August 4, 2014
Salut famille!
I am so excited to
hear that Liz is finally done with school! And the Shakespeare sounds
like a blast! Rebecca: you need to send me a picture of your hair!
I want to see this. I miss Frozen. But sometimes when we go to
teach lessons the kids have it on and are watching it in French; it`s so
cute! Did I ever send you the video of Elder Abbott singing Do You Want
to Build a Snowman in French? Frozen in French is soo much cuter!
I can`t believe that
it has been a week. It just flew by, I can`t even remember what
happened! Everything was turned upside down. We had three moves
this week and then Zone training meeting, so my schedule was really thrown
off. But I finally got all of your cute letters! And you have to
give Aunt Lollie the biggest hug for me! Liz, you two are the
best! It made my whole week! Haha the missionaries hve never seen a
package that big. The APs called to make sure we had a car; they were not
sure what to do with it. The whole zone made me open it up in the parking
lot! It`s was the best! I miss America so much! It was so
fun! Sister Wright and I are just going wild with all of our fun treats,
and we are going to deck out our apartment with all the fun decoration!
We are excited to get some American pride going because we
ran into a couple of American haters this week. Thanks so much!
Things are really
crazy up here. Practically the whole mission is going to be turned over
by the end of this year. Right now Elder Jenkins, Sr. Gentils and I are
the only greenies in the zone. And everybody else is almost done with
their mission. We had over seven missionaries going home this week. And
then Sister Wright and others are leaving after this transfer. It really
freaks me out to think about what`s coming. By the end of the year
everyone I know we`ll be gone and the zone will be filled with new missionaries
in its place! I can feel Heavenly Father preparing me for some really
difficult things. Each day I feel more and more like this is my time to
learn, and pretty soon I am going to be asked to step it up. It`s discouraging
because I feel so far from where I feel like I need to be. But it is
amazing to see that the harder things get the more strength Heavenly Father
gives me. I know that He blesses us with everything that we need in order
to accomplish the things that He asks us to do. I am really learning out
here how to just turn everything over to the Lord. To just put all of
our fears and inadequacies at his feet and then walk out the door and get to
work.
A miracle of the week:
So for the last two Tuesday nights we`ve been playing softball!
(Well, Sr. Wright has been playing softball, I have been supervising.)
One of our members is a bus driver. Every Tuesday night the bus
drivers and the mechanics get together and play softball. (Not making
that up. It is hysterical). But we got permission from President,
and it has been the coolest opportunity to work through a member and talk with
and get to know all of his coworkers. It is opening up huge opportunities
for him to continue talking about the Church at work now too. But this
week, after the game had finished, one of his coworkers came up to us and told
us he was Mormon! He pulled up his sleeve and showed us his CTR tattoo he
had on his arm-- a little ironic, but it unbelievable! It turns out that
he is a convert to the church and even had a mission call to Guatemala, but
then he met his wife and married her instead. He loves ``his religion``
and I guess his entire family is active LDS, and he wants to start coming back
to Church. And he had no idea that Frere Morin was LDS, and Frere Morin
had no idea he is a member either. I guess he LOVES Grandpa
Hinckley. As soon as he started telling us his story he just starts talking
about how much of an impact President Hinckley has made on his life and how
powerful his testimony was to him. Haha. Immediately Sr. Wright took
that as an opportunity and everybody in the ward knows about Grandpa
Hinckley. It was really cool to see Heavenly Father use that to help us
make a special connection with this man who has been prepared to return to
Church. He was really, really touched and we are going to see him this
week! So that will be wonderful! Well thanks so much for all your
love and prayers family! Keep praying for me to receive the gift of
tongues please! The Quebecois have been especially blunt about my
language abilities this week so don`t forget!
Love you to the moon
and back!
Soeur Olsen
Pictures:
These are the elders that serve in our ward with us- Elder Norman and Elder Jenkins
Me and all my packages. All the other missionaries are jealous. They think its just ``greenie mail``
Finally went to Parliament last pday!
No comments:
Post a Comment