Week 42 Chincha Alta

Happy Transfers!!

I FINALLY GET TO STAY WITH A COMPANION FOR MORE THAN ONE TRANSFER!!! Man I am so excited to spend more than one transfer with Elder Sosa. Finally broke the "one companion one transfer" cycle!

The Venezuelans canceled because Jakelin had to travel to Cuzco for an emergency, but fear not, they will be baptized this Saturday, they had their interview done and everything! Also Mavery is going to be baptized on Saturday. She is a reference of another ward, she was attending regularly over there until they sent her to our ward. We had to fight hard for her baptism hahaha. She always wanted biblical proof of what were talking about until finally she got a testimony of the Book of Mormon and accepted it as scripture. Then she said she didn't feel family support for her baptism. We got bold and said we were going to talk to her parents. At first I thought her dad was gonna be stobborn and say she wasn't ready, but he ended up just saying "well if you think she is ready to be baptized go for it." She said that now she has support from her family and they are going to come to her baptism.

She have a few baptisms on deck for next week as well. We have a family that is getting married this Saturday. Paula, the wife, is inactive and her future husband Luis is attending regularly with is son Luisito. Paula literally works every day from 11AM to 1 AM. Uhuh, 14 hours a day. We have talked about the classes of self reliance given by the Church. She took a lot of interest, we are praying for a new opportunity for her. We wanna baptize Luis and his son, but also reactivate Paula. A young adult named Andre is also getting ready to be baptized. The missionaries stopped teaching him when they found his desire to be baptized wasn't there and he was just going to church because his girlfriend was. They broke up and now he is way interested in what we teach to comfort him. We had actually set his baptismal date for the 19th of October with conference and everything, but he expressed his desire to be baptized next week, we won't complain haha.

We have worked so hard the first transfer here and now it's paying off. Something I learned in these last few weeks along with my companion is that if you want to be successful, there is nothing stopping you but yourself.

Enough preaching, we had a calm week. Not nearly as packed. For Pday last week we saw the jungle book. Oh and something interesting about the zone we have now, everyone that can train is training. There are 12 missionaries in Chincha and 5 are being trained 3 are training 2 are training and DLs and 2 are zone leaders! The whole zone is in training! 4 of the 5 news are right of the plane but 1 has 6 weeks on the field. Way crazy.

Well that's all the time I've got this week, thanks for your letters! I LOVE YOU!!!

Ustedes son lo maximo!
Elder Olsen


Pictures are of a poster thing our DL made with the help of other DL, they are so great.