Enjoying good company & food in the 

Olson home!

Sister Vainuku & Sister Miraglia

Elder Miles & Elder Wight

Thank you Robyn Olson for feeding their

hungry bellies & then sending a photo

of their smiling faces!! Love it!
August 20, 2015

Aug. 24, 2015 Another GREAT WEEK!!

This week was a great week! Yesterday at church we picked up 2 new investigators. And they are all way solid. Their names are Juan and Ashley. We apparently invited Juan to church earlier this week. Which is something we do a lot so we kind of just forgot about him. But then he showed up to church and surprised us. We didn't know who he was for the first 15 minutes we were talking to him. But then it clicked. And Ashley is a referral from one of her friends. She's talked to the missionaries, but has never invited them over to have a lesson. So we accepted and we are going to teach her on Wednesday.

 Lili and Gilberto still have baptism dates. But Gilberto's date had to get pushed back to Sep. 5th because he wasn't coming to church. But he did this week so that's good! Lili has a date still for the 17th and she is way solid and that will most likely hold.

 Earlier this week I somehow twisted my ankle and fell over. And a guy from like 150 yards away saw it and ran up to me and grabbed me and started screaming, "JESUS!! HEAL THIS LEG!!" He wouldn't let me get up until he had said it like 10 times. I didn't know what to do. So when he did let me get up, Elder Wight & I just started walking away and he did the same. But it was intense!

 Do you get all of my pictures that I send? It is extremely hot here and yes there are a lot of fires. There was one just north of my area the other day that was pretty big, but I think they got it under control. The smoke doesn't stay around for very long because the ocean breeze blows it inland.

 Mom - A lot of people have seen my blog for some reason haha. Did you post something on Carlsbad moms? Because I get teased about it haha. But its ok its just funny.

 Anyways that's about it for this week. Talk to you all later.

 Love always,
 Elder Miles

The Elders & Sisters 

were able to attend the 

Addiction Recovery 12-Step Program

meeting. These are held in several 

LDS churches and buildings around

 the world on a weekly basis.

President Boyd K. Packer of the Quorum of

the Twelve taught; "Addiction has the capacity

to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency.

It can rob one of the power to decide."

The guide that is used in these meetings was written

with support from Church leaders and counseling

professionals by those who have suffered from

addiction and who have experienced 

the miracle of recovery through the

Atonement of Jesus Christ. 

Vista, CA in the Twilight....

When giving a sermon, it's always best to do it...

..barefoot....on a rock!!

It appears that Elder Wight has a very 

captive audience!

P-day nature hike...

You're getting very sleepy.....HERE! Have a berry bush!!

Elder Miles was pretty pumped about feeding a California Llama!...

...and a TURKEY!!!

Aug. 17, 2015 "Wow! That just makes me want to read that book!"...I love this:)

Hey everyone! How are you? Here are some updates on this past week...

Gilberto still wants to be baptized but he also has to be at church twice before hand. And he for some reason won't come. We haven't been able to get in contact with Sebrina so she is questionable. So keep them in your prayers.

This week was pretty normal. Talked to a lot of people, trying to pick up on some spanish because there are so many mexicans that move here to Vista and have been here for like 15 years, but don't know how to speak English. It is a little frustrating sometimes but it's ok.

Last night was way cool. We were out contacting and saw this girl on her porch. And she let us sit down and teach her about the Restoration. And the whole time she looked like she was just amazed at what we were saying. And when we finished she said, "Wow! That just makes me want to read that book!" So we gave her a couple verses for her to read in Moroni and we are going to meet back up with her tonight and she how she's doing. Her name is Julie, and she is 15. So we are going to have to hand her off to another set of missionaries because she isn't Young Single Adult age yet. But she accepted the invitation to be baptized on Sept. 5th. So that was great! So hopefully that happens.

Well nothing else really exciting happened this week.. so that's about it. Heather, stop breaking your ankles!! Jeez! Anyways I have to get going now. Talk to you next week!

 Love always,

 Elder Miles

Hey Mom, also can you send me some short sleeve shirts. Thanks! Love you. Oh & thanks for the money it was much needed

I wasn't aware there were Hibiscus "trees"...

BEAUTIFUL!!

 Aug. 2015 

BIG SMILES

Elder Miles & Elder Wight

YSA Bar-B-Que

I received an email this past week & opened it up to see these 2 handsome Elders!!  It's so fun to have the wonderful local families let us know our missionaries are being taken care of!! Especially in the FOOD dept!!:) Elder Miles mentioned in his last email that their Vista Young Single Adult Branch gets together every week for a BBQ!

Aug, 10, 2015 Sounds great!! (he thinks he needs more FOOD though:)

This week flew by!!! We had a ton of fun, and yes those pics that you saw were from a dinner and a BBQ that we had. We have BBQ's every Saturday in the YSA ward. And that's way awesome. We have two investigators that have dates set on the 22nd to be baptized! Their names are Gilberto and Sebrina. So yeah that's awesome. Seeing how the gospel, if taken seriously, can change people’s lives and can make them so much happier.

 We went on a hike this morning and that was so nice and relaxing. Our Zone Leader fell in the river that we were next to, and none of us could stop laughing. He was so mad & scared that he was going to get in trouble because he got in the water. We saw a coyote as well. It was really small but all of the sisters in our district were arguing with the elders that it was a fox. And some of the missionaries were getting contentious. But the hike was way fun and nice to really take a while to appreciate the nature that we don't get to any other day of the week.

 I left my camera at the apartment. So I can’t send any pictures this week. But thanks for sending those other pics. They were great and I couldn't stop smiling. Oh and I fed a llama this week. That was awesome!!! And turkeys!.

 Anyways I gotta go now. Talk to you all next week and hopefully I'll have more to talk about

 Love always Elder Miles
 P.S. KEEP SENDING FOOD AND STUFF

Aug. 3, 2015 Week one here!

This first week was a ton of fun. Yeah I'm serving in a YSA ward in the Vista Stake and that's way nice!! Being able to relate to the people I'm around all the time. And we've had tons of activities so that's also way fun. My comp. Elder Wight is doing a really good job. I did almost get hit by a car the first night hahaha. Like literally 3 inches from getting clipped by a SUV. That was an adrenaline rush! But everything is going great. The only thing that sucks is running in the morning. Hahaha but it does wake me up and get my blood pumping. And we are in a car the whole time because we cover a whole stake. So that stinks too because "I want to ride my bicycle! I want to ride my bike!"

 The work is hard here because everyone knows who we are and nobody wants anything to do with us most of the time. But we always seem to find the "elect" as President Kendrick says. And they always are interested. A lot of our appointments fall through which is also a downer. So we have only taught like 5 lessons. And one was a set up for a Bible bash. FUN!! Haha he is a Catholic bible class teacher and he kept bringing up all these scriptures from the bible and we always had a comeback and he ended up with nothing to say and had us leave. But we still tried our hardest to try not to bash back. We do have some solid potential investigators though which is way nice.

 Every Sunday we go to Camp Pendelton and teach all of the military recruits there. And that was a way cool experience. Hearing of all of their stories is way cool. They're brutal though. But all of the guys up there are way cool. Send as much food as you want!!! Food is life.

 Anyways I have to go now but everything is awesome. I'll have more "inspirational" stories next week most likely hahaha. And I'm going to try to send some pics.

 Love always,
 Elder Miles

Elder Miles with

President & Sister Kendrick

July 28, 2015