{"id":323,"date":"2015-05-05T04:32:57","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T04:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elderjosholsen.nyolsens.com\/?p=323"},"modified":"2015-05-13T14:40:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T14:40:02","slug":"new-area-multi-mission-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elderjosholsen.nyolsens.com\/?p=323","title":{"rendered":"New Area & Multi-mission Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey! I am in a new area and my companion is Elder F. from Chili. He is a hard worker and also funny. Whenever he talks about the United States, he calls it Gringolandia (Gringo Land) hahaha. My new area boundaries are a bit bigger than the last, but the church is smaller–it\u00b4s a branch. There are more hills too, unfortunately. The city has a ton of little shops and small pra\u00e7as (square parks). The town is very famous for music. All of the people who want to learn music come here. They have a famous school\/performance hall here.<\/p>\n

The first thing we did when we arrived was go to the chapel for an English class. A 16 year old girl teaches a free English class in the chapel for the sole purpose of bringing non-members to the chapel, where we then can step in and teach them about the church. It\u00b4s awesome! She\u00b4s really good at English; I just sit there and help if she has a question. When I first walked into the room, I was overwhelmed with a million “Hello\u2019s\u201d, “Hi\u2019s\u201d, and “How are You\u2019s\u201d hahah. It\u00b4s super funny when they practice their English. The class members all wanted me to sing a song for them in English, so I sang, “I am a Child of God” (One of the few church songs I know all the words of).<\/p>\n

Our first appointment was at the home of a recent convert. He was baptized the week before. He likes to play the violin and drink chimarr\u00e3o. He also had a Cello too, that I messed around on. It\u00b4s been awhile since I\u00b4ve touched a cello. Unfortunately, he didn\u00b4t have a bass:(<\/p>\n

On Friday, we had a multi-mission conference with S\u00e3o Paulo East. When I arrived at the chapel, the first thing I heard was “Josh! Josh! Josh!” I found it very odd, off course, because I haven\u00b4t been called Josh in 5 months. I looked over and saw my friend Elder H. \u00a0I had no idea he was serving in the S\u00e3o Paulo East mission! It was a sweet surprise. He\u00b4s been out for a year and a half now.<\/p>\n

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At the conference was President L. Whitney Clayton along with Elder Aidukaitis of the 70. We all had the opportunity to shake their hands, all 500 missionaries that were there. They said that was the most number of hands they had ever shaken in one meeting. President Clayton and his wife don\u00b4t speak Portuguese, so they spoke in English with a translator translating after every sentence. He did a training for us. He stressed how important it is to have a kneeling prayer at the end of our first lesson and invite the head of the house to do it, asking if The Book of Mormon is true. (He did a little role play with Elder Farnes. haha) This is so important because it shows that we are serious about what we taught and helps the family learn to keep commitments and pray on their own. The promise we read at the end of The Book of Mormon is so simple:<\/p>\n

And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye would\u00a0ask\u00a0God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0are not\u00a0true; and if ye shall ask with a\u00a0sincere heart, with\u00a0real intent, having\u00a0faith\u00a0in Christ, he will\u00a0manifest\u00a0the\u00a0truth\u00a0of it unto you, by the \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0power of the Holy Ghost<\/em><\/p>\n

And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may\u00a0know\u00a0the truth\u00a0of all things. (Moroni 10:4-5)<\/em><\/p>\n

The month of May marks the 80th anniversary of the S\u00e3o Paulo North MissionThe month of May marks the 80th anniversary of the S\u00e3o Paulo North Mission, the oldest mission in Brazil. And for this, President has challenged us to knock on 80 doors a day. We have already found so many people to teach in just these past few days and we keep finding more!<\/p>\n

I love you all!<\/p>\n

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

Hey! I am in a new area and my companion is Elder F. from Chili. He is a hard worker and also funny. Whenever he talks about the United States, he calls it Gringolandia (Gringo Land) hahaha. My new area boundaries are a bit bigger than the last, but the church is smaller–it\u00b4s a branch. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":330,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elderjosholsen.nyolsens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elderjosholsen.nyolsens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elderjosholsen.nyolsens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elderjosholsen.nyolsens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elderjosholsen.nyolsens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/elderjosholsen.nyolsens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"http:\/\/elderjosholsen.nyolsens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elderjosholsen.nyolsens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elderjosholsen.nyolsens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elderjosholsen.nyolsens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elderjosholsen.nyolsens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}