Can you believe it?! I certainly can't! This is
crazy! I think the craziest
part is that I have been a missionary for most of this year.
What the
heck! My life is flashing before my eyes!
On a more
serious note, thank you to everyone for sending me Christmas cheer.
Really though. I can't tell you how loved I have felt this past Christmas
season. It has really meant a lot to me and has really helped me
feel of Heavenly Father's love for me. I marked all of the scriptures
you all sent me and took time to study all of them. I think only
three were repeated (mom thought only one was repeated but I found two more duplicates. Three duplicated scriptures out of 71 is pretty amazing though!) Helaman 5:12 (my
personal favorite scripture) Matthew 5:16 and Proverbs 3:5-6. First I would like to point out
that all of these are scripture masteries so way to go everyone
for paying attention in seminary. Also these are all scriptures
that I really needed and had personal relevance to my life. Thank you
all for your examples, prayers, and love. I surely need it!
This week
has seriously been a blur. I know I say that most weeks, but this one
was especially. We visited SO MANY PEOPLE. Holy cow sister Andersen
and I were EXHAUSTED when we got home after Christmas. We literally
wrapped up everything we had; Books of Mormon, pictures of Jesus,
candy, MOTR DVDs; you name it we wrapped it. All day long we
just
shared our testimonies with people. Let me tell you: it rocked. I was on
such a spiritual high which is probably why I crashed so hard afterwards.
One of my
favorite experiences of the day was caroling at the old folks
home. We went with Sister Stalder (my MTC companion) and the new missionary
she is training. We started singing in the hallway to three old
ladies. Actually one was a member and the nurse didn't realize we were
talking to her and started pushing her away in the wheelchair.
After
about two feet the lady screamed, "NO! Those are my missionary girls!"
The nurse was so embarrassed. It was cute. Anyway. We sang for about an hour straight and by the end the whole hallway was full of about 30
or so old people and they were all enjoying listening to us. I was so
happy to see all these people and was really feeling good about
myself. Right after we finished, everyone started walking into the room
behind us. It was the cafeteria. Sooooo pretty much everyone was just
waiting in line for lunch. Kind of funny, but we still enjoyed
it. We had Christmas Eve dinner
with the Miskins. President Miskin is president
Van Cotts counselor. So that was fun to spend time with them.
They really made us feel at home and loved.
Also
something crazy happened this week. There was an emergency transfer
and our district got split on Tuesday morning.
Our new district
leader was in the desert and he found out on Monday night that he
was whitewashing a new area with a new missionary that came out with
Sister Andersen. And that he was district leader and had to be at
district meeting here the next morning. This was three days before
Christmas. He came to district meeting 30 minutes late and looked
super stressed. I felt bad for him. Glad I will never be district
leader! Good news is I am the oldest person in my district....
Everyone else is 19. So I got that going for me. It's really
weird.
Well the
time has come. Love you all! Have a great week!
Love,
Sister
Olsen
P.S. See
you next year ;)
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| The final product of the scripture tree. I don't think you can even see green on it its so full of scriptures! |
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| People in Yuciapa have some crazy Christmas decorations..... |
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