Week 69 Chorrillos

Fall Has Fallen!!

We went to the temple here in Lima this week for P day!!  We went super early Saturday morning so that 1. we could get a session without waiting an eternity and 2. so that the Elders in the office could come. It all went well!  It was super cool to be in the temple again after so much time without being in the south haha. To dad: the whole stake division isn't all the hard, we don't have to cover the areas just the stake leaderships, we just have to do a bunch of visits. The attendance is rising. And the zone is doing super good, we just need to help them to achieve their goals.  Any tips papà?

Cèsar got baptized on Saturday.  It was actually a spiritually fortifying experience to see his progress and conversion.  He transformed into a positive happy person!  He can't wait to get an assignment to serve in the church with a calling.  He has also expressed interest in becoming a full time missionary!  I'm excited to see his progress as he continues to learn. Someone in his family is a member and has done a bunch of his family history.  He is excited to take some names to the temple.

Other than that we kind of lost Sol and Henry, they don't really wanna get married so we will just have to leave them to the side and just work on getting them a real testimony of the restoration.  We kinda lost Luz and Adriana, we are going to see if we can focus on them this week.  Beatriz is still going strong!  She is getting her last paper ready for her marriage!! We are super excited!!  Apart from her we have Frank.  He is still progressing, he came to a young men's activity and is getting super fellow shipped.  We have in another side we have a small family that are starting to progress and come to church.  Their names are Mirtha, Rosa, Lenis, and Juliana. They are a non member family.  The girls are in the care of a member family so basically they are already members participating in the church activities and in the family traditions of scripture study, prayer, and FHE.  They will progress super well.

Well that's about my time for this week!!  I love you and pray for you all all of the time!!  Keep being the best people ever!!


Con mucho amor,
Elder Olsen


PS I wanna hear that Brady solo from Kansas City.

Flowers

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BEES!!!!

Me Elder Bravo and Majay

Lima Temple

Lima Temple

At the Lima Temple

I saw my Bishop from Pisco here in Lima,
how crazy haha.

Week 68 Chorrillos

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD AND TRENT!!!

I hope that you both had (and will have) a great birthday!  Thanks for having been born and I LOVE YOU BOTH!!!

We are still seeing progress in the area.  A new investigator came to church!!  His name is Frank.  He is a young man that practically approached us.  He is super interested in the YM activities so we started to teach him.   He's gonna get baptized on the 20th I think.  Then Cesar is going to get baptized on Saturday he passed his interview and is getting ready now!!  We lost all contact with Malvis, we are going to have to try to pass by in the mornings to see if she is there... somethings up.  Then we have Beatriz, still pressing onward with her repentance process.  Then we have Henry and Sol.   They didn't come to church, we will have to see how they are doing.  Their baptismal date is the 20th of April.  Then we have Luz and Adriana, they didn't go either, they are getting baptized on the 13th of April.

That's how the area is progressing, we had a P-day in a place called Barranco.  There we ate at a super expensive restaurant, BUT the owner is a member and offered us a price we couldn't refuse.  We ate there as a zone. This week we are FINALLY going to the temple. I've been in the south for almost the past year and they can't go.  Here in Lima we can go every other transfer.  The news with the new temple in Rome is incredible.   They are saying it's the biggest religious building in Rome.  And there they have the Vatican and other huge cathedrals.  The Pope asked for a meeting with the President of the Church of Christ as you all know.  One missionary jokingly said that "the Pope is dressed in white all ready for his baptism!!"  Hahaha, they really are incredible advances, I love what the Prophet said about all of this, (sorry for the Spanish haha) "Las cosas van a avanzar a un ritmo acelerado, la Iglesia va a tener un futuro sin precedentes, sin paralelo. Simplemente estamos construyendo para lo que está por delante ahora."

Well that's about all of my time, we gotta get back to work until the we spend the rest of P day Saturday for the temple.  I love you and pray for you.  Thanks for all you do for me.  I'll include some pics.


Con mucho amor,
Elder Olsen

Week 67 Chorrillos

Happy Monday!

It's been a party this week in Chorrillos, well Chorrillos-Campiña.  They divided up the stake!!  We are now in charge of the missionary work in two different stakes!!   We are two busy ducks this month haha.   We have to set up an appointment with each stake President. We actually had a good amount of investigators come to Stake Conference!!!  Usually it's a bust but we actually had a lot come! Elder Falabela of the Seventy talked on the will of the Father and the Atonement of Jesus Christ.  How Jesus didn't have to suffer but he willingly did it.  He willingly died.   He also willingly got resurrected.   Super cool witness.

First off Malvis, the Venezuelan, she has an interview this week for her baptism the following week!!  She is reading in Alma now!!  Never seen an investigator read so much, that's true conversion.  Later we just have Cesar, his mom kinda stopped investigating haha.  But he is still going strong!  He is really seeing the effects of true repentance, at times he doesn't understand why with the commandments, but his faith is so strong he just buckles up and says "I will go and do."  That's conversion.  Then we have Beatriz, she is still going strong with her marriage,  We have her document, her birth certificate, and her medical certificate. We just need the documents of her witnesses.   And dad, I've learned so much about marriage haha.  You need; 1 Your IDs, 2 The IDs of your witnesses, 3 Birth certificate, and 4 a checkup certificate.  You learn a thing or two that you don't in mish prep haha.  Then we have Adriana and her mom Luz.  They came to church and loved the stake conference.  We have new investigators that came to church!!!!  We have two other Venezuelans, Sol and Henry.  They will need to get married before their baptism in April, but we are excited with their progress up until this point!

Well that's this week.  We are excited to work with a new stake!!  It's gonna be busy but rewarding.  It'll be a great time to learn about stake organization.  It was fun to see how they do it.  We are excited to continue in the "lap of luxury."  The room was actually pretty bad when we got here, but we started with projects.  First we deep cleaned everything, then we got the pamphlets organized (thousands and thousands of commandment pamphlets!) then we got everything moved around for space, now we have plans to paint the walls again.

Love you guys. Thanks for everything you do!!! have fun at "Didneylan"! :)


Con amor,
Elder Olsen

Week 66 Chorrillos

Happy Transfers!!

We had an excelent week.  Transfers came in and I'm still in Chorrillos!!!  My companion stayed as well.  We are excited to work in Las Villas some more.  So remember the new stake that's opening, Campiña?  Yeah it's just going to be a division as far as the church goes, the zone boundries are going to stay the same, meaning that we are going to be in two stakes haha.

Well it's been a great week as far as our investigators go.   Beatriz now has her papers in-hand to be able to be married.  We are going to schedule the wedding ASAP.  Cesar and Mariksa are hangin in there, they slept in for church :(  We hope that they can get reading a little bit more to get their conversion by the Spirit going.   We also have Malvis, we lost contact with her, but I'm sure she'll show up soon.  We just gotta keep our eyes peeled haha.  Adriana is progressing now, she's reading the scriptures, is well fellowshipped and has a plan to come to church.

To answer questions, I haven't spoken too much in Church, we might steal the Elder's idea over there and make our own devotional.

Other than that it's been a pretty slow week.  Some dude stole my lunch yesterday in a clever way.  Wasn't even mad haha.  I love you guys a ton, keep going each and every single one of you.  The Church of Christ really is a true church. Thanks for reading this letter.

Ethan, sorry about your pinched nerve, those are horrible, hope it's better now.  Love ya dude.


Con MUCHO amor,
Elder Olsen

On the Holy Ghost street!!