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Elder Nelson - Olivia's Surgery

Dear Family,

Mission NewsOn Thursday I did training on submitting new member conversion stories for all of the young missionaries. The training was only 10 minutes, but I did it over Zoom. I was a bit like talking to myself because I could not see my audience.

Mom and I are still recovering from our colds. Mom especially was under the weather. Mom’s cough was so bad that she did not sleep well. I think we are mostly over the symptoms and we are at about 90%.

One of the senior couples wants to extend a few weeks. When I was talking with someone in the missionary department, he said that big changes are coming for senior missionaries. President Nelson is supposed to make the announcements. No details in the rumor, but a rumor nevertheless.

Elder Shurtleff is on the far right, Elder Leavitt is fourth from the right. Mom and I are on the right. The other 4 were fairly recently baptized. At least two of them are planning on serving missions.
We attended a Woodbridge Stake Leadership Meeting. At the end we met several members that were fairly recently baptized and attending a YSA fireside.

Fun StuffWe did nothing fun this week. We mainly chilled out the best we could with our bad colds.

WES NewsNot much new.

Family NewsOlivia had her tonsils out. She is recovering well especially when she takes her medicine.

Brave Olivia before her operation.

Happy Olivia after her operation. Eating a popsicle and watching Frozen II with Amanda
Keri’s birthday was Friday.

We are all sad to find out McKay’s father has cancer. We hope and pray for a miracle for him!

Love you all,
Dad

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