week 96: Goodbye Licanten! Last Change

Just so everyone knows, starting this next week (beginning in July) the mission no longer permits chats/google hangouts.

Monday, June 25, 2018 (transcription from Audio letter)

Hey everyone, this is Elder Olson here. This is week 1 of transfer 16. We got the changes, the transfers this week but I'm gonna make you wait to hear. 

It's been a good week. We started off towards the beginning of the week in our zone meeting on wednesday, instead of doing a district class, we, as a zone, watched the devotional (I guess)...the celebration of the second official declaration of the announcement, the anniversary of the announcement, of the priesthood being extended to all worthy male members of the church. So it was celebrating a lot of African culture. And so that was pretty cool. I don't know how many of you saw it but it was fun...kind of something a little different, something that I don't normally see...a southern gospel type choir perform in the conference center. The music was pretty good. I really like that kind of music. It has a lot more energy...a lot more spirit...I mean more soul. So that was kind of fun. And after that, as a zone, we did exchanges. I went with Elder Perry in Curico in their ward there and his companion came to Licanten with my companion. Which was good to give my companion a chance to lead the sector before changes. 

Then on Thursday, we finished the exchange and we did divisions with a couple of members from our branch, to be able to do two lessons at the same time. Which also turned out super good. We have this investigator we found a little over a week ago. I may have mentioned her. Her name is Marcia. We contacted her in a kind of a town square where we always contact in the morning because in this place there are people. She was waiting for a bus and we talked to her and her 6 year old son. She was super nice and told us we could pass by. So we called her and set an appointment and passed by with the branch president and his wife. And it turns out the branch president knows her mom very well and so he knows her pretty well as well. She used to be living with her boyfriend and they used to live almost right next to the branch president and his wife. And the branch president's wife is a teacher and Marcia is also a teacher and so they know each other pretty well and they are pretty good friends. So that was pretty awesome to be able to teach her with them and the branch president and his wife are just thrilled that we are teaching her. And she accepted a baptismal date this week for the 28th of July and I think she has a pretty good chance of getting baptized that day. She's awesome. But she didn't come to church because she was on a trip to Santiago. But if she comes next week, that's kind of the determining factor there...how willing to actually attend church she is. That's kind of a common theme here. But it looks like, I don't know...I believe her...It looks like she'll come. But that was really cool. It went super well.

And then on Saturday, we found out the changes, and I was pretty surprised, to be honest. So my companion will be staying here in Licanten. And I am moving. I will be in my last change, I'll be going back to Buin...which was my second zone in the mission, but it looks like I'll be in a different sector. I'll be in the same church building but a different Branch and this Branch is called Los Jardines(?). Los Jardines is the zone leader's sector, so basically I'll be going back up as a zone leader. Which is interesting...not something that happens very often. It's not very common that a missionary is a zone leader and then goes back to being like a district leader or a co-companion, we call it. We don't have senior or junior companions in our mission, just co-companions, which is what I am right now. Normally you don't go "down" from being a zone leader and then go "back up." So it's kind of interesting that they've asked me to go "back up" for my last transfer of the mission. I was honestly really excited when I found out. I loved Buin and the branch. It was awesome. I am super excited to see some of the people who were there. It sounds like one of my investigators I had while I was there, I know he was baptized soon after I left, but from what I heard he's married and is listed to get sealed in the temple. So I'm excited for that. I had a lot of good friends there and had a really good experience in that zone. I don't know if any of you remember a video I sent in my time there where we made a song. I played the guitar, my companion played the piano and then we had a third  and another that was playing drums on a garbage bin. And that was in that zone. It was really just a great time there. And I'm with Elder Perry right now and He was in the sector where I'm going to. When I was in Rancagua, he was in Los Jardines(?) and he says it was his favorite sector. He says he loved it. So I'm pretty excited. My companion is going to be Elder Koche(?) and he's a Bolivian. I've met him a couple times. He seems like a really good missionary. He's really friendly, which is really cool. And I've heard only great things about him. My zone looks pretty good. There are going to be 5 of us who are...we say "dying" in the mission, who will be ending the mission this change. Which is kind of crazy. There are sooooooo many missionaries that are going home this change. There are 29 of us. And so, yeah, it should be fun. I'm really excited about these changes. 

It also was a little sad to leave Licanten. I know the branch president wasn't super excited to see me go. Talking with President Harris, I think he left me in Licanten for such a long time because I had a really good relationship with the Branch President...a lot of trust there...which frankly wasn't there before with the other missionaries...well I mean, the missionaries right before me, really didn't get along with the Branch President and basically the sector has been turned around a little bit. So I was really excited about that but I know that the Branch President was kind of bummed that I was leaving. It's kind of lame to say goodbye after such a long time to all of the people there. Last night we had a lesson scheduled with Darling and Karen. Darling is the girl who got baptized last transfer. That was also pretty sad. We went to the parents of, I don't know if you guys remember Camilla, the first girl who was baptized in my time here, but her family were the ones who...ok so, Camilla's step-dad's mom, is the cousin of Karen's mom and so the two girls that got baptized, Darling and Camilla, are like cousins twice removed, or like second or third cousins or something like that. I figured it out last night but I forgot exactly what they are. I think they're 3rd cousins. And so we did a lesson in the house of Camilla. The dad's name is Willy. And so we were in Camilla's house with Karen and Darling. We talked a little bit about missionary work and shared a really good message about enduring to the end...kind of trying to (motivate) them to keep doing what they know that they ought to be doing. And when we got there they were preparing soooooo much food. They were making guacamole (the audio get's garbled) and mexican and so we had celebrate that a little bit. And then we had Sopaipillas, which is basically piece of fried pumpkin bread and normally they have it with ketchup and mustard and maybe some hot sauce, but they also make it with this stuff called (?), which you basically melt some sugar and some Chancaca melted in a pot and then you take the sopapillas and you cook them in that sugar and they are sooooo good. I love it. I've only had them once before but they are really great. And then also they made a huge (?) pie...Which is kind of another difficult Chilean dessert. And they just made a ton of it, of all of it. There was so much stuff. So that was super tasty. And so we got there and they already were in the middle of preparing all of it and they were pretty determined to get it all done before we started having the lesson. 

Now we're on the bus to Curico. We also stopped by to some friends here in Curico from my time here. And also my companion wants to buy a few things and probably print a couple of pictures and buy a frame for a letter of congratulations from President and Hermana, Sister, Harris to Darling. I don't know exactly what we're going to do for the activity. I think they said we're going to play minute to win it games. I'm hoping they brought a soccer ball but I kind of doubt it. But I brought my soccer shoes just in case. 

So, yeah, I'm excited for changes. 

I wanted to prepare a better spiritual thought, but I realized that my scriptures I brought with me are my Spanish scriptures so I can't share a scripture with you. But as a small spiritual thought, I was studying leadership yesterday and there's a talk by Spencer W Kimball called "Jesus the perfect leader" which I really really like. I studied in depth the first section about "fixed principles," and about how a leader should be consistent and constant in their principles and always live what they say, have no hypocrisy, and that should be in every moment and that will give the people you serve a stable reference point to know what they need to be doing as well. It talks a little bit about the Savior's example in that and his consistency, really his perfection. But it talks a little bit about how the Savior has that famous line, "come follow me," basically saying do what I do not just do what I say. And so I studied that a little bit and I found about 20 different scriptures where Jesus Christ, in a variety of different ways, says "come follow me." And I know that following his example is something that will bless us in our lives and as we strive to be an example to the people who look up to us, that together we will be able to go to Christ. 

So I hope everyone is having a good week. We are getting pretty close into town here now so I'm gonna end. But I love you all. Have a good one. Ciao. 

Elder Olson

Farewell Licanten Zone

Last Lesson with Darling and Karen and family

Elder Olson plays Teach Me to Walk

Singing God Be With You Til We Meet Again

week 95: The Beach, The Sacrament, & Fathers

Monday, June 18, 2018 (transcription from Audio letter)

Hey everyone, this is transfer 15 week 6. Elder Olson here, coming to ya from the Playa, oh shoot, the beach, in La Pesca. We just got on the bus and are on the way back to the house in Licanten. So we're riding along the coastal highway that there is here. When I say highway, I use that pretty liberally, it's a tiny little two lane road but it goes right along the coast. So yeah, today is Pday, me and my comp went to the beach. My comp still hadn't been able to go out to the beach this whole transfer. My comp's already seen the beach because he was 3 transfers in a bigger beach sector called (?) but he hadn't had the chance to come out and see the beach of Licanten. So we came out and kind of hung out on the rocks by the beach for a little bit, took some pictures, walked the town here. We got to this fish market where they had a little empanada place right by the side of it where we had some empandas. I had a lobster and cheese empanada and well the other is called marisco, it means seafood, but normally it's like clams and oysters of some kind, so I'm pretty sure that's what it was. Not 100% sure but it definitely came from the ocean. So we took advantage of coming to the beach to eat some seafood. Now we're coming back to Licanten to write and after that probably get some real food. 

So yeah, this week's been a pretty good week. On wednesday, my comp was sick, poor guy. He woke up early in the morning and threw up a couple times but didn't mention anything to me, because I was asleep, but my alarm still went off at 6:30 in the morning so we could go to the gym. And he was like, "Hey, just so you know, I'm not feeling too good." So I was like, alright. So we slept til the normal wake up time which for us is 7. And then I was like hey, what happened? And he was like, I threw up twice and have this huge headache. So I called our district leader and told him we weren't going to be going to the class that day and we just kind of chilled in the house. I did some personal study, cleaned a bunch, kind of took it easy I guess. Not a whole lot to do when your companion is sick. But then, around noon, my companion got up and was feeling better and took some tylenol, and then he seemed super normal for the rest of the day. I don't know what happened there. So the rest of the day, we went out and worked and it turned out super good. So that was Wednesday.

Thursday was pretty normal. We worked in Hualane. On Friday, also pretty normal from what I remember. We had a good day, just contacted a bunch. And then on Saturday, we had set an appointment with an investigator (....gets garbled ...?...) for 4:00 on Saturday. But then on Friday we realized we had an activity in the stake center on Saturday for the whole Stake and they had asked all the missionaries to go, and so we kind of scrambled and changed the time for the appointment. We had a member set to come with us, and we changed it to 12 noon instead of four. We got it all figured out finally, but then got a call from the Zone leaders saying don't worry about coming to the Stake Center if we didn't need to go. So it turned out we didn't end up going to the activity anyway. But we ended up having an awesome lesson before lunch. So the investigator, it turns out, well her mom, is a good friend of the Branch President here, and also she's a teacher and the Branch President's wife is also a teacher, and so they also knew each other. So already have great friendships there. It went really well...the lesson. So that was cool. That was really good.

On Sunday, we had some people come to church. Most of the people who came are people we've been able to get out to church before, all of them actually. Two of them are Hatians and one of them is from Hualane and she (the one from Hualane) she has quite a few attendances, like 7 times she's come to church, but she's living with her boyfriend, and also she has some other more personal problems which are a road block for her getting baptized right now. So we're trying to figure that out. We're trying to help them understand the need to get married or to be separated, but they have kids, but their kids don't live with them, and so it's kind of a more complicated situation. Not just as easy as asking them to separate. But I think that they could get married. I don't think they have anything that's impeding them. They've been together for like 10 years or something like that. 

One of the Haitians, his name is Frisné(?),...I don't know if he's paying for it or if the branch is paying for it, but they got him a house rented. He was living in like a pasture for a while and then was living on the beach, but he really wanted to come back to Licanten. So, they found him a house to rent, and it sounds like he got moved in this week. They found him some blankets and bedding and stuff, so that's good. The Branch President and his wife have almost just adopted him, the Haitian. They invite him to their house. They meet multiple times a week to give him dinner and they take good care of him. He's got his family back it Haiti. He has, I think, 5 kids. The youngest one he doesn't know because he's been here in Chile trying to work. It's kind of a crazy situation. We'd love to get him baptized, but he doesn't seem to have a lot of interest in listening to us. We try to set appointments and he says, "yeah, I'll tell you when I have time." And so that's him. And whenever anybody tells us that, you can count on them not ever putting themselves in contact with us ever. And we still try to pass by once in a while, but he just really doesn't seem to have much interest, but he's come to church also like 5-6 times. But it's very much like, well a lot of the Haitians are generally very willing to come to church. I think for them, you can go to whatever church you want so if they come to our church they're still ok. So listening to the missionaries isn't necessary to them but they might come to church. 

And then that night we had a visit with Karen and Darling, which was great, and talked about the Plan of Salvation a little more in depth. Darling's been studying on Saturdays and has been getting home really late so she didn't come to church this week. So we kind of talked to her about that, about how important it is to come to church and she was like, "yeah, I know." And we talked about the importance of the sacrament, and that repentance, baptism and the sacrament are part of the plan of salvation and how the gospel of Christ teaches us to be clean so we can one day return to live with God and our families together. So we ended up talking about the sacrament, and I said, "Alright, Darling. I don't want to make it sound like we're gonna get after you but I'm gonna get after you a little bit. You've got to come to church." So she was like, "Yeah, I know. This next week I'm coming for sure." But she's great. Her and her mom are great. Her mom goes every single week without fail. But yeah, they understand really well and they're really great. Also, we've been talking a lot about family history with them. Darling has a Family Search account and has all the things there set up and so she printed off a name, tried to get some names for a female ancestor so she can actually do the baptism and got the branch to schedule a temple activity in July so she'll be able to go. And her mom was looking at her younger sister who died, when her younger sister was 8 days old she died as a baby in the hospital. But she has this crazy theory, well it's not that she's crazy, it's just crazy that this might be true, but she thinks that they didn't know that her mom was going to have twins when the younger sister was born. And the second baby was born with a lot of problems and had to go through some kind of surgery and the mom almost passed away also during childbirth. And so, she also kind of wasn't THERE during the whole process and her dad signed some paper giving permission for some surgery and the baby died during the surgery trying to save it's life. But then when they gave the body to their family, they gave it to them in an already sealed coffin. And recently, a lot of reports have come out of cases from about that same time when very similar situations have happened but it turns out 25-30 years later they find out that the baby wasn't actually dead but that it'd been basically shipped off to Europe or maybe even America or some other part of the world and adopted. And so, there's kind of this illegal baby trafficking which was apparently a big problem here in Chile and I imagine in other parts of South America at that time. And then there's also the day on the death certificate was two days earlier than the day that her mom said that they told her the baby had died and some other stuff like that. But basically, it's possible that her baby sister would still be alive somewhere. But I mean, they have a death certificate technically, nobody ever saw the body, but they have a death certificate. So we explained to her that you can just go on as if she's dead, you can't know for sure, as far as at least Temple Work is concerned. And I'm not sure, honestly, I'm going to have to look into what's up with Baptisms for the dead with infants who die. I don't exactly know actually what you have to do there. If they even need to be baptized or not. But yeah, so that was kind of a crazy situation if it were true that her sister survived. 

So, sorry, this is kind a long unorganized letter. But wanted to end with a quick spiritual thought, seeing as how yesterday was Father's day, I wanted to share something that had to do with that. I had a scripture come to mind in Enos 1: 1-3 . 

1 Behold, it came to pass that I, Enos, knowing my father that he was a just man—for he taught me in his language, and also in the nurture and admonition of the Lord—and blessed be the name of my God for it—

2 And I will tell you of the wrestle which I had before God, before I received a remission of my sins.
3 Behold, I went to hunt beasts in the forests; and the words which I had often heard my father speak concerning eternal life, and the joy of the saints, sunk deep into my heart.

I love the affect, Enos' father Jacob had on him. The example that he set, and also the great job of teaching his son that he did. And I'm really grateful for a father that has done that also. And I love my dad. He's a great example for me. So Happy Father's Day. And I echo the words of Enos, like when he says that he taught me in his language and also in the nurture and admonition of the  Lord and blessed be the name of my God for it. And I'm grateful to have been born in that situation where I have a father who is so present and is such a great example for me in my life. And I hope that everybody was able to have a good Father's Day this weekend. Hope you all had a great week. Love you all. Take Care! Bye.

Elder Olson

(Elder Olson didn't say but I think the fall in this video is how he rug burned his face in the pic he sent last week)

drawing practice while comp was sick (my mom and dad just in case you couldn't tell)

week 94: Rain and Zone Conference

Monday, June 11, 2018 (transcription from Audio letter)

What's up, Guys? Here's Elder Olson  (Elder Olson's companion says this)

Hey everybody, this is Elder Olson here. We're on week 5 of transfer 15 and it's been a good week. A lot of stuff has happened at least so I've got a lot to talk about,  so that's good.

So, last wednesday, we went down to Curico for the district class and we ended up staying there that night. We did splits with the Zone Leaders because the next day on Thursday we had a Zone Conference. So I was with Elder Halverson from Texas and we had a pretty good day. We got to have a couple lessons, one with a recent convert who's like 80 yrs old, so that was neat. And then another one with some Hatians. So I got to practice my Creole a little bit so that was fun. I think I impressed Elder Halverson with my Creole abilities. So that night, we went and got 60 cm completos (which is about 24 inches) it's really long. So we got these giant completos and we had a little group dinner there in the house. And the next day was zone conference and it was AWESOME! It was probably my favorite zone conference we've had in a while. It was all focused on the Holy Ghost and having the spirit in our teaching and with us throughout the day, things we can do to avoid offending the spirit, things we can do to invite the spirit. We talked a lot about prayers of faith, which I've kind of been thinking about quite a bit this change. I've been thinking that I need to find a way to improve my prayers a little bit and the idea came during the Zone Conference to keep a small notebook with me, especially while I'm praying. So I have a little notebook by my bed for when I'm saying my prayers at night and first thing in the morning. Also, I started turning on the lights in the morning before saying my morning prayers to avoid falling asleep. And yeah, so the little notebook is to write down impressions and things I need to do that day or the next day according to what I feel during my prayers. So that's been great. I feel like my prayers are a lot more productive. I feel like they are more genuine and sincere, Also because I'm more genuinely looking for answers and it feels a lot more like a conversation. Maybe that's not something for everybody but it's something that I've found is working for me. And we got to hear the final testimonies of a couple Elders who are from the missionary group right before me. So that was pretty cool. One of them, Elder Christensen, I really admire, he's a really good missionary. And well, they're both great missionaries, Elder Christensen and Elder Pollard are their names. Really great guys, really good missionaries. I admire them a lot. 

So we left the Zone Conference with a lot of energy and a lot of enthusiasm to work. The next day we went crazy contacting. The week as a whole was kind of tough as far as visits are concerned. We did not get into a lot of houses this week. But we really pushed ourselves with talking to people in the street. On friday, the day after zone conference, we talked with exactly 50 people in the street which was a lot more than I've done before, than either of us have done before. We kind of took advantage of not having a lot of time in houses to talk to as many people as we could. 

And then on Saturday it started raining, just POURING. All of Saturday and Sunday and then most of today, Monday, it's been raining pretty hard. Now it's about 4 oclock in the afternoon and it's finally cleared up. But on Saturday, it was just coming down. With all that rain, the zone leaders sent us a text and challenged us to contact a certain number of people in the morning and I'm not one to back down from a challenge so in the rain, we worked really hard to try to talk to as many people as we could. And we ended up beating the challenge that they'd given us and we had a funny contact there. We needed 5 more people to get to our goal, and it was almost time to go to lunch, and waiting for the bus, there was this group of seven 18 year old girls, all together, all talking, and I talked to my comp and was like hey let's go contact that group of girls. And he was kind of a little nervous I think. He's kind of more of a chiller guy, and so it was kind of funny because we went over and started talking to them and they were like, "Oh wow, you're from other countries..." But in the middle of the contact, I went to pass the contact (I guess) I kind of stopped talking and looked to my comp and he was pretty nervous, he just looked at me like, "I don't really know what to say." It was kind of funny. He's such a good guy. But yeah, he was just really nervous to talk to all these girls all together in this big group. So then we finished the contact and gave them all cards and they kind of ran away to get on the bus. But yeah, we got our goal.

So we went to lunch, and the member we had lunch with had us change into other clothes he lent us...some pants, another shirt to my comp,...because we were just soaking wet. We were walking with umbrellas and stuff but it was really really windy. (hold on I've got these kids talking in English right behind me...distracting me). Like I've got rain gear and everything is great. The only thing that's funny is, I've got these boots, which I'm super glad I brought, but I end up with this super soaked area from the bottom of my coat, from my mid thigh level to the middle of my shin. So that whole knee area is just soaking wet. But we left our pants and jackets and stuff by the stove and I was able to dry off without any problem. (But it is just really kind of funny how we got here just in time because there are like 15 kids who just got in the library trying to use the computers) But the member was just so concerned that we needed to be dry and warm. It was just really nice. He's a really good guy.

Then that night, we had some visits in Hualane. We had one with an investigator who we visited a while ago when I was with Elder Hiatt, and honestly, well she was living with her boyfriend so it was a really difficult situation for her to be able to progress. So we hadn't visited her for a long time because it really just didn't seem possible for her to be able to progress. She didn't have a way to get to church and the fact that she was living with her boyfriend and all that and some other difficulties. But we passed by and we found out that now she's NOT living with her boyfriend and there's a lot more opportunity for her to progress and she actually opened up to us about some problems that she has including a gambling addiction. So it turned out to be a great lesson. And I think a lot of that had to do with us asking and actually listening to her and doing our best to listen the best we could. 

Last night, we were having another kind of tough day, all of our sitas fell through, it was pouring rain, walking around trying to find everybody we can in the street, contacting houses, passing by potential investigators and at the end of the night we said a prayer and felt basically that we should go to this dirt road on the opposite side of the sector. I was worried that it was a waste of time and that it was kind of just my natural man trying to kill time, I guess. So I was worried that it wasn't inspiration but basically we followed the prompting. We got over there, talked to everybody on the way, and there was this kid coming out of his house, he's like 21,  but we talked to him and he's actually the cousin of the only missionary serving right now from Licanten. And he was just soooo so interested. He had two weeks here in Licanten. He's from Santiago. And he was asking us about what it takes to be a missionary and all that. But I've never seen anyone so excited to be given a Book of Mormon, so it was cool!

And that's about it. I want to share more with you guys but we're here in the library now and there's all these kids. So it looks like we're going to have a little less time to write today because we're going to get kicked off. 

But I hope you all have a good week. Love you all. Bye!

Elder Olson

Made Tacos with my comp

My face after last Pday #hottestmissionary
(he ran out of time this week to explain this pic further...have to wait for the next letter)

week 93: Locals need bus money to get to church

Transcription from Audio Letter June 4, 2018

Hey guys, this is week 4 of transfer number 15.

It's been a pretty normal week. We're here in the cyber. I forgot to, well I didn't make an audio recording before now so trying to make one real quick.

This week I was talking with my comp trying to think of something interesting to tell you guys about. During the week we worked a lot in Hualane,a little town near Licanten. Which went pretty well. We talked with A LOT of people this week. Trying to up our game to find new people. But we feel like since we've been doing that, we've been having the opposite effect. Well, we have this goal as a mission of contacting 200 people every week of the change, and in Licanten there aren't a lot of people there. So we're putting in extra effort, contacting the buses. We stand up and talk to everyone on the bus. Actually on exchanges with another missionary, with Elder Christensen, we stood up at the front of the bus and sang hymn and then went around and contacted everybody on the bus. And yeah, so...we've been trying. We've been trying really hard to find new people.

The new family that I told you guys about, that we found last week, didn't come to church. They said it was because they didn't have money for the bus. So we'll see what ends up happening with them. It really was because they didn't have money, because here that's not such an uncommon thing...that they don't have the four dollars for the round trip. So yeah, we're going to have to see. We haven't been able to have another lesson with them since church yesterday. 

Yesterday we had the devotional. The mission president had asked us to watch that. So that was good. It was cool to see President Nelson's energy again. It always surprises me a little bit...just how much energy he has. And I loved how direct and how specific he was in his challenges for the youth. I think that's great! Especially as a missionary I've seen when we make specific invitations, that's when we're going to act. So I think it's great that he made such specific invitations such as the 7 day social media fast and the weekly sacrifice of time for 3 weeks. I think those are really realistic invitations and I know that we will be blessed for doing them. And I think that they are great ideas. So if any of you didn't see the youth devotional, President Nelson invited the youth to go for 7 days without using any form of social media and for 3 weeks to make a sacrifice of time in doing something they like to do, to use it to serve the Lord or serve others in some way...well to serve others and by doing that we serve the Lord. That can be temple work, that can be actual service, which will be great. So for any of you who didn't see that, I think it's still a really great idea for any of us to try that. I would be doing the 7 day social media fast and the sacrifice of time but I'm doing both already, so there's not all that much I can change to do more than that right now but the other things he said, I'm looking for ways to apply those in my life. He also really called my attention to what his wife said about (ministering?) really impressed me. 

Then this morning we had a little zone activity. We just put on EFY songs and had to interpretive dance to the EFY songs so that was pretty good. Ha. Something a little different. That's about it. We are here in Curico after the activity. I'm probably going to go get a haircut because somebody this week told me my hair was too long, so that means it's time to cut it. 

Alright. Well, love you all. Hope you're all having a good week. Take care! Bye!

Elder Olson