Probably our Best Week

Hey I'm back!

So it was really great to talk to everybody! But i've got to admit i'm thankful in a way that we can only do it twice a year. I have to say that i had absolutely no focus on missionary work for the rest of the evening. So luckily today is P-day and i have time to recuperate.

But just to restate, BAPTISM! We baptized matthew and he is such an awesome kid. Elder Harding was able to baptize his first person! Plus David was able to come to the baptism and he was also there at church this sunday! So right now he is really solid for May 26th. I know that all yalls prayers helped Matthew get baptized. So if y'all could do the same for David now that would be extremely helpful.

Sunday was actually pretty hectic. We got there and talked to Bishop and then i found out i was confirming Matthew. Which i don't mind doing. I'm actually finding out that i would rather do the confirmation than the baptism sometimes. I love having the spirit move upon me to give a blessing for a new member of the church. Then since it was mothers day it was a really emotional Sunday and everyone seemed to be crying a lot. Then we went into gospel principles class and found out that the teacher wasn't there so we just took over and began teaching. Luckily the lesson this week was the Church of Jesus Christ today. So basically a detailed restoration. Again a really spiritual experience. Then we went and talked to David and he really enjoyed church. Now that he has come once we believe that he can be baptized. He's not much for being a people person so coming to a packed church was a big leap of faith for him.

Also we sort of had a blessing in disguise the other day. Bro. Conner who is an extremely knowledgeable lawyer who we've been teaching has had no time to read the Book of Mormon. Elder Harding and I believe that if he can just read the Book of Mormon that he will be converted and become a bishop. Also the Conner family is a family of five. But anyway it turns out that Bro. Conner got staff infection in his leg and he has to stay at home for the week and he said he had all the time in the world to read the Book of Mormon and promised that he would. So pray that he will get better of course, but more importantly pray that if he reads the Book of Mormon he will find the truth in it.

Its going great in the district though! We both baptized this week. Cheraw has a baptism on friday! We have a baptism on the 26th. Plus when we get in contact with Maurice again we are going to put him on date for June 2nd (Which Cheraw also has someone on date for that same day). Then we have the Rodrick family who we will put on date for the 9th. John and the Johnsons (Family of 6!) we are planning to put on date for the 16th. Then we're fixin to put the Conners on date for June 23. So the work is amazing here and miracles are happening! I hope Elder Harding and i can both stay in Hartsville together for another transfer because we are planning to baptize every week in the month of June! Happy Birthday to me!

So i made fried chicken wings the other day. We went over to a members home and he believes in interactive dinners. So i cut the wings and fried them and put the sauce on them and they were ridiculously good! I'll have to make some for everybody when i get back because they are way better than KFC. Especially when you dip them in blue cheese dressing, which is actually the original way buffalo wings were eaten just to let you know.

Today was probably our best week. Its great that i almost say that every week isn't it? But we were able to practically hit all of our goals this week. The only one we missed was sacrament. We wanted four and got two. But i'm not complaining. Its actually really cool because Elder Harding and i have hung up some big graphs in the apartment that are keeping track of all of our numbers so that we can see the progression. In most areas the graphs are exponentially growing. Which actually coincides with whenever we sacrifice something and try to be even more obedient. Obedience brings blessings!

We drove to a place called Moncks Corner this week and it was a whopping 200 mile round trip! Yay! Did i tell y'all that one of our mission mottos is "I love tough things, I am the first to do tough things, I do tough things first!" So we are going to lose another 160 miles this Saturday, 360 miles down the drain! I love tough things! But the funny part about driving to Moncks Corner was that it made it possible for me to finally have and egg and cheese mcmuffin! Usually i can't because we leave the apartment after breakfast is over. So in this 100 mile trip we only passed one Mcdonalds! And it was five minutes from the church. We had to be there at 8:30 and we pulled into Mcdonalds at 8:25. So we were almost late to conference over a Mcmuffin. But it was totally worth it!

Plus we still passed car inspections because since i knew i was going to get Mcdonalds and that would cause the car to smell like Mcdonalds. I made sure to bring a can of febreze. So that when we got there we threw away the Mcdonalds trash and sprayed the car down with pumpkin spice. Which just reminds Elder Harding and i of Christmas. So basically we sprayed the scent of happiness in the car, which i believe helped us pass inspections. So i'm doing that for the rest of my mission.

Well I love y'all and i love being a missionary!
Elder K. Olsen