CONFERENCE WAS RAD (week 23)

HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYO FAMILY!!!!! ¿Como estan?

This week was good!! I am getting all ready for Sunday.....TRANSFERS!!! I really want a new area soooo bad.....but I have had some strong feelings that I will be staying here. I hope that I am wrong, the idea of staying in the same area for 6 months does not sound exciting to me buuuuut we will see.

Well this week waaaaaaaaaas good!!! Conference was soooooooooo gooooooooooooooooooooooooooood!! Everybody else watched it in the chapel of the stake center, but all the Nortes chilled in the secretaries office so we could all watch it in English. It was soooo good, my favorite talk was the one that Elder Bednar gave in the General Priesthood Session, it was all about how missionaries are called to serve....not called to serve in a particular place. It was directed to missionaries who have been reassigned but I don't know, it just hit home to me....Colombia has been a rocky transition for me, I am getting there but it has not been easy!! A lot of the talks were centered around the Holy Ghost.....AND I LOVED IT!!!! FUE TAN CHEVERE!!!! (That means it was so cool!!!!) That is easily something that I need to work on so that was good.

I had a funny experience!!! So we were leaving conference with the sisters and we decided to take the MIO (the city bus), we were waiting for the bus when one of the worker dudes told us that our bus was not in operation that day....so Hermana Monroy said that there was another bus that goes through our area. So we got on that bus but Hermana Monroy and ELder Brizuela decided to get off and ask if it for sure goes through our area.....but they decided to get off last minute, they were able to get off and I was able to make it halfway. The doors started to close right as I was getting off, I was able to hold them but there was noooooo way I was gonna be able to get off so I let them shut. Me and Hermana Dos Santos were looking at each other like "SHOOOOOOOOOOT SHOOOOOOOOOOT SHOOT" the bus was literally about to leave with both of us on it without our comps hahahaha luckily everybody else on the bus (all 8 trillion of them) watched the embarrassing situation happen and started yelling for the bus driver to stop and open the doors again hahaha luckily he did!!! We got off and all 4 of us just started laughing hahaha and we were able to get on the bus back to our area!!!

Today was good!!! We went to the zone activity and played some soccer and then we went to the hospital for Elder Brizuelas knee....I just chilled and waited!! But there is a Mcdonald's RIGHT BY THE HOSPITAL!!! So yeah I got a Big Mac and it was soooooooooooooooooo great!! It tastes exactly the same here soooo yeah that was great and then we came home and just chilled for a minute!!! And here we are!!

I am going to have divisions with Elder Garner on Friday (not sure if I told you guys that Elder Mcdermott was emergency transfered like 2 weeks ago). I think we are gonna work in MY area so I am pretty sure that is gonna be a disaster, but we will seee!! This area is so hard we have sooo many new investagators but nobody really wants to progress!!! And our less actives are not really progressing much either....IDK it is so hard!! Elder Brizuela and I have been doing good though...like we have not fought in such a long time so that is getting better fortunately.

My hearing aid is good!!! It's just like my last one, I dont notice it working for me unless I mute it with it still in my ear!!! But it's good....I love the remote its just soooo different and I feel soooo rad just pulling out a random remote hahah I have an appointment with my audiologist just to see if we need to change anything!!! But all is weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelllllll.

Okay so the challenge this week is a continuation of the last!!! Look at your notes and make some goals about the things you need to change to help your relationship with your Heavenly Father become better......it will work I promise!!!

LOVE YOU TONZO!!!!

ELDER OLSEN

(Garrett sent a hand-written letter all about his hospital experiences so I thought I would share it here for everyone to read!)

Unpacking My Adjectives: Hospital Aqui

Heeeeyo, haha hey guys!

I figured with all our doctors appointments, (between the two of us we have had five now) I would write a little about how the doctor works in Colombia. I have been to two hospitals...a small one and a giant one. The small one was the first one we went to. We went there for Elder Brizuela...that place kinda creeped me out. There's only one entrance on the outside sooo naturally the Emergency Room waiting room is outside...But we had an appointment so we got to go inside without waiting. We had to go through a big metal gate and some security first (weird....so weird). The inside looked like a bus terminal...concrete everywhere and all these weird plastic benches...it seriously felt like I was waiting for the front runner. The waiting room was also next to a medical lab so there was a bunch of doctors carrying these boxes with organs and stuff all throughout the waiting room...IDK it was just weird. We also didn't have a nurse. The doctor himself fills out all of your information and takes your height and stuff so that was different. And the doctors kinda just wrote a prescription on a sticky note so that's weird.

The big hospital I have been to lots of times, both for my ears and for Elder Brizuela's knee...it's huge. There is a giant 10 story building and a bunch of little buildings that surround it. The main building is actually really nice and has these giant courtyard things with giant pine trees growing in them. There is also really nice art everywhere and that hospital works more like an American hospital...except you have to go through metal detectors before you can even get in. It is really big too like 10 stories. One of my doctors works on the 8th floor and my audiologist works on the 3rd floor. There is some pretty sweet views. The process of getting a hearing aid is the same but different doctors do different parts of the process. One doctor looks at your ears, another tests you, and the last gives you the aid...it's a little different but it was good. They all spoke a little big of English too so that was not an issue. So yeah, hospitals here are either really easy and normal orrrrr a little weird. I guess it just depends...I hope this helped you guys get to know my experience a tad bit better.

LOVE YOU!

-Elder Olsen