This
was a good week! We have been busy busy today! We just left a funeral from a
sister from the stake. They called me yesterday and asked me to sing Abide with
Me for the program. So we met up with Elder Alder and Elder Jackman because
they are from that ward and we didn't know where the church building was and
WOW! They have a steep area for proselyting, but it's absolutely beautiful and
their church building is really cool. Well anyway, it was weird to be in a
different part of Punta Arenas today. It was like another world!
It was a special
experience to participate in a funeral in Chile. Elder Alder spoke and
basically taught the entire lesson of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, but in
regards to this hermana that had passed away. It was a very good talk and
afterwards he had 2 new investigators! It was neat to watch missionary work
happen to the ends of a funeral.
Well, so knowing that
I wasn't going to have very much time to empty my brain on the computer, I hand
wrote the email for today.(See below) But what I didn't include in that is that there are
cambios already! :(
Hermana Mota is
leaving Patagonia and is headed to a neighboring area that is called Ovejero.
And I am getting anther gringa companion, Hermana Maready. She's coming from
Valdivia, my Chilean hometown. I already met her a teensy bit in my last bit I
was still in Valdivia. I'm pretty sure we have a few mutual friends from what I
can remember because she is from San Clemente or something like that. I don't
want to speak in English ever. But we will see how this goes. Ah I feel so
weird that Hermana Mota is already leaving. . . I won't be learning Portuguese
anymore. hmmmm. And I am going to miss Hermana Mota. But I'm excited for a new
companion too. I guess it's kind of that feeling of New Year’s when you get a
new companion. I have a lot of ''new companion resolutions'' to fulfill with
this companion I guess :)
Well that's the new
news of what I didn't know yesterday when I wrote my email. I love you all very
much!
Thank you for your
awesome emails!
I love you all very
much glad to know you are all doing so well!
Love,
Hermana Olson
(Excerpt from the hand written letter:)
Dear Mommy,
Ah yes, I have arrived at that time of a grande gratefulness for a permanent memory stick in my head! I just wish there was some way to regenerate memories into a physical, seeable substance! Oh Mom! I just want to show you these things that I've seen! But all is well. I'll show you in Heaven when we are watching family home videos.
I really do love the contentment when I forget my camera and something happens that would be such a cool memory to have concrete in a photo and then I realize there is nothing I can do besides enjoy the moment and plain old remember it! It's better that way anyway. I have almost no desire to take fotos any more.
They just appear so pointless and stressful. What has helped me out is to think of your mission pictures because because I know you don't have very many, but I know you spent every day of your mission walking in a National Geographic magazine, and needless to say, living the life of a missionary, and you have memories of that year and a half of your life. Well, I don't want to take fotos anymore. I'll just remember things as they come, and as they go :)
I'm glad to hear that Ben Skelton is all right. [came home from his mission sick] I hope something like that doesn't happen to me on my mission. Up until now, I haven't missed a day of hard work. I hope it stays that way.
Love,
Hermana Olson
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