familia!!!!! how is everything going???? i can't believe that i am going to be thousands of miles away from all of you in two days!!! AHHHH!!!!! i am sooo scared, but at the same time i am getting excited (when i don't think about all the actual things that i am going to be doing and just think about the overall awesomeness of it, then i'm excited!) haha i guess that is what i need to do! Just keep the feeling of the importance of what i'm doing and keep working towards that end result of helping others to come unto cristo and partake of eternal life and salvation!!! Wow i don't even know where to begin!!! Oh! haha so i attached a few more pictures of my last days at the MTC, i hope that i'll be able to send some pretty soon after getting to mexico (and that i look somewhat alright in them! ;) so i got this sweet superman/CTR shirt, i don't know if you can tell what it says, but its way cool and i thought that you would all get a kick out of that!! :
Oh but first i wanted to say thanks so much for the package!!!! I went and got it when we sent our packages and it was so great! And please tell the Anderson's thanks for their package!!! It was awesome!!! haha it was like christmas! in August!! :D i can't wait to read my 10 first days in mexico! and i absolutely LOVED all the pictures...but they made me get really chocked up!! but like i have said with the other elder's countless times, if we didn't love people then we wouldn't dread saying goodbyes and miss them when they are gone. Like i said earlier when we had our district testimony meeting, it was so awesome! because i just felt and have felt so much love for my "temporary" family in my district, and even though they each have things that kind of bug me, and i'm sure many things about me bug them, i really have grown to love them and i appreciate them sooo much and they all have so many good things that they have helped me in. and i guess that is what love is, just realizing that mistakes and annoyances don't define who someone is...it's who they are on the inside, and who they are trying to be, or even who they COULD become...i think that's why Heavenly Father loves us so much! because he knows that we can get through any problem or sin or whatever and become AWESOME! well..we are awesome, he knows that too. :D haha
TESTIMONY:
Hey everyone!!!! I am off to mexico in about 36 hours 2 min, 39 seconds..I'm just kidding, I'm not THAT scared to go! I am definetly very nervous but i know that I will grow and learn and love many people as i Love the Lord and Heavenly Father and I am very excited!!! I don't want to leave, but I know that it is time and it will be great! So i just wanted to share a thought that i have had this last little while in the last week of being here!
To start off, I just want to say that i have received this knowledge and feelings that i want to share, through working for them. Through sincere prayer to my Heavenly Father, and thinking about things and waiting and KNOWING that he will give an answer. And then listening. REading the scriptures, especially El Libro De Mormon, and hearing his answer through the feelings of love, of peace and of happiness that i feel. I know that these feelings are the answers that i need, and are the greatest in the world, and i know they are from God.
So real quickly i just want to talk about the testimony that i have gained of Love. It being my 2nd to last day at the MTC i have defintely been looking back and reflecting on what i have learned the most here, and what i want to take with me into the mission field and what i want to improve on and get better at. And the one thing that has been at the foundation of all that i have learned is that we all have a Heavenly Father who loves us. No matter what principle or what doctrine i am learning or growing in, or what trials i am having, or what blessings I am given, i know that God the Heavenly Father loves us...so much. I have felt his love so much in my life, i grew up feeling his love through you my wonderful family, and especially the love from Mom and Dad. I don't think its possible that anyone could love me more than all of you have, but I know that Heavenly Father does. And that as we feel his love and know that he loves us, we can love others so much more than we could ever be able to without the love of God, and as we follow him, and talk to him in prayer, and praise him and LOVE him..then we are completing our purpose here, and we will have immense joy and happiness for FOREVER! Love is everything. I know this. I know that God loves you, and that his Son Jesus Christ, our Savior and friend loves us. And i love all of you as well!
LOVE,
Elder Olsen
So back to my best friends! (thats you fam! ;) i just hope that you all know how much you mean to me and how grateful i am for each one of you!!! It's going to be so sad when i don't have as much time to write you, but if i don't get out there and do what i am suppose to do then i won't have awesome stories to share!! That really is one of the best things for me. When i get down or discouraged and i'm sure ill do this a lot in the field as well. I just think that i want to do this and work on this so that i can "report" to all of you and tell you the things i am learning and the ways that i am growing! So thank you for that! i absolutely love hearing from you and sharing all of my experiences with you too!! haha i hope that you enjoy reading my letters as much as i enjoy sending them! i still don't know if they always make complete sense, so if it doesn't just make up something that i would probably say! :D haha you all are defintetly a huge part of what i enjoyed most about the MTC and i am sure that i will love getting letters and emails from you in the field as well! It's weird, the time that i have learned to love you all most is when i'm so far away, i guess that absence makes the heart grow fonder (not that i didn't love you all before!!!) but i am excited to keep learning how to love you all better, and just how to love in general, and to continue working and improving in that for the rest of my life!
I bet it is such an awesome party there with ADj and Jared living there, keep having TONS of fun!!! When you tell me of all the crazy awesome normal life things that go on, i feel like i am still a part of them, and i think i am, because even if we are so far apart, we are always in each others hearts!! :D we are all working towards the same goal!! Eternal life and happiness with each other!!! Thanks for being the best family in the world!!! LES AMO A USTEDES MUCHISIMO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ELDER PEAR JOSEPH AWESOME SUPERMAN OLSEN! ;)
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