Hello everyone! So i guess I'll start off and let yall know that I am getting transferred! I thought for sure that I would stay in Bellevue but I'll be serving in the Winter Quarters YSA ward! So I'm sad to be leaving Bellevue but I can't wait to see what my next area has in store for me!
Anyways with that said, I had a fantastic last week here.
Monday we had a lot of lessons and also had a meeting about how the mission has been doing recently. We have been finding more people and baptizing more people and it is fantastic to see the Lord working his miracles even in Nebraska.
Tuesday We had a lesson with Keore and it was really good! We weren't sure if he will be able to meet his baptismal date because he works almost every sunday. And I just want to thank you all for praying for him because he talked to his boss and he won't have to work sundays anymore! So now he will be able to come to church and hopefully still get baptized next month!! We also had a really really good lesson with a recent convert and he was having some struggles. It was really cool though because the scriptures really helped him through!!
Wednesday we had a lesson with Jesus and we think that it really helped him have more of a desire to learn!! We also played dodgeball with the youth.
Thursday we met this lady from facebook and she was super interested in learning more! Her dad was a pastor and so we were a little worried about what the response would be, but we taught her the restoration of the gospel and she really really liked it! She also said that she would read the Book of Mormon so that was really really cool! We also had our district council and we talked about the talk 'be 100% responsible' which really helped me learn how to be a better missionary! And then we had a few lessons with members!
Friday we helped some people move stuff out of a house and then met with King! We ended up not following the lesson plan at all because we got talking about the temple and he wanted to learn more! We told him that there was a temple in Omaha and he wanted to go with us so we set up an appointment for Saturday. We also spent forever at a members house talking about aliens and dinosaurs and such so there's that.
Saturday we got to go to the temple with King!! We gave him a tour of the grounds and the pioneer cemetery and the spirit was so strong it was amazing. He recognized it too. We then went over to the trail center right next to it and took the tour and it was so cool! King absolutely loved it too. We took some pictures and not even 5 minutes after we left he texted us reminding us to send them.
And that leads me to the thing I've been thinking about a lot this week which is the power of the temple. When we were there I felt God's love so strongly and it brought me so much peace and love. And so I would invite you all to ponder Gods love more this week. Maybe go take a walk around a temple if possible. I promise you that God loves you so much. Have a great week!
-Elder Olsen
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