wow i didn't know Micheal Lutes was going on a mission already!?! where is he going? when does he leave? I'm glad you were able to hear thomas report. i was thinking about him recently. i'm glad he's doing well.
i'm in a brand new area. the title is R east. but we really cover merritt island, cocoa beach and cape canaveral. the nasa space center is just outside our area so we'll hopefully get to see a launch :) i didn't realize that we were opening a new area when i emailed last week. it wasn't until later that i called my new companion. so i went to the mission office and picked up the keys to our new apartment, supplies to proselyte with and an empty area book. it was pretty exciting! i am out of central florida for the first time. i'm now in the Cocoa stake. our area is basically two peninsulas with bridges that connect them. it is great! we on merritt island. and the church is over on the main land. the ward was covered by one set of missionaries before and they rarely made it out to the coast. so we came in and split the ward. How do you open an area? well we are trying to figure that out. we figure out were we are at, what our area is and then start talking to people. members, non members and work to find people to teach. we have 1 investigator that was being taught when we got here and we have i person that was baptized about a week ago. other than that we are looking for people everywhere. we have been going to members homes, principles get to know them and ask for referrals. we have recieved 5 this week. we will be contacting them soon.
it has been really fun because most of the people we talk to haven't seen missionaries very much before so most people we meet don't have much of an opinion about us yet. really this has been a huge blessing and opportunity. i'm grateful for it. this week has seemed kind of like a blur so much has happened but we are now pretty well settled in and are ready to focus 100% on proselyting Elder Hibbard is from merridian idaho. he has been out for about 16 months and is great! he is a great missionary! he loves fly fishing and hunting.
well i've gotta go!
I love you!
Elder Olsen
ps my address is
200 spring dr. unit 8
Merritt Island, Fl 32953
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