Week 45

Kia Ora Whanau!

Transfers were this week and so SisterTapumanaia and I are reunited! We are whitewashing the Featherston branch while still covering the Masterton ward so its been heaps of work, but it's so exciting! Featherston is such a special place and the members are all amazing and we have recieved heaps of really good refferals from them already! 

Monday last week after I emailed home, we went to castle point which was really pretty! We were in a tsunami danger zone which was cool, grateful there were no earthquakes.

Tuesday we went to Wellington to pick up Sister Tapumanaia . It took so freaking long! The drive there is brutal but I'm so grateful we are back together.

Wednesday we biked all day and had a lesson with Natasha. We then did some service with her and set a time to come teach her kids on Saturday. We are starting to make some real progress with her which is so exciting! 

We started meeting everyone in the Featherston branch and man oh man they are the bomb in that branch! They all have so many dope refferals and I'm so excited to start working with them! 

We had zone conference on Thursday and it was so uplifting! Man President Soloai is so inspired and I came away with so many new things to start doing to be a better missionary.

A little miracle that happened this week happened late Sunday Night. So there was about 20 minutes before we had to go home and so we decided to make one last visit and go see a less active family who has a non member living with them. We shared with them how Heavenly Father love them and has a plan for them. The things that they said were so inspired. They know how the gospel blesses them and they want to come back! So we officially started teaching Reeva and working with her family! It was so exciting and I felt so much joy. I just love them so much and I know that love doesn't come from me it comes from Heavenly Father which is so cool to experience. 

My spiritual thought this week is from something said at church. One of the speakers said "Reading and learning about faith is insufficient on it's own to build faith." I can testify that this is true! If you want to build your faith you have to exercise it.

Ofa Atu

Sister Olson 

Photos: 
-me and sister shin at castle point
-our trio
-at zone conference
-saying goodbye to Sister schwenke who went home 
- me and Sister Tapumanaia back together!






Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Week 51

Image
Kia Ora Whanau!  Okay this week was a roller coaster but it was good and we saw the hand of the Lord.  So on Monday, we had to wake up really early in the morning and drive 1.75 hours to Tawa, where Sister Tapumanaia had her self reliance course before she went home. So I spent the day with Sister Bailey, being her companion. It was super fun, but I'll be honest I just had so much stress over the fact that Sister Tapumanaia was going home. It just made me so sad. I hate changes and I hate saying goodbye to people I love.  Anyways, on Tuesday was intake day, so all the new missionaries came to the mission office for orientation  and met their trainers! My trainee is Sister Siale and she is from Tonga. She is so incredible and onto it, I am so blessed to be her companion! I love training, the new missionaries are always so special and throughout the week I have been able to tell that she is exactly the companion that I need at this point on my mission...
Read more

Advice from the night you were set apart

Mom: My advice to you was to be humble. The church website about humility says this: To be humble is to recognize gratefully our dependence on the Lord—to understand that we have constant need for His support. Humility is an acknowledgment that our talents and abilities are gifts from God. It is not a sign of weakness, timidity, or fear; it is an indication that we know where our true strength lies. We can be both humble and fearless. We can be both humble and courageous. My thought was to advise you to remember that you have something to learn from everyone you meet. Dad: Dad said to remember the big picture of why you are serving a mission. Programs and key indicators are not the mission. Of course we need organization and we need to keep rules, but the real purpose of serving a mission is to share the gospel. When times are tough, remind yourself of your purpose. Grandma: Grandma said that she is so proud of you. She said you are such an effervescent p...
Read more

Week 30

Image
Kia Ora Whanau  Its officially been a week since I've moved to Oamaru and it's been interesting. Both wards that we cover are basically made up of one giant family so I already know everyone's name (brother and sister Kaufana) lol.  There were ups and downs. Most of the people that we are working with and Tongan and so for alot of the week I had no clue what was going on because I don't speak Tongan but my companions do.  On Tuesday we had a little miracle occur. We were meeting with a part member family and at the end we asked if we could say a prayer. The father, who is normally against the missionaries, went outside and called all the kids in for the prayer. His attitude did a 180 and he was so supportive of everything. It was so cool.  Tuesday evening, we had a failotu (prayer service) for a recent convert who just passed away. We sang hymns and messages were shared. It was really spiritual and a great missionary opportunity because his non m...
Read more