So many things can
happen in a week! And so many things did happen, but today I want to be a
little more simple.
Last Sunday we had a
''Union Conference'' with Elder Ferreira from the Seventy because The Stake of
Osorno and the District of La Union are going to unite as one stake! It
was really cool to arrive just in time to be a part of the expanding church in
Chile. All the members are really excited. The work is coming forth among the
children of (Chilean) men!
Anyway, after the
conference, Elder Romero from Nicaragua (one of the 4 elders I started the
mission with) came up to greet me super excitedly and the first thing he said,
''Hermana!!! Es
más gordita!''
Which is basically like
the equivalent of, ''Hey! you're fat!''
Hahaha it was our first
time seeing each other since the first day we got to Chile so apparently he
hadn't seen my ''más gordita face'' for the whole mission haha. We both laughed
and talked about the great experiences we've had so far in our separate parts
of the mission. Then he showed me the pics of our first day in the plane and
then I really did realize that I've gained weight so woopdeedoo!
But it's alright.
Hermana Laguna and I are trying to combat this hard thing called food. We have
a mamita here, which means we eat with her every day except P day and Sunday.
(Sundays we eat with the members.) And well, this ward just recently, 2 months
ago, got sister missionaries for the first time in about 20 years and the
mamita isn't used to the less amount of food sister missionaries eat (I never
thought I would be one of those sister missionaries because I used to eat SO
much before the mission, but now I just can't *teardrop) and she loads the
food! And we've tried to talk to her about it, but that didn't work out very
well because now she purposefully feeds us more... haha
Hermana Laguna is taking
a perscripted medicine every day that gives her nausea and so guess where half
of her food ends up...
ON MY PLATE.
But it's alright. We
will figure something out so I don't feel like an about to errupt volcano after
lunch. We've been running every single morning and boy do I love running! It
makes you feel so good! Also we are exercising self-control when we can with
things like Peanut butter and....peanut butter....and peanut butter. I just
don't buy it because I can literally eat that stuff by the spoon. You all know
that. And actually I had resisted from buying it my entire mission, but there
was a whole jar of it here in this house when I showed up.
Anyway, so that's a fun
project that we are working on... Next week I'll be hitting my half mission
mark of the mission. 9 months! ...and it looks like I won't have to fake a baby
bump. haha
Well enough about the
unmission part of my missionary email.
This week we were
waiting for the busy street to clear up so that we could cross, and Hermana
Laguna just got fed up and said, ''This is what we have to do.'' And she just
walked out in the middle and put out her hand for all the cars to stop. And
they stopped and we walked across. ... We usually use this analogy of the
difference between a normal person and a policeman stopping and directing traffic
to help the investigators understand Authority. And so I, laughing, called out
to her, ''And with what authority?'' and she turned around with a smirk on her
face and said, ''Por el poder de Grayskull.''
And I stopped in my
tracks. ...and then skidaddled until I got out of the middle of the stopped
cars. And then said, ''DID YOU JUST SAY BY THE POWER OF GRAYSKULL?!'' and I
freaked out because my Peruvian mission companion had just quoted HE-MAN in the
most opportune moment of ever in my life. And in Spanish! So that has been our
new motivational ''You can do it.'' phrase. It's awesome. Hermana Laguna is so
funny.
Hermana Laguna and I
have set some very good goals for this excellent month of October. We have some
great investigators and decided that we want to set our goals high and really
put in our all. Por el poder de Grayskull!
We decided to be the
best that we possibly can in every aspect of the missionary work and put the
test to Heavenly Father and just say Come what may!.
Earlier this week, we
went to an appointment of a new investigator named Sonia. When she opened her
door she called out to us to enter, but called out from the crack of her door.
I didn't understand why until we opened the fence to walk across the yard to
the door and two dogs came running out of nowhere and bit my leg. But we had
planned very well for this appointment because we saw a lot of potential with
her so we got in the door and sat down, taught the lesson, and she's getting
baptized on the 24th! And as far as my leg.. #PerksOfBeingTheNurse'sCompanion.
Everything is alright now.
This conference was just
absolutely amazing. Sonia came with us! Each talk was like pulling out another
present from under the Christmas tree. This time I really did go with set
questions to be answered and I received ALL of the answers in the very first
session! So I had to figure out what more I could ask. Heavenly Father is so
loving and wise. I love the revelation that these servants received from him so
that I could receive my own personal revelation. Oh General Conference was so
special!!! It was also pretty neat to think that we were all doing the same
thing in the same moment. I sure love you, family of mine! I love hearing that
you have the Olson tradition continuing strong! :)
We watched it in the
stake center too. Presidente Obeso is in my stake! haha he came up to me after
and seeing that I had watched it in Spanish, and gave me a big thumbs up. I
seriously love my mission president.
Alrighty. I have to go.
I know there are a lot of things that I was going to tell you, but I can't
remember in the last moments. It's pouring POURING right now. I love the rain
and the sun.
I love you all! Happy
Birthday Jacob!
Hermana Olson
Here's a picture Elder Romero took at the beginning of our mission
Here's a picture of Hermana Laguna and I on a bus today.
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