Another Great Week.

Another great week!

So this week has been full of fun and rain and excitement and stuff! So first off let me tell y'all about transfers and how that all went down. So on tuesday i went to Irmo with the other trainers and we had a meeting with President Holm. This transfer there were 12 elders and 16 sisters that came into the mission. I actually still feel somewhat shocked and surprised that i got called to train. President said there were 150 elders to choose from, I tend to look around and think to myself that there are others that are so better qualified. One cool thing though is that out of the 12 elder trainers 5 of them were with me in the mtc. So after our meeting the trainees all came in and had sack lunches, the trainees sat down next to a trainer and then we were teamed up with that guy the rest of the day. And guess who came up to me? Elder Bowen! We ate lunch, had another meeting, then went out to work for a couple hours. And i was just excited to make this an experience that he would always remember. They told us to bring a book of mormon per companionship to pass out. But i said, nah we can pass out two, so we brought two books of mormon. We got dropped off at an apartment complex and a guy drove in and parked playing some loud gangsta music. So since it was such an awkward moment i took Elder Bowen over to the car and we waited for the guy to get out. We ended up teaching him and Elder Bowen placed his first book of mormon. Then we knocked on a door and taught another lesson and i gave away my book of mormon. We had so much success and it was so much fun! He still talks about that first day.

Then transfers came along and Elder Bowen was called to Gilbert ward with me. He later told me that he felt that we would be companions. Which is awesome because i felt the same way. So he was living in St. George Ut the last 8 months but he claims wyoming to be his home. He's got an older and younger sister. He's a hard worker and does what is right. Although i have had the privelege to point out a couple of rules to him. I love training. The thing i really love about him is that he's not a shy trainee who won't talk like i was. Honestly he will speak as much as any of my other companions, and he knows what we are teaching. He's just learning how to teach and what some of the rules are. I've never worked so hard on my mission and strived to be more obedient. I can already see the habits that he will develop on his mission because of how i have acted the first few days. Now he reminds me to say our daily quotes, and prayers, and making sure we keep the schedule. If i can be i would say that i'm very proud. Between him and Brimhall i would say i got the best two trainees in the mission.

Also the sisters have now moved into the southern part of the ward boundaries. It was so much fun helping them get set up. Because as the district leader i am the only one who had been in this area and one of the sisters is also a trainee. So that put a lot of work on my shoulders and i loved it. I just had this huge list of things that i wanted to get done. I wanted to make sure that the sisters didn't have to be stressed or confused about their area. So i made sure they had an area book, and roster, and map, and they knew who to see and where they lived. But then it was funny because on wednesday we came to the church so i could give them the car and guess what? There was a nail in the tire! And guess what else? The senior missionary over the cars was not able to answer calls the rest of the day and he's over the money to fix the cars. So we couldn't even go get a new tire for the sisters. So we ended up putting the donut on the car and they made it home safely. Luckily they've gotten everything all taken care of with it now.

So just for fun we added up all the miles which we have biked this week from wednesday evening to last night. And we did 76. It was so much fun because i bike a lot faster then him so he's got to work hard to keep up with me. Especially up hills, I"m lighter so i go faster. My long legs may also have something to do with it. Also we've been having strange weather here in south carolina. It's been cloudy and rainy all week and it should be for the rest of this week as well. Luckily we've been inside teaching when the bad rain happened... except last night. We were soaked! But we had fun. After you're soaked you make it an effort to hit the big puddles for fun. Also I've realized that biking a lot makes my allergies go insane! I had to buy some eye drops and now i wear sun glasses even when it's cloudy (my men in black ones) because it blocks the wind. So actually if you could send me some flonase or something that sticks up my nose and sprays and feels horrible but makes it so i don't need a thousand tissues a day, that would be awesome.

Guess what else?! So Jeff and Anisha have a 18 year old daughter Jamey. And Jamey is now on date to be baptized on the 25 of May! Isn't that awesome?! She even announced it herself in Relief Society yesterday. I love being a missionary, I just love it and i don't know how else to explain it.

So with Mothers day coming up we actually won't be able to have phone calls this year. Evidently there's been a lot of problems in the mission with missionaries calling home when they're not supposed to so they've actually told us that we won't be able to this year, but if we can fix the problem we can call on Christmas. Which I'll be home for Christmas so that does me no good! But whatever, at least I'll see y'all in a few months! That's way better than a phone call!

 

Anyways I love y'all!

Elder K. Olsen

Just Kidding!

I'm totally gonna skype y'all on mothers day! 

Love you!

Elder K. Olsen