January 4, 1012

Dear family and friends,

Mom- I think that talking to you on the phone counts as writing an email for the week. so i just didnt do it. hahaha lazy hu. so ya i wont get the email about Nate's mission call till next week cuz p-day is over at 6 o'clock. but Nothing will change in a week(about nates call to serve). so im not worried about it. Ya ive been writing many thank you cards lately haha but thats because im grateful for it so ya ill write them when im thankful. If i have Enough time. Its very time consuming and theres lots to do here in southern Maryland.

This week has been a really hard week for my companion and ultimately me. so here's the story. the first day i was with Elder Furugen he told me of how he found out a couple transfers back that his dad had cancer and that he wasn't supposed to live longer than a couple years. The p-day before Christmas he got an email that said that he was going to die in like 2 months. Not good!! but he was not to stressed about that either. but the day after christmas he called his family (Presedent Matsumori gave him permission to call home when ever he wanted because of his situation) and his sister said that the doctor gave him a couple of weeks. BAD NEWS. so ya it wasn't good. the result of that is that my companion is in Japan right now (to see his dad for the last time) and will be there a bit. I  am in a threesome  for the time being and am covering two wards!! Now im covering Patuxent and Pretty much by my self covering Lexington Park. Lots of work. But Thats not all....Our Baptism got cancled because she wasnt home from a vacation in time. WOW NOT GOOD We rescheduled for the 14th of JJanuary But ya over here in southern Maryland not alot of people keep there commitments. Super Sad. but there's only so much I can do givin the situation so ya im trying to forget it. Depressing!

 

GROSS STORY-

 

We had a service project last week on p-day. It was with a non member family and it was to clean out there house so that child services wouldnt take the kids away. ( this happens alot, A family in the lexington park ward got her children taken away because of how gross her house is, i also had to teach them in there GROSS) so we went there and took a tour around the place. So gross cockroaches everywhere falling off the ceiling on me so gross. but ya I had to repeat this scripture in my head to be able to stand it(IF your in the service of your fellow being, Your only in the service of your god) haha gods house doesn't have cockroaches in it. Hahahahahaha funny. but any way me and Elder Grant took the pantry. It was gross we threw away like 50 or 60m pounds of food that was ether out dated or full of cockroaches. so gross. o my goodness mother you would have killed over right there. Good thing im not a germaphobe or i would have been done for. 

 

K got to go....

 

LOVE ELDER OLSEN