It has been over 12 hours. It's gone and nothing on blockchain.
are you missing bitcoin or just a transaction that you have sent before?
if you are missing a (unconfirmed) transaction and you still have the coins it probably couldn't broadcast it to the network so it was removes from your wallet.
move your topic here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=99.0it is the dedicated section for Multibit wallet, you might find better responds there.
You might use electrum though it has certain risks of connecting your bitcoin addresses. Ask me by pm if you want to know what i mean.
can you explain what you mean by "connecting your bitcoin addresses"
what risks? are you talking about importing his old addresse private keys into Electrum?