Hey Easter was great! Your package got here on Saturday! Thank you so much I love candy! I am pretty sure i am the only Elder who got a Easter package in the zone so thanks again. Easter was great! we watched conference at our ward mission leaders house which was at 6:00am in the morning here way to early! Anyways then we had an awesome lunch at one of our investigators. They are all Catholic but we all celebrated the resurrection of our savior together which was awesome! after that we had dinner with the moody clan! ok I am not sure if I have told you about the coolest family ever but I will now. So basically this family makes up 1/2 of the Waialua ward. So this family all lives alright next to each other like within a mile there are the original moody's their kids and then there is their kids all right next to each other. its pretty cool they are the nicest family in the world. Anyways they always invite us to there family gatherings.
We some how always end up playing Ultimate Frisbee every time we go over there its a blast! also some elders in my district wrote a song and we all sang it for one of our meetings its pretty good its kind of a weird recording but here it is.( sorry I don't know how to put the recording on the Blog)
April 10, 2015Hey family and friends,
So it's been a while since I wrote a letter so I thought I would give you an update on my mission stuff ha ha. Okay so I have been in the Waialua Word for 4 1/2 months now and just found out today that I will be here for another transfer (6 weeks) that's awesome. I love it here in Waialua Word here reminds me a lot of the good old seventh ward. Man my mission is just flying by it seems like I just got here last week. I have learned so much! But mostly I just have fun I live and breathe the spirit I have such a thirst for it like never before. We have some really cool families that are less active that we are trying to bring back to church. That's most of the work here. We have a few eternal investigators . Which basically means someone who we teach but they won't make or keep commitments such as reading the book of Mormon or getting a baptism date. Which means they never really progress which is really frustrating sometimes. But I have learned that as a missionary all we can do is give them the opportunity to come, we can't force them because they have agency just like us. Actually something funny that someone told me is God gave us agency so we can choose right from wrong, but man other people's agency sucks! Ha ha it's true though I wish I could make decisions for other people sometimes but we can't. Anyways I am doing pretty great sometimes I miss home mostly because of the freedom I had there and the family. But most the time I am spreading the good word. Actually I recently have been teaching myself piano I know 2 hymns now! Ha ha it's amazing what you can learn with a little downtime and no Facebook. Also I have almost solved the Rubiks cube and I am almost done learning a hymn on the ukulele . So a lot is going on but the most important thing I am learning is how to share my testimony with others. I love my mission and I can't believe I get to serve it here in Hawaii of all places. I hope all is going well back
in Utah. Have a great week!
P.S. Please please feed the sister missionaries there in the ward I get fed every night please return the favor and send me a picture so I can see that you did thanks! also if you haven't already watched this video it's a killer #Because He Lives
With love and a Aloha Elder Jason Tad Olson
Ok so this week there was alot of history made first of I can solve the rubix cube so that's pretty cool haha. this week was transfers. Elder Mapusua and I will be staying together for 1 more transfer and they president told me that I will be leaving Waialua I don't know where but I will be leaving its crazy that I have been out for 5 months already! also this week I ate something crazy!
its call balut its a Filipino delicacy it is actually a duck egg that is hard boiled with the duck embryo still inside it looks nasty and doesn't taste to great either i will send some pictures I have a video but i cant seem to find it. please let me know the plan for the camera also i want to see that video of us singing haha love you -Elder Olson (pics below)
April 20, 2015
Mom things are awesome this last few months have been some of the best and hardest months of my life but i think i have finally figured out how to be a missionary and its great! my companion and i are still awesome I will miss him a lot when I transfer on the 20th of May I don't know where I am going yet but I know I will be leaving the Waialua ward. This is so sad to me I have such a strong love for all these people and I cant believe that I have to leave already. At the same time i am so excited to start yet another adventure it feels a lot like leaving home all over again but i am ready to learn something new.The work here is good like i said its a lot of less active work but we have been able to bring 2ish family back to church which feels really good and is actually really fulfilling as a missionary. we actually only taught that Michael guy twice then he never called us back or answered his door so i guess he doesn't want it anymore. love you cant wait to skype you on the 10th. thanks for the new camera i need to figure out a better way of sending to pictures be cause right now I have to attach and send them one by one and that's really annoying ,
Love Elder Olson
We won a brand new 2015 Chevy Cruze at zone confrance !!! its so awesome so whoever has the cleanest car at zone confrance gets to pick any of the other missionary's car and trade them so we took the newest and the nicest haha.
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