Sept 21, 2015
Hey, here are some pictures! this week was good we got some crazy transfer news Elder Jensen and I will be getting a 3rd companion We will have Elder Valdez with us for this transfer so we will be a Tripanionship then who know what will happen I am super excited because i am already friends with this elder he is awesome so now I will have my awesome son and and awesome companion. this transfer I hit 6 months in Kalihi which normally means i am getting transferred so that's exciting! the only hing is I don't know how exactly we will fit another Elder and all his stuff in our tiny pad but it will be fun either way!
BTW the picture is of Big Mac Monday today
Big Mac Monday
Elder Jensen & Elder Olson
Preschool kids, love Elder Olson
Glad Jason is eating so healthy! ha ha
Sept 14, 2015
HEY! MAN! we had such an awesome week! We got one of our investigators to come to church. it felt so good to see her there. it even looked like she was a member. Also this week we found a new investigator named rick he is super awesome. he has this really cool house that was built in 1927. Its full of art and really cool stuff that is really old. we have a service project on Wednesday there because its kind of falling apart. Also this is week 6 of the transfers so that means transfers in Wednesday of next week doesn't mean much for elder Jensen and I we still have one more transfer together then i hope the send me to Maui because I haven't left what we missionary's call the ROCK or Oahu anyways. Tell grandma and grandpa I love them and miss them also that they are in my prayers. Recently my best friends in the zone Elder Warnick and Elder Matson and us all piched in to buy Settlers of Catan it alot like settlers of zarahemla but a little better. so we have been playing that for the last 3 Pdays its so fun. Well I am pretty sure at Christmas i am going to need all new garments just so your aware also I need a new black mission belt and new brown shoes. sorry all my stuff started crapping out on me and i want my memory card back so i dont know if you want to just send the shoes and belt or send me money garments can wait until Christmas the shoes and belt cant also I ripped a pair of pants so now i need new pants as well i went to Walmart here to see if they have any they do but there all XXX there huge they don't sell little people clothes here i know that's alot of stuff just let me know how you want to work it sorry. LOVE you guys!
-Elder Olson
Playing Catan
Sept 8, 2015
Hey mom im doing just fine here in Hawaii this week was really slow for us especially now that were walking but so far we have been blessed for it so its worth it. Elder Jensen is doing great he is really starting to understand how a mission really is. I am have alot of fun showing him all the cool things especially the food. I don't have a whole lot to tell you so i don't know how I am supposed to write a long email. How is grandma? and how is Max? I do miss you all so much. right now i am just super excited to hit my one year mark. So that's where my heads been. love you guys!
August 31, 2015
HI!
Ok everyone just thought I would send out a mass email and give you all an update on my work here in Hawaii. My Mission has been so great I have come so much closer to my father in heaven. Since being out I have learned how to feel the spirit always and to let it guide my choices as a missionary. Sometimes missionaries try to do the lords work with out him and it doesn't work, its really really hard to do. Trust me I've Tried. In the last month our so my mission has really changed. It started when my Mission president asked me to train Elder Jensen, In my head It seemed easy but in reality not so much haha. Watching him learn and grow as a missionary has showed me just how much I have changed from when I started and now. When your a Greenie you feel like you can just baptize anyone if you share enough scriptures or say enough prayers, but in reality its not so much what you teach or share its actually its what you don't say. if your always talking how are they going feel the spirit. As missionary's we are useless without the spirit we just cant do anything without it. The holy ghost testify's of truth it helps us know what to say and how to say it or when we should not say anything at all. I just want to bare my testimony of the gift I received when I was 8. its grown with me its been with me when I had nothing else. sometime I cant hear it because of the games, music or movies I watch but its always been there. I know that your gift is still with you too. You might not hear it or feel it but its there, always has been. I know it can be with you and lift you as mine has me. Please get back in touch with your spirit and see the difference it can make in your life. it make take a sacrifice but you tell me if its worth it or not.
love you all so much have a great day everyday! -Elder Olson
August 25/26th, 2015
Hey, so I had to spend my laundry money on new garments so i could use 20$ for my laundry love you guys sorry I only have 30min today and yes I emailed Tyler he says he loves it so far. Elder Jensen and i are doing great we had a pretty hard week this week because on Wednesday they took our car and gave us bikes which suck! hahaha but then on friday one of the bikes broke so then we had to walk until Monday so we could get a new bike also its been raining alot here and our roof started leaking and i ripped my favorite pair of pants then he ripped his shirt on a fence. so ya it was hard last week but i was trying really hard to be positive for my companion. and it turned out to be a pretty good week mission work wise. i feel that the lord was trying to let me see just how much i am blessed to be serving in hawaii and in the kalihi ward. This week has been much better because the ended up having an available car so they gave it to us then the temple was awesome today its just what i needed the lord helped us realize the little blessings. love you guys and pray for you all the time.
hey! so we get to email today too because our got cut short yesterday. also we just found out their taking our car again its really starting to be hard to stay positive especially because now grandma is sick again why cant she just stay healthy?
August 17th, 2015
Everything is great another awesome week, but wow this training thing is a little harder than I thought it was going to be haha. Were doing great but sometimes I feel a little in over my head. So my greeines name is actually Elder Jensen. He is from Sandy Utah he was well trained in the MTC, and is full of ideas. he has already progressed in just the short time together already I am really excited to teach him whatever it is that the lord thinks I know haha. Good luck with your race run a few for me I could use it. LOVE YOU ALL!
Elder Olson and Elder Jensen
this lady in our ward makes super cool
aloha ties so i got her some fabric so now i have some way cool ties
August 10, 2015
Hey mom so ya I probably should send letters back to I will some time soon. I write and email Dustin all the time it good to hear from him i miss him a ton. but ya he just got called as a district leader i knew he would be a leader one day. He is a way better missionary then me for sure. BIG NEWS tho, transfers is Wednesday and President Warner called us on Saturday and asked me to train a new missionary from Idaho! I am super excited i would much rather train then be a DL or a ZL plus it means President trusts me so that feels really good. So I get my son on Wednesday and we will be together for his first 12 weeks or 3 months i am in charge of making him a great missionary. its a little scary but it something i am stoked about. Elder Salazar will be missed but he will be just fine he is leaving to Big Island on Wednesday so he is excited we had a good 3 months together he was my favorite companion so far. that memory card is just for sending videos home when I need to clear space off of my other card this is the best way I could think of to send my videos home please send it back but i did just fill up my 16 gig so i do need money for another one of those if its not to much to ask I hate asking for money because you already do so much for me but sometimes i have to other wise i will run out of food money. Anyways I got to see sister Molina yesterday we had dinner. I will attach pictures it was really weird to switch roles with her. haha also elder Salazar has a huge crush on her to bad shes engaged.
August 3, 2015
hey! so I am sending you a really long video answering all of your questions. Plus this week we did something awesome! so saturday a guy from our ward took us to this place for dinner its called Honolulu burgers
They have this awesome! thing called the Kamehameha challenge its this huge burger and if you can eat it in an hour its free check it out !
(He sent us some videos, but I don't know how to put them on here, sorry)
No comments:
Post a Comment