Teachin 'n Preachin

The OKC 2nd Ward Missionaries

Elder Quijada and me

This was my first week as a District Leader. On Friday we hold training meetings.  The training I gave was on personal revelation through prayer. I had each person analyze their own personal prayers and talked about the importance of it. This was kind of like cleaning the inner vessel before the outer kind of deal. I gave a talk at church on Sunday along with Sister Chugg. She spoke about God answering prayers and I talked about two of the talks this last General conference. "Receiving a Testimony of Truth and Light" By President Uchtdorf and "I Know These Things of Myself" By Elder Christensen. Paige will be baptized probably the 24th. She is due on the 27th so we'll see how all that goes.

Anna is progressing. She wants to read the whole Book of Mormon though before she is baptized and she is not feeling very worthy. Some people are  pretty self critical and we are working on helping her with that. We are hoping to have her over to the Lusks' this evening and teach her there.

I am so thankful for the family I was raised in and the examples of a loving father. That has helped me so much on my mission.

I love my mission and the people here. My new companion is Elder Quijada. We get along really well. He is a great missionary.

Love you!

Happy New Year...

At the Christmas conference I got this photo with all my companions so far on my mission. Awesome!

My new planner cover.

Me and the big guy at  church Christmas party.

Elder Winslow taking out all our Christmas package boxes. Thanks for everything.

The Bartlett's and me the Sunday before Christmas.

Changes are in the air here in Oklahoma.

So transfers are on Wednesday. Elder Winslow is going to Anadarko, I’m staying in OKC and I got called to be the District Leader here. I’m in charge of the 14 missionaries here now, I will give trainings every Friday for district meeting, counsel with the missionaries, be in charge of exchanges with all the elders in the district and the Zone Leaders and I don't know what else. Naturally, I feel completely inadequate for such a calling and responsibility. But I asked Elder Winslow for a blessing and it helped a lot. 

We met a new investigator this week. His name is William. He is so amazing! He has had a rough past and you can tell by his looks, but he has completely changed. He got up yesterday and bore his testimony on his first Fast and Testimony Sunday! We've taught him a couple times and he is really excited. He wants to be baptized but not sure when yet. Hopefully Paige will be baptized on January 10th. Then our other investigator, Anna, has a date for January 17th. They're both awesome. I'm so glad to be here.

 

We started going to the gym in the mornings now. It's pretty fun to wake up at 5:30 then exercise. It's a nice way to start the day. I am still getting used to the new shoes. These have lateral support to help keep me from rolling my ankles.

 

Thanks so much for your love, support and encouraging words!

Love

Elder Olson