I have been out for 3 months! Yayyy 🥳 It’s so crazy how fast time flies! This week has been stressful! It was transfer week so everyone was waiting for calls and trying to guess if they were staying or if they were leaving. We spent as much time as we could with our district before transfers. One of the Hermanas in my district, Hermana Tupper, was getting ready to going home so it was her last everything but we made it fun!

After our last district council together we went to Canes, we all just talked and ate our food and then one of the workers came up to all of us and asked if he could get a Polaroid of us and put it on the Canes community board. We were all like yes of course!! So we all made sure our tags were showing haha and he got a picture of us. It was actually so cute and now I need to go back to that Canes and see our picture up there!

This week I gave a training in our district council and it was so fun! We were all just having a good time and I taught about what we can do better to help our friends that we are teaching and what we can do to make them feel welcome and loved. I love hearing different perspectives and ideas of other missionaries and their missionary work! It’s so fun to learn from how other missionaries work and what they do that really helps them and apply it in my work. It was a good little meeting. 

We had dinner at a member Jeralds house with his brothers that we are teaching and they are all so fun and always laughing. Jailene another member was also there and Hermana Erickson and I just love her!! She is so fun!

Usually transfer boards telling you who your new companion is and where your new area is comes out the day before transfer day BUT it came out Thursday at 9:45am! Transfers were at 3. Everyone was like what the! This had never happened and everyone was on the edge of their seats. Hermana Erickson and I were checking our phones every 5 minutes refreshing our email all Wednesday night and Thursday morning to see if it had come out yet. During our personal study we saw that President Richardson sent out the email and we opened it so fast! Hermana Erickson and I saw that we were still together and we jumped out of our chairs and just tackled each other to the ground we were so happy. We wanted to stay with each other so bad and WE DID!! And we are staying in our area North Minne! 

We all went out to lunch as a district one last time and of course we went to Bdubs. When we got there the guy that works there told us that he looks forward to seeing us when we come and he went and put together our tables so we all have somewhere to sit. It was the best. About half of our original district stayed the same and we lost 5! One of the Hermanas went home, another Hermana got transferred to another area and then we had 3 elders that got transferred to other areas as well. We got a new Hermana that just got here from the Mexico MTC! She is so cute and I just feel for her so much being a new missionary out in the field! But I’m so glad she’s with me and Hermana Erickson because we are just gonna drown her with love!! 

By one of the members houses in our ward there is an indoor ice rink where they have hockey practices and games and so one day Hermana Erickson and I went there while we did some work. It was so fun because when we got there, there was a game so we just watched the game while we called and texted people and did our work. I’ve realized that I love hockey. It’s seriously the coolest sport and like so fascinating to watch. Hockey is so big out here too! 

We went and helped a lady in our ward pick up branches from these huge trees she cut down and chop wood and get it all cleaned up. It was fun because we all did it as a new district and so we got to know the new missionaries that came to our area better and then afterwards she served us dinner. The lady in our ward is so cute haha, after we have dinner one of the missionary companionships share a short spiritual message and it was me and Hermana Erickson sharing it and while we were sharing it Hermana Rendon, the lady in our ward, just starts braiding my hair and she just says the funniest comments. She’s a ball of fire and we love her!

Hermana Erickson has got me so into journaling!! Her journals are so freaking cute and she just collects everything that she gets and writes about everything and I’m hooked. I love it so much and I get so stressed that I don’t write every little memory down!! Anyways I’m SO grateful I’m doing it so I can always remember these moments and stories that happen on my mission! 

We went to go visit a member this week and she told us to come back in a bit because she was finishing stuff up so we decided we were just gonna walk around for a bit and then this guy called out to us and he came over and started talking to us. He asked us if we were Christians and then he went off bashing us about our beliefs and all we could do was smile and thank him for sharing his beliefs with us. It was definitely scary and it’s sad to know that there are people in the world that just want to put down what other people believe in. We need to all love each other and be respectful of others beliefs. That’s why we’re here!! To love everyone and share our love with others! Share the love of God and His son Jesus Christ! 

Hermana Erickson and I have really been into watching the Book of Mormon videos on the gospel library app and they’re pretty good. I learn so much about the Book of Mormon and actually feel like I understand the stories. They’re our source of entertainment during lunch or while we’re writing in our journals. 

We had stake conference this weekend and it was amazing! We got to meet people from the other wards and we heard some amazing talks from some members in our ward and other wards and a member of the area and general 70. Someone was giving a talk and she said the last name Hymas and I remember the mission Presidents of the Mexico CCM told me that their daughter lives in Minnesota! After the meeting I went and asked her if her parents were the Hymas’s and she said yes!! It was so crazy that she was at that stake conference! I got a picture with her and she sent it to her parents. It was definitely a little miracle. 

I love you all so so much and I am so grateful for each and every one of you! I am so grateful for this gospel in my life and I know that God loves each and every one of us! 

Favorite scripture this week: 

Helaman 5: 7-8

7 Therefore, my sons, I would that ye should do that which is good, that it may be said of you, and also written, even as it has been said and written of them.

8 And now my sons, behold I have somewhat more to desire of you, which desire is, that ye may not do these things that ye may boast, but that ye may do these things to lay up for yourselves a treasure in heaven, yea, which is eternal, and which fadeth not away; yea, that ye may have that precious gift of eternal life, which we have reason to suppose hath been given to our fathers.

Hermana Olsen ❤