Well tomorrow are
changes and Elder Diaz is leaving. :~( We were really starting to get along. He
is more than happy to kiss the stairs goodbye. He wanted to go super far like
outside of the Capital where I was, but the Lord needs him here close by. He is
going to Roosevelt (where I am writing right now). I am receiving Elder
Ngungutau from Tonga (Texas but he's Tongan). You might recognize that name
because he was in my district for four and a half months and we did divisions
together. He is really awesome and the members always LOVE him. He was asked to
be on the American Professional Rugby Team or something like that but he
decided to work in the airport instead. I'm not 100% sure about his story, but
hey that's why I've got 6 weeks to go with him. He goes home in October with
Elder Galvan. He was his companion in the CCM (Missionary Training
Center).
Well this week was actually really
special. The members are working with us a ton and they are just so amazing. I
found a giant tarp/poster thingy of a google maps (just white streets) of
Peronia, but it was blank and without a single name. During the day, I ask
people names of the streets and how to get places then I map it out in my
planner and in the night or morning, I update my map. There is a lot of the map
missing too so I'm figuring out relationships and angles too to draw in the
rest. I like geography. Hey if you can find Peronia in Zone 8 of Villa Nueva,
there is a HUGE volcano to the side in a specific direction (I'm not oriented
yet ;) ). This is the Volcano that I saw in the plane here that looked like a
HUGE mountain (while we were still above all of the clouds) then we descended
and I saw the rest underneath. It is gorgeous. I am going to try to get a
picture today.
Well two teenage girls, Jennifer and
Nahomy, were going to get baptized this weekend, but in the end their Dad asked
that they please wait just two months before they get into something so
serious. He is very strongly not-Mormon, so it was amazing that he even let us
into the house (thanks to familia Aguilar!!!!) I spoke very directly and
plainly to him about the Book of Mormon and how EVERYTHING depends on if the
Book of Mormon is true. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is 100%
the true church of Jesus Christ himself, or it is 100% false because of the
base of its declaration. Everything depends on the answer that God gives the
people personally. The invitation is perfect. Ask God--You can’t go wrong. In
the end, He accepted the invitation and challenge to read the Book of Mormon
and he said, "Who knows? We might get involved with [our daughters]"
That was neat.
Well I love you all
a ton bunch!!! I wish chocolate bananas and black beans for all!!! With
permission of mom, Graham Crackers and Peanut Butter for everyone!!!! (I don't
have those to give).
The church is true. We are here to
progress. Trials and afflictions are a blessing for our learning and growth.
God loves us and only wants us to return honorable to His presence. He is our
Father and our personal families can be Eternal (together forever!) They WILL be
eternal and Grandma Olson declares so firmly. What are you willing to do to
make/have your eternal marriage and eternal family? If you are not exactly sure
what that means, ask a Mormon. . . . Then read the Book of Mormon.
I love you all.
Oh yea, the dirt. On Saturday, we
moved/dumped a pile of dirt the size of a whole yard and the height up to the
waist by filling up gunny sacks with dirt and carrying them up and down stairs,
through an itty bitty hole in a fence and dumping them off of the side of a
canyon.
Well I love you all
a lot a lot a lot. Like a super-hopper-jumper-spik'n-ninja lot.
(If you don't
understand, ask an Olson or Samuel)
Love,
Elder Olson
Pics: Ronald McDonald really
liked the story of Ammon and King Lamoni.
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