I met a teenage boy a couple of weeks ago. I saw him sitting by himself on the street corner, so I walked up to him and started talking. He is a little autistic and thinks more like a younger child. He is very sweet and loves learning about everything we teach him.  He came back to church for the second time yesterday.

It was fast and testimony meeting and I asked him to go up and bare his testimony, but he said he was too shy. I kept nudging him to go up, but he was too shy. Then I offered to go up with him and help him. He finally agreed. When he got to the microphone, he didn´t even turn to me for help, he just started talking all by himself! He bore an awesome testimony of Jesus Christ and the Church.

Our area is huge, there are tons of people out there. We are always changing neighborhoods. Here, there are kids they call “Funkeiros” which are the people who listen to funk music. But not the funk we think of like jazz,  haha!

My companion, Elder C. speaks a little English and I´ve been practicing speaking Spanish with him. It´s pretty easy for me to speak Spanish now that I know Portuguese!

Love,

Elder Olsen

 

P.S. the Coca-Cola here is way better than in the States! Here they use real cane sugar instead of artificial sugar like they do in the States. People loooooove Coca here!!