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 55: Hello Rancagua!

9/11/17

Hello!

So this is the first week of transfer 9 now. It's crazy. Time is really flying. I'm going to apologize in advance for the background noise. I forgot to record in the morning and now we're on our way to the cyber, the computer place, to write you guys. So now that I'm here walking, there's going to be a bunch of background noise and I'm probably going to be super scatterbrained but hopefully you guys can understand what's going on.

So yeah, we had transfers this week. I came to Rancagua. This is my first time in Rancagua in the mission. I'm in a branch here. It's a pretty big branch, definitely bigger than San Clemente but smaller than Buin, the last branch I was in. It's called Baquedano. It's pretty centric, central, something like that. It's the only sector in our Zone that is actually here in Rancagua. I'm a zone leader again here with Elder Davis from Washington. He's a stud. I like him. He's a solid 7 out of 10 hahaha. No, he's awesome, he's awesome.

Got here on Tuesday. To be straight, I've gotta comment on the conditions of the house that the last Elder that was there kind of left it. Not in tip top shape I would say. So we did a little bit of cleaning, did a little...honestly it was basically an exorcism of the house...because of all the stuff we had to clean but we almost had to do a real exorcism I guess because it sounds like the house is haunted apparently. Nah they were just saying some weird stuff was happening with the house before the change and the change before that. Having some weird stuff happen with an investigator but I won't go into too much detail. But honestly I haven't seen any weird stuff happen I think we're gonna be just fine. Basically the bathroom was really dirty. The sink had been clogged for like a week and it wasn't fixed still. So we got here and I spent the first couple hours cleaning like the necessities and then today I finished off the rest.

The sector seems really good. It's like a suburb. There's only one supermarket and there's bunch of chinese food stores. It seems like there's a lot of Chinese food in this sector. So that's kinda cool. But a lot more suburb. I've always been in sectors that are a lot more central that have more stores and a main street and stuff like that but this is my first sector that is just suburb, just houses basically. We got bikes. My companion's bike was broken so we had to take them to get fixed earlier this week to the office. It's kind of nice, the office is really close. I got to see my boy, Elder Robinson, who is from my CCM, MTC group, who I haven't seen up until this point in the mission. So it was cool I got to see him. I got to see him in the leadership council as well.

This week we had a lot of meetings. Tuesday we had changes, Wednesday we had a meeting to set goals and plans as a zone, and Thursday we had leadership council with all the zone leaders and sister leaders. And then Saturday we had to give a training to the District leaders and tomorrow we're going to have interviews with President. So that'll be fun. I'm excited for that. Looking at the zone (stats?), it looks a little more complicated as a zone than Curico. I don't know. Curico was kind of an easier zone than here. Last change there weren't any baptisms and it was really tough to get people to church in our sector last change. But we're already looking up. This first Sunday we had a couple investigators in sacrament meeting. One of the sectors already had a baptism. So we're already seeing improvements in the first week. We are already being blessed. I obviously didn't do anything...I just barely got here. We're just getting blessed to start out the change. So that was cool.

Today we did a pday activity and made Choripan which are like a hot dog with a sausage but a different kind of bread and then you put an aji which is like a spicy salsa. I don't know how to explain a lot of the food down here. You just have to see it to know what it's like but it's pretty common to see down here so that's a pretty common zone activity that we do. We did that and played football.

So our zone is almost pure new people. Every companionship, except for my companion and I, is a training companionship. So there are two companionship that have elders in their second change in their mission and then we have 3 who are brand new. We had a Filipino and two gringos. So we have a lot of new people. Hope we can keep them all excited. Not let them "die". Keep everybody, give them a lot of energy and an optimistic first look at the mission is the idea.

Other things that happened in the week: We got rejected pretty hard a lot of times. We've been looking a lot for new people. Both Elder Davis and I, in our sectors, have had a lot of success in finding people. But this week, we both felt like we were working hard, not only hard but really smart, but we both got shot down pretty hard a couple times. One investigator who had a baptismal date, I hadn't met him before, but we went to his house, and we called for him, (you yell, you don't knock on the door), so we called out "ALLO!" and we yelled like 5 times and then called him a couple times, but this guy did not...well we passed by his house a couple times and we were like "we know you see us." We just wanted to talk to him but if he didn't want to talk to us that's fine, but we don't want to waste our time passing by his house if he's not gonna want anything. But he came out and he seemed really mad. He came out and threw the Book of Mormon at us. He like shoved it through the fence and was like, "I DON'T WANT ANYTHING ELSE! STOP COMING BY MY HOUSE, STOP COMING AROUND HERE. STOP COMING CLOSE! JUST GET OUT!" I was like, " Oh, OK." That was kind of rude, I don't know. One that was out of nowhere. Usually people are pretty nice. If they don't want anything, then they say they don't want anything right away. So it's kind of weird to have somebody who's kind of receptive at first saying, "yeah, yeah," and then they have such a big change and be like that to be that rude I guess. I guess

But I guess I'm kind of spoiled. I know there are missions where people are a lot ruder than that. ...We're blessed. We're lucky.

I've got a funny experience. So we were contacting the other day and we go to call at a house and say, "Allo!" But we had been saying a lot of prayers that day, trying to go by the spirit. So Elder Davis, my companero, my companion, he goes to say "Allo!" but instead of saying "Allo!" he yells "Padre.." Like he was going to say Heavenly Father but yelling it...like he was going to start a prayer but yelling. but he was saying hi to the house, like knock on the door. Ahhhh it was soooo so funny. So so funny. I just about died.

That's pretty much all I can think of for now to tell you guys. I'm optimistic for the change. It looks good. A lot of good missionaries in the zone. The district leaders we have working with us are awesome, awesome people.  Elder Rogers and Elder ? are the names and they're solid. And another weird thing is all those trainees...there's a bunch of them from Utah. I have never had so many people from Utah in my zone. There's one from Salem, one from St. George, one from Orem and then me. And then there are two more gringos, one from California and one from Washington. There are only 2 Latinos, 3 Brazilians and 5-6 gringos. Which is really weird. I've never had a zone like that. My last zone I was like the only or 2 gringos. I don't know, there weren't a lot of us. But that's cool.

I love you guys. Take care. Read your scriptures. Say your prayers do all that good stuff obviously. Look for ways to help people. I hope everyone's ok with all the natural disasters that are going on up there. I've heard a lot about the hurricanes especially and a lot of crazy stuff that's happening. But we can always trust that God will take care of us when we're doing what he asks. Or if we are in a situation where it doesn't look like he's taking care of us, it's not so because sometimes we've gotta learn to do things for ourselves too.

Take care. Ciao!

week 54: Goodbye Curico! If you want a thing bad enough

9/4/2017

Hello, Friends, Family, Beautiful People of the United States of America,

This is Elder Olson coming at you from the beautiful Curico Chile Alameda Ward. It's a beautiful morning looking out the window here. Well I honestly can't see much because the sky's full of chimney smoke but that's okay. It's still a beautiful day for a BBQ. We're going to go have a farewell BBQ with one of our investigators because...I am leaving. I am leaving Curico. We got the transfers on Saturday night. We got them super late because the assistants changed the password to our account, well to all the zone leaders' accounts, because a lot of zone leaders and other people try to get the transfers early and so we ended up getting them super late but it all worked out ok.

So I will be leaving Curico after just 2 changes here, I thought I would be here a little longer. But that's ok. I'll be headed to Rancagua to a ward that's called Bacadal(?). I'll be with Elder Davis there. I'm gonna be a zone leader gain there. So that'll be fun. I HOPE we can do the same thing there as we did here because we had a TON of success here this last change. It was awesome! A lot of success in the sector, a lot of success in the zone. In the sector we have at least 2 definite baptisms in the next change and at least 2 or 3 that are probable. I'm kind of sad that I won't be able to see them but I am really stoked that I'll be leaving here on a high note.

So this last week we've been teaching Roberto. I think I mentioned him last week. He's an atheist we found at 9:30 at night last Saturday and he came to church Sunday. We've been teaching him through the week and he came to church again yesterday. And he's awesome. We've been teaching him and he has a lot of questions but he's really sincere with his questions. You get a lot of people who just want to fight about philosophy or who want to Bible Bash or who knows, but he's really sincere and he actually wants to know. And when we explain something and it makes sense to him,  he's like, "Ok yeah, that's cool. I understand that." And so that's been really cool. And we've seen some progress with him this week. He reads everything we give him right away and then he's like, without even looking at the book, "I've got questions about verse 27, verse 32 and 33 and he really understands what we're talking about. That's not something that I'm really used to. It's awesome. I love that. And this week he prayed for the first time. I don't know if it was the first time in his LIFE...I doubt it. But it was his first time with us and we've invited him to pray before and he was like, "No. I'll read, I'll come to church to learn more but I'm not gonna pray to somebody who doesn't exist." And we talked a lot about faith...about hope in things which are not seen which are true and a lot about how action is part of that faith. Really faith is everything as far as missionary work is concerned. So this last lesson we had with him, we invited him to baptism and he rejected us but he did accept the invitation to pray at the end. And he didn't say that he'd NEVER be baptized but he didn't accept a date. He accepted the lighter invitation, that if you pray and read and you feel that these things are true, would you be baptized. And he said, "Yeah, if I think it's true, then yeah I'll be baptized." So it's something but a little bit at a time. Despacito. (I don't know if that song's super popular up there...I think it would be because there's a Justin Bieber version that's going around here now as well. But that song's been really popular here for a while).

This weekend we were doing some farewells, well last night more than anything, with one of the families that's been really great to me here. This ward is definitely one that I want to visit again at some point because it's been a lot of fun here, even though I've only had a short time. We had a good FHE yesterday with these converts about not being afraid to stand alone. We watched that video with President Monson and the Navy which is awesome.

Apart from that, this change we've had this goal of finding 7 new investigators a week. I mean you can't compare with other missions, whether that's a lot or a little compared to other places but here that's a lot. That's not something that I've ever seen any other sector do, to find one new investigator for every day of the week of the change, or the whole transfer. But WE DID IT, and we did it a week early. We found 13 in one week and 8 the next so that made it like an extra 7 so in week 5 we'd already met our goal. And that put us at 42 for the change so we were like, "alright, we've gotta find 8 in the next week instead of 7 because if find just 7 in the next week it'll only be 49 and it's not as cool. You've gotta get 50. So we worked a lot to get those new investigators this week and we got to Sunday and we only had 4 new. And we were pretty desperate going everywhere we could think of to look for "news." We contacted for a little while and nothing. We were going by "futures" and no one was home. Everyone leaves their house on Sunday. At the end of the day, it was literally the last minute. We had an appointment for that FHE (talked about before) at 8 and it was probably like 7:45-7:50 we passed by this house with some Hatians that we'd passed by before and there were a couple of them that speak Spanish...I mean even though I'm basically a pro at Creole, I'm not really actually that pro...I can introduce myself and tell them I speak a little bit of Creole and that's about it.  But we got there and knocked on the door and nobody was there. So we call them but their phone cuts out, we can't hear them, we have no idea where they're at. We call them a couple times. But nothing. Nobody's there. It's a young married couple there in that house with a bunch of other Hatians who live there as well, but the young married couple speak better spanish. But right when we...we were knocking for like 5 minutes...when we were leaving, I said a silent prayer while my companion was on the phone. I was like, "we need these 4 news to meet our goal and I know that it's possible and you can help us." And right when I finished saying the prayer, they pulled up in a car...the married couple got dropped off and they were like, "hey come in!" and when we went in there were 2 of their friends who were just kind of kicking around not doing anything. So we invited them to listen too so then we had our 4. It was 4 exactly. It was exactly what we needed to meet our goal. That was a nice little miracle.

We also had a TON of people in sacrament meeting. I haven't had that many people in sacrament meeting in my whole mission. We had a bunch of baptismal dates as well. It's been awesome.

Earlier in the week I broke one of the axels on my bike's back wheel so we were on foot again for a little while...which is...well it's a pretty long walk. Not as far as Buin, but it's still pretty far.

I wanted to share something I read a little while ago but I love it, about goals. I really want to testify about the power of goal setting, because that was the way we had so much success during this change. By setting goals and saying, "We're not giving up until we meet this goal." And it's a poem I found in one of the talks that I have that I read. It's called, "If you want a thing bad enough." (altered to match the real version found from multiple sites online)

“If you want a thing bad enough to go out and fight for it,
to work day and night for it,
to give up your time,
your peace and your sleep for it…

if all that you dream and scheme is about it,
and life seems useless and worthless without it…

if you gladly sweat for it and fret for it and plan for it
and lose all your terror of the opposition for it…

if you simply go after that thing you want
with all of your capacity, strength and sagacity,
faith, hope and confidence and stern pertinacity…

if neither cold, poverty, famine, nor gout,
sickness nor pain, of body and brain,
can keep you away from the thing that you want…

if dogged and grim you beseech and beset it,
with the help of God, you will get it!”
---Les Brown

Really that's true. I've always firmly believed in that. If we want something bad enough, we'll get it. It's really just a matter of becoming motivated enough to put in the WORK. Really no matter what it is, it's just a matter of work and how much we are willing to give to achieve it. That's especially true with missionary work or anything in the gospel. Only when we have our will aligned with the will of God. When our desire is the same as God's desires, when we want what He wants, we will get it almost every time. God might try our patience, he may make us wait for it, or maybe we'll screw up and that's ok, but really when have a righteous desire and exercise faith to achieve that righteous desire and it's according to the will of God, we WILL get it. And we can't make the excuse of "oh maybe it's not God's will, not what He wanted..." if it's a righteous desire we have to go at it with everything we've got and that's when we will get it. And I'm really excited to apply that in the new sector this change. I'm really hoping this sector wasn't a "one-hit-wonder" and that I'll get to this new sector and everything will just go to dirt, but by really applying this we'll have success there. And I'm super excited to have a chance to do that.

I want to let you all know that I love you and I think about you guys. I love you. I know the church is true. Read your scriptures. Pray. Go to church. Have family home evening. Do all the stuff you know you should do. I love ya. Take Care!

Freaky Elevator

inside freaky elevator

drum corps

Curico Alameda District

hmmmm what's up with my haircut, Sister?

Milanesa

Goodbye BBQ

Goodbye Familia Ruz and friends

Week 43: Curico

Hey Friends and Fam,

Hey all, sorry I forgot to write out a group letter by hand, so this one might not be quite so detailed :)

This week has been my first here in the Alameda Ward in Curico. I haven't been able to spend as much time in the sector as I would've liked thanks to our meetings. On Thursday we went up to Rancagua for leadership council with the other mission leaders. It was very long, and while I love trainings with President I've certainly had better. Then on Saturday, we trained our district leaders on everything we'd talked about in leadership council.

My new companion, Elder Heap, is awesome. He "dies" (finishes the mission) this change. He's from the country in Arizona. Really chill.

The sector seems pretty good. I LOVED Buin, so it'll be quite the adjustment. I also feel a lot of pressure to baptize here, especially seeing how I'm a Zone Leader and should be setting the example.. There are a lot of great converts here, and all of our new investigators this week were references from members, so that's cool.

The city is pretty down here. Much larger than Buin.

Also Elder Villegas called me from Buin yesterday, and it looks like one of my investigators, Berny, there in church this week told them "Hey so, I wanna be baptized". He'll be baptized July 9. He wanted me to be there, we'll have to see if we can maybe work out some kind of skype call. But we as missionaries were only able to visit him twice, which goes to show that God does the work, and luckily He loves us missionaries enough to let us participate.

Mucho amor,
Elder Olson

Some photos from Buin and then from my new area, Curico

Goodbye Familia Rodriguez

Jaime (Brother James) second from the left. He liked to feed us missionaries in Buin

Investigator Carolina and her family. She's 10 days smoke free. Pray for her to keep it up. (and those aren't gang signs BTW)

 Photos from Curico...

From Chile to Alaska

Pano from apartment balcolny

Selfie on the balcony looking over part of Curico

Week 42: Leaving Buin & God Forgives

June 12, 2017

Hola Familia!

This weekend we received the changes (transfers), and...

I'm leaving Buin!

I'm going down South again, to the STake Center in Curico`. It'll be interesting; I've been assigned to be a Zone Leader there. I was really, really surprised. I'll be the Zone Leader with the least time in the mission, along with 1 other Elder from my group. My new companion's name is Elder Heap, from Arizona. He's another ex-mission secretary, who goes home this change. They say that my ward (the Alameda Ward) is really strong, and their ward mission leader is a machine. This will be my first ward in the mission (up until now I've had only branches), so I'm really excited.

The sad part is that they're closing my sector here in Buin. It'll be part of the sector of the other Elders.The good news is that my companion will be staying here with one of the Elders from the other sector, so they won't be in a "whitewash," where neither Elder knows the sector.

Carolina Soto and her family are progressing! Carolina is now 10 days smoke free, and her whole family came to church yesterday. We set a baptismal date with her husband Jose`, who opened up to us and told us about his drug addiction. I'm bummed that I'll have to leave them.

In my study, I recently came across Helaman 11. It amazes me how quick God is to forgive, and how quick we often are to forget. He wants to bless us. I hope we can all take advantage of repentance and God's quick and joyful forgiveness. I also hope that we can all be slow to forget all that He's done for us.

Love,
Elder Olson

Elder Olson's District in Buin

Monday June 5, 2017 , Barbeque the Elders (Mom note: Not sure what this really means or what it is a picture of) 

A Member (in the blue sweater) likes to feed the missionaries. Final time together.