Hey all!!
Happy
Thanksgiving! We had a great thanksgiving. We went out and taught like we did
every other day. By mid day we were getting shut down and stuff so we went out
and ate at the Valero/Gomez home. We had tostadas. They were really good. Then
we went to another family's house to eat with other missionaries. We had enchiladas.
Afterwards, we had Elder Burrup eat something we call chile de arbol. I think
it's about the hottest thing in the world to eat. It was great. Ha-ha I had one
too but it was his first and he loved it. So needless to say, I didn't have any
Turkey on Thanksgiving. Hahaha it was great. But we did get some on Friday at
our bishop's house. It was amazing. So thanksgiving was great for me!
What a great
week it has been again. We have had a lot of great experiences. First, we had a
great experience with Sonia. She actually told us one day that she knows that
the Book of Mormon is true. We were so amazed. She even told us that before
Elder Burrup got here that she was pretty set that she would never join the
Church. We gave her the challenge of reading and praying and she received an
answer that it is true. Amazing! She is on for the 16th of December. Now the
next step that needs to be made is that we need to get her family in on this.
Because her husband is actually a member of the church but hasn't gone to
church since he was baptized in Mexico. We are going to try to get him on our
side so we can get them to church and into this gospel. It was so great. I know
that we can get them to church. So great.
We also have
been working with Diego. We were only able to see him once this week. But he
really has a desire to learn and to follow Jesus by being baptized. His goal to
be baptized was this last Sunday. We just need to help him follow those steps
in order to prepare him to be baptized. We are going to stop by a lot more in
order to help him become more prepared. He really has the desire. That is so
great. He is so young and when he does this. He will surely be so blessed
in his life. So yeah.
We stopped by
the Valero/Gomez home the other day and we saw Kate and Ines there. They are
two of our investigators that we don't see too much of anymore. They have been
coming over a lot lately for the holidays. We took advantage of this
opportunity and talked to Kate. She is nine and doing awesome. She has been
reading from the Book of Mormon everyday and is doing very good. I'm very
impressed by her. She wants to be baptized so badly. The problem is that she
needs permission from her parents to be baptized. That is a problem for us
because Ines will let her be baptized but the father won't. That has been a
problem since I got here. We are hearing from Kate though that her dad is
starting to open up more and more about the idea of her being baptized. So we
reset a goal with her. I don't know why I asked her to be baptized on this day,
but we set Christmas Day as her goal. She accepted, and we made a baptismal calendar.
A calendar that leads up to her baptism and how we are going to work together
to help her get baptized. She is excited.
We also
talked to her mom Ines for a little while. She was going to get baptized into a
different Christian Church two Sunday's ago. For some reason though, it didn't
happen. I decided to take this opportunity to talk to her. While we were talking,
Ines brought up something that I loved hearing. She said, "Maybe I didn't
get baptized into that other church for a reason. Maybe God is guiding me to
this church." So what we did is we challenged her to read the Book of
Mormon and pray and ask our Heavenly Father. Because we know that she can get
an answer from God. So we are going to follow up on it tonight and see how it
went. She and Kate actually came to church. That was amazing, and they said
they are going to come next week. So we are excited about that. We are hoping
to get her baptized with her daughter Kate on Christmas, too. That would be
such a Christmas miracle.
We are also
seeing Ana the mom of Jose and Anthony. We taught her a few times. She is
doing okay. She still needs to find that answer from our Heavenly Father. We
are hoping that we can help her.
We are also
doing a lot of finding too. We have found a cool new lady to teach. Her name is
Rosio. We found her through contacting on the street. We came back and taught a
really good lesson on the restoration. Elder Burrup asked her if she would be
baptized. She said maybe. We also did the same with a young guy we found named
Luis. He said he would be baptized if he found out all of this was true. We are
going to see him tonight. So let's hope that he says he got an answer. We also
had this sweet dinner with Elder Larsen (my trainer) and his companion Elder
Martinez. They are the zone leaders of the south zone. So we never see or ever
hear from them. They had a referral to give to us. They are in the singles
ward. So I guess one of the recent converts of that ward wants the missionaries
to teach his mom. So we had dinner at the house of the recent convert and the
mom. It was super good. And we are going to start teaching them soon. Very
excited!
My companion
Elder Burrup is amazing. He has a natural drive to go out and to preach the
gospel to everyone. It's been a privilege so far to be his trainer. It's great
to train. We do a lot of studying. That is our big focus with the new missionaries
when they come out. We want them to know everything about what we teach and how
we should teach it. So we spend about four hours a day studying everything. He
loves to go out and teach. He is willing to teach and take the lead when I ask
him to try it out. Like right now he is taking the lead in finding situations,
inviting those to be baptized, and in teaching the first lesson. All within the
first two weeks of being in the field. Of course I help him out in doing that.
He does really well too. So I've been very blessed with a great companion. We
work and get along very well. We have seen a lot of great rewards here in this
area and we are going to see them as we continue to go throughout the training.
I love this
work, I love being here. I hope and pray that you all stay safe. I'll hear from
you soon.
Elder Dallin M. Ollerton
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