Working Hard.. Feels Great.

Hello family,
This week we have been working working working! And it feels great - its too the point that I am not really worried so much about what we are doing as long as we are working and working hard. We have been focusing a lot in our mission on praying specifically for our investigators and focusing on them in every way, planning for them and teaching prepared lessons to meet their needs. This has been amazing I feel so much more effective in every appointment that we teach whether it is with members, less-actives or investigators. We are no longer just teaching these people to teach them but we are teaching them with a purpose. President Eyre has been inspired in the last little while to make some pretty big changes throughout the mission we no longer make nightly follow-up calls we are more focused on our purpose to invite other to come onto Christ when we speak to them on the street (or in other words we "oym" them which stands for open your mouth) it has been great and I am continuing to learn so much each day. Coming out to Oakville was definitely
... break between emails .....
I was writing that Oakville was a really inspired decision for me because it gave me a lot of new challenges that I honestly hadn't had yet on my mission - working with a few of the missionaries in the district and with the ward and area- its been a fast - paced rewarding experience and I am glad that I will be able to end on a sprint there is more work to be done!!! Love you all and I will call to take care of the C.D. thing today and I will send another E-mail in a week! I love you all and I really appreciate your prayers.
Love Elder Joshua Olson

Here we go....

Not to much to update this week. We did have another amazing miracle yesterday. One of our recent converts in the oakville area Celina Xavier gave us the most amazing referral. She was on a plane back from Dominica where she is from in South America. She was sick and told the lady next to her to warn anybody if she had a seizure on the flight. The lady she was sitting next to was a lady named Katrine from St. Lutia. Katrine was leaving St. Lutia to escape an abusive relationship and is coming to Canada to apply for refugee status. It turned out that sometime during the trip the friend that Katrine was going to be staying with could no longer board her. So Celina invited her to her house. She invited us over to meet her and we asked her if we could watch the restoration dvd with her. We were going to start it but she had to go so she invited us back the next day to watch it. We watched it with her and the whole Xavier family, Celina talked to her in Patwa (carribean language another word for broken english) and then she told us that she wanted to repent of some things that happened in her past and start a new life. She accepted a baptismal date for july 26th and we saw her the next day and she had read a chapter our of the book of mormon and is excited to come to church!

Everything else is going well... all the missionaries in my district are very young. One has been out a year, one nine months and the 4 others about 6 months. They are always joking with me about how old I am. It is really strange to be around so many young missionaries, its exciting but I feel really old! I am always telling these stories about missionaries or things that it seems like everyone should know and then it turns out they went home a few months before any of them came into the mission. And then they mention something that happened within the last few years in the states and I have no clue...

It was a great blessing to be able to come to oakville there is a lot of work to be done here with the ward leadership to get them excited about missionary work - the other missionaries in the ward are perfect to help it to take the next step and we are really trying to get the ball rolling with member missionary work over the next few weeks!

I love you all and look forward to hearing from you next week! Good luck with the bike trips, school and all other things that are going on!

Love,
Elder Joshua Olson

Letter from President and Sister Eyre

Good Week!

We had a good week this last week. Our district set a goal to get 9 people to church this last Sunday which was a large stretch because the week before we had only gotten one. We all worked really hard for it and in the end we hit exactly 9. Then just last night while I was on exchanges in another area. Someone that we had spoke to on the street the day before accepted a baptismal date for July 12th. Her name was Aleshya and she had a good friend that had just died 3 months before. The day before we spoke to her she had been praying to know what happens after we die. We talked to her on the street and told her about the spirit world and baptisms for the dead. When they taught her yesterday she said it was an amazing answer to her prayers. A real miracle for us as we have found many new investigators but have been having trouble finding those that will keep daily contact. We just keep working and we are being consistently blessed in our area. We still have a lot of faith in our investigator pool with quite a few people that can still be baptized this transfer. I just talked to one of my recent converts, Monica Nolan, from Etobicoke. Apparently without me knowing she had planned my entire last Wednesday to be at her house with some other missionaries eating Guyanese food... shes a really nice lady I will try to convince her to cook some curry and roti. She was excited to hear that she could meet the family as well. Once again everything is going really well I honestly don't even know what to write anymore and I am just trying to enjoy every minute of the next 3 weeks or so.

Love,
Elder Joshua Olson

Everything going well.

This may need to be really quick but everything is going well we are teaching another investigator family named Johnathon and Martha. Everything goes well and we are busy it was good to hear from everybody and I will write more next week. I am excited to speak in church on the same day as becca!

Love you all
Elder Joshua olson