This week's letter was so exciting. He has several people he is working with and he is starting to see some progress in the area. We received an email on Monday that his camera got broken so he needs to buy a new one. I gave him a bad time and asked him what happened and if he kept it in a case. We have decided that it would be cheaper if he just buys one there and we put the money in his account. We also found out that he will be able to Skype us this year. We are so excited to hear and see him on Christmas! We definitely are counting down the days. He has hit the 14 month mark! The Church has also announced the Temple Dedication of the Tegucigalpa, Honduras Temple. The Open House will start February 9th and the Temple Dedication will be on March 17. That is so exciting! We'll see if Spencer will be part of that at all. I sure hope so! Enjoy his letter.
Hey
mom and everyone,
So to start off, I
have no idea what happened with my camera. It just broke haha. And of course I
keep it in a case. I’m not completely dumb. And it’s really kind of hard to
send pics when you don’t have a camera haha.
This week has been
just another normal week for me. People who don’t want to listen and don’t want
to understand how the gospel really can change their lives. So they just recently called a mission leader
for us. And this week his daughter came down from Puerto Cortes by San Pedro.
The 1st thing in the afternoon we just passed by letting them know that we
would be by at about 6pm. But he had us come in and introduce her to us. So we
started to talk to her and man alive is that girl so confused. She has listened
to so many different pastors and other missionaries that it was really
difficult to get her to understand. So she had frustrated me from the very beginning.
And she asked us if she could be a missionary like us and I told her that we
would explain all that when we came back. And she had mentioned she had already
been baptized in another church.
So we came back and
this girl can get off track when she asks questions. So I explained to her that
we could answer all of her questions but if she had a question that didn’t have
to do with the lesson and that if she had questions that weren’t about the
lesson to save them for after. So the lesson was going good. She definitely
asked a lot of question. And for the way she talked she acted like she knew a
lot about the Bible. But then when it came down to even look for books in the Bible
she almost couldn’t. So she really got asking some interesting question. And
then she started to tell me things that don’t even exist in the Bible. So I got
more and more frustrated. Man I know as a missionary we aren’t supposed to get
mad. But man alive this girl really tested my patience. It was bad. But we're
going to go back and she if she will forgive me. Man that day sucked.
But it’s funny her dad
is a very humble guy that nothing effects that guy. He actually blames his
daughter and asked me every time he sees me to forgive his daughter for being
so juvenile haha. I always tell him it was my fault and he wants us to come
over and teach her again.
We did have another
situation with another lady. But she understood what we were trying to say. And
we got to explain to her that she shouldn’t trust what we say but what God will
tell her if she prays. Her name is Eddis. She is a humble lady that does whatever
she can to make a buck. We have been trying to help her with like stuff around
the house. We were going to go get firewood with her but we showed up too late
to go. So she said to come over another day. She is really kind of positive. It’s
just she works from like 3 am on Sunday to 3pm in the afternoon selling music
in the market. But I think she would be a great member.
Oh one more. So on Monday
last week we met this kid named Jared. He was way cool 15 years old. He is
already out for vacation. So when we made the appointment I didn’t think he was
going to be there the next day. But he was. So we talked with him about the restoration
and challenged him to baptism. He accepted for the 22 of this month. So we went
back on Friday and we ended up teaching his 2 sisters and him. Got through the
lesson and we asked when we could come back. And they said that their God
mother is who they live with is super Catholic and would get really mad at them
if we came back. We asked if we could talk to her and they said she would
punish them if we did. So we left it there. The oldest sister seemed really
interested and Jared. The youngest for the God mother says that’s she is Catholic
too. But they were 3 way good kids but because of the God mother we can’t teach
them. Laws suck.
Things are starting to
get to me more in those situations. When people that don’t want to or can’t
accept the gospel. It just gets rough how much people have changed from what Christ
taught 2000 years ago. But those people will receive their reward or punishment
in the last day.
Well I love you guys I’m
doing great. Oh something way cool happened to me today. So my land lady’s
daughter came in from tags today with her husband. So we got to talking to him
and how he had served in this area as his last area. So your 1st comp in the
mission is you trainer and teaches you how to be a missionary basically. So
with that they call your trainer your dad in the mission and you can have
brothers and cousins and uncles and grandfathers. So what I found out today is
that grandson in law of my land lady trained my dad in the mission. So that
makes him my grandpa in the mission. It’s way cool. I didn’t think I was ever
going to get to know him haha.
But I’m good. Love you
all. Say hi to everyone for me
Elder Spencer Olsen
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