. I can get on
again later so maybe I’ll think of more and yeah. Well. LOVE ya! Have a good
weekend! PAZ! (Paz means peace in Spanish)
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