Zip-i-dee-doo-dah!

 

So yesterday was Martin Luther King day as i'm sure you already know. But because of that holliday there weren't any computers available to us. But here's that fancy letter y'all have been waitin for!

First off:

 

Sunday was awesome!!! We had BEll and Trina and Randy come to church and they all had a great time! Then after church the Bishops daughter was baptized, so all our investigators were able to stay for that and it was awesome even though church was five hours long. For me it was seven hours long because i had some meetings in the morning. I do need to work on not stressing out when we have investigators at church though. I'm just constantly wondering, are they having a good time, how are they with the ward members, are they understanding everything? So as you can imagine i was really out of energy when it was all done.

I feel bad for the sunday school teacher though. Because he was teaching and at some point he mentioned that God wasn't a spirit but had a body of flesh and bones. Well Bell cut him off and said "wait, God isn't a spirit?" He kind of froze and then looked at us and said "your investigator has some questions" It was pretty funny, and obviously i need to explain that a little better.

 

Anyway Sunday was great and now thats all that i can really think about. The rest of my week doesn't really matter because i actually had some investigators at church. The ward loved it too, because they were all talking to us, and complimenting us on the good work, and they were getting all excited. Oh and the dinner calendar for this month is completely full. We're gettin fed good! I'm so glad that the holidays are over and everything is back to normal again. Dont get me wrong holidays on missions are great. But i could do without them.

 

The rest of this month we're going to have to bike ALOT. Because we only get 1050 miles in the car every month. We're at about 850. So i'm not to excited about that. But on the positive side it will force us to get rides from members so that we can use them in our missionary work.

 

It's still pretty warm down here in SC. It's probably in the low 70s right now. But people are saying that it will get cold here soon....

 

I haven't broken his ukelele yet. I got pretty close this morning though. I ended up going in the back room shutting the door and turning the fan on high while i read my scriptures. But usually i'm okay with the ukelele. This morning i was just thinking about a million things at once and it was starting to get to me, the ukelele wasn't helping. But i read my scriptures and prayed and everything is better now. It's so relieving that i'm able to take all of my problems to Heavenly Father and just be like "here ya go, take control." That doesn't mean i just sit back in my chair and relax, but i at least know that everything is going to be okay.

 

This last week was my best week "number wise" in my entire mission. We taught 19 lessons, and talked to near 100 people, plus we got 4 investigators at church. So we can still improve, and the goal of our district is to scare other missionaries so they don't want to be transferred here because we are going to set the bar so high. We're not competing against any other missionaries... but we're still gonna work for being the best.

 

I got the pictures and the camera card which i'm really excited to have more memory now. Unfortunately i wasn't able to see the videos on my camera. But i looked at all the pictures and i was really impressed that you wrote on the back of every single one. That one of the gingerbread guy made me laugh.

 

But guess what?

I love y'all!

 

Elder K. Olsen

 

ps. picture 1 below is (from left to right) Elder Nelson, Elder Law, Elder Cramer, Me, Elder Olsen

picture 2 is my awesome new beanie that was made for me (snowbird colors)