Monday, April 25, 2011
25 Apr 2011
bueno. well we had transfers this last week, did not have much time to sleep but that just always makes it the best. so quick story we always do transfers thursday in the morning always always always. so this last wednesday we had called the elders told them that we were going to send them thursday really early if they were leaving the zone. wednesday morning we are leaving the house and the phone rings it is elder ramirez one of the assistants and he asked me if elder fuentes had arrived in our zone. i was super confused because we do not have transfers until the next day but they decided to change it and send all the elders wednesday to there new zones. so now we had to go runnning around the whole city looking for a lost elder, and we found three. but not the one we were looking for haha... so i take all the newbies put them in my house and me and my comp go on splits to find the other elder. i went to the pension.(house where we have lunch) of the elders to tell them they needed to pack and get ready to leave in thirty minutes we get to his house all of his clothes are soacking wet but i just said no importa we shove all his clothes into his bags and send him to santa cruz in a taxi and then i meet with my comp and he had sent the other elder out. as we are getting to leave a member walks up with a elder hah luckily he saw some helpless elder without a comp and three suitcases and decided to help. so that is just one of the miricles i saw that day, it is amazing how much our Heavenly Father cares aboutall of our problems every single one and he helps us out it is the same with janessa and this algebra thing he knows all just dont doubt do your best and he will take care of the rest.
anyway later that night we had to wait until 11.30 to sleep because the elders never showed up at our house. they finally got there we all go to bed set the alarm clock for 4.30a.m. it goes off and while those elders are getting ready to go to the airport, i am calling the member that told us that he could take them to the airport. he doesnt answer and well it is 4 in the morning there is not any taxis at this hour so me and my comp leave in our flip flops, half asleep and just exhausted looking for a taxi. it is funny the mind does not think very well at this hour i am still sure there could have been an easier way to do it. we are just wandering through the streets and we happento run into a taxi just waiting in his car with his lights on, yeah whatver lets go, we return to the house and send the elder on his way now i have like 1 hour to sleep and i go get into my bed. and as soon as i get in someone starts honking. stick my head out the window and it is the member. hah i tell him he is late and what happened. tell him to come back in a half hour when there is more people to send. for the next half hour every five minutes he is honking his horn to ask me where are the missionaries. so yeah it was a strange night. but it all went good we got everyone to there house.and it wasgood.
Other than that i have been thinking alot about all my buddies in the mission i met some people from hammsburg, germany they are members i told them to tell elder thorley or elder tanner hola from bolivia. also i sent a letter to Elder Norton i think it was over a month ago, i sent it straight to his mission i think ahah. also i sent a package to yall. i still dont know if you have gotten it, it has a jersey for dj. and some letters. when is jeff getting married. and how is he doing. really you guys need to help him out so they can get married in the temple, also i am always curios abot everything. yes i got your package thank you very much.. last thing the familia uriona sent me another package with more letters and shoes. hah they are the greatest. they are the baptism i had in Hammacas. with elder baker. but i am loving it some days are hard but it just makes it all the bettter. i pray fro you every day. love ELder Olsen
anyway later that night we had to wait until 11.30 to sleep because the elders never showed up at our house. they finally got there we all go to bed set the alarm clock for 4.30a.m. it goes off and while those elders are getting ready to go to the airport, i am calling the member that told us that he could take them to the airport. he doesnt answer and well it is 4 in the morning there is not any taxis at this hour so me and my comp leave in our flip flops, half asleep and just exhausted looking for a taxi. it is funny the mind does not think very well at this hour i am still sure there could have been an easier way to do it. we are just wandering through the streets and we happento run into a taxi just waiting in his car with his lights on, yeah whatver lets go, we return to the house and send the elder on his way now i have like 1 hour to sleep and i go get into my bed. and as soon as i get in someone starts honking. stick my head out the window and it is the member. hah i tell him he is late and what happened. tell him to come back in a half hour when there is more people to send. for the next half hour every five minutes he is honking his horn to ask me where are the missionaries. so yeah it was a strange night. but it all went good we got everyone to there house.and it wasgood.
Other than that i have been thinking alot about all my buddies in the mission i met some people from hammsburg, germany they are members i told them to tell elder thorley or elder tanner hola from bolivia. also i sent a letter to Elder Norton i think it was over a month ago, i sent it straight to his mission i think ahah. also i sent a package to yall. i still dont know if you have gotten it, it has a jersey for dj. and some letters. when is jeff getting married. and how is he doing. really you guys need to help him out so they can get married in the temple, also i am always curios abot everything. yes i got your package thank you very much.. last thing the familia uriona sent me another package with more letters and shoes. hah they are the greatest. they are the baptism i had in Hammacas. with elder baker. but i am loving it some days are hard but it just makes it all the bettter. i pray fro you every day. love ELder Olsen
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
4 Apr 2011
so when i opened my email this day i noticed alot of pictures were sent to me, didnt really think about it much and i went to write presidente Calderon. super amazing by the way. anyway after that i opened dads email which just say july 28th and yeah.. i have just been sitting here for the past 15 minutes in awe not sure if i should believe it or not. and i am still not sure if it is true, how crazy is tyler, but following the prophet so it is all good. it is just so fast, i will not even have a year in my mission by the time that date comes. but that is all good i am super proud for tyler to be able to follow the prophet, with courage, dont wait there is no need for waiting it is only delayiing the blessings of our heavenly father if we wait, entonces siga no mas, estoy bien contento con tu. no quirro hablar en ingles mi español realamente es bueno, casi estoy latino, con mucho de mis investigadores yo les dije que yo soy paceño, de La paz, algunas veces soy espanol, pero me encanta la idioma de castillano, es mas bonita en todo el mundo en la manera que puedo expresar mi mismo y conversar con personas esta es un grande bendicion de Dios. esta conferencia que tuvimos me encantó todo los discoursos pero siempre me gusta Elder Holland, y poderoso su mensaje con nosotros, yo se que cada uno de ellos son escogido de Dios y son apostoles y profetas. hay que hablar con chino, no se si el ha assistido el templo, pero se que ahora el tiene que ir. el templo es mas grande bendicion en esta mundo y nos ayuda para preparar para las eternidades. yo se familias pueden ser eterna y estoy muy agradecido estar en esta muy grande y fuerte familia. mucho gracias para todo sus oraciones. estoy siempre orando para ustedes y quirro que tienen mucho exitó en sus vidas. se que nunca escribo mucho pero tango un bueno memoria, y en el reino celestial voy a countar todo mis experiencias. assiten el templo cada samana si sea posible no hay excuso viven en utah hay bastante templos. vaya y van a ser bendicidos yo se esta es la iglesia verdadero, no hay otro tenemos que siempre recordar nuestro salvador estamos aqui para llegar como el. muchisimo gracias.
Con mucho amor. ELDER OLSEN
Con mucho amor. ELDER OLSEN
18 Apr 2011
Wow i can honestly say i have never felt my life pass by so fast it is so strange to think how long i have been in bolivia and how much has changed in my life, my prioties. everything. but first off i had not read a bunch of your emails because i did not know where they were, but i just read a couple of them, and tyler i dont think you could go into the marines, it really just is not a good place to have a family, and the air force i really do not know i have been thinking about going to school after and trying to be an officer, but ultimetly (i cant spell in english anymore) my goal is to be a pilot, that is something i would just love to do, but si o si you have to go officer if you want it good. dont let them trick ya or anything study first and after you can join, that is something i wish would have done, dont take me wrong i honestly believe if i did not go, i would probably not be on the mission so it was obviously a step Heavenly Father put in my life to help me grow and prepare me for something bigger. the mission is the same every thing that happens is a test, it is a trial of our faith, so we can learn and grow and in the end become more like our lord and saviour.
so yesterday we had two baptisms, they were good mario is a way good young man he is way small but he is 19, and he is prepping for the mission. he is watching his six younger siblings the parents live in different parts but yeah we are prepping them for baptism also looks like 7 of may,, the other is a inactive daughter we have been teaching them for two three weeks and solo needed someno to visit them to invite them to churhc again.
this week we had to do a ton of stuff for the zone the president is going to open some areas here and we had to find a house, a pension. and just about everything took away about a solid day of proslyting i was pretty upset. also we have to go to santa cruz, to buy a bunch of furniture and prepare for the transfters which are this wednesday,thursday. so i am pretty stoked to participate in my first transfer i have heard they are pretty crazy.
Yesterday we went on intercambios with 2 young men and i got a referencia from a member she told me she was super intrested and wanted to come to church, i asked when we could contact her and she told me only is there in the middle of the day so i put an appoitment for today(preparation day) and when i got back to the house told my comp he got way upset, started trying to use the manual missional to explain we cant teach on monday, and i just lost it. nothing makes me more upset than whiners, complainers that just hits me in the very soul, we got into an arguement, he ended up calling the assistents to ask, and ofcourse they said claro que si. after that he calls the president, and by then i was just fuming, and i always have a hard time talking when i am mad, if i am not screaming, well it is even more difficult in spanish. the presindent talked to him for a solid five minutes after he passed me the phone and i explained it was a reference and it is only one appoitment, he just told me elder you can do that but, you have to have unity in the companionship, both of them have to be in agreement. he told me it would be better to go a different day. but in the future just be in agreement with your comp., i agreed we definetly had the spirit of contention with us and it is not good. other than that i asked him if this next transfer we could have a zone activity where we go to a plaza and sing and just do contacts,(i remember tyler doing something like that) but he said yeah it is all good. so this next week or so we are going to have that, i am pretty stokedthey need something to cheer them up, do something a little different, we have a couple companions that are really struggling. if there is any other ideas i will accept with arms wide open.
Other than that life is great i am loving the mission. tyler is getting married and his fiance has not written me, i expect a two page letter from the two of them, i did not hear from yall this week, hope everything is all good. How is all my budies, coop, jeff, corey, clint, i pray for them daily. and i pray for my family evey second i love you all your my motivation and my strenght with out you i would be lost.
Love ELDER OLSEN
so yesterday we had two baptisms, they were good mario is a way good young man he is way small but he is 19, and he is prepping for the mission. he is watching his six younger siblings the parents live in different parts but yeah we are prepping them for baptism also looks like 7 of may,, the other is a inactive daughter we have been teaching them for two three weeks and solo needed someno to visit them to invite them to churhc again.
this week we had to do a ton of stuff for the zone the president is going to open some areas here and we had to find a house, a pension. and just about everything took away about a solid day of proslyting i was pretty upset. also we have to go to santa cruz, to buy a bunch of furniture and prepare for the transfters which are this wednesday,thursday. so i am pretty stoked to participate in my first transfer i have heard they are pretty crazy.
Yesterday we went on intercambios with 2 young men and i got a referencia from a member she told me she was super intrested and wanted to come to church, i asked when we could contact her and she told me only is there in the middle of the day so i put an appoitment for today(preparation day) and when i got back to the house told my comp he got way upset, started trying to use the manual missional to explain we cant teach on monday, and i just lost it. nothing makes me more upset than whiners, complainers that just hits me in the very soul, we got into an arguement, he ended up calling the assistents to ask, and ofcourse they said claro que si. after that he calls the president, and by then i was just fuming, and i always have a hard time talking when i am mad, if i am not screaming, well it is even more difficult in spanish. the presindent talked to him for a solid five minutes after he passed me the phone and i explained it was a reference and it is only one appoitment, he just told me elder you can do that but, you have to have unity in the companionship, both of them have to be in agreement. he told me it would be better to go a different day. but in the future just be in agreement with your comp., i agreed we definetly had the spirit of contention with us and it is not good. other than that i asked him if this next transfer we could have a zone activity where we go to a plaza and sing and just do contacts,(i remember tyler doing something like that) but he said yeah it is all good. so this next week or so we are going to have that, i am pretty stokedthey need something to cheer them up, do something a little different, we have a couple companions that are really struggling. if there is any other ideas i will accept with arms wide open.
Other than that life is great i am loving the mission. tyler is getting married and his fiance has not written me, i expect a two page letter from the two of them, i did not hear from yall this week, hope everything is all good. How is all my budies, coop, jeff, corey, clint, i pray for them daily. and i pray for my family evey second i love you all your my motivation and my strenght with out you i would be lost.
Love ELDER OLSEN
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