No legit, this is an experience and a HALF. Haha, so we had some companionship exchanges with the Elders in San Carlos an hour north of Marcona, it was super calm, I was with Elder Lescano from Texas. When we got back from a day of pure success, we went back to the apartment to make some (pretty wierd textured but good tasting) oven peach cobbler. My companion and Elder Valverde from Mexico just said that we have an appointment tomorrow (Friday) with the sub-manager of SHOUGANG HIERRO PERÚ!! Not even joking. So we go on Friday and they had us talking with their public representative (yes they're so rich they have one of those) and he was just talking with us making us comfortable. It was crazy because it sounds like they are a monopoly company. The guys are shipping water and electricity to the city and expecting the city to pay it back haha. It's insane so we are waiting here for about an hour and a half and then they invite us to go upstairs. And we had a visit with Wu Yi Min himself!!!! He sat us down and said "do you guys speak Spanish?" (in spanish of course) and we said "of course we do!" in my head I was thinking "the real question is do YOU speak Spanish?" He spoke fine but his Chinese accent was really heavy haha. So he gets to know us a little bit and then he says "so I have a family member who is applying to Yale, he said I've seen you guys walk around and I've noted you are both North Americans and was wondering if you can help proofread his application." And me and my companion looked at each other as if we were both thinking "Ammon also had to serve king Lamoni before baptizing his whole village." So we agreed!
We took the sheets home, and we revised it for about an hour during language study. So we show up for our follow up appointment and he receives us again and sits us down again for the revision. And he was talking for no joke 2 HOURS about the revisions we made, because his English is nothing to sneeze at either. The guy is like the second man up in line for the biggest mining company in Ica and he is just like being our best buddy. He says he's going to go to English class this week, we are kinda stoked about that, who knows he might just bring his whole people over there as well hahaha! Ojála!
We got some pretty good contacts out of that one, we talked to some of the people we were waiting with and it really surprised me to see how receptive they were haha. It was kinda cool. And when the members started to figure out that we were talking to like their bosses it really made them interested in how we are working in their Branch. By the way, first sacrament meeting was crazy, it's a branch but it's also a really really big branch, we almost filled the building. Super good attendance. We have 3 investigators that are progressing towards their baptismal date. We have María and Jennifer they are both members that haven't been baptized so we are working with them a lot and they are progressing super well. Then we have Guido. He is a young man that is progressing really well. We just need to keep him coming to church is all. We are doing everything we can to keep Marcona on the rise! We are working really hard, trust me!
I'm writing you all from Nazca right now, we had to travel from Marcona on Sunday night to get here so that we could help with the zone barbeque. Then we are going to travel tomorrow at about 5:00pm to go to Ica. Then on Wednesday we are gonna wake up super early to head off to Pisco. Then we return on Thursday. That's gonna be fun! We have our interviews with President on Wednesday as well. I hope he doesn't say anything embarrassing in the zone conference haha. He already told the zone how much more time left I have on the mission, that little bugger haha.
That's about all for this week, thanks for reading this short little letter. I LOVE YOU!!
Con mucho amor,
Elder Olsen
PS mom, next week I'll have the pic for sure
Elder Olsen
PS mom, next week I'll have the pic for sure
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| The China dude |
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| The barbeque |
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