{"id":864,"date":"2016-03-15T11:08:17","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T11:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elderjosholsen.nyolsens.com\/?p=864"},"modified":"2016-03-16T06:08:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T06:08:29","slug":"flood-mud-and-a-new-convert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elderjosholsen.nyolsens.com\/?p=864","title":{"rendered":"Flood, Mud, and a New Convert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week in S\u00e3o Paulo there was really bad flooding. In the area where we live, we weren\u00b4t really affected at all, just a few little leaks in our roof, haha! But the city where the church is was flooded really bad. The church wasn\u00b4t affected by the flood, though, because it is higher up on a hill. The canal that runs throughout the city caved in and destroyed the road. They said that water was up to the knees or even up to the chest in some parts. One of the grocery stores that is next to the canal was completely flooded and lost all of it\u00b4s food stock that is kept in the lower level. When we got to the city, the water had already gone down, but there was thick mud everywhere! It was a crazy sight. Attached are some pictures.<\/p>\n<p>This week we baptized Fel\u00edcia! She is the daughter of the step dad of Karen that we baptized last week. Fel\u00edcia\u2019s mom was previously married to Karen\u00b4s step dad, but then separated. Fel\u00edcia said that she always wanted to go back to the Mormon church! (Her mom told us that Fel\u00edcia would always ask when they were going to return&#8230; and then we showed up!) Fel\u00edcia\u00b4s mom was also inactive in the church, but we brought her back! \u00a0She said the missionaries hadn\u00b4t gone to their house for 10 years. Fel\u00edcia would go to church as a little kid, but before she was 8 years old, so she never got baptized. It was definitely the Lord that led us there! We baptized her after stake conference.<\/p>\n<p>Conference was in a different city, so the church rented a big bus. Even still, we managed to bring 12 investigators with us! President and Sister Farnes were at the conference and gave wonderful talks as always.<\/p>\n<p>Tenha uma boa semana!<\/p>\n<p>Elder Olsen<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_859\" style=\"width: 644px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/elderjosholsen.nyolsens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/SAM_1623.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-859\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-859\" src=\"http:\/\/elderjosholsen.nyolsens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/SAM_1623-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"No more road!\" width=\"634\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"http:\/\/elderjosholsen.nyolsens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/SAM_1623-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/elderjosholsen.nyolsens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/SAM_1623-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/elderjosholsen.nyolsens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/SAM_1623-816x612.jpg 816w, http:\/\/elderjosholsen.nyolsens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/SAM_1623.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-859\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">No more road!<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elderjosholsen.nyolsens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/SAM_1626.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-861\" src=\"http:\/\/elderjosholsen.nyolsens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/SAM_1626-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"SAMSUNG CAMERA PICTURES\" width=\"634\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"http:\/\/elderjosholsen.nyolsens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/SAM_1626-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/elderjosholsen.nyolsens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/SAM_1626-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/elderjosholsen.nyolsens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/SAM_1626-816x612.jpg 816w, http:\/\/elderjosholsen.nyolsens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/SAM_1626.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elderjosholsen.nyolsens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/SAM_1628.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-863\" src=\"http:\/\/elderjosholsen.nyolsens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/SAM_1628-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"SAMSUNG CAMERA PICTURES\" width=\"634\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"http:\/\/elderjosholsen.nyolsens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/SAM_1628-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/elderjosholsen.nyolsens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/SAM_1628-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/elderjosholsen.nyolsens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/SAM_1628-816x612.jpg 816w, http:\/\/elderjosholsen.nyolsens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/SAM_1628.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week in S\u00e3o Paulo there was really bad flooding. In the area where we live, we weren\u00b4t really affected at all, just a few little leaks in our roof, haha! But the city where the church is was flooded really bad. The church wasn\u00b4t affected by the flood, though, because it is higher up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":859,"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\/864"}],"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=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/elderjosholsen.nyolsens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":869,"href":"http:\/\/elderjosholsen.nyolsens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions\/869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elderjosholsen.nyolsens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elderjosholsen.nyolsens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elderjosholsen.nyolsens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elderjosholsen.nyolsens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}