Elder Olson's Mission to Hawaii: May 2015

June 1, 2015

I have been super busy with the new area and stuff also super exhausted all the time. Anyways I am doing great seriously I feel so good right know. they say that the first 6 months is the hardest and it was true. I think because that's were you decide if you are actually going to stay or give up. it was hard because I really just missed the way things were or the freedom that I had, But man threw so much prayer i made it! if you have time read this scripture Alma 26:12 its helped me so much. Ok topic change i have lost 5 pounds since coming to Kalihi mainly because all the missionary's here go and work out at the YMCA and so we are all motivated by each other we wake up at 5:30 get to the gym at 6 and leave at 7 its awesome! also they have treadmills! so now I can run where my companion can see me

New companion, Elder Salazar the crazy part he is from Saratoga springs but he lived in alpine when he was in high school but his sister goes to Westlake her name is Cassie (Kay-see) Salazar

thanks! the ward here only has 80-90 people come on sunday and there are 660 people in the ward so we have a lot of work to do less active work that is. they are really bad at feeding us though,

they put a ward missionary in charge of doing it and he is not very good at it haha its OK they are getting better and i am getting skinnier, ha ha.

May 25, 2015

(I had just told him his cousin Tyler got his mission call)

Man! lets trade missions! I want to goto Alaska so bad! haha jk. Thats so Awesome! man he needs to write me.

May 18, 2015

this week I have just been saying goodbye to everyone

its really hard actually but I have coped with it. I am getting transferred to a place in town called Kalihi its right on the out side of Honolulu I am pretty excited

May 10, 2015

We were able to Skype with Jason on Mother's Day, we got to talk with him for an hour and half, it was awesome!! What a great Mother's Day gift! I wish everyone could of heard what he said, all I know is Jason is not a boy anymore he has grown into a man. He is so much more mature even though he still has his great sense of humor, which I hope he never looses. Even though some aspects of his mission have been really hard for him he has learned to pray to his Heavenly Father, who has helped him get through all those tough times. He has figured out who he really is and what is really important in life. He bore his testimony to us and it was so amazing to see the difference from the start of his mission till now. He is so full of the Spirit and strives to do what our Heavenly Father wants him to do everyday. He's not afraid to talk to anyone anywhere, just in case that person is ready and waiting to hear the Lord's message. I am so grateful that Jason is out there serving the Lord, I miss him SO MUCH!! and seeing and talking to him made it even harder, but I wouldn't trade it for the world.

May 4, 2015

Ok so I will skype you at 6:00pm sunday night. Also the last two weeks have been great! we have super awesome numbers! which means we have been helping a lot of people. So a lot of the ward members have been asking me what my last meal request will be before I go which is just reminding me that I wont be here anymore. I am ok with leaving but I would love to stay haha. I hope if i do leave it will be to Maui or Kawai. I will let you know if anything really awesome happens you know besides being in Hawaii. love you.

April 27. 2015

Hey! this week was good I am trying to figure out how to send large amount of pictures to you without having to send them all threw an email one at a time it takes forever. also it wont let me send videos because they are to big. if you could try setting something up that would be awesome! I'm not allowed to go to any websites but this one. Anyways this week was once again awesome nothing to exciting just teaching people trying to get them baptized. I will send some pictures of this week. we had some good dinner pictures this week! how is my dog? and hows the family? how weird is it to only have Ryan and Adam at home