Letter/pictures from Elder Olson December 11, 2014

Dear Family,

I'm sorry I didn't get to write much in my email I only get an hour and I had to write my Mission President which took forever. But anyways I am so happy to say that I have been out here a week and a day, I know that doesn't sound long but trust me when I tell you it has been a long week. I am really excited for my Birthday because I can say that I am 19 which just makes me feel not son young. It will be really weird to not have if with you , plus the ony way I think I will get a cake is if I make one for myself. This might surprise you but I actually started to feel homesick the other day, and I think it's because I have been teaching a Christmas message to everyone and part of it is talking about sharing Christmas with your family which then I think of how I want to be with my family this Christmas and it was hard, also another thing is that the Christmas season in Hawaii sucks, there is no snow covered mountains, no hot chocolate and I can't listen to my favorite Christmas music and it's really hot outside, it's like the complete opposite of Utah. Anyways my companion and I are really starting to get along we definitely have our differences but I have learned to adapt. Oh mom you will be happy to know that the Bishop here is really into your DoTerra and they thought it was really funny that you sent me with some, I've actually been using them because one of the things they don't tell you is that if you are a white person the Mosquitos love to eat you while you sleeping so I was waking up with 5 new bites everyday. So then I was asking around what people were using to stop the Mosquitos and I had like 3 people tell me to use Terrashield , so every night I put it all over me 

(My companion loves the smell ) and I haven't had anymore bites, so thank you.   I really will miss you all this next few weeks but I know that families can be together forever, so what's two years? Let everyone know I love them and that I am really blessed to have grown up with friends and family that I did. Also if it's possible I would love some pictures of our family and my dog, oh and if you don't know what to get me for my birthday my camera is a piece of crap, just a little help. Oh and the mission home told me to tell you if you are going to send packages make sure you use UPS it's better that way for some reason. Oh and dad please make me some fudge I love you .

Oh sorry I keep forgetting the rules on the music are hymns, we have been listening to the same ones over and over again for a week now so please send me some CDs also we can have EFY music which is awesome so go to the church website under music for youth and download them.

Mahalo