Well hello again! Happy May! It's crazy how fast time goes but that's life I guess.
The highlight of my week was probably this lesson we had with a recent convert. We were having a moment and he was talking about death and it was a little somber. Then out of the blue he says, ( and he is 100% serious) "I want to be buried in a Power Rangers suit." Elder Wright and I just lost it. We both started laughing so hard but somehow we were able to convince him that we weren't laughing at him so that was good! He said some other hilarious things, (including demonstrating the entire power rangers morph for us) but that one just killed us haha.
We had a sweet church service yesterday! We ended up getting 2 nonmembers there and then some other missionaries got another one, and then we got 2 inactive members there as well! We got like 3 shout outs in testimony meeting, and then this guy that we got there that hadn't been to church in like 4 years shared his testimony an it was sweet! Plus he gave us another shout out lol.
We were super bummed last week because we were supposed to have a baptism for our friend Carson and then he stopped responding. But then Sean showed up randomly to FHE! He told us that he still wants to get baptized and we were able to meet with him 3 times since then and he is getting baptized this Saturday! We are super pumped for him.
We also had sweet plan of salvation lessons with Alberto and Joseph. Alberto has a super innate understanding of spiritual things and he just totally understood the premortal life and the fall and it was super cool to see. Joseph understood it all and you could see it making sense in his mind and building off of what he already knew. It was so cool to see!
And then we also were able to find a bunch of new people this week so that was super fun! God is good and he loves us.
This week I have been thinking about my faith and where it lacks. I think that a lot of times it is easy for me and others to have faith in Jesus Christ, but it's not so easy to have faith in each other or ourselves. For example, I know that Christ will forgive us of our sins. But its harder to believe that he really will answer our prayers, or that we will understand his answer. It's easy to believe in God, but maybe harder to believe that God is working through you, or your church leaders. But I love Ether 12:27, which basically says that God will help us be humble so that we can understand that we are weak. And then he promises that through his grace our weakness can become strength. So we can believe in each other because God's promises are sure. We might not be strong on our own, but with Christ we can be!
If any of you have thoughts on this, I would love to hear them! Anyways have a great week!
-Elder Olsen
Me and Elder Steiner who just left the zone, and then pday at the Nebraska state capital!
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