Week 79 Office

Another Happy Landing!

It has been a week and two halves for sure!!  We have been super busy with the transfers and everything.  It was a doozy this time for sure though, I had to do a lot of flights with the missionaries to and from Ayacucho, instead of the 10 flights we had last time we had 18 this time.  Everything went well though, everyone that needs to be home is home and everyone who needed to come came.

To confirm rumors and Facebook page posts, we DID see Elder Bednar.  It was amazing. He had accompanying him Elder and Sister Held from the Seventy.  Elder and Sister Held were talking about the retention of recent converts.  Sister Bednar talked about having faith to open your mouth.  Elder Bednar just started to give his little speech thing and he just says "you were all expecting a talk, I'm not gonna give you a talk, I'm gonna have a conversation with you."  After he talked about that he started being super funny with the way he was talking haha, he also said "Now when I say 'I'm going to have a conversation with you' you are probably terrified.  If I asked you what the three parts of the baptismal covenant you wouldn't remember it!  If an Apostle were asking you that, you wouldn't even remember your own name!  You would probably be thinking you are serving in London!"  It was super funny because he used a lot of Spanglish.   He would be talking in English then he would throw in some Spanish words like Espiritu Santo, fe, poder, Cristo, and others like that haha.  He talked a lot about using inspired questions that aren't searching for a specific answer.  He told us about opposites in the gospel like "losing yourself to find yourself, being last to be the first."  And he talked about how to do everything we can, but also getting out of the way so that the Spirit teaches.

The investigators are doing super well!!  They loved the capilla abierta activity.  Patricia and Gladis are now progressing a lot more toward their baptism in July!!  We are super excited
Thanks for all that you do!  I LOVE YOU!!!!!!  HAPPY BIRTHDAY ETHAN!!!!


Con mucho amor, maletas, y en camino,
Elder Olsen