Sister Carmen Olson

Kia Ora Whanau This week was long but really fast. Long becuase so much happened but sooooooo fast.  Last Monday I was still with Sister Petersen and now this Monday I am with Sister Jones. Tuesday is officially transfer day so we got up super early and drove the Sisters getting transfered into Wellington to catch their bus which left at 7:30am and flights which left at 8:30am. It was sad to say goodbye to Sister Petersen becuase I really grew to love her this transfer. I was so blessed to have her as my trainer and I learned heaps from her. But Sister Jones is so awesome and I already love her so much. She is powerful and concecrated. I appreciate that and admire it and hope that I will be able to learn from her so I can be as powerful as her. Tuesday we got to work contacting people and teaching which was so great. I love spending every minute doing the work.  Wednesday was another great day. We got two new people to teach! They are this old couple that are form...

Kia Ora Whanau So last Monday after I emailed you all, we went into Wellington to hang out with the Welly missionaries. They told us we were doing a bbq but when we showed up, the plans had changed to sports. I wasn't wearing sports clothes which was annoying but I wasnt going to let that stop me so like the idiot I am I played in my skirt and bare feet. I was all good while we were playing basketball but then we switched to rugby and I slipped on a sweater someone left lying around and hurt my ankle again 😬 but not as bad as last time so we're all good. Dumb though I know. Anyways the most important part of Monday was FHE with the Fata family! It was so awesome! We shared the Light the World videos with them and gave them blank calanders to fill out with ways they can participate in Light The World. After watching the videos we talked about different ways that they can particpate, and right away they suggested "we could have family prayer, over every meal and stuff....

Kia Ora Whanau! This week was sweet as. On Tuesday we had our last exchange of the transfer. This time instead of me going to another companionships' area, I stayed in my area and lead the exchange. Man, I'll be 100% honest and just say I was real nervous about leading. I was worried about figuring out who to go see and contact becuase we didn't have any set appointments. I was praying so hard leading up to it that I would be able to receive the revelation necessary to then be able to plan the day by my self. Every time I prayed the scripture from Doctrine and Covenants 84:85 kept popping into my head. It says "Neither take ye thought beforehand what ye shall say; but treasure up in your minds continually the words of life, and it shall be given you in the very hour that portion that shall be meted unto every man." The part that really stood out to me is "neither take ye thought before hand" and "it shal be given you in the very hour that porti...

Kia Ora whanau! This week was good as usual. We had another exchange on Tuesday. Becuase Sister Petersen is a solo STL we have to do double the amount of exchanges because she has to do an exchange with every sister in our zone. Exchanges were good though. The real highlight of Tuesday, however, was after exchanges. My mission has started doing this thing with wards called ministering nights and man they are genius. Basiclly what happens is all the missionaries from the zone and all the members from one ward come together and the missionaries and bishopric of the the ward come up with a list of people to be visited and ministered to. Then the missionaries split off with the ward membrs and they all go and visit 2-3 people and share the message or invitation that the Bishop comes up with. It is so genius because 60 plus people get visited in one night and the results are insane. I high key encourage all wards to do this. So Tuesday night was ministering night in my ward. The ward I...