Winter Quarters YSA #4

Hey everyone! I honestly can't believe that another week has gone by, but it looks like it has so I guess I'll write about what happened!

So the first highlight is our friend Matt. We got Matt's record a couple of weeks ago when he moved up to Omaha. He's been taught a little in the past, but he hadn't responded for a few weeks since we gave him a Book of Mormon. But he responded to us last week and we invited him to church. He said that he would love to but this week wont work. But we had a lesson with him later that night and he is so solid. We had given him a chapter to read and when we asked about it, he told us that he not only read that chapter, but had read about 8 others and felt the spirit while he was reading! It was so crazy but so cool! 

Another highlight was talking with our friend Lamondre! We have been having a hard time getting him to stay for the second part of church, but this week he stayed and was able to meet a lot of members! We also taught him about all the commandments and he is totally down with following all of them! And then there is Ethan who we met this week and he has never believed in God but he wants to! We had a good lesson with him and he loves the Book of Mormon and it is really cool to see him progressing. 

And then we also were able to see Chris start to progress! We met him out on campus the other day and taught him about the restoration. He absolutely loves the Book of Mormon and how it was written for our day. We invited him to church and he came! The whole time he was thanking us for inviting him and finding him a ride and he wants to come every week now! 

And then there is Mitchell who is not actually that exciting but we went to his house to give him a blessing and he was so drunk. He went from shouting to crying like every 5 minutes and it was so weird to try to help him. We ended up spending like 45 minutes before we could get out of there and we definitely didn’t give him a blessing haha.

But your spiritual thought this week comes from the Face to Face with the Bednars from last night. Something that they kept emphasizing is that the spirit is how we receive answers. They talked about how they would answer the questions the best that they could, but if we learned anything it would be because of the spirit. And I think that is so relatable to us! So many of us would love to ask an apostle one of our questions, but forget that we have access to the best teacher, the Holy Ghost! So my invitation to you all is to sincerely pray and search the scriptures for the answers to your questions and I promise that you will find them. Have a fabulous week!

 -Elder Olsen

Ps. I promise I'll have more pictures next week!