Peter, 8.20.12

hey yal'

sounds like i'm gonna come home to a ranchin' family! mom i'm glad your rist is feeling better. and that you both are ok. i just finished a letter from emily while waiting for the computer to become available. She is so amazing! i'm so glad, im  grateful to have such a great sister. she gave me an update on all of the kids. it was great to here her perspective on the family. is emily heading up to Logan for school? When does it start? most of the schools here started today. so we're hoping we will still find families home and available. thank you for praying that we'll find people that will make and keep convenants. debbi was inspired to pray for help to learn the language. My companion really wants to learn spanish. so he has got a hold of some spanish books from the spanish elders, we have been learning some. and frankly i needed that prayer because i haven't really been working on my spanish. i have felt that i have so many other things to study and work on before spanish. but really i need to learn so we can more productively talk with everyone we meet. communicating... well i hope its getting better! it really seems like there are an enormous amount of people that can't communicate very well. i have been working to simplify how i speak, so that others can understand. without any room for misinterpretation. their is a quote in PMG that says "we aren't to teach the gospel so simply as to be understood but that we are to teach it so that it cannot be misunderstood" that is my goal. when we are able to do it the spirit testify s powerfully of what we have taught. Elder Kunzler has really helped me in this area. he is supper smart he told me his mind is an "iron trap" and that he remembers everything. He really does. He has taught me a lot about everything. if anything comes up he has a well studied out answer that is correct and logical. sometimes he just starts teaching me about random stuff that comes up. yesterday between our correlation meeting and sacrament meeting. we were sitting in the kitchen at the church with the other elders in our ward and Elder kunzler taught us about the 3 catigories of evidences that the book of mormon is a true record. it was really cool, He also knows that no matter the evidence that it is the spirit that teaches.

my mormon.org profile? well its really simple go onto mormon.org click "our people"  then "meet mormons" then it has a place to enter a name, city, or key word. type in "peter" "kissimmee" or "Orlando". you can also put in age group and gender then all you need to do is look through the pictures till you see my "smilin'" face. i need to get a new pic on their but haven't. i should have a new one this week.

when we use the church websites we usually just use their computer or i bought a mormon messages dvd if they don't have the internet. it has been supper powerful.

what videos did you use for your lesson? one we have used for teaching about service is one under the youth section onmormonchannel.org titled "datons legs" its an awsome one.

this week we started teaching 4 senior citizens in an assisted living center. the owner of the center actually asked us to come teach them so we did for the first time on friday morning. there are two that are more promising E who has read some in the book of mormon before and lived in utah for 2 years at the air force base, and B who said she had attended  an lds church before. we have an appointent with them tomorrow. but i'll be on exchanges in st cloud with elder buckmiller.

the chuch is true! the Book is blue!

i love you!

Elder Olsen
ps the reason the last 2 emails have been longer is because sister Hall is sick and President hasn't had us write him for the last to weeks. Please keep sister Hall in your Prayers.