3.30.20

Hey y'all, my weeks been good! We've definitely had some adventure Haha but I'm looking forward to the work I'll be able to do here in Charlotte! And yes, I got transfered. My new companion is Elder Moray, he is from salt lake and is a really good guy! We're gonna have a lot of fun together!

Things have been crazy, I love this work and I am incredibly grateful for it. It really must be the work if God.

We had one lesson with someone on Saturday, his mom is a recent convert and he is solid too! His name is Josh and it was really cool to meet with them over zoom. Before I got here he was given the challenge in The Book of Mormon, Moroni 10:4-5 he did it and received an answer that this must be true! I am so excited to see where things go with him!

I love you all!
Elder Isaac Olsen

3.9.20

My week has been super good! We were able to see some awesome miracles! First is I might have mentioned them before, but we went and stopped by a less active family and were able to start teaching one of their children! They are a very unique family which is a lot of fun Haha. We went over there on Wednesday and had an awesome dinner and lesson. They haven't been apart of the church in a long time... they didn't know about it being 2 hours, or about gospel library or anything so that's kind of what we taught about and we left them with the commitment to read scriptures and say prayers as a family. It sounds like the reason they stopped going to church in the first place is because sister Gorny the mom of the family had a heart attack a while back and was offended that God would let that happen to her so they all left the church. So we're working with them and hopefully we can remind them of their testimonies and they can remember what they know to be true!
The other main cool thing we saw this week was with another less active family! We stopped by right as brother Rutz got home from work. He immediately opened the garage and took us in to show us his car! Haha it's a 2018 Dodge Challenger and it's purple! It was super cool! After a minute his granddaughter who he and his wife have custody of came out to say hi to us and so we went in and had a little lesson on the spot! They are super nice people! We were standing there and sister Rutz said "Well our granddaughter is about to turn 9 so she needs to be taught the lessons." Haha we said okay and we are going back this coming Friday.
The third person that we saw miracles with is a kid named Logan, hes 22. We stopped by him week or so ago and he seemed open but said we couldn't meet at his place because his dad doesn't like us being around and asked if we could meet somewhere else. So we told him we could meet at the church and on Saturday we met with him! It was cool, and a good lesson. He is a super in depth sort of thinker and so everything we talked about he had a million other comments about because he has studied a lot of other things. But we had a good lesson with him!
Sunday was stake conference, we had to drive up to Lansing for it and we got to see a bunch of other missionaries! The stake president shared something in a little special side meeting for investigators and missionaries it was super cool! He talked about the Name of our church. I took notes on it and so I'll share! Haha

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

D&C 115

Break down:
The- definitive (define or definite) article
Church- ecclesia (to call out)
Of- preposition
Jesus Christ- name
Of- preposition
Latter-day- last day (or last dispensation) LAST
Saints- helios (holy)

Name of the church: The last call out of Jesus Christ for us to be Holy!

We live in the last time that the fulness of the gospel will be on the earth

We are gathering Israel for the LAST TIME!

I love you! Thank you for all you do!

Love,
Elder Olsen

3.2.20

Hey y'all it's been a great week! Or a great couple of weeks Haha sorry for the inconsistency. This last week mostly yesterday, Sunday I guess. Haha we saw some amazing miracles! Started off by having an awesome time at church our Sunday school was literally sooo good! We talked about 2 Nephi 11-25 and I learned that it is chiasmus which is super cool Haha I didnt even know what it is but it's an inversion in the second of two Parallel phrases. Super cool, y'all should go check it out and watch for it!

After church we did a bit of missionary work in finding and having lessons with people. We felt God guiding us throughout the day and it was truly amazing! Being taught and led by him in indiscribable  ways. He is there and he is aware of our efforts. I promise that as we put our trust in him and show him that we are willing to do the work we will be blessed. It is just so amazing! On Saturday we had an amazing moment of direction in life. Just a realization of what we wanted in life and how I personally could do and be better! It was a good thing for sure!

Anyway I live you all! Y'all are just great!


Alma 29:9 I know that which the Lord hath commanded me, and I glory in it. I do not glory of myself, but I glory in that which the Lord hath commanded me; yea, and this is my glory, that perhaps I may be an instrument in the hands of God to bring some soul to repentance; and this is my joy.

Love lots!
Elder Isaac Olsen!

Feb 24 2020
Today was good. We got some good stuff done and were able to prepare for the week which is what we are supposed to do! So that's good. I drank a cup of milk this morning and then tonight I got kinda messed up. So I'm starting to wonder if me drinking milk is getting worse... hopefully not but I dunno. I'll keep trying and experimenting until I find out. Haha overall it was a good day. I'm exhausted and need some sleep. 😊


Feb 25 2020
Today was awesome! We went over to Tony's this morning, he wanted to have a discussion about Porter Rockwell, Joseph Smith's body guard. We talked about him and I'm gonna definitely have to do some more homework on him Haha we also helped him in his shop for a bit which was awesome and made me super happy! I've missed getting all messy working on cars an stuff Haha I love it!
After that we had a lesson with Indearia, she canceled on us once we got there though 😪 hopefully we can reschedule with her. Shes been hard to get with lately. After that we had a dinner appointment with the Sprang family. They are awesome! Brother sprang has a Corvette which is pretty cool. It's a 4th generation 1987 and a beauty! Haha he also has a hot wheels collection of cars and gave is each one so that's cool! I got a 1971 Ford mustang mach 1 l, if you dont get pictures remind me Haha it's pretty cool! After that we did some stop bys, overall it was a good day! To get out and do good things was awesome! I love this gospel and I love sharing it!


Feb 29 2020
Today was really good. We've been kind of running on slow lately but today Elder Miller and I had the realization that we can and need to do better and be better. I am excited to see how it influences the future!


Mar 1 2020
Today was so good! We went to church this morning, they decided to change ward counsel from 8:30 to 9 so next week will be nice!
After church we went and blessed the sacrument for 2 people. Then we went to the Cranmores for lunch, it was super good and after we shared the first vision it was super cool! We have set a goal to share the first vision 100 time in the month of March. So that was our first time. After that we went finding we were driving to go finding and I looked over and saw three guys playing basketball so I had Elder Miller pull off and we went and started talking to them! After talking about God and faith with them for a bit we shared a story about a kid that got an answer from God. After the vision they were all like "woah, that part about the 2 people standing above him gave me goosebumps" the spirit obviously. We are going to play basketball with them and teach them more. Which was super awesome! After that we decided to skip our dinner hour and were going to go finding after the basketball kids we went to a neighborhood and parked, mapped out who we were going to stop by then went and knocked on our first house. Who was a less active family. Come to find out with un baptized children. They welcomed us in with open arms we had an amazing discussion and shared the first vision! Return appointment Wednesday!!!! After that ... we went to sister Bears and blessed the sacrument for her then shared the first vision there! It was so cool! Miracles are real and they come from choosing to follow Jesus Christ! It is so amazing! I love this gospel more than anything and I love sharing it with EVERYONE!


Your son and missionary Elder Isaac Olsen

Hurraw for Israel!