Bellevue #8

hello everyone! it has been a crazy week so I'll just jump right into it. 

Thanks everyone for praying for king. We had an interview with him and president and found out that he still has some work to do before he can get baptized but if anyone can do it, he can! So if everyone could keep praying for him that would be awesome! We had some amazing lessons with him. The first one was on tuesday and we had a meeting with him and the zone leaders. We were in a good part of the lesson and this guy walks up and says something about how he's never seen 5 mormons team up to convert one poor guy. We kind of try to laugh it off, but this guy doesn't leave. He asks king if we've convinced him to become a mormon yet, and we are all freaking out. There were 5 of us there and nobody had any idea what to do. But King turns around and starts testifying to this man. He testifies about how it isn't the Mormon church, it's the church of Jesus Christ and how the book of mormon isn't meant to replace the bible, but it is another testament of Jesus Christ and it adds on. It was amazing to see him interact with this guy. Anyways we convinced him to leave, finished up our lesson with king, and then the Zone leaders got the great opportunity to listen to this guy rant about how the church isn't true for like an hour. But King has such a strong testimony!

We also went over to this guy named eric's house and talked to him for a bit. He was super down to read the book of mormon and it was way cool to see. He's going to go out of town next week, but we'll stop by after that and see how it's been going.

Friday we had exchanges with the zone leaders and not tons happened. We did some service and ate fried chicken and called a ton of people. We did have a cool lesson where we learned that this member hasn't gotten her patriarchal blessing or been through the temple yet, but wants to! So the Zone leaders will be working with her.

And then Saturday we were going to meet with a couple of ladies, but they had to cancel because one of them didn't feel very good. The asked if we could meet on sunday and we were like sure! Come to church and we can talk afterwards! and they said that they would like that. They almost couldn't find it, but they made it in time and sure enough they loved it! They loved how focused on Christ it was and how there weren't tons of crazy things, it was all just simple truths. It was so good! they even said that they would like to come again! 

The scripture for the week is Doctrine and covenants 78:19. "And he who receiveth all things with thankfulness shall be made glorious; and the things of this earth shall be added unto him, even an hundred fold, yea, more." And my invitation is to write 3 things you're grateful for every day and see what happens! I'll do the same. Have a great week! Love you all!

-Elder Olsen

Also here's a bunch of awkward spontaneous pictures from today haha