First off thanks for all of your birthday wishes!! It was a great day!! Haha I knew it was gonna be like any other day so I just made it fun. I got a FHE plan set up with my Pension family, the Sulcas and I made cookies. Not my best effort, especially since I had to substitute like 3 ingredients haha. First off, Brown sugar doesn't exist, second off, neither does shortening or real butter. Just good ol Margarine, but they were delicious nonetheless! Haha it was a great day though! Word got around and I had members wishing me a happy birthday. Even someone clear across town in someone else's area wished me a happy birthday! But yeah something funny, I share my exact birthday with 2 people here haha. Elder Cárdenas and an investigator named Danny both turned 19 on the 9th. It was a little weird saying I'm 19 years old after saying 18 so long haha.
A little about my week now! We had a pretty good week this time
around, we have some great investigators! One is good ol Jesus. He is
a guy that is preparing to be a Catholic priest haha. He is incredibly knowledgeable about scriptures but he still listens to us so we still go. I'm baptizing someone on Saturday! It'll be my first baptism I
get to do, I'm trying not to talk about my baptisms as much but it's
pretty cool I'll be doing it!
Church was awesome again, I had piano duty and we had the
sacrament hymn all good and everything, but the youth weren't ready so I
played another verse. One of the councilors was telling me to stop and
I'm like I dunno what I'm doing. So after the meeting I asked Bishop
what he wants me to do and he said that I should continue doing it and
that he doesn't know what he's doing either haha. That was pretty funny,
didn't help too much because I'm not sure what to do when they aren't
ready haha but yeah that was pretty fun. It's pretty hard when all the
church meetings are in Spanish, well everything everywhere in Spanish. I
only get to speak English for about 5 minutes a day when the district
leader calls for our report.
Thanks again for the recipes, I made some pancakes and liquid
gold today haha, could have used more flour in them but it is what it is
haha. Finding ingredients for cooking is like a scavenger hunt. Some
stores have what I need, some don't! Dairy is really expensive I've
found out. It's not terrible but it is still pretty pricy haha.
Speaking of finances I'm not struggling in finances, I ran out one week,
but that's because I only took out 100, I pressed a wrong button and
didn't take out my full 600. We get 620 soles a month to spend and
I've never struggled with money.
One funny thing that happened this week is when I was eating
lunch I found out savage is a bad word here! That was a good time,
luckily the Pension family just laughed and didn't take offense haha.
Another cool thing that happened was I got to play an investigator's
sax! Man that was a good time. He has a sax that's worth about 7000
soles (1500-2000 USD) and I could tell it was that much, it played
amazing. He has a Yamaha I wanna say YTS-63 but I don't know much about
Yamaha instruments or musical language in Spanish haha. But it was a
fun time playing his sax for a little while!
Con amor,
Elder Olsen
PS yeah you can send recordings, I'll probably end up downloading
them onto a USB because I don't have time in internet to listen haha.
Pics Birthday cookies!
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