Happy Valentines Day!!! Sort of almost!!!
Well i actually have some exciting things to write about this week. First off i want to tell you what i'm going to be doing for Valentines day tomorrow. Well we were invited to dinner by Bell and Trina. These ladies are "big for a reason", I'm quoting Bell. But they were asking us what we wanted for dinner. So we told them that we wanted Coon. So we are actually gonna have Raccoon for Valentines day. I'm really excited.
Now let me tell you about dinner yesterday! So we were at the Hudackos, and Mr. Hudacko isn't a member, but he is an excellent cook! So for Thanksgiving when i come back i'm gonna cook the turkey. Except i'm gonna fry it! You'll never want a roasted turkey again after this. So I'll tell you how it was made. First you cover the turkey with Cajun seasoning, then you inject it with butter! No joke, you get this big syringe and inject it with butter in several places. He put 16 oz. into it, and when you cut the turkey melted butter is coming out of it! But before you cut it you fry it in a turkey fryer. But make sure you do it outside because several housed burn down around thanksgiving because people try to fry the turkey inside. Then we had twice baked potatoes. You bake the potatoe, and then you open it mash the potatoes then put it in the oven for about five minutes. Then we had the best salad ever! First you take a pound of bacon (you can already tell its great), cook all the bacon, eat the bacon and stuff. Then you pour the bacon grease over the salad. Needless to say i ate waaaay too much and i don't regret it at all.
Now for some more exciting news. BAPTISM! This wednsday at 8 pm we are baptizing a 12 year old boy named Morgan. It was great, his grandma and mom are members. But they haven't been to church in 28 years. About a month ago they decided they wanted to get back into church. Now Morgan came to church and he told us that he wanted to pass the sacrament. So we taught him, he got interviewed, and Elder Brimhall is baptizing him! Also Morgans little sister Sissy is getting baptized on the same day, but she is 8 and since her mom is a member it doesn't count as a convert baptism. But I'm still really excited that she's getting baptized!
So if every companionship in the zone reaches their baptismal goal this month, then everyone in the zone will get to go to the temple! Our goal for this month is 2. We have Morgan and we were so close with Sissy, but then at the last minute we were told she wouldn't count as a convert baptism. So now we just got to work really hard to get another one.
We have another excellent man on date for the 25. So please pray for John. A little over a week ago John had ordered a Book of Mormon. So we delivered and then we saw him again this past Saturday. In that one week time span John read from the beginning all the way to Mormon Chapter 3!!! Needless to say i was extremely excited! Also he doesn't have any law of chastity issues or word of wisdom problems so everything is good so far. He came to church yesterday and we think that he really enjoyed it, he doesn't talk much but really likes to listen. But then here is the best news. Yesterday evening we get a text from John, what did that text say you might ask? It said, How does someone become a member of the church?...... We answered very quickly. We haven't met his wife yet, but he told us that she was interested, and after we gave him the Book of Mormon, his brother in law ordered one. I love being a missionary.
Payton is doing wonderful. She's quit all of her word of wisdom problems, she reads every day, she comes to church. I have never seen the gospel change someone so much. You can feel how she is just a different person, she so much happier now. Her vocabulary isn't quite as colorful as it used to be. Even her boyfriend and her other friends are happy to see us when we come over. Which is strange because they didn't like us at all when we first met. The only problem is, is that she's living with her boyfriend! They either got to move out or get married and then Payton can get baptized. So it may take a good bit before that happens.
We had a whole bunch of people scheduled to come to church yesterday. We had rides set up and everyone was really solid to come. We had 10 people ready to go. 10!!! How many came? 2. Satan is just too good at his job! He really bugs me sometimes.
We are teaching the Kellett family right now and it's great! Because as we were teaching them Mr. Kellett said, "God works in mysterious way, we moved down here a month ago and then you show up. And none of my children have been baptized and they need to be." I nearly passed out because he has four children that could be baptized and I thought that everyone in the south had been baptized at least three or four times. So please, please, please, please, pray for the Kellett family, because that is a family of six. And that's really good.
By the way did you get my memory card with a 1000 pictures on it?
Now for my reply,
Sorry i sent the letter to the wrong grandma erdmann. I have the card back home and it said grandma erdmann. Sooo my bad, but i love them both!
I thinks that so awesome that Chris is getting close to going on a mission! I hope he does, it's only two years and it goes by too quick if you ask me. Like I said before, I love being a missionary. Because here's the cool thing about a mission. I was sent to South Carolina by revelation from God. Because, there are people here waiting for me. Because People are People (name that band) and people only click with certain people if that makes sense. For instance Jane Marriott, maybe someone else could have baptized her, but her and I "clicked", and she got baptized. Missionaries get sent to certain places because there are certain souls that that certain missionary can only save. If i wouldn't have come, some people probably wouldn't have heard about the gospel.
I love the valentine cards that Madison made. That's way more creative then i would have done when i was a kid. I just wanted Godzilla valentine cards.
I think that you should let Morgan go competitive, it's about time one of us has talent. Haha i'm kidding we all have talent, she's just the only one that can do gymnastics, I'm not a fan of leotards myself.
I don't think i need anything, except maybe a picture of that super old Book of Mormon. What's the story behind that?
Anyway i think this letter made up for last weeks boring one.
So,
I love y'all!
Elder K. Olsen
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