Week 32 Pisco

Happy Monday

It has been a super great week!! Wow, we have worked way too hard haha. We had a ton of success with looking for new people. In this week we miraculously found 5 families!! That counted as 18 more of our brothers and sisters looking for the truth. I testify of the importance of contacting and looking for families! God wants all of His families to be together, so I feel that they have been prepared even more!

Along with our focus on families, Elder Huanca and I are working really hard with contacting our referrals!! This week we have recieved 22 referrals. We are running all over the place to try and contact each one of them!  We are doing really well with contacting last week's referrals! We have almost contacted every single one of them. We are still working hard to find the same amount of referrals this week, we are seeing a lot of support from our amazing members thanks to our third focus.

We are working so hard to gain trust and work with our members. My companion told me the story of his conversion and how he had a member by his side giving support and taking him to church! We are working hard as usual with our members, trying to visit and minister to each one of them.

We had our 4th of July celebration as well! We had a grill at the church and cooked up some steaks and hot dogs. We also tossed the pigskin around. The white people taught me how to throw a football. The Latinos thought it was hilarious that I picked it up so fast, haha they were saying things like "oh it's in gringo blood!" I gotta say, I'm hooked though!

We have been doing a lot of work with part member families haha. When I came in to the area, 3 children had baptismal dates haha. They will be baptized these next few weeks. We are also working with a couple Geraldo and Yobana. They are like active investigators haha, they come to activities but don't wanna be baptized. They want a sign that it's the right time, they don't understand that it is already the right time and you should do it as soon as possible. They also are scared that when they get baptized we will ditch them or something like that. I just wanna tell them that we will ditch you if you don't progress, if you get baptized we still gotta get you to the temple, with a calling and all that good stuff haha.

We had a funny investigator yesterday. There was this weird family that sent in their house to the church for us to visit them. We came and the whole family just starts toasting us. They were saying John was beheaded, how can John be an apostle. I told them John and John are different. Then they started to say "Mary Magdelene showed up in the bible video with a baby in her arms" And then I found myself reaching in my bag for my bible but then I stopped myself and just shared the rest of the apostasy and restoration haha. It was funny because the lady behind me apparently filmed the whole thing. Glad I didn't get into it haha.
We had the first ward English class in a long time. We had a lot of people come, I hope that we can get some more to come next week, hopefully nonmembers. Because everyone there were members, I taught them how to pray in English haha. It was a good time learning to use the verb "to be." We are thinking about starting a piano class too, we will see how that goes though.

Thanks for reading all of my miracles and know that I love to read yours!

YO LES AMO!
Elder Olsen

PS you know nothing of hot and humid! Well not right now; right now it's super cold, but still, ha ha!

Steaks!