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