Happy New Year...Jan 2nd

Well yes it is 2012, hard to believe but it is here. The past week was a little slow in the missionary work, with christmas, and new years both on back to back sundays, made it a little harder to get investigators to come to church, be in their houses so we could talk with them, and in general the people here get a little bit more drunk then normal. But with all that said, it was a good week.

I even got to celebrate new years.

So saturday Elder llaguno asked the president if he could go visit a family that he baptized here in Tijuana. Wo we went. it was about a 30 min drive but we got there and ate dinner, and talked and then at 830 we left. By 9 we were in our house and we stayed up until 1200. It was nice, we even had some fireworks that we went out and threw.

Then sunday we had church at 1000 will a very small numbers, but it was good. en the night we had another chance to celebrate the new year a little bit. We went to the house of the zone leaders, and meet up with our district. ( en total we were 6) and we talked for a little, then we played UNO, and then we had a little dinner. we played another game. i think its called guesters. (were you have to act out the word and grab it before it falls) it was fun, and lead to a lot of laughs. Afterwards we had wrestle time. and it lasted for a good time, and by the time we ended we were are all really tired and ready for bed.

So that's why i am writing late today, because of our activity last night it put us behind schedule today. but now we got everything done and writing my family

This week i read a little bit of the Ensign of Noviember (p.s. thanks mom, but they do give us all the ensigns to read. they just get them when the mail comes. so i got mine a little early from home) and i really like the talk from elder Hales. I loved when he said, that we pray for patience, but we want it right now. and that we should press forward as we wait on the lord. really liked the talk so for everyone that reads this, its your homework, to read his talk. its a good one.

I hope that your all good, that you can start the new year with some goals, start reading the scriptures more, doing daily prayer, and serve others. but have a great one,

and remember that everyone loves a missionary,

elder olsen

thanks for everything, maybe i will get mail this week, which means those birthday letters you told me about. we shall see