week 87: lots of meetings

April 23, 2018 (transcription from Audio letter)

Hey everyone, This is week 4 of transfer number 14. It's  been a pretty good week. We did not have a lot of time in the sector for work. We had meetings and meetings and some more meetings.

On Wednesday, we had district class and then after the district class we did divisions with the District leader here in Curico. So we were both in their sector working. So we stayed the night. And we had Zone conference the next day. Which was cool because it was together with Talca where Elder Haar and Elder Lee and Elder Hiatt, where my good friends are all at, so it was cool to be able to see them. And that was good. We talked a lot about the Gospel of Christ, the third Preach My Gospel Lesson, about working with members as well. They're really trying to crack down on the members taking dinner here (giving the missionaries dinner). They don't like the missionaries eating dinner (with the members) here. We just eat lunch and that's it. So yeah, we talked a lot about that. But that wasn't really a problem for us in our sector either.

Then afterwards we had the busride back to Licantén. We had a lesson with Darling. We talked a little bit about her baptismal date and she's pretty set for getting baptized on May 5th. We talked to her about how that is pretty quick. She's going to have to make sure she comes to church every week. She came on Sunday. She's gonna come to Stake Conference on the 29th and that should be good. I'm pretty excited about that.

And then on Sunday morning, the Zone Leaders called us and said "Hey we have a meeting with the mission president and all of the branch presidents and mission leaders and area 70 in the afternoon today." So that was kind of a surprise for us. We ended up driving down with the Branch President to the meeting in the afternoon and it was really good. Talked a lot about the quarter mission meetings and the Branch Council meeting. 

So that's about it. 

I'm doing good. I'm feeling a little better. I've been feeling a little under the weather the last couple of weeks. But I'm back to being able to exercise in the morning. My comp's not too big on the idea of going to the gym but that's okay. 

Today we had an activity in Curico. We just played football or soccer and that was pretty much it. It was solid. 

As far as a spiritual thought, I was listening to a BYU devotional, I think it was from 2012. It's called "Optimism and Joy (in the Gospel of Jesus Christ)" which was really good. It had some shout outs to Snowboarding there so I really enjoyed it and I enjoyed what it said about keeping a diary and about how that'll help us to be more optimistic in our lives. 

So I hope you guys are all having a good week. Love you all. Take care. Bye!

Elder Olson

(Elder Olson forgot his camera when he went to the Cyber Cafe today so he apologized for no pics. Elder Haar's mom posted this one of Jacob though. Looks like he stole Elder Haar's camera for a stealth selfie.)