February 22, 2012

Dear family-
Sorry i didn't e-mail until now. It has been a crazy P-day. We went to the
Newsium museum today. It was really big and i got some sweet pics of
the Capitol on the roof of it. I got to ride on the dc metro for the
first time. That was really sweet tons of people, kinda scary. Brother
Weitzner came and took us out to lunch at fuddruckers!!! I didn't know
they had one in DC.so crazy.
The Weather is very fun to bike in. The best is when we get to ride
our bikes in a blizzard. Its so sweet. Slush up your pant legs, Rocks! 
Also its fun when your sick and you cant breath because of the cold air.
Such a fun missionary experience.
But seriously I'm doing fine i promise. I'm Handling it. I learned today
that 95 percent of the missionary's that go home is within the first 6
months. I'm almost there baby!!! I'm just past four. Its crazy to think
about how fast time flies.
K So my investigator David Sosa is super pumped to get baptised on
3/10/12. I'm super excited to see him get baptised. He has truly been
prepared to receive the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Ok cool...gotta run...Love you guys.
Love Elder Olsen

February 15, 2012

Dear Family and Friends,

This week has been super Busy!!! Wow. But with being busy comes A quick week. Such a Blessing. Well I'm getting used to riding bikes all over the place. It has been very difficult to get used to but i did it. My body adapted well to the challenges that it encountered.
Often i hear a mission also called the refiners furnace. I believe that statement with all my heart. The pressure and responsibility that comes with sharing the gospel is so intense. i know that the lord is shaping(or refining) me into the person that i need to be in this life and in eternity.

Well on to investigators-
David Sosa- David is a 21 year old short Hispanic dude. He is getting baptized for sure on February 10. I'm so pumped my first baptism!!!! there has been many miracles in teaching him. all of which are to long to tell you in one email so i wont.

Thank you for all the packages and letters i got this week. They helped me remember who i was and that i have people praying for me. YOU GUYS ROCK.

Well I'm out of time so talk to ya later

Love Elder Olsen

February 8, 2012

Dear Family!!
I'm doing alot better then Last week. I certainly felt your prayers this
past week. thank you so much for them. I had a major migraine last
Wednesday that's why my email was so negative. I'm doing tons better.
Being on a bike is really hard but I'm losing weight and building leg
muscle so that's good. My companion is good. he has a very different
personality. it kinda reminds me of myself. HaHa kinda funny. But ya
my area is cool i guess. Missionary work is so different when your on
a bike. We have been doing lots of GQing!!! GQ stands for Golden
Question. Its a question that makes people think about stuff. Makes
them interested. Haha Kinda fun... I'm still working on it. The more i
dive into missionary work the more it feels like I'm selling something.
When i get home im going to be one heck of a salesman.

Thank you for all you do for me!!!
Can you get me more Imatrex please.. I don't know if that's possible but
I'm going to need more soon. i used two for the migraine on Wednesday.
It was a killer. one of the worst ones in history. but I'm good. Don't Worry!

Thank you for you kindness and love toward me. you guys rock.

Love Elder Olsen

February 1, 2012

Dear Mom i had Death temple last week (it literally takes our entire pday!). i couldn't write you.
Anyways I'm not in Lexington Park any more. I'm on a bike. Its a place
called Quince Orchard. Very tippy top of the mission i think. so I'm
really scared and freaked out. i just got here today. My New companion
is named elder Walker. He is dieing this transfer. so I'm killing him.
Which means hes going home next transfer. Packing stinks i hate it. so
I'm kinda having a hard time right now. but I'm trying to be optimistic.
I'm so tired!!!!!!!!! Elder Furugen is training a new missionary this transfer
so that's cool. Ill send pics when i can. I'm kinda just trying to stay
alive as a missionary. My body is not accepting the missionary
lifestyle. but I'm trying my hardest and that's all the lord expects of
me. my new apartment smells and is kinda gross. i wanna go back to
Lexington park. i really didn't want to leave I didn't feel like I had finished
the work I needed to do there but i had to leave and I'm  in a
new area with an old missionary and hes kinda weird.
I hope ill have better news next week but I'm not
promising anything. I hope all is well and i miss you guys so much.
Please pray for me extra hard this week i need it. I'm going to struggle
but ill try to be good.

Love Elder Olsen

January 18, 2012

Hey Mother and friends-

 My companion is back. He is doing alright with all that went on when he was back home. His testimony about family's and how they can be together forever is so strong. He crys all the time. Man the lord must really trust me, because he put me with him. Or maybe its just to help me. I sometimes wonder if hes helping me more than I'm helping him.  What is the lesson here?

 We just got back from the Patuxent naval air museum. It was pretty sweet. Lots of planes and stuff. Elder Furugen got a Sailor hat. He looks so funny in it. ill send pictures sometime.

Ya i found out today that Saint Marys County is the first county in the United States. Holy cow this place is old. Just a random fact. 

I woke up with a massive headache yesterday. I hate them and i hate working with them, But it has to be done. But I'm good now. Ya so My eye has been twitching these past couple days. I think its because of stress. O the joys of missionary work. 

Also i got many doors slammed in my face yesterday so that was really nice with my head ache and all. 

I'm going to try to write elder Ball today but idk if I'm going to be motivated enough. 

About the packages, Tape them all the way up because there coming to me thrashed. I think I'm getting all the stuff in them but idk. Ya. I love the sweater i wore it two days ago. and i got the drugs as well. thanks for them. I got package from the rich family it was so nice of them!. i got ten bucks from the klosers in the ward nice but random that's going to be hamburger money. i got a Christmas letter from the frandsens and from the pletches. I so appreciate all the support.

Bishop Lowe(bishop in the Lexington Park Ward) Went to Lyon France Mission. He says its so sweet. hes also only 32 years old. so I think the lord is preparing nate to become a bishop at a early age.  You go, Nate!

Well i love you guys!!!!!!!!!!

God Bless

Bye

Elder Olsen

January 11, 2012

Ya I'm getting Elder Furugen back tomorrow so that's going to be great. I really hope he is going to be ok. his father passed away like 2 hours after he got back to Japan. So he talked to him for 2 hours and then he died. I prayed so hard that he would get to talk to him before he died. My prayers were answered.

We had our Zone Activity today and played glow in the dark dodge ball!! super crazy got hit right in the eye!!

So when is Nate getting his mission call?? I'm super antsy. So ya let me know the second you know.

And so ya The second baptism fell through too. so I'm kinda down on myself. so ya idk if I'm doing any good out here but I'm trying to obey all the rules and work as hard as i can. so i guess that that's all i can do. but anyway we've been super busy because we have two areas to cover. So tiring talk about exhaustion. I'm so Tired all the time. but what ever the lord is shaping me to be the man i need to be in my life. .

If you could, could you send me a copy of each of the Nashville Tribute Bands Cd's I really need them so all 3 or 4 i forgot how many they have. Thanks.

Dear Mom- The only girl that has written me is Grace. So ya Tell them that they need to Kick it into over drive. Push them along mother. haha Its so great to hear from people back home.

So ya that's all. Whats happening there?? Tell me!!!

Love Elder Olsen

January 4, 1012

Dear family and friends,

Mom- I think that talking to you on the phone counts as writing an email for the week. so i just didnt do it. hahaha lazy hu. so ya i wont get the email about Nate's mission call till next week cuz p-day is over at 6 o'clock. but Nothing will change in a week(about nates call to serve). so im not worried about it. Ya ive been writing many thank you cards lately haha but thats because im grateful for it so ya ill write them when im thankful. If i have Enough time. Its very time consuming and theres lots to do here in southern Maryland.

This week has been a really hard week for my companion and ultimately me. so here's the story. the first day i was with Elder Furugen he told me of how he found out a couple transfers back that his dad had cancer and that he wasn't supposed to live longer than a couple years. The p-day before Christmas he got an email that said that he was going to die in like 2 months. Not good!! but he was not to stressed about that either. but the day after christmas he called his family (Presedent Matsumori gave him permission to call home when ever he wanted because of his situation) and his sister said that the doctor gave him a couple of weeks. BAD NEWS. so ya it wasn't good. the result of that is that my companion is in Japan right now (to see his dad for the last time) and will be there a bit. I  am in a threesome  for the time being and am covering two wards!! Now im covering Patuxent and Pretty much by my self covering Lexington Park. Lots of work. But Thats not all....Our Baptism got cancled because she wasnt home from a vacation in time. WOW NOT GOOD We rescheduled for the 14th of JJanuary But ya over here in southern Maryland not alot of people keep there commitments. Super Sad. but there's only so much I can do givin the situation so ya im trying to forget it. Depressing!

 

GROSS STORY-

 

We had a service project last week on p-day. It was with a non member family and it was to clean out there house so that child services wouldnt take the kids away. ( this happens alot, A family in the lexington park ward got her children taken away because of how gross her house is, i also had to teach them in there GROSS) so we went there and took a tour around the place. So gross cockroaches everywhere falling off the ceiling on me so gross. but ya I had to repeat this scripture in my head to be able to stand it(IF your in the service of your fellow being, Your only in the service of your god) haha gods house doesn't have cockroaches in it. Hahahahahaha funny. but any way me and Elder Grant took the pantry. It was gross we threw away like 50 or 60m pounds of food that was ether out dated or full of cockroaches. so gross. o my goodness mother you would have killed over right there. Good thing im not a germaphobe or i would have been done for. 

 

K got to go....

 

LOVE ELDER OLSEN