Bellevue #6

Happy Independence Day everyone!! So to start off, transfer news! Elder Dew will be leaving, but Elder Bandley and I will be training a new missionary! We are bummed to see Elder Dew go, but it'll be super good! 

I think I talked about King in last weeks email, but I'm not sure and dont want to check so I'll just give an update! We met with him 2 more times this week and he is doing so good. We taught him the law of chastity and the word of wisdom and he committed to follow both of them! He has already been able to cut down a lot with cigarettes and seems so much happier and more confident since we started meeting with him. If you could all pray for him to be able to prepare himself to be baptized on the 31st that would be so great! 

We also had a ward patriotic breakfast and got one of our friends and her kids to come! We have been working with her for a few weeks with one of our members and it was so good for her to meet other ones! They were so thankful that we invited them and we were so glad that they came!

We also had the first meeting with our new mission president! They seemed super cool and super excited about the work. They talked about how we're all different and we need to offer up what we can offer to the Lord. We need to use our strengths to build God's kingdom and work to make our weaknesses strengths. It was super good!

And the last highlight of the week was putting our friend keore on date! We have been trying to contact him since I got into the area, but we finally were able to set up a date for him to get baptized and make a game plan. They are so excited about it and he should start coming to church here pretty soon! 

This week I was studying charity and love. And I really liked learning about how our charity and our nature can increase with practice and prayer. So I have been experimenting on that promise this week. And it has been so cool to see the results! God blesses us so much and he loves effort! So when we try to become more like him, he is that much more likely to bless us. So I invite you all to look at how you can be more charitable with those you interact with and pray and then try it! The Lord will start to make a change in you. Well that's all folks! Remember: God made you special, and he loves you very much. Goodbye!

-Elder Olsen

Random pics throughout the week. The random pic of just me is in front of Warren Buffett's house