Did you have any baptisms No we didn’t have any baptisms hopefully
next week.
What was a spiritual experience for this week? I will just tell one
of them
Well one day this week we taught a lesson to one of our
investigators and well we taught chastity we taught it very directly then we
left. We got a text message the next day from our investigator saying that she
didn’t know if she should keep receiving us or coming to church. We tried to respond by a text message but it
wouldn’t go through, we tried like 10 times so we decided that we would have to
go and visit her. She welcomed us in and she just said what you guys taught
caught me by surprise and she said when you left the other day, all that she
could do was cry. She just cried for a long time and was just afflicted with
all of the things that she had done. She just showed us one of the pages in the
pamphlets and she just showed us it. We read it and we taught that she could be
forgiven and that she could still get baptized. She was really happy and she
had read almost everything that we had left. The spirit was so strong because
she has actually changed her life a lot and she wants to change and get
baptized. She came to church another time so things are looking good.
How was your week? My week
was good but stressful. What was so
stressful? Just church, the branch has
many problems, the members fight against members and it is hard because we have
no leaders now we lost our elders quorum president, so we just have the branch
president and the young men’s leader and that is all of the priesthood.
You are seeing the difficulty of a new member area with little leadership, as
elders I'm sure you hear it from everyone and try and stay
diplomatic. Its really hard but it could
change, they have been throwing around the option of closing the
branch. Was your area opened since
the mission was made 2 years ago or has that been there a while? It has been open for 8 years. Have they closed the area before? Not for more than a few weeks, but the stake
president wants to close down the branch completely. Would you leave the area or stay and try and
build the area? That’s just an idea that
the stake president had and I don’t know what would happen, the branch
president is asking for another year to see if he can get things turned
around. Well go and recruit some men because that is the only way to
grow. We have like 4 for the relief
society and 3 for the young women’s program and we need to find the same for
the young men’s and priesthood. Where is
the elders quorum president go? He
was just released so who knows what happened.
Did he keep coming to church? He
didn’t come this Sunday. But the men here all work in the mountains and they
all work every day of the week so it is hard to find ones that are here in the
city and that want to hear the message.
What were your p-day activities? Today my companion and I went to
the waterfalls in La Jutosa and then we went to pizza hut to eat with some
other elders. While we were there, I saw one of my past companions, Elder M. he is now a Zone leader that was weird to see. He was in Santa Ana with
me
How have you been feeling? I felt good for most of the time. There
was one day that I like hit a wall and began to sweat really bad so I got some water
and ate some bread but I recovered fairly quickly.
Did you do any service this week? No we didn’t do any service this
week it is really hard to find. But lets hope for next week because I like to
do some hard work once and a while.
Has there been a lot of rain? It hasn’t rained that much.
Why are the 2 chickens tied together with the string? So they couldn’t run because they were going
to kill them. We were with this family on another day and the mom saw that we
were playing with them and just walked over and said don’t be to gentle you
have to do it like this and she broke the neck killing it and then she was
going to do it to another and my comp ran away. Did you help pluck the chickens? No.
Well my time is up it has been really fun to talk with you this week
sorry because I haven’t sent many good emails its just hard to think of what to
say and make all of the stories sound as good as they were, but I hope that you
will all have a good week.
Love ELDER OLSEN or as J. D. D. says OSTER
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