I am in Bumby now! Which is pretty awesome because it is the area right below my last area and the missionaries in this ward are in the same district as my last district. So I still know most of the missionaries in the district! So awesome! So I already knew my companion too. He is Elder Conrad. He just finished his first 12 weeks and he is a great missionary. He is actually going to the Bangalore India Mission so he is only here until his visa goes through. Some of his cousins actually live in Ephraim, the Segos, and Bradly Sego is actually a senior this year, I know him. He was also one of the young Josephs in the pageant the year I was angel Moroni. Small world! It's been lots of fun so far.
On my first night here we went to go see one of their potential investigators, and he wasn't available so we were going around the apartment complex when this crazy man found us and bashed us for the next 30 minutes or so. We didn't even hardly say anything he just kept going the whole time, then this lady (Julia) came over and told us that she wanted us to pray for her friend (Lou) who fell down the stairs a while back and messed up her ankle. So we went over, and dang it all, the crazy man did too. He domanated the conversation there too, for that matter he wouldn't let us talk. He was trying to teach all 4 of us a lesson in the bible, how much he knew, and how little we did. Thankfully we haven't seen him again. We have met with Julia and Lou again though and they are great. They both have a lot to say and we will have to see how teaching them any more will go. The neat thing was that when we met with them again they were super excite talk with us more about the gospel and they had really been hoping that the other guy wouldn't come back around. It was a testimony to me that even people that are not yet a member of the church know the difference between people that do have the spirit and those that don't. The other guy was using the scriptures, he had a lot to say, he told us he loved us and that he wanted to help us. All of those things were good, yet the spirit wasn't with him.
"And the Spirit shall be given unto you by the prayer of faith; and if ye receive not the Spirit ye shall not teach." D&C 42:14
It's true. If you don't have the spirit you can't teach. It doesn't work. The spirit is the only way, that anything that we say as members of the church, will make a difference. The Spirit is the only way we can make a difference. We can only have the Spirit with us when we are using the atonement. We can only use the atonement when we come unto Christ.
Come Unto Him.
Elder Dane Olsen
The first ones are at Lake Ivanhoe looking at down town.
Then picture of the Church building is the one we go too. It was built in the 60s and it was designed by a Lutheran architect.
The last few with the fountain are Lake Eola in the middle of downtown. There were always people there for us to talk to. Super cool place.
More Pictures at Lake Eola and of an art thing at the park around it
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