Hey everyone!
Sorry I don't
have too much time to type right now, but since Wednesday we have had a lot of
great things happen.
Brenda was
unable to get baptized this Sunday. It was very difficult to contact her. I
guess she just picked up another job so now she's working in the mornings and
the afternoons. So it's been difficult to find her. Once, we set up a time to
see her and we were a little late. We booked it to her house and she hadn't
gotten home yet. We are praying so hard that we can find her so we can help her
get baptized. She has a strong testimony of the gospel, so we know that she has
that desire. We just need to find her. Ha-ha it's hard to teach someone you can
never find right? We know that we'll find her and help her out.
We are also
teaching Daisy. She said she was going to come to church, but was unable to
this Sunday. She had some things she had to take care of, but she still wants
to listen to us and all of those kinds of things. We had a cool lesson with her
on Thursday where a member was able to come with us. She and her cousin
were there, so we decided to talk to them and teach them. The cousin of Daisy
was way interested in what we had to share. She loved it. Daisy had already
heard that discussion before so she knew what was coming. She almost accepted a
date to be baptized.
We are also seeing
some interest in Anita, the mother of Jose and Anthony. She came to church and
is doing well. We are also working with Sandra and Armando. He found a job, but
now we can’t visit him. Sandra is also looking for work so it's been difficult
to find her. We taught her once and invited her to church, but she was
unavailable to come Sunday morning. So we have a lot of really good people that
we are teaching. We are determined to find them so we can help them come unto
Christ and to be baptized.
Oh, another
neat story. We got a referral from headquarters for the family members of a recent
convert that lives in San Diego. I guess a sister out there got baptized and
referred her sister to the missionaries. Elders Burrup and Centeno were able to
visit them while I was on an exchange, but I finally got the chance to meet
them and talk to them. They are a family of six. Really the only interested ones
are the 13-year-old son and the mom whose sister is the one who just got
baptized. They really are super nice and offer their house to us whenever we
stop by. The mom really needs the gospel right now. The rest of the family is
like interested to learn more, but not necessarily to change. It's interesting
to me to see that. I've been so blessed to have a family united in the gospel.
We have been able to grow together, and strengthen one another. Which is really
the whole point of the family. I found
it interesting because this family was a little torn between
churches/doctrine/etc. Which I could tell caused contention between them. Not
necessarily to the point of hatred, but enough to feel tension between one
another. We are going to do our best to help show them how much this gospel
really can bless their family. They already have evidence. They’ve seen the
change in their relative. Now we just need to help them experience it for
themselves. I'm so excited to be apart of that.
I went on
exchanges with my zone leader this week. His name is Elder Robinson. I loved
it. He was actually in my first district out in Fullerton when I got here to
the field. Now he has been called to be our zone leader and I had the honor to
work with him in my area. It was a blast. We were able to look back at all of
the fun times we had back when I first got here. We were able to go to a meeting
with our mission president and learn about stress and how we as leaders can
help the missionaries we serve deal with their stress. It was really
interesting how we were told that we can put so much pressure on ourselves as
missionaries. I found that to have occurred throughout my entire life. So we
received some very wise counsel from President Bowen on how to help our
missionaries deal with stress.
Well, that is
my week. It's been good. It's going to be a great week. I can feel it, I’m so
glad I’ve been so blessed in my life with so much. I hope that I can get that
message across to all that I’m teaching. I love you all. Thank you so much for
your support.
Elder Dallin
M. Ollerton
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