June 2015

June 15, 2015



 This week was probably the best week of my mission this far. This week we set two people with a baptism date, taught 24 lessons and got 4 new investigators it was a crazy busy week good numbers don't come easy. The lord really tested us to see if we really wanted it. my companion and I are so tired haha but it was worth it. i had a really great spiritually amazing experience this week as well. So for the last two weeks or so we have been stopping by this less active members house, just trying to see why he is not coming to church and to help him come back. So we finally got down to the real issue this Sunday. He is convert of about 6 years and he said that the main reason he joined the church was for his wife and kids but now that the kids are moved out and he is divorced he hasn't gone back to church. he told us that he has always told everyone he is a Mormon and still lives the commandments.then he told us about how one of his friends has started questioning his religion and is telling him that he is only Mormon because of his X wife. and he had to stand up for the church which he did, but now he has let the words into his head and has started to doubt why he is a member. As he and my companion talked I just sat there and listened. (which for me is hard to do because I always have something to say haha) as i was listening i just was praying that i would know what to say to help him. Eventually it came to a point where it was my turn to say something. When they both looked at me for some reason I just laughed haha. Then when the looked at me again just confused this time. I just started talking about the period of time right before my mission and I guessed I laughed because I remembered the exact same feelings that he was describing. when it came time for me to act on my religion or not. Same with him then the lord filled my head with the words to explain the way i felt had how all it took was a little faith and now I am super blessed. then he said that we will see him on Sunday. it was so awesome! i love mission work!                    





June 9, 2015

Aloha Family!
I know recently I have been pretty brief when it comes to my emails, so I thought I would write this letter to catch you all up on my mission. So here I go. On May 14th I hit a milestone of 6 months on my mission. That's crazy, so shortly after I got transferred to my 2nd area, which is called Kalihi and for those of you who don't know its right next to the city of Honolulu and my last area was way in the country side. So now I am in a completely new world. As you know I am not exactly a big fan of city's , and so here I am right in the city. If you were to ask, most missionaries would tell you that the last place they want to go to is Kalihi. So when I found out I was going there, everyone's reaction was "Oh...I am so sorry" so as you can imagine, that made me real happy to be here. But I tried to keep a positive attitude about it. So  when I first got here I was freaking out just a little mainly because of the traffic and all the noise from the city was keeping me up at night. Very different from Eagle Mountain. Anyways, I have been here almost two weeks, and I actually like it. Sure it's a little getto but it's my piece of the getto. It's really fast paced. Here everybody is always doing something the city truly does not sleep. As for my new companion Elder Salazar, he is great! We are very different in almost everything, I like, he hates. Ha Ha. now that might sound like it wont work, but actually it gives us a lot to talk about. So he has moved all over, but he went to high school in Alpine, Utah but shortly after graduation, his family moved to Saratoga Springs which is only like ten minutes away from each other. So that's cool, we actually know a few of the same people. We have a lot of fun together, we both are set on working as hard as we can and following all of the rules, so that helps. Oh so here is a story for you, today we went to an investigators house where a few people live, actually now we know these people were a little crazy, they are not all there, if you know what I mean. Anyways, today we found out first hand why they are crazy! So we knock on their door and they seemed really excited to see us. They invited us in, and we sit down and we start to try and have a conversation with them. They had the TV on. So one of the 3 people, Bobbie wasn't really paying attention to us, but we started to share Helaman 5:12 and about 3 words into it this lady named Sam pulls out his little bag of something out of nowhere and then she pulls out some paper and starts rolling up her self some Pakalolo or weed or Pot whatever you want to call it. Ha Ha  Ya!! so my companion and I soon realize what is happening and so we start rushing through the rest of the verse and then she just starts smoking and we were inside this little room and she was just blowing it right into our faces! So as soon as we could we said a little prayer and got out of there!! As my companion and I walked away we were just shocked! as to what just happened to us! Also we were really hungry! Ha ha! Crazy that Kalihi for you. Ok well that's all you get. Love you all!!

Thanks for all the love!!
Elder Olson