Hola hola!! We had transfers this week! 

The past 6 weeks Hermana Pister and I have been training Hermana Taylor. It has been so fun! Trio life can be tricky but also it’s just so much fun! Hermana Pister left so it’s just Hermana Taylor and I and I’m finishing off her training! We are still in Lakeville and it’s my 3rd transfer here. I am SO happy I stayed in Lakeville, especially for the fall because rumor has it, Lakeville is the best place to be during the fall. There is also a lot of work in Lakeville and I have grown to know and LOVE the people here so MUCH. I love Lakeville!

This past week was a party week. We went to a fun little birthday party for one of the members in our branch and celebrated. We had exchanges this week and Hermana Taylor and I went with Sister Johnson in her area. We taught her friend Steven who just got baptized and oh my goodness he is just amazing! He loves doing hand hearts where you make hearts with your hands so we made sure to get a picture of us doing it with him haha. 

There was some sort of bug going around because we all got sick! Hermana Pister had the gripa (flu) and was super sick this week and Hermana Taylor and I had sore throats and stuffy noses. It drained us a couple days and one night we all wanted to get to bed early. Hermana Pister went to bed and Hermana Taylor and I were sitting in our living room talking and then Hermana Pister sprints out of our room and says someone just knocked on our window. We were all freaked out because it was like 10pm and we live on the first floor. We all kept hearing knocking on our windows and our service had been down all day too so we couldn’t call or text anything or recieve texts. Then we heard knocking on our back sliding door and we were like what the heck, so we all huddled together and said a prayer haha. After that we quickly turned off all our fans so we could hear and we heard the Elders whispering outside the window that it was them. We were like oh my gosh haha! We went out and  they had broughten us a basket with treats and cough drops and medicine because we were all sick. We told them how scared we were and they said they couldn’t get a hold of us so they had to try that haha but it was super nice of them!

We had lots of lessons and passed off a couple of our friends to the Elders and had pass off lessons. It’s fun having pass off lessons because you are able to see how other missionaries teach! We had lots of food this week as always. We went to $1 Friday tacos as always and our members took us out to pho and after church on Sunday we all ate with the members at the church. After every fast Sunday we break our fast together and we always eat at the church together. Its my favorite because we just line up tables and we all sit together and just talk! I love love love it!

We have started teaching English connect! We used to only join the end and share a spiritual message but now we stay for the whole class and help teach. It’s been really fun! It’s the same class every time so we get to know each of them and build connections with them. I love it! 

We have been doing service for this organization called Sleep in Heavenly Peace ever since I got to Lakeville, and missionaries who have been in Lakeville in the past have also done it but we have been doing it consistently and have really built some awesome relationships with the people who run this chapter in Lakeville. We have become really close friends with them and have been able to help a lot and it is a blessing! What we do is they have build days where anyone can come and volunteer to help build beds. This organization builds beds and gives beds to kids who don’t have one. It’s so amazing and we have been able to help with all the builds and also have been able to deliver the beds to kids! There are a lot of applications that they recieve where they speak Spanish, so us and the Elders have been able to help set up appointments and also have been able to deliver to these families who speak Spanish and make the experience better for them! The head guy Nate is awesome and always goes with us to do deliveries and he tells us that he can see the difference in the experience because we are able to communicate with them and get them excited. We have had so many amazing experiences doing this and are just so grateful that we get to be a part of helping with this amazing organization! Nate invited us and the Elders over to his house to have dinner with his family as a thank you for all we have done to help. It was fun to meet his family and we got to share a message with them after too. They aren’t members and it’s actually funny because everytime we see him we are in sweats and a tshirt since we are always doing service around him but this time we were in our dresses and the Elders were in their suites and he got to see what we actually wear and do everyday. We had explained it to him of course but it was fun to be able to share a message and invite the spirit into their home.

We had transfers and we got 4 new spanish missionaries! 2 new Hermanas and 2 new Elders! They’re all cuties, we are excited to have them! It was weird leaving transfers and not having Hermana Pister with us. But Hermana Taylor and I were excited to only have 2. Hermana Taylor only knew what it was like to live trio life and I have been living it the past 10 weeks so I was excited to be a duo again. It was fun to meet up with all the missionaries at transfers and talk with all of them and see all the other spanish missionaries!

We started teaching this one kid named Gabriel, he’s in high school and he had seen a tiktok haha talking about different churches and the Bible and he said he wanted to learn more about the bible and about Jesus Christ so he went online and referred himself to hear a message!! We met up with him and he said he had bought a Bible and wanted to learn more so we read in the Bible with him and taught him and it was seriously such a powerful lesson. He had so many good questions and was just so interested. After our lesson, when we got home, I was looking through my messages on messenger and saw that there was a message I hadn’t responded to in over a month from this kid and it was literally the kid Gabriel that we had just taught! He had found my Facebook and saw that I was a missionary over a month ago and had told me he was interested in hearing a message but I had never responded!!! It actually is so crazy because after that I guess he had referred himself on the church website and we were the missionaries that were in his area and taught him. It’s crazy that I was the missionary he had reached out to and then when he had referred himself, he got sent to us! He’s so cool and we are sooo excited to be teaching him! 

For pday today we just went on a hike and food prepped for our week. It was a good week and I’m excited for next week! I love you all seriously so so much! I love this gospel, and I love my Savior! I know that things don’t just happen for a reason! God has a perfect plan for His children. He loves us and He does all He can to help guide us! Have an amazing week! 

(One day when we were delivering beds with Nate the door to the apartment complex wouldn’t open and we told Nate that sometimes when we are trying to get into apartment buildings and they’re locked we will grab the handle and say bendiciones. He grabbed the handle and closed his eyes and said benedicios and we were like.. close.)

Hermana Olsen ❤