{"id":160,"date":"2015-01-17T04:52:34","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T04:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elderjosholsen.nyolsens.com\/?p=160"},"modified":"2015-01-17T04:52:34","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T04:52:34","slug":"1st-trip-downtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elderjosholsen.nyolsens.com\/?p=160","title":{"rendered":"1st Trip Downtown"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week FLEW by. We went proselyting in downtown S\u00e3o Paulo. To get to the city park area we had to take the bus. The drivers are crazy! Kinda reminds me of my driving:) I felt like I was on a roller coaster! Anyway, we each had 2 Books of Mormon and were told we had to hand them out and talk about the church. It was a real test of our Portuguese. People are really nice and friendly. Every time we approached someone, I asked if we could practice speaking Portuguese with them, so they didn\u2019t have an excuse not to hear our message haha. We were able to give out books to 4 out of the 5 people we talked to, and that\u2019s because the first guy said he already had one, or so he said. I am pretty good at understanding people now.<\/p>\n

I also saw this little guy about 15 who was skateboarding and practicing shredding a ledge, so I went up and talked to him for a bit just for fun. I asked him if he\u2019d ever been snowboarding. Obviously he hadn\u2019t haha. I told him if he ever has the chance, he will have to. They don\u2019t have mountains anywhere in Brazil, only hills and such.<\/p>\n

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Every day I wake up at 6:30 and get ready. We have personal study until breakfast. For breakfast here everyone eats panini sandwiches, so they have a panini grill we use. After that, we have instructor time where we learn the language and the gospel. Pretty much everything we learn for language study is related to the gospel, so that way we not only get better at just speaking the language, but also the gospel in Portuguese. Twice a day, we teach pretend investigators. We have baptism dates for both, so that\u2019s good! We have about 6 hours a day with the instructor, 3 in the morning and 3 at night.<\/p>\n

At night we get to have physical activity time. The other guys like to run and workout and stuff, so I do that with them, or sometimes I practice hitting balls on the volleyball net. We used to have a bunch of people in our gym time, but now it\u2019s just us 4. When everyone else was with us, I wasn\u2019t allowed to spike the volleyball, but now that it\u2019s just me its ok:) Tuesday nights we have devotionals with everyone and Fridays are P-day! Today we are going to a really good burger place yummmm.<\/p>\n

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Love you all!<\/p>\n

Elder Olsen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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