January 22, 2018
Hey everyone,
It's week 3 of transfer 12 and I'm here in Licantén with my boy Elder Hiatt. So we are going to be spending our Pday in Licantén here this week because Curico is super far. So we are just going to have a kind of chill day. We went to the gym this morning. WE FOUND A GYM! That's another thing that happened this week. We found a gym here in Licantén and it's super small. It has like 3... well it has a leg press machine, 3 racks to do squats on, no room in the middle of the racks or anything like that, and an incline bench, a bench and then treadmills and dumbbells and that's about it. So super small but it's better than nothing and we'll be able to stay in shape. I stopped buying protein though which I was doing last change because it was super expensive.
(Hopefully you can hear me, we're kind of on a large street.)
So this week's been cool. We started off the week with a lesson with a girl named Pamela who's the daughter of our Elder's quorum president's wife. She's about 24-25 years old. She grew up for most of her teenage year in Holland. So she came back to Chile a couple years ago. She lives in Santiago but she wants to get baptized by her dad here in Licantén. She's super excited for it and obviously her family is super supportive of that because they're all members. Her mom is in the primary presidency. We are super excited about that. She's excited. We had a good lesson with her last night as well. In the first lesson we set a baptismal date with her for the 13th of February and I feel pretty confident that she'll get baptized. Keep her in your prayers though. But I think she's got a really good shot. So that was really cool.
We also found quite a few new investigators this week. We achieved more than our goal so that was good. Also Pamela came to church so we were pretty excited about that. It's been a long time since they've had an investigator in church here in the sector. So that's good that we could kind of start this change off right. We also had interviews with President Harris this week. It was pretty good. It was short. We just had to ask him a little bit about some of the details with our investigators like making sure that we were handling some situations right, but it was a short little interview. While I was there I saw Elder Davis, my previous companion, who finishes his mission this change, so it was good to be able to see him. I guess I'll be able to see him again when Elder Christofferson comes. I'm pretty sure I mentioned that...that he's coming. If not, read my other emails, it'll tell you more about it.
On Tuesday we watched the transmission from Salt Lake with President Nelson and the announcement about him and the new first presidency. It'll be awesome having a different first presidency as well. You get to hear them talk 2-3 times each general conference so it's pretty cool to be able to have that change, even though I love all of the apostles we've had, especially the first presidency I've known for most of my life.
On Saturday night we did a Book of Mormon activity. Our district came out here to our sector in the Plaza, the central park I guess, we set up a table and we have these big banners for the activity we are doing in the mission now. So basically, we have these big banners and the questions people have a lot of the time, like "Does God exist? Does my baby need to be baptized? What happens after death?" That kind of thing. So we had all those set up and we go around talking about the book of Mormon with everybody there. It works pretty well. We had about 15-20 people saying that they want to come, that they would accept us in their house, that they would accept missionaries into their house. A lot of them live in other parts of Chile but were here vacationing. In other sectors you normally find a lot more, but considering the size of Licantén, we probably contacted about half the people who live here, so it wasn't bad. It was fun. One thing that was cool about that is that the mission is now like measuring the number of references we get by doing that and if it turns out to be really successful, which so far it has been pretty successful, the area is going to kind of sponsor it and use it in other missions too. So that'll be pretty cool. Maybe my companion and I will end up in a Church magazine in a picture of missionaries doing a Book of Mormon activity. Haaha. probably not but it still is a pretty cool thing that's happening here.
A pretty fun experience we had the other day...we went to lunch at a member's house who live way out in the middle of nowhere and we had no idea how to get to her house. So we got some directions from her and had to tell the bus driver to let us know when we'd passed a certain point and he didn't let us know. So we'd been in the bus a little longer than we expected to and we asked him "hey did we already pass the place we asked you about?" and he was like, "ahhhh shoot!" And I think he felt really bad but he just pulled over and left us there on the side of the road. I have a little video of that I will try to send as well. But yeah that was pretty funny. So we started walking for a bit and finally a car stopped, kind of by itself, and took us the rest of the way. But it wasn't too far. We probably could've made the walk. It was about a kilometer away.
This morning we went hard on scrubbing the mold out of our study room. There was a BUNCH of mold there when we got there. We finally got it all good and clean. So that was good. Nice to have a cleaner house now.
I think that's about it. We are doing good here. Having a good time. Elder Hiatt and I are still getting along really well. I think. I don't know. He's giving me weird looks right now so I don't know if that's true. But, hahaha, nah that was a joke. But yeah he's great. A great missionary. We're getting along really good.
Oh, then also last night, when we taught Pamela the lesson, we went out to her grandparents house in the compo, in the country, so we went out there and it was just this little old old house that her dad had grown up in and it was like they had dug their own well, their own wood stables with...
Oh sorry we're getting completos right now and one of them kind of flipped. OH MY GOSH! Wait a sec..Alright, sorry. We were eating lunch and a bunch of our food fell over.
But yeah I'm pretty sure that's about it. I hope everybody's doing good. Love you guys a ton, have a good week. Bye!
Elder Olson
walking the long road when we were lost
Pretty fields
Our walking adventure
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