6.27.16

Hello!

This week was great! It has been great being with Elder Gentry we have
been talking a lot about the people we know back home trying to figure
out what all is going on with everyone. It is a lot of fun.
The work is going well. We had a few neat miracles this week. We
stopped past a guy named Willie that missionaries had talked to once
before on Wednesday and had a good talk with him. We invited him to
church and he said he would come, but that he would need a ride. We
told him that we could get him a ride as long he really would be there
and ready to go to church. We also set up a return appointment for
Saturday so that we could make sure he would still be good for church.
When we showed up on Saturday and someone else that was there told us
he wasn't there at the time. So we figured it was like so many of our
other people where he wouldn't keep the appointment or come to church
or anything. Nothing new, that is how the majority of missionary work
goes.
On Sunday morning we are in our coordination meeting with our ward
mission leader when we get a telephone call. What do you know, it was
Willie! He asked if we had a ride coming for him. Now, because he
hadn't kept his appointment the day before we didn't worry about
getting a ride for him. So we scrambled around and found someone to go
pick him up. He came to church for all three hours and loved it. He
told half the Ward that they would see him next week. We are pretty
excited about meeting with him this week.
Another miracle that happened yesterday has to do with Sarah. I
emailed home about her a little over a month ago. We haven't seen her
at all since that time because we couldn't get a hold of her. Her
phone didn't seem to be working and whenever we stopped by she wasn't
at home. We decided to drop her because there didn't seem to be
anything more we could do. During gospel principles somebody walked in
and sat down. I didn't really turn around because we were in the
huddle of the lesson. After we said the closing prayer I stood up and
turned around and would you believe it? It was Sarah! She decided to
come to church for the first time after having no contact with us for
over a month! It was incredible! I was so happy to see her there.
While we were working with her we were really trying to help her come
to church. Week after week we did everything we knew how to help her
get to church and she just never came. We gave her the space she
needed to realize what she was missing in her life and she came
looking for it.
The gospel is true. If we chose to not make it a part of our life we
won't have the happiness that our Heavenly Father would have us have.
When we feel his love in our life we will recognize it if we are
looking for it. And it is always there.

Elder Olsen