Hey all!
Hard to believe another week has flown
by here in Santa Ana. First, I just want
to congratulate Easton on his farewell and now he'll be heading off to the MTC (Missionary Training Center) real soon!
I'm so proud of you. You will be a great
missionary! I love you man! Serve Him with all you’ve got! I know you will. Love
you man.
Good to hear all are doing well with
your sports. Football is in the air over there in Utah and I love hearing all
about the updates! I hope all is well with all of you over there. I hear the
weather is taking a turn over there in Utah. It is here in Santa Ana too. It’s
been a chilly 75 degrees on average over here, maybe just a tad cooler than
that at nights. Needless to say, I am putting my sweater in the trunk just in
case. Honestly, I've been getting a little cold at nights! My comp thinks I’m
crazy. So I hope I’ll be able to survive when I get back home in the end of
winter! I'm so gonna die.
We have had a very busy week. We have
had a lot of interesting things happen as well. We were unable to get in
contact with Dolores, the "Utah Rocks" lady. She had to cancel on us
due to her mother being very ill with cancer, which is understandable. She told
us she has a list of questions for us for when we can finally get to talk to
her about the gospel. She really looks up to us. At least that is what she
says. So just so you future missionaries know EVERYONE watches the missionaries
and what they do. That will happen to you when you go on your missions. We are
representatives of the Lord Jesus Christ. We learn in the Bible that Jesus is
the light and life of the world. Members and non-members have often told me
that there is just a light about us, as missionaries, that is so bright and
something they want to follow. I just want to make it clear that we are not the
light. We are carriers of the light, which glows from Christ. It's a big responsibility
but the Lord will always be there to help. I hope that we can get Dolores to
church or at least sit down and talk with her this week.
We saw Hermana Clara Ramoz this week.
She is doing very well. She is progressing very well. Our bishop went over with
us to see her. She asked us where the couple we brought the time before was. I
found that quite an interesting question. She told us that her husband has been
getting jealous of just men coming over to visit her and talk to her about the
gospel. He is always drunk and out of it. He doesn't treat his wife very well,
and he wants nothing to do with the church. We told her we would return on
another occasion to see her. We set up an appointment. We called another sister
from the ward. She and her husband came with us. We taught the plan of salvation,
about how her family can be together forever. How through Jesus Christ all
would be healed and all would end up good. She loved it. The couple we brought
bore powerful testimony abut it. Hermana Ramoz still wants to feel more. She
wants her family to be in on the gospel. The couple we had with us shared some
experiences about how the conversion of a certain family all started with the
mother getting baptized first. This really helped her out. The spirit was
there. I loved it. The couple went by and picked her up for church. She came to
church!!! She loved it too. It was so neat to see how the Lord set it all up
because the topic in Gospel principles was "families can be together
forever" and bishop addressed some of the concerns she had expressed to us
in the past. It was all totally guided by the Holy Ghost. It was so neat. She
wants to come back. Which is always a great sign. So she is doing very well. I
am so excited for her. I hope we can keep getting her that support that she
needs to progress. I know we will be able to.
We had a neat experience on Saturday as
well. A few weeks ago we had a training on how we can help the members become
"Member Missionaries" We have been trying to help the members in our
area be able to share the gospel with their friends and help them in the conversion
process. We went to a certain member’s home and set up a date for a goal to be
able to invite their friend to listen to the missionaries. She said let’s do a
noche de hogar in my house this Saturday at this time. We said "perfect."
So we came over and we had the coolest family home evening. They brought
over a sister I had taught once before and a less active family brought a
friend too. So it was like a triple whammy! It was pretty cool and the best
part is that they came to church on Sunday! So we have some great new
investigators! It's pretty exciting! I love it.
So the work is going on great! Gilberto,
the recent convert, just got the Aaronic priesthood. He is doing so well they
are considering asking the stake president if he can be ordained an elder to be
in the elders quorum presidency. He is awesome. I love the guy. So many things
are going so well. I love it. I love this work!! This is the best work ever! I
hope we can continue to see a lot of great things as the weeks keep going! Love
you all!
Elder Dallin M. Ollerton
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