Seriously
though! Time is going by so fast!
This morning on our way to the library, I was
really trying to think about what I was going to email you all about and I
really couldn't remember the week! I feel like it just flew by!
Sister Shin and I had
a great week! We realized this week that we have 4 potential baptisms this
month!
We found a part-member
family which is always super exciting. They fed us dinner! Chicken street
tacos. Delicious. But we had a lesson, too and it was so good! The mom is a member. Her mom is a
convert and she lives in Arizona. We taught them the Restoration
and the two middle kids really want to be baptized! (The youngest is 2). They
have come to church two weeks in a row. If you could all pray for them that
would rock. They are such an awesome family.
Every week in RS the
person who is conducting asks who has had a missionary moment. It used to be
really awkward and quiet, but now more people have experiences and it's really
cool. Usually they have to do with us and when they saw us.... but that's okay!
I really love this ward so much. Seriously SO much! The people here are really
awesome and they are all trying to be good member missionaries. We are
developing good relationships with them and I just love every minute of it.
Something that Sister
Shin and I have been studying a lot is humility and judgement. This is
something I have been struggling with my whole life. Today in comp study we
talked to each other about how people who feel like they are being judged are
usually judging others. We also talked about how pride is very worldly. It's
prideful to think of yourself as diminished when something good happens to
someone else. AKA jealousy. And then I said, "well Sister. That's my
life." Every single person should just have confidence that God loves
them. That's always something that I thought I had, but I guess I didn't,
because when we truly know that, nothing else that anyone does or says really
matters. I really just don't understand why trying to be like Jesus is so dog-on
hard!
So that's really been
what I have been working on this week, and really what I am going to be working
on for the rest of my life. Heavenly Father is blessing us everyday. It's so
important to just notice the little things and be so grateful for them.
Everyone is trying hard and doing their best so I just need to love them for
that and build them up.
I love you all very
much and hope you had a good week! Thank you so much for sending me all those
pictures! AND THANKS FOR THE PACKAGE! Those skirts are AWESOME!!!!! They are
very light weight and breezy. Also I love the socks. I can just wear the dream
team on my feet everyday. Hooray! I am so grateful that I have such an awesome
family that loves me even though I struggle and I am very far from perfect.
Thanks for loving me so much! You guys are the best!
Love,
Sister Olsen
Finally! Someone spelled my name right! |
Love my companion Sister Shin! |
Keeping busy! |
Thanks for the awesome package!! |
but, your first name is now "Sister", not "Ashlee". :D
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