Sunday, February 22, 2015

JANUARY-WEEKS 45-48

JANUARY 26
DOUBLE BAUTISMO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh my goodness, can i just say I love being a missionary! The Church is true! 
 
Luis Luna and Diana Peñaherrera got baptized! It was defiantly the most powerful baptism i have ever had! Luis asked me to give a little talk in the bap. I cried, he cried, Diana cried, we all cried! Afterwards Diana came up to me and that me for being her missionary! Luis said, "I told you not to cry!" There confirmation blessings were beautiful too! Diana is going to be an amazing leader in the church! Luis is going to serve a mission! I will do anything to get him there. We are planning a temple trip on my bday! 
Gabriel is SUPER Excited for his Baptism this saturday! 

We had an activity in the ward we all the leaders and visiting teachers and people went out and visited the less actives and some converts and invest. Pres Riggins (the most powerful missionary you will ever meet!) came to join me and Hna Whisenant  with our visits. It was the coolest experience to teach with the Him! He´s powerful and mind blowing. And i could tell he really enjoyed our teaching( he was nodding his head in approval while i was teaching, made me feel awesome)! Called us his Daughters in one lesson!  

Hna Riggins told me that in her mission one of her nephews was born. Everyday her sister showed a picture of her to her nephew and said, "this is aunt Bonnie, aunt Bonnie is in her mission, Aunt bonnie loves you!" We she got back the baby already new here and loved her! If leah could that with me and Lincoln that would be awesome!!! 

With lots of love!
Hna Olsen






JANUARY 19
Hello!

Im doing great!! We will have 2 baptism this saturday!!! Diana Peñaherrera and Luis Luna! I dont know if you guys remember Luis Luna, I had dropped him 2 weeks a go and last sunday he said he wanted us to teach him again. So we went over to his house last tuesday and i was prompted to ask him who is God for him, he told us that he knows that God is his father and he is His son! I was then prompted to ask Will you be baptized the 24 of Jan. He looked me straight in the eys and said "Yes, Hna, I want to be baptized!" He is 18 and has had some troubles but the gospel is blessing his life! 
Diana just esta the gospel up! She takes notes during church and tells us she loves us! Gabriel Avilez is also excited for his baptism! he will be baptized the 31 of enero! 

Its been raining a little here! The heavy rains haven't started though. At this time there are full crickets! There are huge here and gross....

Lots of love! 
Hna Olsen


JANUARY 12
Hi mom!!!

Im doing great! This week has been a really good one! It started out a little shaky but it ended really well! 
We have an invest called, Diana Peñaherrera, She had her baptismal interview Sunday. When she walked out she had tears in here eyes came up to me gave me a hug and handed me her baptismal record  just a way of saying "I really want to do this!" We stood there hugging me for awhile. 

We also contacted a random guy called, Gabriel Avilez(25), he attended church only because we invited him to. later that Sunday we visited for the first time and accept a baptismal date!

Later that day we received a reference (Segundo Israel, husband and father of 2 kids) and as we were talking to him getting to know him the Lord let me see, just for a few seconds, him wearing white baptizing one of his kids! That was amazing experience! We are going to continue to work with him more! Im excited to see what happens with him!

I Love being a missionary! Its the best thing ever!  

Im happy to hear everyone is doing great! Happy to hear that the church is growing back at home! Happy to hear that Leah is bigger than I am! Hahaha Love you leah beah! The rain should start really soon! 

With much love,
Hna Olsen


JANUARY 5
Hello! 

So i had an awesome new yearas! In Ecuador the people are crazy and they party even crazier! SO here they have a traditions here where they burn something called a manegote. which is a huge model of something or one made out of newspaper with fireworks in it. they can be the size of a cat to like 12 ft tall or even taller. Everybody in all of ecuador burns theirs at 12:00 in the night, it was like world war 3 going on for like 5 hours! Im not going to lie it was the coolest new year I have ever had! we watch the people burn them from the safety of hour house! needless to say I didnt get any sleep that night.

It snowed?!?! What!!! Im sweating like a Pig and it snowed in Arizona for the first time since before i was born! Thats not fair... But Awesome! 

Right now we are refining our teaching pool and looking for new poeple to teach. some of our invest arent progressing anymore and we had two days this last week where we went around as a zona, through out the whole zone, just contacting. It was awesome! So hopefully we will have new people soon! We do have one pretty solid invest, Diana Peñaherrera. She´s 28 and loves attending church and understands the teachings really well! We will see how everything goes with her! 

I love you all lots! 
Hna Olsen

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