24 Jan 2011

wowowowowow
what an amazing week i am going crazy right now i can not even believe what has happened. wow. so this last week i recieved a email from tyler that pretty much says decide now to baptize and you will do it.. as you all know i have not had the privelige to baptize and with sincerity it has been really hard for me. every week tyler sends more pictures of all of his baptisms and i know how good of missionaries mike and steve were so i was really started to doubt whether i could baptize and when was it finally going to come. ecspecially since transfers are tomorrow... anyway i have been fasting and praying alot to. and well the lord stepped it and had a changed the way i think.. so tyler said baptize every month. so we had inter cambios and i was with elder ramirez when i decided you know if i wanna baptize i just gotta do it. so we went to clemente house and i just told him we were going to baptize him this saturday and elder ramirez interviewed him.(this was on thursday) well he said yeah and he was way stoked and he told me he wanted me to baptize him. man the joy that came over me at that moment is indescribable.. anyway long story short we called my comp that night who is leader of the zone and told him we were going to baptize clemente and he said no?? we cant?? so i said why?? so i ended up calling the assistent and we got permision to baptize.. the problem was that we did not tell the president inthe last email( it was not in our goals for the week) yeah i was pretty confused myself...
anyway this last day we decided it would be best for the dad to do it. very new to the church and has really bad legs. can barely stand but we asked him if he wanted to do it and he said he did and he had faith christ would heal his legs.. wow the humility and faith of this man is incredible... ok so it is day of the baptism and they are all at the church, when i get the impression to bring another pair of white pants. i did not listen. so we go to the church the family is all in white and they get into the water and the dad falls and does not have the strength to baptize(he tried to or three times) yeah so we shut the doors to the font and go in and talk to him when he just said elder olsen can you baptize my son for me.. man seriously missionarry work is the greatest thing in the world. at that moment i dont think i have ever sprinted faster in my life....got the pants and i have the privelage to baptize clemente.. Man it was amazing.. mike was right i would go through hell and back to have one baptism.. it really is amazing i have never been happier..
other than that this week was good we got alot of investigators and we are working me and my comp still are not gettting along perfect but i am trying to just serve him and learn from him because he is a fantastic teacher..

Also i recieved a package!! and a bunch of letters, the package was from nanny( thank you very much nanny), it was super cool to read so many letters and to know that i am still loved in bolivia.. i got a letter from clint, alyssa,jaron, someone in the ward, man it really was good.
I have scriptures!! but they are not my scriptures they are some elder in my group that had an extra pair it is only i would lke to have my other pair so if you could send them that would be awesome.
i am doing great i am really loving the people. the president of the rama hereis crazy,,, in a good way.
i really would like to here that talk that dj gave.and tell him to have patience in the mtc. hahah.
love you all tons send some pics of the fam. other things i wanna see some snow..
Love Elder Olsen