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| The four missionaries in Guthrie, OK |
Elder Spafford and me barbecuing some dinner.
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3 inch long cicada
I'm getting on the
computer at one of the college's libraries. My p-day is every Monday. We usually
email around 10-12 in the morning here. It's two hours later here than in
AZ. And yes, across the street from
our apartment is a pond with trees and benches under the trees by the water. Guthrie has a
Walmart and that's it. For big shopping trips we go down to Edmond.
So about all our
investigators. We have Natasha and Zack. They are about 30 years old and have
their three kids William 8, Lucas 7, and Lexie 5. William is the only one
that is baptized. Zack works at the oil fields so he is here for a week then at
the oil fields for a week working. Natasha is a lot like Becky:) We
have been teaching them visual lessons and the kids really like it.
Next is
Cheyanne. She just moved here from Chandler, OK a week ago and she is looking
for a church to go to. She is about 27 years old and has a son, but we haven't
met him yet. We taught her the restoration this week and committed her to pray,
read the Book of Mormon, go to church, and I invited her to be baptized.
She said yes to all of them so I tried to throw the baptism one in there but
she said she's already been baptized in another church.
We met Johna
while we were tracting and we prayed with her and her little son and she
invited us to come back but we couldn't reach her when she is home. We'll keep
trying her.
Lelani works at
Walmart and has a son, Edward, that is about 12 years old. She has tons of
faith and had a hard past. But we committed her to come to church and left her
with a book of Mormon. She is excited to learn more!
We also just
met an elderly lady named Linda at church. Her son and daughter in law were
just converted a month ago and they're from San Diego. They came up to visit
his mom and introduce her to the missionaries and the church. We'll be visiting
her on Tuesday.
Our less actives list is quite large. Rodger is about 60 years old and has
Multiple Sclerosis. He is in a Retirement home and we visit with him weekly. He
has such a strong testimony of the church. He was converted a couple years ago.
He likes to play Farmville on Facebook and has such cool stories of his past.
Keith is a
400lb hyper, cussing, funny less active. We visited him in the hospital and
he goes thru spurts of wanting the gospel. He is really off and on with it
but he likes for us to share scriptures and lessons with him.
Lisa and Dakota are doing awesome! Her tumor started off at a 15.3 (they use some kind of measurement scale to how big the tumor is and how cancerous it is) We gave her a priesthood blessing and she told us at her next appointment it dropped to 4.2, which is amazing! Dakota played volleyball with us and played some basketball with us during the week in the morning. We're going to try to record him and us 4 elders singing and playing the Mumford version of Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing. If we do I'll be sure to send it home to you to hear!
Phyllis is also
one of those less actives. She didn't come to church yesterday though. I don't
think she could find a ride.
Orlandress is a
30 year old man that works and goes to school. He doesn't have much time to go
to church so we visited him and I talked to him most of the time. I shared a
scripture with him on faith and he said that faith is exactly what he has been
struggling with. I shared some of my experiences and bore my testimony on
faith. He could really feel the spirit and really liked me (haha).
My guiding scripture is Matthew 4:18-19 "And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men."
I could keep going on but my emailing time is almost over! I
love you so very much! thank you for all the love and support!
Love
-Elder
Olson
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