March 21, 2011

FAmilia!!!
first things first!! happy birthday to mother and oakley last week, i didn´t forget your birthdays, i just forgot to tell you last week!! but i promise i didn´t forget them and i even wrote you a letter with some pictures saying happy birthday so you´ll be getting that in a bit!!! and yes i have seen that movie, and its quite funny!!!!! its kinda what a mission is like but not really exactly!!! i´m still in riberalta but i´m training an elder from hawaii but moved to sandy when he was young!! look him up on facebook mika fonoimoana!! from sandy utah! go look him up and you´ll meet my companion! training is pretty fun and as well as the spanish goes, its perfect!!!! because my comp doesnt speak spanish so i´m the interpreter and helper for him!!! spanish really is awesome now, i can understand and speak just fine!! i love it!!! so tell me how your birthday was, guess what, i got sick too, right now ive got a cough and sore throat!! sounds like your luck came my way!!! i bet oakley is super huge now and talkes all the time!!! i miss that girl as well as everyone home!!! me and my comp are having some success, we have a lot of baptisimal dates on some families but the bad part is that they aren´t married!!! so we gotta get them all married which ends up being a hasstle but its all good!!! the next transfers are in april, 20 and i´m almost certain that i´ll be gone!!! i´ve been in riberalta for 6 months, thats a long long time!! but the time sure does fly!!!! well i love you guys so much, be looking for your letter mom!!! i promise i didn´t forget your birthdays! happy 29th birthday! enjoy being young! i love you aloooooooooottttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt
love your son
elder brady cade olsen

February 28, 2011

hello mother dear!!! yes alottttttt of people sure did email me but
hey i´ll write as much as i can!!! first things first, we had three
baptisms this past saturday so the lord is making us successful! my
comp is super cool from arizona, we get along absolutely great no
contention between us! we find lots and lots of people! we work our
behinds off and have had lots and lots of success! this transfer we
have already had 5 baptisms and lots more to come! the jungle is where
i live, literally the jungle, right in the middle! lots and lots of
animals, we played with somebodys pet monkey the other day which was
super duper gnarly! lots and lots of just stray dogs in the streets,
they all have diseases and are half dead, literally billions of
chickens just everywhere! and bugs the size of a soccer ball!
mosquitoes like crazy but we sleep with a mosquito net, its rain
season and it litteraly floods the entire city, the streets are pure
water like noah and the arc, literally poors and poors and we cant
leave the house, it poors so much that all the little boliavans can
swim in the streets is so deep! but they say its like this until the
middle of march so well see!!! we already have transfers this 9th of
march so we´ll see if they send me out of riberalta, i´ve already been
here for 4 and a half months! thats 3 transfers! so here in south
america they have something called carnaval where they just party, i
mean everyone just goes out in the streets and is just party after
party after party, not sure what they do cause i´ve never experienced
one for myself but us missionaries will be stuck in the house until
its over and it goes on the entire week! so we´ll will be in the house
just reading, sleeping, not sure what we´ll be doing but for about 3
to four days i´m guessing we will be stuck in the house!! the people
hear just go crazy and dont respect the missionaries so we gotta take
care of ourselves and be safe!! so i´ve seen some sloths here, pretty
sweet and super super slow! got plenty of photos but when i´m in santa
cruz and the internet is better i´ll be able to send you some! i sent
you a letter so be looking for it!! i´ve gotten all my packages and
letters so far, they always come, just sometimes takes a little longer
but i get them!!! i´m certainly missing the snow!! lucky familia!!
happy birthday bob hope everything is going good, i pray for you all
every day! love you
love elder olsen

February 22, 2011

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! snow!!! that looks super
delicious to my eyeballs!! i wish i could exprience something like
that but no, its just super duper hot and its rain season!! it pretty
much poors everysingle day and floods the streets! but the people are
great! its not much different than anywhere else, they are all just
normal people who sometimes want to listen and sometimes dont! but all
in all its good, everyone usually listens but just thinks were other
believers there to talk about god! but tsall good! so i´m sure that
kessley is huge now and i am almost guaranteed that i wont recognize
her at all and as for oakley thats kind strange! but hey shes a little
kid with a giant imagination! everything is great in bolivia, we have
2 more bapisms this weekend a 23 year old and a 10 year old who are
ready to be baptized! they are both great people! so i got your
letters!! thnks muchisimo! everything seems to be going a.o.k. hows
everything going with bob and stuff! found anything yet? my companion
is great, we always talk in spaish but sometimes we need to speak in
english to get a point across! we get along absolutely great and love
it!! we have transfers the 9the of may!! i sent you letters with
photos so be looking for those!! i love you alll alot!!!!!!!!!!
muchisimo
love elder olsen p.s. i am pretty sure i have josh´s address and as
far as the news letter, doesn´t really matter to me, if you wan to
then i want to!!! :)

hola familia!!! sounds like the same things are happening to alec that happened to me except mine was two teeth and two root canals!! even cooler and more gnarley so go chip your other one and you´ll be even with me!!! hey the baptisms were great and everything was sweet!!! got your package!! thanks very much!! bolivia is crazy cool and i´m gonna try to send some pictures so hopefully it works!! but hey everyone is growing up and things seem to be working out for everyone!! and kessley excited for school and i can even imagine how big she is getting!! hey do me a favor and when i get home, dont cook me any more rice!! all i want is sloppy joes and spaghetti right now!! especially sloppy joes!! so they only have on type of cheese here and its white, not really sure what kind and its super duper salty!! but i learned how to make empanadas and when i get home were gonna make them!!! its just a delicious type of food stuffed with meat cheese and stuff!! sounds like the snow is totally gone too!! that bites but i guess its all good because i cant see it anyway!!! and the sounds for sunday sounds delightful!! what a wonderful day it sounds like you had!! still waiting for your letters but they´ll come, i always get everything weather it be sooner or later! tell everyone hello for me and that i´m doing good! i´ll print some more photos and send them cause i dont know if its gonna work through internet, the internet really chupa here and is super slow!! love you guys very much
love elder olsen

February 8th letter

what up familia!!!
thank you so so much for the letter my dearest mother!!! me hizo tener lagrimas!! find out what that means! so ty is the mascott!! super dope sounds like hes got a futer in making people laugh!! as well as the play, funny eh, ty made it and ashley didn´t!! he´s got quite the talent!! proud of him! and as far as alec, i´m sure hes giant, he was about to pass me up when i left and i wouldn´t be surprised if he did by the time i get home!! keep playing soccer and before you know it you´ll be on the highschool team!! super skizzy!! and oakly, i cant even imagine how big that fart is!! she probably has hair and talks like a maniac!! and when i get home, wow she´ll be a teenager!! as well as kessley!! seriously i believe that i wont recognize her when i get home!!! she will probably be starting her transfer from a girl into a woman, what a beautiful girl she is!!! don´t worry, i haven´t missed you guys in my prayers since the day i got in the mtc and in everysingle prayer i pray for bob to find a job and for you to be the happiest mother in the world and to have all the help that you need so you can get everything done!!! just know that in order for you guys to receive these blessings you have to do your part!!! just prayin isn´t gonna do anything!!! read james 2!! faith without works is dead! just like the body without spirit is dead, faith without works is dead!!! i know that you guys are doing amazing because i am so happy!!! and every letter makes me miss you even more!!!! the fact that i don´t have to wory about the world is amazing!! everyday i feel the spirit and have such love for the people, i just want everyone to know that they have to get baptized or they can not be saved!!!!!! always put got first and seriously dont worry about everything!!!! we have trials in our lives so god can see if we really have faith and what were gonna do, if we´ll follow satan or him!!! so show him you love him like you do everyday!!!! thanks for everthing mother i havent received anything yet but hopefully its on its way!!!! yes i moved houses and my new companion is from the usa from arizona!!! elder haws is his name and were just slaying it up here in bolivia!!!! the president must have alot of trust putting two new north americans together!!! my spanish is amazing!!! learn so much everyday as well as the scriptures, my knowledge of the scriptures both the bible and book of mormon are increasing tremendously!!! i love you blessed mother to whom i came into this life!! your everything to me just know that and forgive me for anything i have ever done to make you sad!!! thats never the way treat a mother!!!! go be happy and receive a blessings!!! i always give the example to people that god has a box of blessings that he wants to give to us and when we do whats right we receive them and when we do whats wrong, he takes them away one by one!!! the people always listen but never understand, they all think that all churches are ok because they all talk about god so we make them understand and pretty much rule the town!!! people get scared of us because we know so much and when we bible bash, the others just get made and run away!!! we have two baptisms this weekend and another one on the 26th. an investigator who we taught that recently just told us that he wants to get baptised!! how great!!! i love my life and i´m extremely happy!!! i would never have found this happiness if i didn´t come here!!! my mission makes my life and turns me into the man i want to become!!! never will i regret this decision and i hope for every brother of mine to follow in my footsteps, which are the footsteps of christ!!! i love you all and i´m doing amazing
love your son elder olsen

January 31st letter

Hola Familia!!!
Comó Están? How in the wonderful world of Disney are you guys doing!!
I´m doing absolutely amazing!! Well yes I got transferred but guess
what,… right next door, i´m still in riberalta but just in a different
area its like as if I was in wellsville and got transferred to hyrum!
And my companion is elder haws, from my group another American! From
Arizona he´s great!! Were doing really good here and it’s a little bit
tougher for us cause were both Americans and don’t speak the best
Spanish but its coming along great, we really have to work hard to
have success!! I´m not too familiar with this area but yesterday we
met an investigator that a friend brought to church, we went to his
has last night and taught him bautism and put a baptismal date for the
19 of February and he accepted!! Were doing pretty good as gringos!
It’s the raining season so its really really really coming down, like
flash floods basically pretty skizzy! Every p day we take our laundry
to some lady so she can wash it for us and yes of coarse its all by
hand! Most of the people have electricity and running water…no!!! you
cant use the water for anything, the all use wells, the only type of
running water they would have is for a shower if their lucky! But yes
us missionaries do have everything, it may not be nice at all but we
have it! We have whats called a pension where we eat lunch everyday
and the church pays for it and its just rice rice and more rice so do
me a favor, when I get home, don’t ask me if I want rice!! Ok ?? well
how are you guys doing!! How is school and all the kids doing!! Is
there still snow, is it cold or whats up with the weather doc.!! Sorry
I don’t have much time ever to write everyone but let them know that I
try and I atleast sent some letters!! But anyways that’s the recap on
this week, not too much because i´m in a new area but its going along
quite well!! Miss you all like crazy and when I get home….were goin
campin.!! Always remember that you have the truth and always always
always!....BE HAPPY! You´ve got eternal life, don’t worry about a
single thing and just live everyday like it’s the last!! I love you
guys very very much and tell everyone hello for me!! Por favor! I´m
doing great! Just be happy! Its super super hottttt here then it rains
and cools down then its humid then its hottttt then it rains, you just
never know what the temperature is going to be!
Love superman
Elder olsen

January 25, 2011 letter

January 25, 2011
Hola Familia!!!
Whats crackin in the valley of cache!! How are you all doing¬¬?? Well
guess what, we already have transfers and they are tomorrow!! Pretty
crazy huh, don’t know if i´ll be staying yet another transfer or if
i´ll be going! We will find that out tonight! How have you all been??
Whats new, I have a little bit more time today to write but I do want
to apologize for never being able to write you a good amount of what
i´m doing here in bolivia!! I´m still in riberalta like I said,
transfers tomorrow, we have about 8 investigators with a baptisimal
date in february, my Spanish is coming along absolutely positively
great! And my ability to teach is increasing tremendously. I have a
greater knowledge of the scriptures and what god wants for us! Its
amazing learning all this stuff, it makes me realize things that I
never would have realized! My thought s are far beyond my time right
now! Its crazy. I look at life a lot different now! So yesterday as a
zone we all went to this place called aquiles which is in the middle
of the jungle like 30 minutes from my area and its this open area of
beautiful spring water for swimming and canoeing, one separated from
the other, natural water to swim in with a diving board and a beach
and all sorts of stuff with beach volleyball which was super dope
sauce! And next to it was a small lake to take a canoe out and snap
some shots!! Pingpong, soccer field, tennis courts and anything you
need!! Twas the time of my life! We shredded it up with some beach
volleyball, took the canoe out, didn´t swim cause we cant! Took a zip
line across the lake!! A blast it was! Don’t worry i´ve got plenty of
pics to show you! It was amazing! Drank some coke and ate some turkey!
Got sunburnt and enjoyed every second of it!! Bolivia is still the
same except for one of our elders got kidnapped by a taxi and tried to
rob him and had a gun but the elder didn´t have any money so they beat
him up a little bit, no big deal but now he´s all good and safe, I
don´t really know much about it pretty much what I just told you is
all I know! I´m doing amazing here in Bolivia! I wouldn’t change it
for the world and I know this is where I need to be even though its
hard at times the blessings are beyond what I can imagine! I will
never ever regret the decision to serve a mission! Couldn´t imagine if
I chose not to!! Anyways how are you all doing, whats new? How is the
snow and the beav! Is let me know whats up dudes!!
love you all
elder olsen