I can`t think of anything clever to put in the subjet, ni modo. Thanks so much for your prayers. They are helping lots. This week has been good. We have worked hard to meet our goals, and its been good. We also had ineterviews with president Calderòn this week. He gave me a blessing and lots of awesome counsel, and its helped a ton. I really am very grateful to be here serving under the direction of president calderòn. He is an inspired leader that helps us a lot.
Sorry if it sounded like my life was awful in my last letter - I really am ok! I`m just learning lots of awesome lessons that I`m sure are going to help me in the future :) Poco a Poco, God is helping and preparing me. Hermana Iquise has been better this week, not quite so angry all the time, just during companion study - but our teaching is going better. She really is a very special daughter of our Heavenly Father. She has been a little sick this week, and good news- I think my futrue children are gonna be ok. She has been coughing a lot at night - and I woke up several times with her. I now, no longer fear for my children. :) Emily slept through the fireworks last week and was worried she would never hear her children at night. I guess people sounds do wake her ;)
I have felt more guided by the spirit this week. Saturday we had a special day. We taught several lessons. We had taught Narda once, but when we went back she was sick, and the second time, she wasn`t there, but Friday night I was thinking about her as I was laying in my bed and thought, we better go tomorrow! We went and she accepted a baptismal date! But she couldn`t come to church yesterday. Her daughter is gonna have a baby anyday now and needed to help her with something. We told her we wanted to baptize her whole family and she said, I think we better start with me. haha The elders visited her before and she already had a Book of Mormon, but she hadn`t read it. We are working with her and hoping to be able to find her this week, and that shes not too busy with her daughter. Carmen and Josè are also progressing. They are hoping to get married so they can be bapized the end of this month. Carmen didn`t go ot church yesterday so we passed by her house this morning and found her. She said that she wasn`t able to go? But she also said that her friend was really sad this week,so she shared her testimony and gave her a gospel principles book. The next day her friend came and told her how much it helped. She is sharing the gospel with everyone! ITs awesome. They just need to be baptized!
We were doing a contact when the lady asked us, with all sincerity - but how can you know? Why do you keep going to church every Sunday? And we could just testify that its because its true, and it brings so much joy to keep the commandments. We were also guided to talk with another lady that has some serious problems in her family - and needs the gospel desperately. We`re gonna vist her Tuesday, and hopefully it all goes well.
Friday night at 7:30 it started raining. We didn`t have an appointment so we went to knock some more doors and look for a name we had. We were knocking a door in the pouring rain. I almost said "no one is gonna leave their house in this rain (when we knock doors its not their door that we knock, its the gate out front), I didn`t want to try. But I remembered our zone meeting where we had talked about having faith and hope and being positive, so I quickly changed and said " I know there has gotta be someone waiting for us in the house" and the miracle was that there was. they came and I said "hermana, we have come in the rain, from a long ways away to share a very important message with you" then she said the magical words- come in! We taught her in her very humble home, and it was really neat for me. IT really is so important to always be positive - its part of having hope and faith. Believing that God is preparing people for us to baptize. and its something I am working on.
Grandma and grandpa Peterson. There is an elder in my zone who is the nephew of Elder and Sister Hatch, that were in Nauvoo with you! He said they were there 18 months, and just finished - and they were temple workers. Elder Lambson is his name, hes also from my group, we started the mission together. Crazy connection - do you know them?
Nat I got your christmas package this weeK! Thanks a million! It was all delicious, the bath gel, needed ;) and the stocking adorable - I think I save it for my apartment next year. I also have a fresh lemony scent about me these days. I think its working... maybe. ;) Elise thanks for the pictures! your kids are growing up!
Hermana Iquise has been enjoying my D&C DVDs, she wants to copy them - do you thinkthats alright? Or is it illegal? She tells me "Its legal here, and your in Bolivia!"· I think its legal, because there aren`t laws here, just suggestions - they sell copies of copyrighted movies EVERYWHERE! haha so I don`t know. Is it ok to copy them? THe Gutierrez family also wants a copy. I`m not sure what the right thing is to do.. help me! :) I don`t need an umbrella - I can buy one here.
Well, I love you all so much! Thanks for your prayers. They are strengthening me. I know the church is true, and that this is the work of the Lord. Angels are all around us bearing us up, and helping us to find the elect.
Thanks for everything.
Hermana Olsen