well Last thursday I celebrated having 1 year in the mission. It was pretty much a normal day as always, except at the end of the day we went up on the roof of our apartment and burned a shirt. I didnt want to burn a white shirt because I cant buy a new one down here...none of them fit me. So I just burned an old shirt from high school. (Picture)
During that day, I took a couple of minutes to think of everything that has happened the past year. while I was doing it, I didnt think about the succes that I have had, but yet the people that I have met, the food I have eatin, the endless walking that I have down. I have had the opportunity to know the rainforest and the third tallest waterfall in the word-to know the desert that hasnt rained for 15 years. I have seen life brought into this world and I have seen it leave, I have given more blessings to people than I can count and I have seen the blessings of these blessings. I have talked to more than a thousand people in a language that I was lucky enough to learn. I have been able to see people get baptized and now have recieved there mission calls to go help people. I have shed tears and I have seen tears shedded, ]I have been able to help and train people become more like christ and realize that truth come in many forms. I have met people from 16 different countries and I have eatin more rice then all the people in the Utah has ever eatin! That dang rice!
I am grateful that I made the choice to serve a mission, I have no idea what is going to happen during this next year or what will follow after the mission. But what I have learned during the past year with the help of the lord is that I know that this is the true church of Jesus Christ. I am grateful for what it has done to me and my family being members of this church, and I am grateful that I am able to help some peruvians see the light that can help there families also.
Hopefully you all had a good week and keep doing what it is that we have to do.
Tupanchis Kama Wawa
Elder Olsen
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