Missionary I Am!

We had a great week this week! On Saturday we were able to meet Elder Gonzalez of the presidency of the seventy and Elder Giddens of the seventy. Now if you watch Elder Gonzalez on conference you can see
that he is a great man. But it turns out that he's one of the funniest guys i've ever met! He just had the missionaries laughing the whole time. Then Elder Giddens is awesome! I think he just has the scriptures memorized. Because he would stand up and tell us to look up a whole bunch of scriptures and how they tie into another whole bunch of scriptures. But i was shown how amazing the Book of Mormon really is and how it is the key to missionary work. When it all comes down to it the Book of Mormon is how people are converted because the spirit tells them it is true. But the point of being a missionary is really getting them interested in it. So i have to know it really well so that i can liken the scriptures unto them.

Sunday was a really bitter sweet day. Elder Harding and i were talking about how satan was just beating us into the ground because nothing seemed to be going right. But at the same time we just had a good attitude and were happy all day. Plus we ended up teaching four lessons. So i really cant tell yall if yesterday was a good day or a bad day.

Unfortunately David was really sick yesterday and wasn't able to make it to church. We need to talk with him and with the mission president to find out if he can still be baptized on the 26 even though he hasn't been to church twice. But even if he doesn't get baptized on the 26 we can still baptize him on the 2nd of june so it
will still work out.  We haven't been able to see Bro. Connor again because we have been going by at all of the wrong times. But we'll get him eventually!  But on the bright side of everything is that our companionship goal for this month was 1 baptism and the districts goal was 3, and we did it! And the way june is starting to look we can see it is going to be great! I really really really hope that i'll be able to stay here in Hartsville for one more transfer with Elder Harding.

So Bishop Ensign here made Elder Harding and I promise to tell our moms something. We have gotten a reputation in Hartsville! That reputation is that we are hard workers and none of the members want us to leave. So that was a pretty happy moment for me.

I got to sing again in the choir yesterday and it was really fun! We sang "How firm a foundation" and we actually sounded really good. I'm probably going to be part of the choir when i get home because even
though i'm not a very good singer it's still really fun to do.

So on friday we had a dinner at a members house and they let me choose what i wanted to eat. So guess what everyone!? I got steak and potatoes, and sweet potatoes! I haven't been able to have a steak my
entire mission and i probably won't be having many more but i cherished every single bite. It was delicious!

Also just for the heads up i was able to think up a few more things that i would like to have for my birthday: I still love ties, I really love watches of every kind, I could use a bigger CD case (100cd+ case), and also some more music. Some CDs i would suggest are: Alex Boye, Mindy Gledhill is good, I like Donny Osmond, theres a Mormon Tabernacle Choir 100 greates hits or something. It has something to do with 100. Plus any other good music that yall can find.

So i really enjoyed the package that y'all sent me. I'm pretty happy to have an awesome baseball card. And i'm gonna have to use that writing tips card as well. That should help me out. Also i've been using those scripture reading cards. I hung it up on the wall. So thanks! I love packages!

But anyways I love y'all!


Elder K. Olsen