Buenas tardes mis amados amigos!
So recently, we have been approved to street contact people and encouraged to talk to everyone that we can. Anyways, it has been super weird because almost everybody in the mission at this point came out after covid. So we just have had to figure it out on our own. Anyways, Saturday we had exchanges with our zone leaders and we made a goal to talk to literally everybody. So we were knocking a lot of doors of formerly taught people and investigators, and everybody we saw out, we talked to. This ended up in us trying to figure out how to crash a graduation party that was outside in the front lawn. So we were all terrified and had no idea what to do. We slowed down and looked at their motorcycles for a while as we were trying to figure out how to talk to these people. And then we turned around with no plan whatsoever and started walking up. I was freaking out, but I got the prompting to just go for it, so very loudly I say, "yo whose bikes are those?" Most people ignored us, but one guy started talking to us about his bikes and the conversation changed to the gospel. His son came over and we were talking to both of them, and it turns out, the guy's brothers are members of the church, and one of his nephews was getting sealed in the temple THAT DAY. They weren't interested in the gospel yet, but i have faith that with time, their family will soften their hearts.
We also went and prayed with this lady named angel. She was so nice and we are going back over to pray with her with one of our members this week! And we had a lesson with king. He was so down to get baptized, and wants to come to church! We are going to try to set him on date this week hopefully. And we got back in contact with our person on date Keore. He said he talked to his mom about baptism as well and they are both so excited! Anyway I think that is all of the main highlights for the week!
The spiritual thought today is that God is aware of us. It was a hard week this week. We worked hard Monday through Friday and found nothing. Saturday on exchanges we worked harder than ever, and nothing was coming of it. I was tired, and didn't feel like I was a good missionary. I felt so weak and so overwhelmed. and then towards the end of the day, we started talking to somebody about the gospel. We taught him most of the gospel of Jesus Christ and part of the plan of salvation and the spirit was so strong. As we were talking, we could tell that he felt the spirit too, and it was strengthening all of us. He didn't accept an invitation to learn more yet, but we have faith that he will, because he felt the spirit. More than anything, this interaction was exactly what I needed on my hard week. After we were done talking, it felt like I was refilled with energy, motivation and hope. So God is aware of what we need and helps us- but we have to do our part. If we wouldn't have stopped and talked to this random guy, I never would've gotten this answer to my prayers. So follow God and trust in him.
Have a great week!
Love,
Elder Olsen
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