Elder Ashton Olsen: Week 44 Chincha Alta

Happy normal P'day free of stress haha
Our program is doing really really well!! Me and Elder Sosa are working really hard with the people that we have right now!! Our worry is in our strength though. We aren't finding as many news as we would like. We believe we will have many baptisms this October, we have families getting married and a lot getting baptized!

I'm really excited for the spiritual feast we will have at General Conference and the visit from Russel M Nelson!! I've got my goals ready to get me prepared for the good ol banquet!

Question time haha. Our week has been great! We had a busy P-day last week. We had to coordinate everything with the beach. We went over to play some american football. The beach is actually pretty ugly, dead seals are a common sight, I kid you not. I'll see if I can get pictures from the other missionary, but I taught myself how to do a handstand haha. There isn't very much to see in our area. We are in the middle of Chincha. There is actually a pretty cool plaza. The members are the greatest, this is a missionary work focused ward and they LOVE their missionaries. I still do not know were our four Venezuelans are from, I'll have to ask them sorry I just wrote in my agenda, ask Venezuelans haha.

Baptisms!!! We saw 4 these past two weeks. Jakelin and Ruben were baptized along with Mavery and later André! Jakelin and Ruben were married then baptized. That was a baptism we had to fight for. Jakelin didn't really wanna get married because of a past relationship, but it finally happened because she wanted to keep the commandments, she "took the risk" haha. Mavery is a girl we found at church. She had said she was attending a different ward in the stake, they told her she should attend the closest church, our ward. She came and recieved the missionaries. We had to fight for her baptism as well!!! She teaches catholic children so we had to back everything up with the Bible!! Eventually she recieved her witness that the Book of Mormon was true. André has been investigating the church for about a year. He was taught by Elder Styler Cullimore Plada Thatcher Sosa and I until he finally had a change of heart. He recently had broke up with her member girlfriend and he said after that, it was "time to open the door for the Lord" and was baptized almost immediatly.

Well that's about my week in a nutshell. I'm traveling to Lima for a meeting tonight, that's gonna be fun haha. I LOVE YOU GUYS!!! I'm interested in every detail. Dad, what are the names of the people that were convert baptisms? What are their names? Are they active?? Tell them I said hi! I'm happy about your goal of 4 baptisms!!

He aqui, mi amor; ¿es poco? Os digo que no, es mucho,
Elder Olsen

PS hey there is apparently a Facebook for missionary families. Sister Richey said it was called Mission Peru Lima South Families or something like that.

PPS OH man don't know exactly what I need this package haha. just a ton of candy, oh and a pack of beef jerky. Also a recipie for Alfredo, and if it requires cheese, better to send just a bunch of packets haha. A few pens would be amazing, nice pens.