Tuesday, January 26, 2016

January 25, 2016 The Usual Thing that Usually Happens Happened to Us!!!!

Bam shabang. Cambios came swerving around the corner a lot faster than you'd suspect, and I was already well, basically certain that I was going. Odd. Because a trainer is a trainer for two cambios so you can just relax when it comes to cambios, but long story short I was pretty certain I was a gonner. A few weeks ago I almost went to president to set things straight, but I didn't want to interfere with whatever the Lord is expecting of me. So I really didn't tell anyone about anything and decided I'd just take it to the Lord. And well, I'm terrible at asking things, but I wanted to ask that I stay in Francke to finish the training. ...but I didn’t know how to ask that, so on Wednesday night I tried the asking thing and asked for someone to spill water on my face on Thursday. And we went to Subway right before a worldwide missionary conference from the apostles and as I was sitting down an innocent Chilean citizen spilled water on my face! Imagine that! Well, it works. There you have it, Heavenly Father takes care of His business. So I asked for me to stay if it be His will. That's a curious thing there, His will. Because He really does know what's around the corner and exactly how it will all play out. Well, we got the call in the morning, and boy oh boy are there cambios! Literally every single companionship is changing and two sectors in the Osorno area are having a white wash (an entire companionship leaves and a new one comes in), 30 missionaries are going home on Wednesday and every. single. companionship. is changing! ...except for ours. (Oh and the assistants to the pres.)
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! Looks like the cambios slammed on their brakes just in time for Hermana Gardner to cross the street. Oh what a fantastic cherry-on-the-top relief! I laugh now just because I don't think I changed anything, Heavenly Father already knew it was going to turn out this way, but I guess He wanted me to at least learn how to ask Him for things more clearly. Little by little I'm learning how to align my will with His but also being deliberate and not taking a lazy river inner tube float down His plan he has for me. We gotta work for it because you get so much more out of it! 

Okay as far as the week goes. Surprise surprise: THIS WEEK WAS EVEN BETTER THAN THE LAST! 

Bullet points go:
·  On Friday Claudio got baptized and his girlfriend Amparo miraculously got one of her daughters back home with her (long story with an amazing miracle). 
·  On Friday, Juan Carlos also got baptized
·  On Saturday, The ward went on an amazing paseo (outing?) to a camping park with lots of pools (cool mixture right? almost as cool as Ohanapecosh just without the brain freezing glacier water and avalanched giant trees to make forts of...) 
·  EVERYONE WENT. And when I mean everyone I mean every. single. active member of the ward, and many less actives AND almost every single one of our investigators too! They all left at 9:30 am which is quite a Chilean miracle if you ask me because to go to a paseo they can show up on time, but to church it`s as if they all had a heart attack and just couldn't make it on time! bahaha anyway they all left cheery happy and shabam we passed by Claudio later at his carrito to see he wasn't at the paseo!!! So we called up another investigator that wasn't going to go in the big bus and go separate with her family in her car (not very many people have their own cars here) and she and her husband (investigators) decided to take Claudio and his family on over!!!! When we got to their house, Claudio was introducing himself with all the good pride in his heart saying that he was just baptized the day before and that they should highly consider it because it feels great! haha It was pretty neat and the family told us that they had a great conversation on the half an hour ride over. 
·  Needless to say everyone had a blast and the fair skinned Chileans got sunburnt. They call it allergy to the sun. I guess it's not all that common to get sunburnt because they were all freaking out. Well, I gave them the special ''California girl'' tip of using the aloe vera plants that all of them have in their gardens for the sun burns! hahahaha And well, they had a great FULL day of fun. They left at 9:30 am and didn't get back until 8:00! 
·  Well, it was pretty strange to stay in this little square of a town without all our buddies to visit, but we are missionaries so we just made like Jack and hit the road with street contacting! Boy oh boy did we find some great people!
Ok...no time, but one of my favorites was a woman who answered her door with absolutely no interest to hear what we had to say. I usually don't like to beg for the people to listen to us, but we asked if we could at least give her a picture of Jesus. It was of Jesus appearing to Mary after his resurrection. She grabbed it and looked down at it, and did a very solemn double take. She stared for a few moments and then began to silently cry. We waited for a while and then she said, ''I had a dream last night with this picture. This exact picture. You were sent from God.'' Well, she suddenly became very receptive and she was rejecting us because her heart was needy and a little bit hardened. I'm glad a little card had sufficient power to soften her heart! Her name is Irén.
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Okay so those are the extra bullet points that you will need to multiply by forty three million sixty seven thousand and eight times to remind me what other amazing stuff you weren't able to read this week. Maybe one day I'll write it all out. For now the time beats me. 

Boy oh boy am I excited for this week and the more things to share with you. 

I guess I'd just like to finish with a spiritual thought:

The Book of Mormon.
Yeah, there you go. Read it. That right there is the pure dew from heaven. I LOVE IT! 

Okay fam, I love you. The time will never permit me to do all I want. So just enjoy the little I write! Love you all!


Hermana Olson

This is a picture someone took of us reading our emails.

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