Winter Quarters YSA #3

Hey Everyone! I hope you all had a great week cause I sure did!

So being in a YSA ward is awesome because people bring their nonmember friends to activities all the time and there are a lot of people who are down to talk about religion with us. One of them is named Lamondre and he is so cool! We have been teaching him for a few weeks, and this week we talked about baptism with him and we were able to set a date for him to be baptized in a few weeks! He is so ready and it is so cool to see the gospel blessing his life. 

We also went on exchanges with some other missionaries this week. They had been struggling a little bit and it was cool to be able to help them out! We were able to see some cool miracles that day including with this one lady who has been taught for a while. She hasn't really progressed or come to church for the months that she's been taught, but she decided to this week! We also were able to get our friend Jeremiah to decide to be baptized! He has some things he has to work through to be baptized, but is excited about it! 

And we also had a cool miracle while we were out knocking the doors of people who had been taught in the past. We went up to this one door and the people didn't live there any more, but the people that did decided to let us in! We shared the Restoration with them and they want to keep meeting! They gave us water and everything and made us feel at home. God is definitely preparing people to receive his gospel. 

We also had a really cool devotional with people who had recently been baptized speaking. They kept talking about how God prepared them and how grateful they are for the gospel and all of the many blessings that it's brought them. I think that sometimes we lose sight of how much of a blessing the gospel is, but it's important to remember. So many people are out there looking for the truth and so don't be afraid to share what you believe! Even if it's just telling somebody that God loves them can help so much so go out and share the gospel! have a great week! 

-Elder Olsen

Pics of the district and exchanges