Good Week

It's a good week!

 

So we had a really good Sunday yesterday! We went to church for our morning meetings and then came back home for lunch. Well during lunch i get a call from one of the members telling us that there is a lady there who would like to meet us. So we quickly left and went to the church! When we got to church we met a woman named Latasha. Latasha lives down the street from the church and had been taught by the missionaries about five years ago. She was going to get baptized but her family talked her out of it. Well she's been going to several different churches since then and just feels as if she is being constantly condemned. She told us that she remembered going to the Mormon church and feeling the Holy Ghost and how everyone was so happy. She also mentioned that everyone in the church had a light coming from them. So she told us that even if she needed to be baptized again she wanted to be a member of the church. So we should be teaching her tomorrow!

 

Another miracle from Sunday. Well this woman who has been a member of the church for about two years has been extrememly faithful coming to church every sunday and to scripture study every wednesday. Her husband has always not wanted to talk about the church. A few weeks ago he actually came to church! And he came to church again yesterday! Well i guess he had a meeting with the bishop and that went really well. Because the other elders came up to us and told us that they had a referral. They said, "do you know where the mclains live?" I jumped up extremely excited in the foyer because i knew what was happening. I looked around and saw sister mclain sitting on one of the chairs and i was just like, "your husband?!" Y'all should've seen the smile and excitement on her face. Well anyway we will be meeting with Bro. Mclain today because he wants the missionary discussions!

 

From last week y'all probably remember Elizabeth. Well we had our first lesson with her on saturday with Holly and it went great! Elizabeth is a really smart girl who is just searching for truth. She loves so much about what we teach. Her favorite points are how families can be together forever, and how even those who haven't heard of Christ will have a chance in the next life. So I'm way excited to teach the plan of salvation this week!

 

Timica is going through some struggles at the moment. She couldn't make it to church yesterday for some reason. We set up an appointment to see her tonight. She wants to quit smoking and be baptized so badly. But so much is getting in her way. I just hope and pray that she doesn't get to discouraged by all of the challenges around her. She's already gone through so much to get where she is now. But we do know that they've been doing family prayer and study every day. So hopefully that is really helping their situation.

 

Also Holly cut my hair this week. It was a pretty funny experience because she didn't sound like she really knew what she was doing. She kept asking questions like, "why does the hair need to be wet?" , or "where are you supposed to cut first?" Then whenever the buzzers made a loud noise she would just go, "hmm?" And then just keep going. But it actually turned out really great and i love it just in case y'all were wondering!

 

Well that's my life, teaching, preaching, and grooming.

 

Love y'all!

 

Elder K. Olsen