Okey Dokey Everybody

Okey Dokey everybody!

I'm just gonna get right into today. We had four investigators at church yesterday! Can I hear a what what? But anyway Bell came again and I hope she is having a good time. We were able to answer all of her questions from last Sunday and she still wants to keep coming to find out for herself if this is true or not. But I had to go with the Ward Mission Leader to pick her up and we got to church right as they were saying the sacrament prayer so we were in the hall way. So the young man comes out with the bread, gives it to me, gives it to the ward mission leader, and then bee lines past Bell! I was able to talk to Bishop after and Bishop will let the young men know not to completely ignore the investigators. Nothing against the young man of course, he was just nervous and didn't know what to do. But I'll probably be answering some questions about that next time we see Bell. Trina wasn't able to come because she had to take care of her baby. But side note: The Bullocks (who are ward missionaries) helped Bell and Trina last week and found out that Trina's baby has been sleeping in a cardboard box. So the amazing Bullocks went out of their way and got a crib! I got to be there when they dropped it off and the spirit was so strong. You should have seen how happy everyone was!

Randy didn't come to church and we're actually going to back off of him for a while because he told us he wants to go to his church and wants us to go with him. So now we're at a stand still with him until he makes an actual effort on his side, we can only help him so far. Then we had a man named Bill come to church who we actually haven't been able to teach yet. But he was a referral from a member and he came to church! He really enjoyed it and said that he would come back next week and that we would set up some sort of appointment for the upcoming week.

Then we had a man named Jeff who, while knocking doors, invited us into his house and told us that he was really good friends with the missionaries in Oklahoma. He told us that he didn't want to be taught, but we invited him to church because that's what we do. Well when we were done with that neighborhood we were walking back to the bikes and he drove up and asked us what time church started. Well that's a good sign. So guess what? Lo and behold he walked into church 20 minutes early! I'll be honest I wasn't expecting it. We went by later that day to give him a Book of Mormon and he told us that he would see us next week. But here is a cool fact, he told us that he can't go an hour without craving a cigarette, but he went through three hours of church and didn't even think about it! He also asked us if we did baptisms in our church...YES! He's never been baptized before, so I have to say we have a great batch of people rolling in.

I think I already told you about Payton, but anyway she's been reading every day. Didn't come to church but we'll work on that. But guess what her profession is? Hair stylist! So guess what i'm doing today? Hair cut! Guess how much? 5 bucks! I could cut my own hair and stuff but thats a really good price for a professional one.

I always forget everything that was done in the past week because I always get so excited about telling y'all about church. Here's something exciting! We got 22 lessons this past week! We are just teaching machines lately and we're working like crazy and I know that we're going to baptize in february and march.

I got that little book of mormon and it is perfect! I bought that little Bible at the dollar store and now i can just fit them in my suit pocket.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KYLEE!MAN IT IS SO AWESOME THAT ALL OF MY LITTLE SISTERS ARE GROWING UP! I think it's sweet that she's on the east coast with me too. I hope you had a great birthday kylee and that you partied tell you couldn't party no more!

I have to say waiting to hear about dads talk and mikaylas patriarchal blessing is gonna kill me. I don't know if i can wait for a letter! But i will because thats what i have to do. haha I'm glad that his talk went great though, I'm always willing to give my two cents. It's nice because i get a specific topic to study.

Speaking of studying the last three days i read the book of Acts through Hebrews and i want to give a special shout out to Paul. It's really humbling when i think of myself not being able to drive and having to ride my bike. When he was beaten and imprisoned and re beaten and tons of other stuff until he was eventually killed. Yeah, I'll ride my bike with a smile on my face :)

Love,Elder K. Olsen

P.S. Read Acts 28:3-6 and tell me that's not awesome