Hey all!!
Wow! What
another crazy week it has been again out here in sunny southern California. Out
here in the best mission in the entire world! Ha-ha I love it out here and we
have witnessed a lot of miracles out here in the area and even in the zone! It's
awesome and just makes us super happy! I just want to give a shout out to my
father, because it was Father's Day yesterday and I didn't have the chance to
talk yesterday. Dad, happy Fathers Day. I have the best dad anyone could ever
ask for! My Heavenly Father really has blessed me. Dad, thanks for all of your
wise advice and counsel you give me all the time. Thanks for all the laughs and
the times we've had so far together. We are going to continue to have great
times like those for forever! Ha-ha Dad, I love you and I’m so grateful for
you.
We had
another great miracle on Tuesday. Elsa Got baptized!!! YAAAHHHOOO!!! She is
doing awesome. Even though I haven’t' been in the area for a very long time I’ve
known her for a while. She has made such a great change in her life. She looks
the happiest since I’ve known her. She always has such a great radiating smile
on her face now. What great power comes from following the gospel. She's doing
so well. A member of our ward, Frank, baptized her. He was really excited about
that too. All the youth were involved as well as the relief society, she has a
lot of great friends. She was very social yesterday at church too. So she is
doing amazing and she's going to make a great member of the church.
The sisters
in our district had a baptism as well. They had theirs yesterday though. We
have the keys to all the stuff they needed so we had to stay and help out with
it. I guess some of their people that were planning to be in the program didn't
show up because right before the program started they asked me if I would speak
on the Holy Ghost. Ha-ha As always I was honored to be able to do that. They
baptized a little girl. It was a miracle because her mom is actually a member. She
spoke at the baptism as well. She is a less active member. She told us that she
had not been to church in 13 years. Yeah, just a little while, eh? Now that her daughter is baptized she plans on
going more and more and she hopes that all of her family will eventually
come back into activity. How powerful that was. Just the decision to get
baptized by a nine year old made such an impact on her family. So amazing. They
are doing very well. Those sisters are really doing some great work over there.
I’m so proud of our zone.
We had a
great day yesterday. The only bummer is that we didn't have any investigators
that came to church. Saul and Elsa were confirmed members of the church
yesterday. That was so great and I could feel the spirit so strongly. I had the
privilege of confirming Saul. Ha-ha I love that guy and he is doing really well.
Ever since he has been baptized every problem that he has been having is being
solved and figured out. He is really experiencing what it says in Mosiah 2:41.
So that is good. I already talked about Elsa. She's doing really well. Now our
next plan of action is to start teaching their family the gospel. Elsa has a
son that was being taught by missionaries. Saul has a few of his children that
live by him. So we hope to get them involved as well!
Okay. So I
don't have too much time, but right now we are trying to find more people to
teach. So next week expect us to be reporting a lot of new people out here. We
are working with a bunch of people and we are now just in the mode of
filtering. We had a cool experience yesterday where a person who was referred
to us from a member came to church yesterday. It was funny because we got the
referral and contacted them. Then Elder Acosta, the area seventy in our area
and ward, invited them to church. They weren't the original members that referred
them to us. Ha-ha so the Lord is really preparing them to listen to the gospel.
They invited us to their home and we are going to begin to teach them.
Ha-ha okay,
funny story to end the letter. Yesterday we were out tracting and we went to a home,
which we contacted not too long ago. There was a little Chihuahua dog out in
their front yard. I think you all can see where I’m going with this. Ha-ha Normally
the dog was tied down and would bark at us when we would stop by. But it wasn't
tied up this time...ha-ha and it charged me like it was going to attack me. Now,
I remind you all that I was attacked and bitten by a dog about this time last
year... ha-ha so I jumped really hard when it charged us. But the dog just pretended
like it was going to bite us but never really did. Ha-ha it chased us down the
whole block! It was ridiculous!! Ha-ha but we didn't get bitten so it was all
good! Ha-ha things we deal with as missionaries sometimes. I about drop kicked
that thing, ha-ha!
I love this work.
I love you all Thank you for everything! Can’t wait to hear from you all soon!
Elder
Ollerton
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