Olsen Missionaries: 4/6/15

So, to start things off, I loved conference. And I am happy to say this marks the second conference in a row that I haven't fallen asleep at some point in! Haha Each session seems so much shorter then what they used to be. I blinked and then it was all done and over with. It was so great!

Elder Clayton's talk about seeking the light of Christ is one of my favorites, though there were so many good ones. It reminded me of a line from the Mormon Message called "Hope of God's Light" where the man narrating it talking about his own story says something like "Light rarely comes to those that sit in darkness waiting for something to happen. There has to be an act of faith." That act of faith to leave the dark and seek the light. Seek Christ and his truth/light. I also loved how he pointed out that we may not always see the light. We still know the general direction, but we often won't be able to see the light. Those times when we don't see the light is so easy to get distracted and disoriented. We forget what our purpose is. We forget what our goal is. We forget that we are here on earth to seek Christ and all of His truth. When we are seeking Christ, we follow him, which is exactly what he told us to do. I am just so excited to get a hold of the talks again when they come out. I love conference, I love receiving that gift from the servants of God, and I love growing and getting that greater light.

A funny story for you. So between the Saturday Afternoon session and the Priesthood session we went and got something to eat and then we stopped past the gas station to fill up. We ended up being right across from this girl who was in a bit of distress. One of the other Elders asked her what was wrong, and we found out that she had locked her keys in her car and then she had $50 stolen out of her wallet. Well there wasn't much we could do about the stolen money, but we did start to help her in breaking in to her car, we found some things to pry the top of the door open and she already had a hanger. I almost got it a few times it was really close and I kept trying, while I was doing that one of the other missionaries was calling some of the missionaries that had members that lived close. We had some members come and try to help us, one of them took over and tried doing the same thing I was, he had about the same experience I had, neither of us quite got it. The other member that came out decided he would call AAA and have them help (he also said he would pay for it because the girl already said she didn't have anything to pay anyone). So AAA came out and did the same thing we were, he just had the right tools to do it. :( I was really hoping to be successful. But it was all good we got it unlocked and then the AAA guy didn't charge anything even though the member wasn't supposed to use their AAA membership to help anyone else. She went on her way and we headed back to the Priesthood session and got there an hour late. It was good fun and brought back good memories. :) Though I am really excited to see the rest of the Priesthood session once it comes out.

That's about it for this week, the work is great, and it is speeding up. We are working on getting the investigators that we already have progressing and some of them are really close.

Happy Easter!

Elder Dane Olsen

AND THEN...
another email

First picture here I caught a duck... haha We had just had an appointment fall through and Elder Conrad was making a call sitting on a park bench next to a lake. There were these ducks near us, and they came a little toward us to see if we would feed them. Well I didn't have anything, but I threw some wood chips and that worked good enough. They came over and I got one of them about 2 feet away from me and then jumped him. It made me happy.

Then next one is this sweet truck we found, pretty awesome.

The next one is a picture of all these ties that a member gave us that she bought from a thrift store. And she has bought us more since then. I have about 80 ties right now and that is only because I keep the good ones and the ones that are the right kind of ugly.