This week we baptized Giovanna and Wesley! They were going to get baptized last week, but they couldn´t go to church. It felt good to get back in the water–it has been so long since I’ve baptized!  Igor was also supposed to be baptized, but his mom wouldn´t let him.  He wanted to be baptized so bad! Elder Grover will stay here next transfer, so he will work more with Igor’s mom and also baptize Wesley´s brother…and also their mom who hasn´t gone to church, yet! We gave all the young men white shirts and ties right off the bat, even before being baptized! It gets them more excited to go to church.

I will be transferred this week to a branch that´s further in the interior. It´s in one of the same Zones I served in at the beginning of my mission. My companion will be Elder Gonzales from Argentina!

Have a great week!

Love, Elder Olsen

This week was tough. We had 3 firm baptisms planned and they all fell through:(  On a better note, for Zone meeting on Tuesday we gave a sweet training. Lot´s of the zone was losing the focus of baptism, so I thought up a sweet activity to get them excited.

Even though you aren´t a full time missionary, you still need to think of people to baptize!

Love,

Elder Olsen

True Desire means Eat, Drink, and Sleep Baptism!

This week we had a Multi-Zone conference with the President and also a Leadership council. They both went awesome and it is incredible how much we learn at these meetings. At the Multi-Zone conference, we talked a lot about faith. For the month of July, we have a goal of 500 baptisms! Wish us luck! ‪ Tomorrow we will be having a zone training that we will give. We will try to pass the vision to our zone while at the leadership meeting.

We found a lot of new investigators this week. We had 7 investigators at church, 3 of which are progressing for baptism for this Sunday. We also had a mom and daughter and cousin who came to church with us. They really enjoyed church and we have a lesson with them tonight.

Thanks for everything,

Love Elder Olsen and Elder Grover