Thursday, August 31, 2017

August 28, 2017 A Normal Week in Atoyac - Tender Mercy

Dear Mom and everyone,

This week was pretty boring, we did hardly anything interesting. Wednesday, we went to teach a young couple. They seem kind of interested more the wife than the husband but they are expecting a baby any day now so while see what happens with that. 

Thursday, we had been running late to almost every appointment we had but we had a bunch of cool lessons. one we had with that part time family. we realized that we need to focus more on the 11-year-old kid because his sisters don't seem to want to do the things that this requires. so, we started focusing on him more and we hope that his sisters get a little animated about the church. Later we went to less active youth and just read the Book of Mormon it’s cool because you can see that he realizes that its true the more he reads. 

Friday, an ex-missionary came out and helped us knock on doors and give us some pointers and now we have like 5 appointments Wednesday. Later we ate with a recent convert and planned a FHE with her and her sisters who aren't members. After we went to a youth, we had to say good bye to him because he’s moving to a little town about 5 hours away, but his dad is going to stay here, we are going to send the referral to the missionaries over there (if there are missionaries over there). In the night, we had a FHE at the bishops he brought some Less actives and we brought that part member family but only the mom and that boy could come. Saturday everything fell through, so we went with a member and he took us and introduced us to his friends. One of them came to church yesterday and we had a cool lesson with him in the church. we hope he can progress. 

Oh, and guess what, I took my camera out to take a picture of our food calendar and I left it in the church, we passed by but it wasn't there and there’s no lost and found here so I think someone might have taken it. but it probably would have broken anyway because it rained unexpectedly and we got absolutely soaked looking for a reference, we ended up going to a member’s house and there lent us a dry white shirt and pants. The sad part was the reference wasn't even home.
oh, by the way tell Taymar happy birthday from me.

Well I love you all,


Elder Olsen

And here is the rest of the story.  So Mitchell's email didn't come in until like 10:30 that night!  I quickly read it and the last thing he wrote was that he lost his camera.  This devastated me.  I don't care much about the camera, it's the pictures that are on the SD card of his mission.  Well, I didn't sleep well that night because I worried about his camera, hoping an honest person had found it at the church and would return it to him. Well, on Wednesday afternoon while I was at work, I got an unexpected email from him asking when the Winter Semester at BYUI started.  I quickly emailed back saying I would find out and that his dad said to use his credit card to buy a new camera.  He emailed right back and said, "I found it, I changed back packs because it got wet and it was in the wet back pack."  Oh, our Mitchell.  He can be a little absent minded at times.  What a relief and a tender mercy.  Maybe this is a sign that he needs to send his mother his pictures and make sure he had downloaded his pictures to his external drive.  What a great blessing!

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