Peter, 3.7.11

Hello

this last week has been exciting! to start with we made dinner for a less active family in our ward, hopefully it tasted good.  We haven't talked to them since, it was a lasagna and garlic bread. On tuesday we got a call from the assistants to the president and they said to leave our door unlocked when we went to bed cause they would be bringing another bed to our apartment. So not really knowing what was going to happen we left it unlocked and when they came we ended up talking to them and they said that we were going to have another missionary added to our companionship that is waiting on his visa to go to Brazil to the porte legre north mission (is that where neil is?). and then on wednesday he showed up at our house and he has been working with us since, we are now a three-sum.  At first i thought it would be weird but he has proved to be really beneficial. It is fun to be with someone greener than i am. there really is a fire the missionaries have when they leave the mtc. it is great. it has and will continue to be a great learning experince. he has so much insight on how the work we are doing can inprove because he is looking at what we are doing almost as if from the outside. it is good to be able to gain that experince. he could be leaving any time. it could be tommorrow or in 6 weeks. but we found a Brazilian to teach so he will be able to practice teaching some in Portugues. this past week one of our Zone leaders, Elder Bennet came on exchange with us and told us that we need to think outside the box on ways to find people, so we ended up contacting people in the walmart parkinglot (one of a few places people are out and about) it was kinda weird. as we were thinking about new ways we can find people we also decisided it would be cool to start a Bible/Scripture study class. at the community center or something, we would invite our investigators to it as well as our other contacts. it is still mostly an idea we have but we are working to make it happen. we are excited about it. 

the church is true! it is an honor to be able to share it with others. 

Love 

Elder Olsen