Week 65

Kia Ora Whanau

This week was interesting because I only spent 4 days in mg area with my companions. Some highlights of the week include:

On Wednesday we spent the majority of the day gardening this massive secret garden style flower garden for an old lady named Tilly. She was so sweet and made us lunch and gave us each a beautiful bouquet of flowers to say thank you and then we re gifted them to different people. Wednesday night we drove 2 hours to Invercargil for ministering night and then spent the night at a members house. 

Thursday we had district council and did weekly planning because we were doing exchanges with the Dunedin Sisters on Friday.

Exchanges were good. I was with Sister Dunford (who was Madi Lee's roommate in uni) and we were in Queenstown. We started off in this little town in our area 2 hours away from Queenstown door knocking and trying to track down a family who used to meet with the missionaries. We found their house but the parents weren't home. Then we drove to Alexandra to try and contact some less active members but none of them were home. Then we drove to Queenstown and got dinner at Fergburger which is apparently the place to eat in Queenstown but to be honest it was just and over priced below average burger. On Saturday we were going to go to a Farmers market for finding before we exchanged back but there was a major accident on the main motor way and so we got rerouted and it took us 3 hours to drive and normally one hour drive so we missed it. 

The rest of Saturday included visiting a less active members. One of them is from Fiji and gave me a beautiful Pule Tasi. It was so kind of her. We also had our first meal appointment of the week on Saturday with some brazillian members and they made us yummy brazillian food. 

Sunday was really cool. We always have heaps of visitors in the branch and this week the woman who co-wrote Girls Who Choose God was visiting. She is so cool. She told us about a book that she's helped write called "A girls guide to Heavenly Mother" which will be available on Amazon on Mothers day. She showed us the PDF and it looks amazing. We also had 3 less active families that we are working with so that was so exciting! 

We also had a second meal appointment on Sunday night which was a tender mercy because we have no food in the house lol. 

Bernardo is still doing well. We had another lesson with him this week about specific prayers. He has prayed and asked Heavenly Father is he is real and I'm so excited for him to receive his answer because knowing that Heavenly Father is there is the most powerful knowledge to have.

Also this week I received a direct answer to prayers. We have mission tour in a week in Christchurchand so I prayed that I would get to sleep at Sister Siale's flat while I was there. Then we found out this week that I we are sleeping at her flat! Honestly this is just evidence to me that Heavenly Father doesn't just want to bless us spiritually but also temporally. You can ask Him for anything you want and He will give it to you if it's His will just because He love you and wants you to be happy. 

My spiritual though this week is from Elder Holland about Mormon chapter 7. He says "To ‘believe in Christ,’ especially when measured against such tragic but avoidable consequences, was Mormon’s last plea and his only hope. It is the ultimate purpose of the entire book that would come to the latter-day world bearing his name." I hope everyone knows that the purpose of the Book of Mormon is to help people come to Christ. Please read it so that you can receive your own testimony of it. It's he most powerful book.

Ofa Atu 

Sister Olson 




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