"#upsidedown"
"#again"
"#wheredhego"
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Pictures 2
Four Albertan boys together again, (Elder Kenny on Skype).
"Us taking a picture with some random Chinese people."
"Elder Crake can beat box while playing the harmonica...kinda..."
District Photo
A Child's Prayer - Elder Olguin and Elder Crake
Sorry, the video didn't convert off of facebook that great! If you want to check out the original please click on the link. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=350524538414456&set=o.251233328321521&type=2&theater
August 18, 2013
Here
is the email from this week. Pretty short. There are also some
videos of Elder Olguin singing on Facebook under the Canada Winnipeg Mission
2012-2015 group. And he also loves snail mail! Anyone leaving on a
mission if you would like me to change your email address please let me know.
Also you can read his profile at
http://mormon.org/me/C5H3/CuauhtiOlguin and
the blog that Auntie Elisa keeps updated at http://elderolguin.blogspot.ca (Sorry I haven't done a very good job updating the blog! <3 Elisa)
Elder
Cuauhtemoc Olguin Jr.
Canada
Winnipeg Mission845 Shaftesbury Blvd
Winnipeg,
MB R3P 0M5
Canada
Dear Mom,
hahaha
wow, kendall's gonna join us all out here soon, I'm so proud of him :)
This week has been incredible, we have really
been able to teach some really incredible lessons and 2 of our investigators
came to church yesterday : ) The thing that impressed me the most was how
the ward welcomed them. Sister Moore is a tiny old lady who just recently
got one of those motorized chairs, she came into sacrament meeting and bless
her heart she took a good minute or so trying to maneouver the thing : P
But afterwards she talked to each of our investigators and she smiled and
laughed and it was incredible watching her accept them so
instantly, She told them each that she looked forward to seeing
them next week.
Christine emailed me last week reminding me to keep
running... i bet it didn't have anything to do with the fact that Kamila is a
national champion!!! But yeah, I need to start getting my cardio up... :
P
So I forgot to tell you about my favorite family in the
Ward. Brother C served a mission in South Korea. He is such a great
man and he supported the missionaries so strongly, they have a son themselves
who is serving a mission, so they have had us over for dinner 5 times since
I've been in the ward : ) They are great and sister C after learning that
unagi (Japanese for BBQ eel) is my favorite food went and barbequed some eel
for me!! They are fantastic, it's sad that tomorrow when we help him pack
it will be the last time that we see him probably. His kids and wife have
already moved back to the states and he'll be joining them shortly.
I
love the people that I have met...
I
miss you all so much, I love you. I am so humbled by the things
that I miss about everyone..
Love,
Elder
Olguin
August 11, 2013
Here is the email for this week. It's heartbreaking to hear that people forget
to be NICE to each other. Elder Olguin's
email address is colguin@myldsmail.net
for those who want to email him. He also
loves receiving mail:
Elder Cuauhtemoc Olguin Jr.
Canada Winnipeg Mission
845 Shaftesbury Blvd
Winnipeg, MB R3P 0M5
Canada
This week has been quite the growing week... It has been incredibly humbling and I've
turned to a lot of prayer and Fasting this week... I know that it's impossible to do missionary
work without relying on the Lord.
This week was filled with lots of rejection and a
lot of dissapointment, but I know that the hard weeks only make the good weeks
all the better. I'm so grateful for the
time that I have to be out here. There's
Hard weeks in a mission and then there's harder weeks.
It's been interesting, we live in the richest area
of WInnipeg and we get fed pretty often and we have a car... and I still
haven't gained as much as I'm sure everyone was expecting, ; P IN my last area we went to sleep with sirens
and gun shots every night, we called it our north end lullaby, we witnessed
gang beatings and one of the zone leader's investigators got stabbed in the
neck... This area's a lot nicer, and the
Blue bombers offensive coordinator even lives in our area! We still covered a part of downtown until
last week, which was nice, we were able to talk to so many people.. Today a guy wearing a clown nose jumped in
frotn of our car and tried to wash our car.... We talked to another guy a while
ago who said the crazy percentage in winnipeg fluctuates, usaully the winter
kills them off he says and it goes to about 10% but in the summer about 50% of
the people are crazy...
Yeah there's more religions in winnipeg than I could
ever have imagined, including the super crazy ones... there's a religion known
as the 12th tribe... they believe in sharing everyting...EVERYTHING.... from
money and clothes.... to wives and such... They have this newsletter that goes
out to the members and it has pics of all these different religious people
including mormon missionaries with devil and evil faces... THen there's all
these religions that quote this same poem over to us about how mormons believe
that through strict obedience and other stuff we hope to prove worthy to become
Gods... It's weird....
Winnipeg is a confusing city.... The streets are all
"named" streets and they're not organized at all... there's no
numbered avenues... there's no sub community names, like Arbour lake,
ranchlands, silver springs, etc...
The streets are super narrow... the signs are
small... I'm finally used to it now..
but it was super confusing at the beginning... I am begginning to really love
winnipeg though, I miss the mountains a
lot though... I've never seen such falt fields in my life...
I have begun to really feel the sincere desire to
help the people in this area.. I have
seen lives change as we've taught people the things that have changed my life.
THere's so many people who just want to tear you
apart out here, and it all comes down to what my foundation is. My foundation truly is m faith in Jesus
Christ. I don't believe in the Book of
mormon because I believe in "mormonism" I believe in the Book of Mormon because it
has brought me to the Knowledge that Jesus Christ is My savior and
Redeemer. I believe in "Mormonism" Because I believe in Jesus Christ. I Am not a "Mormon
misisonary" I am a representative
of Jesus Christ.
Someone once asked me after they saw that my Name
tag has Jesus Christ's name on it; "So what does Jesus have to say to me
today" and I replied "come
follow me" The invitation is open
to all, and it is truly the invitation, I extend. COme unto Christ.
The new transfers arrived on thursday, We have two new Missionaries in our
ward, and One of them is sister becca
Crawford from Calgary alberta! She's in
the North Stake and I knew her! She's
great and I know that she will find success just because of how sincere she is
and how she is herself. We always get
painted as a target behind our nametags but we are human, and when we approach
people as humans who truly want to help people we find success rather than
missionaries who are robotic and just looking to share a message that we have
been taught. WE ARE HUMAN and we are
here to help people through teaching them a message that hasn't been taught to
us but that we have learned for ourselves.
EAch of us missionaries has been blessed with different personalities,
different talents, different tendencies, different habits, and different backgrounds
for a REASON. We have a responsibility
to stay true to who we are. Everyone
says a mission will change you. ANd it
has and will, but I know more than ever who I am. I'm still the person I was back at home, I
just am applying myself in different ways now : P
I miss you all.
I love the pictures you have sent and I love hearing about everything
going on. I love you and Miss you all.
Love,
ELder Olguin
August 6, 2013
Dear
MOm,
I'm glad you figured out that we couldn't email yesterday.
THis week has been so incredibly hard, but it has been incredible to witness the miracles that we have been blessed with. Elder Crake and I have gotten into the culture of talking to everyone. and Not only
talking to them but talking to them with our purpose in mind. With that true desire to help them and teach them. We ended up talking to a guy that we met and he turned out to be partially deaf and mute. I don't know how but I was able to converse with him and testify to him through my very little ASL and I was able
to invite him to have us come and teach him our message that is centered on Jesus Christ. WE also found another Lady who has had an incredibly hard life. it hurt just hearing the things that she has
been through. We were able to testify to her that Her life can change, and that All the pain and sorrow and guilt she feels right now can be taken away through the atonement of Jesus Christ. I promised her that if she would accept our help in coming closer to Jesus CHrist that she would learn that she is meant to be happy in this life. I could barely hold back tears of my own as tears streaked down her own face. I know that this church is true. Talking to EVERYONE has led to many different responses. We get yelled at, sworn at, bashed, questioned, but on the other hand. people ask us to pray with them on sidewalks, people talk and laugh with(or at, or maybe both...) us, people invite us to come teach them more. In every instance I have
come to the conclusion that it is impossible to decide at the moment I talk to someone what I believe in or who I am. A couple weeks ago I decided that I will never again waver in my beliefs and in what I know
to be true. And because of that I have come to recognize the importance of the HOly GHost in my life. No one can take away what I know to be true. Because I have had that witness of the HOly Ghost.
I know exactly who I am, and What I want in this life because I know that jesus Christ is my savior and my redeemer.
I can't believe that 20 new missionaries will be arriving tomorrow, it's so exciting. Elder Crake and I recieved our transfer calls on friday : P we are staying together, president said that he has seen noticeable growth in both of us and we are leading the Zone in key indicators and he wants that to continue. Personally I think that ELder Crake and I are just the toughest people to get along with so he just stuck us together l ; )))
Thank you for the letters each week. And the pictures. I can't believe how beautiful Izumi is and how beautiful all the girls are and how Kenji is luckily starting to look like me ; )
I miss you all so much. ANd I am so blessed to have you all to miss.
I'm glad you figured out that we couldn't email yesterday.
THis week has been so incredibly hard, but it has been incredible to witness the miracles that we have been blessed with. Elder Crake and I have gotten into the culture of talking to everyone. and Not only
talking to them but talking to them with our purpose in mind. With that true desire to help them and teach them. We ended up talking to a guy that we met and he turned out to be partially deaf and mute. I don't know how but I was able to converse with him and testify to him through my very little ASL and I was able
to invite him to have us come and teach him our message that is centered on Jesus Christ. WE also found another Lady who has had an incredibly hard life. it hurt just hearing the things that she has
been through. We were able to testify to her that Her life can change, and that All the pain and sorrow and guilt she feels right now can be taken away through the atonement of Jesus Christ. I promised her that if she would accept our help in coming closer to Jesus CHrist that she would learn that she is meant to be happy in this life. I could barely hold back tears of my own as tears streaked down her own face. I know that this church is true. Talking to EVERYONE has led to many different responses. We get yelled at, sworn at, bashed, questioned, but on the other hand. people ask us to pray with them on sidewalks, people talk and laugh with(or at, or maybe both...) us, people invite us to come teach them more. In every instance I have
come to the conclusion that it is impossible to decide at the moment I talk to someone what I believe in or who I am. A couple weeks ago I decided that I will never again waver in my beliefs and in what I know
to be true. And because of that I have come to recognize the importance of the HOly GHost in my life. No one can take away what I know to be true. Because I have had that witness of the HOly Ghost.
I know exactly who I am, and What I want in this life because I know that jesus Christ is my savior and my redeemer.
I can't believe that 20 new missionaries will be arriving tomorrow, it's so exciting. Elder Crake and I recieved our transfer calls on friday : P we are staying together, president said that he has seen noticeable growth in both of us and we are leading the Zone in key indicators and he wants that to continue. Personally I think that ELder Crake and I are just the toughest people to get along with so he just stuck us together l ; )))
Thank you for the letters each week. And the pictures. I can't believe how beautiful Izumi is and how beautiful all the girls are and how Kenji is luckily starting to look like me ; )
I miss you all so much. ANd I am so blessed to have you all to miss.
I am
so humbled by the blessing it is to be out here teaching people about the Joy and happiness that I have
found in my life. It truly is a blessing so much more than the sacrifice it seems like at times.
Love,
found in my life. It truly is a blessing so much more than the sacrifice it seems like at times.
Love,
Elder Olguin
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