Hola todos! Hope everyone is doing well. It is finally starting to warm up which is good but makes me nervous about summer haha. This week has been great! Crazy to think that I hit my 6 month mark this week, I have been gone for half a year already! Ahh that means I only have a year...
Hello my lovely friends and family! How is life where you know
about the drama of celebrities? To be honest it's weird sometimes going
to Walmart on Mondays and look at the magazine covers in the checkout
line and see the craziness of the world. And then I think, it's really
not that hard to step away from all of this, all you have to do is give
up television and social media. That's it. So I'm grateful for the time I
have right now to not worry about celebrity drama, it would be nice to
know about weather more frequently though haha
Oh I heard that Jacob Ramsey made the decision to be baptized! Someone tell him that I say congrats! That super awesome!
I also heard the news about Phil Stryker. So sad but I know
that he is in a better place and how I am oh so grateful for the plan of
Salvation and the knowledge that families can be together forever. Send
my condolences to Lynette and Carrie.
This week was pretty great. I love my new companion and my
district. On Monday we had a zone p-day activity and we played speed
ball. I got to know more of the missionaries in the zone so that was
nice. Speed ball was intense because we have a Tongan district in our
zone so we have like 4 HUGE Tongan/Samoan Elders, one of them is like 6
foot 6 in. and could probably kill me with his thumb. So I made sure he
was on my team in speed ball haha
Tuesday we woke up at 4:30 am for our temple day! It was
great. Got to do some names of my own family so that was special. I
love the temple. It is truly the house of the Lord. I love it and I wish
that EVERYONE could experience the joy that the temple can bring, and
they can, if they decide to follow the path of Jesus Christ. So after
the temple we got zone and district and sister pictures in front of the
temple #basic
Hmm what else happened... Well we met some more of our
investigators this week! So that was good. We had a few lessons in the
trailer parks so we made sure to bring members and flashlights with us.
Our Ward mission leader went with us to a lesson and he wasn't happy
about going to the trailer parks at night haha but he went anyways
porque él nos ama. We had interviews with President Spendlove on
Thursday. I love him and I am grateful to have him as my mission
president. He also said that I shouldn't be switched into English
anytime soon so that's a blessing (sometimes missionaries that serve in a
language unit will get switched to serve in English for awhile because
we have more missionaries that speak that language than language areas,
and it's a sad day when you have to get an English name tag instead of
your language name tag)
Rose Park is such an interesting area. I do miss serving
downtown and the members and the area in general but I do like serving
here. I definitely see a lot more dogs here, specifically pit bulls or
guard dogs in general that like to jump on the fence and bark at us, I
smell quite a bit of weed here so that's fun, and sometimes you just
walk outside of your apartment and you smell sewage and you think, hmm
this is the smell of Rose Park.
On Friday night we found out that our
apartment was being inspected the next morning so we spent like 2 hours
deep cleaning out apartment because it was nasty from the previous
elders. We even found a dead mouse! Let's just say that now our
apartment is pretty nice and smells a whole lot better. And we passed
our inspection so that's good.
Saturday night we had an interesting
experience. We went to a lesson with an investigator of ours, he lives
in a not so safe area and we were visiting him at night. He lives with a
lot of other men, I don't even know how many people live there, and
they always have visitors there. But we went to tell Rene that we
couldn't have the lesson because we didn't have another woman to enter
the house with us (another rule) and one of his friends walks up. This
guy has a cowboy hat on with one of those white button up shirts, but
not a dress shirt, and has a bottle of something in a bag in his hand.
He comes up and shakes and KISSES our hands. We quickly made a return
appointment with Rene because more men were coming and we sped out of
there. So that's the second time my hand has been kissed.
On Saturday as well we were running late to dinner and because
of it a miracle happened. We were walking and we walked past a man and
said hello to him like we always do. He stops us and says "Olivas.
Ribucan. I've seen those names before..." We were confused but stayed
there and he pulls out a phone and shows us a text, that we sent! Turns
out this mans was an investigator that we had been trying to contact
since we got here! We invited him to church and he came!
Okay last story. On Sunday we taught young women's and our
lesson was on "Why do we have adversities?" We talked about some women
in the scriptures, like Esther, Ruth and Hannah who went through some
hard times in their lives and we related it back to our lives. Teaching
it was kind of hard but it ended up really well. At the end we shared a
quick video about the 10 virgins. We talked about how we can prepare for
the hard times in our lives. We can do so by reading our scripture,
going to church, praying daily, going out with the missionaries, etc.
there are many things we can do to "fill our lamps" everyday to help us
prepare for the hard times. That's my invitation to you, fill your lamps
before the hard times and trials come. Because when they do, you will
have the help of the Lord. Love you all have a great week!
con amor,
Hermana Olivas
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