Hey guys! I hope you all were able to watch the devotional from President and Sister Nelson yesterday! It was amazing and I learned so much. If you didn't get to watch it, I would highly recommend!
Anyways with that being said, it was a pretty good week!
We met with our friend Jenna a couple times and she is doing really really well! She will be getting baptized on the 27th of May and we are super excited for her. She has overcome so many challenges with the word of wisdom and with other things that have been going on, but keeps pressing forward with faith. After church she told us that the spirit was so strong and that she knew that this was the right way to go. She also watched the devotional with the prophet and loved it! It has been awesome to see her faith grow.
So besides her we have had a lot of people moving out because of school getting out. This week most of our high potential people moved to other states or cities in Nebraska for the summer. But hopefully the missionaries over there can keep working with them and helping them to progress! So we've been trying hard to help everyone else start progressing a little bit more. One of those people's name is T! He came to church this week and he says that he wants to keep learning and maybe be baptized, but he's not quite sure yet. His main holdup is that he's super superstitious and feels like there's a lot of bad trying to control him. Some of the lights in our church building kind of flicker a little bit sometimes and that just freaked him out until we just told him it's a normal thing. So we are trying to help him with that as well, but he's awesome!
We also met with this guy named Daniel and other missionaries gave him off to us because they thought he was YSA, but he's almost 40. Anyways he kept talking our ears off and giving us this terrible advice. Like one of the things he said was that he used to talk to people a lot more, and then he realized it's a waste of time so now he just stays home and watches movies and feels like it's way better. Just stuff like that and he kept talking so that was a fun one.
Anyways we also have been working with this lady named Vianka that was found on facebook and she is willing to learn, but just a little hesitant because she doesn't know how her family would feel about it, so if you could all pray for her that would be awesome!
So this week I had my last interview with my Mission President, President Bailey. He is a really wise man and I've learned so much from him. It was a really powerful experience, and I thought I'd share one of the things that he told me. He showed me 1 Nephi 15:24, and the last part of it says, "and whoso would hearken unto the word of God, and would hold fast unto it, they would never perish; neither could the temptations and the fiery darts of the adversary overpower them unto blindness, to lead them away to destruction."
If we hold fast to the word of God we will never falter or fail. We won't have to worry about Satan's darts that he's going to throw at us. We just need to follow Christ as closely as we can and when we get off course, get right back on. And so I challenge you all to read from the Book of Mormon every day this next week. If that's already something you do, then your challenge is to put more effort into hearing God's voice as you study. I can promise that it will have more of an effect than you think.
Have a great week everyone!
-Elder Olsen
Also here's a district picture, a pday picture, me with Elder Perry and me with Sean!
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