Hey all!
This week has
been a great week. We have seen a miracle here in the
Anaheim 11th
ward!
So this last Sunday
we had a baptismal service for Rachelle. It was a
great
program. We got started really late because the family of
Rachelle
didn't have a ride to get to the baptism. So Brother Guerrero,
our ward
mission leader, went out and got them and brought them to the
baptism.
Everything went surprisingly smoothly. It was very nice. I was
the one who
performed the baptism. Rachelle was sooooo nervous, but
she got in
the water and did such a great job with everything. So
after the
ordinance we usually have the bearing of testimonies while
the two
people are changing. I got done changing and I got back to the
room where we
were having the service, and I saw President Bowen
bearing his
testimony in Spanish. It was so legit!!! So when he got
called to be
president of our mission he actually got a call to
prepare to
preach the gospel in the Spanish language. Just like when I
received my
call. So he's been studying Spanish ever since he became
president of
our mission. He did such a great job. He is a stud. I am
proud to say
that I have the best mission president in the world!!
So the
baptism went really good. Now the next ones we are going to
work on are
Genesis and Lilia. Now we have a problem with both of
them. So in
order to meet the qualifications to be baptized you have
to come to
church at least two times in a row. So in order for them to
be able to be
baptized on the ninth they had to come to church last
Sunday.
Neither one of them came to church. We had a ride ready for
Lilia, but
she called the ride and said she was super sick and
couldn't come
to church. Genesis didn't come because she told us that
she was going
to help her mom prepare food for the baptism. We have
been slowly
losing Genesis over the past few weeks. She tries to avoid
us, she doesn’t
seem to pay too much attention when we talk with her
and teach
her. Also, we went over the law of chastity with her, and
she doesn't
believe that one of the parts of the law of chastity
should be
considered a sin. So she has a huge doubt that we have to
help her
overcome. I have no idea how we are going to do that, but I
know that the
spirit will be able to help us out and we'll get her
there.
Lilia is
doing solid. She has read all of the pamphlets that we have
given her,
she's reading out of the Book of Mormon, she is doing
awesome. Really
if she had the interview tomorrow she would pass it
with flying colors.
She just has to get to church. That is the only
problem that
we are having with her. We will get her there though. If
she doesn't I
have no idea what we are going to do. So we will be
preparing her
for the 16th of September to be baptized.
We haven’t
been able to find Diana too much. She hasn’t been able to
come to
church either because of work. So we are going to invite her
to change her
job or ask for Sunday’s off. She’s reading from the Book
of Mormon and
is doing well as far as I know.
So I ran into
an investigator I dropped while I was being trained in
La Habra, WE
started to teach him again. Hopefully he makes some
progress. Or
else we will drop him super quickly.
We have had
so much fun this week. We had our good and our bad days.
This week was
actually the best week in my mission as far as teaching
goes. We
taught 25 lessons. It was tiring, but thank goodness the
weather here
is starting to cool down a little bit. So now we will be
able to work
hard and see some more success. We have a lot of great
potentials
coming up. Next week will someone ask me about Leticia? She
is so going
to get baptized.
I'm so
grateful for all of the great things I have learned on my
mission. I
have learned so much here in just six months. I can’t wait
to continue
to learn a lot more, for there is a lot more that I can
learn. I love
you all so much and I thank you for the support of you
guys! I am so
blessed. I have been so blessed with so many great
things. Thank
you all! I will keep you in my prayers always. If there
is anything I
can do for you, let me know.
Les amo
siempre! la iglesia es verdadera!
Elder Dallin M. Ollerton
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