It's been another incredible week here in the oficina. We are happy with another little successful week! We are going to spend P-day in someplace in Lima, we still aren't sure where we are going but it's probably going to be another mall somewhere, we'll see haha. Last week was pretty cool, going to the temple and the usual mall haha. I practiced the piano for a little bit, getting some of my rustier hymns polished up. I'm still the designated piano player in our ward haha, I've been playing every week. That's been fun, they didn't know how to sing "O, God the Eternal Father" two weeks ago, so the ward music coordinator 15 minutes before sacrament meeting last week pulled everyone in to practice it hahaha.
It's been a great week in the proselyting area!! Yesterday we just regained contact with Valeria and she says everything was ok and she is persistent about her baptism being on the 14th still! I guess we have a surprise baptism next week! She's been attending for the last couple of months, we lost contact with her, then we got back in touch again. She is going to invite her mom to church for tomorrow, we are excited about that. Where there's new light of Christ it can affect family members a lot. Manuel and Mariana are still doing really well, they have a friend, Carlos that they've invited to church and is starting to show some progress as well! We have high hopes for him, Manuel and Mariana are really excited to share the gospel and go to the temple. He is going to accompany us for some appointments next week. We've found some investigators this week, I'll tell you about them as they come to church. We are still finding Venezuelans, they love it when I tell them that dad served in Venezuela some time ago. It usually gets a conversation sparked up about what Valencia and Caracas is like, always a super awesome icebreaker. Every time I find one from there I'll let you know!
I don't know if you guys remember when I was in Ayacucho, we taught Alex Tello and Danny Urbano. They both got baptized. Alex then had some ups and downs in his activity up until the point I got transferred. Here I am about a year and a half later, I received a letter from him. He wrote thanking Elder Gutierrez and I for being so persistent in trying to find him, he then thanked us for having taught him about the Atonement of Christ when he needed it most. Then the super awesome incredible part, after saying that he says "I wanted to tell you that I sent my papers to go on a mission, I am preparing and everything and it's all thanks to you and Elder Gutierrez." I've never felt that kind of joy, when someone makes such a righteous decision in their life it's just amazing. He's awesome!
Well that's all I got for this week. Thanks for reading this short note, I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!
Con amor,
Elder Olsen
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