Hello everyone! So the subject of today's email comes from the fact that I accidentally ate yogurt that expired March 4th. I didn't get sick and it actually didn't taste to bad. But this week has been great and I can't wait to tell y'all about it.
So with being in a YSA ward now, pretty much everything is different. When any of the other missionaries in Omaha find a young adult that is interested, they send them to us. With that and with a lot of new people moving in for college we have been really busy teaching people.
One of those is this lady named Fu that a member found. He was just out doing summer sales and ran into this lady that was interested in the church. So last week he brought her to church and then since then we have taught her the restoration, plan of salvation, and Gospel of Jesus Christ! She came to church yesterday and was introducing all of the members who just moved in to us! It was so crazy but she feels so at home in church and we have another lesson with her tonight!
There's this other guy that we're working with named Brian. So a few weeks ago in my last area we were doing what's called cold calling where basically you put in a random phone number from the area and call and see if they want to learn more about the gospel and we found Brian. We had to send him to the YSA elders but he got baptized a few weeks ago and now I'm in his area! He has a ton of questions and we are slowly helping him answer his questions about all sorts of things. But he is so solid and it has been cool to work with him.
And then we had a baptism this week too! There's this guy John who has been to church a lot but had a bunch of things to work through before he could get baptized. And let me tell you it was a miracle that everything worked out well. We got to the church and quickly realized that the office staff who usually is there wasn't there because it was Saturday. And we dont have a key to that building. So we were panicking and calling everybody we could to try to get in, but nobody was answering. We eventually got a hold of the APs and we had to go to their lesson and interrupt it so that we could get in. At this point we didnt know if the font would fill up in time or not, but we rushed in there and the key only was to the exterior doors and not to the baptismal font. But it turned out that there was 1 door that was left unlocked for some reason that we were able to get through and unlock all the other doors from the inside. The font ended up being filled in time and the baptism went great! God definitely watches out for us!
Something I've been thinking about is just how important it is to have genuine Christlike love towards everyone. The love that the people in this ward have towards their nonmember friends has helped so many people come join in with us at church and start learning more about Christ. The best thing that you can do for one of your friends is being them closer to Christ and so I invite you all to find a way to bring someone closer to Christ. I know that you will be blessed so much for it. Have a fantastic week!
-Elder Olsen
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