Highlight of my week: Elder Holland coming down last Tuesday and speaking to us in Devotional
it feels like every week when it comes time for tuesday there are rumors floating around that it's going to be a general authority that week and yet it hadn't been until this week and it was amazing. I was in the choir and sang and he said that it was the best he's heard of that rendition for the song, which was awesome. He was really passionate in his introduction and we had a Q&A session where he had the MTC President ask people questions previously expecting only like 3-4 and then he'd do a traveling mic with questions but it turned into 47 questions so there was no traveling mic but it was awesome. Before he started he gave a really good introduction about how he doesn't want us to turn our back on the work that we are doing now after our missions, and that there were those who had given their life's for the work that the last of which had died 4 hours previous. No one had any information on what had happened until this sunday when at mission conference the MTC President told us that the person who had died's name is Sister Bentley and she had been killed in a car crash in up state new york (I think that she was in the Buffalo New York mission). She and her comp had been making a left turn when a car t-boned into them hitting the passenger side. It was a really passionate and I'm sending my notes over with a letter this week.
Other than that there's not anything that's been super different here. I still go to class for 6+ hours a day where I teach investigators and learn portuguese and the days pretty much all blend into one with all the repetitiveness of everything. I'm getting the language down better and can hold conversations in it now. Also this week I've been practicing street contacting and door knocking in Portuguese in my personal/langauge study time, and that has greatly increased my knowledge of the language and the application of it.
My companion elder Walch left this morning for the Brazilian CTM and so I'm now with Elder Robinson because his comp left too. Elder Robinson is from Layton Utah, goes to BYU provo and is funny. In some ways he reminds me of Patrick but is really different in most other ways. Oh and since we are companions we share the investigators that we both have and so we are now working on 4 investigators two of which have baptismal commitments and one of his is close and the other one of mine is not close.We now only have 20 minute lessons to teach in because of the fact that they are trying to get more classtime in for us so it's been different teaching much quicker and less in depth.
Thank you for the ordering me the shoes, and I should be getting my visa either tomorrow or next week if it is coming in on time. It really is random though because someone in the other district did his electronic and then the next day he got his visa.
I honestly can't really think of anything else to say because nothing too eventful has happened here. Keep on writing me because it makes my day, especially when i'm feeling a little frustrated or down which does happen.
I love you all and know that you're in my prayers,
Elder Olsen
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