its been crazy! the missionary work is so good we are teaching so many people and so many people are interested. I feel like we dont have enough time in the day to help everyone. I had my first exchange this week and it was good I went to combarbola area. and worked that day with Elder Mensching it was great we went to an hermanas house that was getting baptized that week and got to talk with her and share some about the importance of baptism. Elder Mensching is great he taught me a bunch I am applying it and it has been helpful! after exchanges back in my area with my companion elder timana and we had talked to this family about the for the strength of youth pamphlet and we where taking one to that family and on our way we get this phone call and its one of the people we are teaching and the say I know I had to cut our visit short last time but I am ready to listen to your message now, and we are standing on the edge of the road and me and my companion look at each other and we are yeah we can share with you right now just a second and we ran across the street to a bench and and shared with her the messege of the resturation over the phone which was not ideal(over the phone next to the road) but we were able to share and talk with her and we have another appointment to teach her more! I know the Lord works with use no matter where we are he can work with that and help us help others, not always in the ways we want or understand, but he still always is there to help us. I think of the poem footprints in the sand
"One night I dreamed a dream.
As I was walking along the beach with my Lord.
Across the dark sky flashed scenes from my life.
For each scene, I noticed two sets of footprints in the sand,
One belonging to me and one to my Lord.
After the last scene of my life flashed before me,
I looked back at the footprints in the sand.
I noticed that at many times along the path of my life,
especially at the very lowest and saddest times,
there was only one set of footprints.
This really troubled me, so I asked the Lord about it.
"Lord, you said once I decided to follow you,
You'd walk with me all the way.
But I noticed that during the saddest and most troublesome times of my life,
there was only one set of footprints.
I don't understand why, when I needed You the most, You would leave me."
He whispered, "My precious child, I love you and will never leave you
Never, ever, during your trials and testings.
When you saw only one set of footprints,
It was then that I carried you."
the Lord will always be with us to help us in everyway and if we look back he is always there. I know i have seen his hand in my life and I so grateful for it and for each thing I have learned and I am so grateful to be an intrument in His hands.
Chile is great my house is great! and I am trying to learn and help people as much as I can. spanish is difficult, whenever I talk with members they make jokes about how I cannot understand which is funny really most the people I have meet are so kind and have so much patience with me and my awful spanish. something they talked about in the CCM is that the language of the spirit is universal and i think that is so true because there have been times where I have been able feel the spirit like when I accompanied a primary kid as they sang I love to see the temple for an activity and I didnt understand everyword but I could feel the spirit. and I hope the people I talk to even though my spanish is so broken I hope they can still feel the spirit.
-Elder Olsen
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