HIS BEST TWO YEARS

Behold, I send you out to reprove the world of all their unrighteous deeds, and to teach them of a judgment which is to come.....And whoso receiveth you, there I will be also, for I will go before your face. I will be on your right hand and on your left, and my Spirit shall be in your hearts, and mine angels round about you, to bear you up.

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Hello Another Week--November 7th

Well how are you all doing. all in several email i got today everyone said bad things about the weather where they were. and now i guess its my turn.

Oh the past week here in tijauana. it rained three days. three days of cold, wet, clothes walking outside. but today it is nice and sunny again. but still not warm. so yes i have dusted off the sweaters and the jacket, and i am wearing them again. but about the rain, here, its not as orgainised here in mexico so the streets flood, i don´t know why but sometimes the swear backs up and comes up in the streets. but. its all good. i took some pictures and i am having some hard time sending photos but i will send some more soon.

More big news about here in tijuana, with your one and only Elder Taylor Olsen. I was a nurse for one day. I gave a SHOT TO ANOTHER ELDER. my zone leader. but its wierd, i don´t know why but here you can by medice and then do the shots in your house. and its cheaper. so my zone leader got sick and he needs a shot every night for 5 days. Well i went with him for divsions one day and in the night he told me i had to do it. He taught me how to do it. then layed down on his bed, and i gave him his shot in THE BUTT. HOLY CRAP its nothing that i have ever expeinced before. but i was alright. I didn´t faint or anything. And i have it on video, so in another year and 4 months I can show it to you all.

Another thing about here , we had a baptism of a mother and her 8 year old son. they are really cool and were a reference from our other baptisms. so it went really well.

I am going to take some of my money out for a couple things i need to buy. Plus 4 people that i have baptized here in this ward, are going to the temple this week, so i sent them some money to help them. just to let you know i will take more out soon.

all is well here, starting to get cold, glad to hear about timpview volleyball. and always glad to hear the stories from home,
but remember that everyone loves a missionary,

elder olsen

Heelllo--Oct 31st

So i don´t have a lot of time but i wanted to say that elder johnsons visit came was a good vistit. with us missionarys he talked with us about our purpose and how to find more people to teach which was good. Then he talked with the other members about leadership, the purpose of ward council, and a couple other things. Then he talked about the temple. Nothing about the ground breaking. only that to have a temple costs sacrafice. and that we all good do more to help the temple be built sooner. It was good.

Spoiler: I did receive confirmation that a apostal is going to come this month. and i know who is it. But i am not supposed to know so i cant tell yet. we aren´t suppposed to know because this apoastaly was assalted on one of his past trips. So its for his safty. i know who it is and he is coming. i just don´t know when. but it will all be good.

I have really been studying lehi's dream lately. It's really good and has a lot of stuff we can learn all of us. so that is your homework to read lehi's dream. in the first chapter of nefi. hope you enjoy the photos and everything is all good.

but remember, that everyone loves a missionary,

elder olsen,

Hello, Transfers....Oct 24th

Well i am once again writing late, because we did have changes here in the mission. and i just sent my comp. to the mission office, which i didn´t like the first time i did it, and i liked it less this time. It's really hard to send them off because it´s really easy to lose your focus. because they are only thinking in one thing. BUT its good that he gets to go to his home now, and that i go back to work.

but i have another companion. Elder lleguno. i knew him from a little while ago. (about 3 months ago he was in my district) and now he is here in lago with me. he has 15 months in the mission and just became the district leader. So all good here.

Quick question. did you hear anything about the ground breaking here? because i still having had any official news yet from here. just a question.

Elder Johnson from the seventy is here in Tijuana. haven´t met him yet but he was been to my church a couple of times. its because my church in the stake center. BUT we are going to meet him wed. and he wants to talk to us. so it will be good.

Well i am learning here with all this talk of the temple the importance of a temple. I thought before that i temple was built out of stone, wood and normal items. BUT now i am coming to learn what temples are really built out of. Of course stone and all that but, they are also built out of sacrifice, hard work, diligence, scripture study, praying with real intente. and so much more. but with all these items together it makes the temples that much more special. so that is why i think Elder Johnson is coming to teach us.

But all is good here in Tijuana. and i got 2 letters today, when i went to the offices. one from 6 weeks ago, and the other a halloween card. which turned out to be pretty good timing. but all is good. now its back to work. and remember,

that everyone loves a missionary,

éldér ólséñ,
until next week

Welll Heelllo--Oct 17th

Hello again.

Another monday has come around. and many things have happened but i will only have time to do the highlights because my comp. elder llanas goes home one week from today. so he has some stuff planned that he has to do before he goes home. so the next week i will have a new companion. But all is good in sion.

Well one story that really was interesting this week and was something i had never happen to me.

so last wed. we were out working when someone from the offices called us to give us a reference of someone that was interested. so we called them and had an appointment for that night at 7´:30. so we went. it took us a little bit to find it we did after a little bit of effort.and from the out side it looked like a normal house with a lot of junk in the front yard. By this time it was dark so we didn´t see much of its details. But when we entered the house, there wasn´t a back wall. and the first thing they told us is that, the mom, lived in this house with her husband, three kids, and one of the kids is married with three kids. añd all live in this house. Well the mom got invited to a church in another part of tijuana, so she went monday with a friend and she really liked it. but while she was there her family called her to say that her house was on fire. That's when she took us to the what was the wall of her kitchen, to show us what was her house. it was something really i had never seen before. we really didnt know what to say. oh man! but we told a couple of people in the ward, and they helped us out, they gave us clothes, food, shoes, plates, pans, because they lost a lot of stuff. so it was good and definitly something i won´t forget in my life.

One week left until i get a new companion, and we shall see what happens because i really have no idea what is going to happen. Because in december, 30 missionarys are leaving for their houses, and not very many are coming. so they are going to start preparing for december, but we shall see and that all is good here. until next week,

Remember that everyone loves a missionary,

elder olsen

Semana Otra....Oct 10th

Well another week has past, and another one down. I do have some news. the leaders of the mission are getting pretty excited because this month we are going to have a visit from a seventy come and talk to us/ train us. should be good. then are are rumors that someone from the quorom of the 12 apostals are going to come in November. really nothing set yet about nov. but then there are rumors that the 12 is coming to do the ground breaking of the temple, but they are all just rumors. and i just love to talk about gossip. but all i know is that Elder Johnson is coming to vist us.

More news. i got my package this past week, that had my camera. thanks so much! it is really great. its just so small compared to the old one i fell like i am going to break it every time i hold it. but its really nice and is cool. and the picture of Kelly's bear is so dang sweet.

We had a baptism last week also. named alvaro. he has 18 years, and he is the newphew of the 1st counselor in the bishopric. he's cool. says he wants to go a mission, and we are going to work with him on that, so maybe he can go in one year.

Saturday, we also did a big service project. we helped paint a fence of a college. it was a pretty big event and i am going to try and send a short movie. but the last time i tried to send a movie it didn´t work, so we shall see.

hope all is well were ever you are reading this,because the church is true. when we follow the commandments god blesses us. I have seen the gospel change lives. i know everyone in the world should read the book of mormon. I know that this time i am reading it i am learning a ton. but until next time remember,

that everyone loves a missionary,
elder olsen

3 de octubre

Well another week has passed by. and it was an interesting week for sure.

Yes i did hear about the temple in provo, and i was pretty animated about it when i heard it. but yes we had general conference and it was a little crazyer than normal. it was nice that my chapel is the stake center, so it wasn´t to hard to get our investigators there, but the change of the time schedule, and explaining the differences between conference and normal church. and to members that don't have much time in the church we had to explain the conference. but saturday i watched it in spanish, and sunday I got to watch it in english in a little room with other missionarys. But it was good, i really liked it. They talked quite a bit about the missionary work which was of course my favorite, because everyone loves the missionarys.

Here in tijuana are really good. It is starting to cool off to now i am a point to putting on my sweater in the next couple of weeks. but all its all good. we are at the last three weeks of the mission with elder llanas, and he is pretty ready to go to his house. but the work goes on.

So i am feeling a little bit better about my spanish but i dont feel very good about writing in spanish so i will finish this letter in spanish to practice a little bit.

Pues ahora por un poco de espanol, y vamos a ver que voy a decir. las cosas aqui en Mexico estamos buen. tuvimos cinco investigadores asitieron conferencia, y fue muy buen. les gusto mucho, y ahora nos toca a esenarles y espero que toman la desion a bautisarse. pero vamos a ver,
pues ya me voy, PERO
todos aman un misionero,
elder olsen

gracias por todo, también.

Hello This Week-Sep. 26th

Well this past week was a good week.
First of all, we had a great baptism service saturday. I wasn´t going to send pictures today but what the heck why not. One is of the people we baptized Saturday-three of them are our ward and the other 5 are from the other ward. pretty cool. and the other is of us with our family, pretty cool family.

Another really cool thing that happened this past saturday is the area seventy came and talked a little to us, motivated us, then trained us. really cool guy. Elder Mario Carlos. really cool guy and talked to us about what we need to do as an area to prepare to have a temple here in tijauana.(still no news when they are going to start it), But I have seen the land where its going to be. its pretty close to where i am now, like 10 mins in car.
then we just keep working here in tijuana. but that's what has been cool here in the last week.

Now for a couple other pictures, a couple really cool if I say for myself. We have a river in our sector and the picture of me in the air is there, then last night we hiked a small hill to take a picture of us above our sector, thats the night pictures,

But just to let you know to keep up the good work, where ever you are reading this letter, and know that Jesus Christ is our savior, and that he is the only begotten son of our hevenly father. love you all,
and remember that everyone loves a missionary,
Elder Olsen







Hello Again-Sep 19th

Well then this past week has been interesting back in Tijuana. First things first is that i wasn´t very suprised to come back to tijuana, becuase half of the missionarys in the mission are here in tijuana. There's a lot. but this sector is so much better then my last ward in tijuana. and another plus, is that it is alot smaller than tecate, really alot smaller. It's not to bad here in my new ward, Lago.
I don´t know if i told you this last week, but I am with Elder llanas. and it's his last transfer in the mission. again, but it should be alright. It's definitely harder to have a companion that is about to go home, because lets just say that they aren´t thinking about our work here in tijuana, as much as other missionarys. but it will all be alright because this week we are going to baptize a family of three. they are really cool family.
The dad is a member of many years, inactive. but he went to USA and found the church there again. Well his family was here in tijuana. and he just got back from USA two weeks ago. and now he wants us to baptize his family. They really are cool.

Sorry to hear about BYU but sometimes that's the way it goes.

I did get the package from maryann the last week, thank you family M&M. but yea really fast this past week in mexico was Independence day. September 15&16. i didn´t see really anything crazy but we had a stake party in the stake center, and we went to our houses early in the night to avoid any problems. but i did wake up in the night to some pretty crazy parties in the night. but i couldn´t go.

Well i would just like to say, that i know that the church of jesus christ of latter day saints, is the church of christ in the world. that i know we have a living profet in Pres. monson, and that Christ lives. That we have a living god and not a dead god.
Thanks for everything, and remember,
that everyone loves a missionary,
Elder Olsen, from Tijuana Mexico