Hey all!!
What a great
week it has been, once again. Just the chance to be a missionary right now in
the world is so great. I love it so much!
First of all,
I want to wish my Mom a Happy Birthday!! I hope that you had a great
birthday mom. I just want you to know of the love that I have for you and all
you have done for me. You have always been there for me. You are the best! I
love you and hope that you know that I will always love you.
So we have
had a few great experiences with the people we are teaching. First, we have
Daisy. We had a few great experiences with her. I went on exchanges with Elder
Centeno and taught her. We had a great discussion about church and why we go to
church. About how it's a great time to partake of the Sacrament and also we can
receive a lot of revelation for questions that we might have. She committed to
come to church and she did come. It was awesome. Also, during the week we were
talking about baptism. I ask her this question/statement "So Daisy, it's
not that you don't know if you want to be baptized. You just don't feel
prepared to be baptized, correct?" She nodded her head as I made that
statement. On the inside I wanted to jump up and down. Because she knows this
is something that she needs to do. Now she just needs to be prepared. We were
able to set a goal to have her prepared and ready to be baptized by the 10th of
Feb. It was awesome. So we are going to have some great experiences with her.
We have also
been talking to Anita, the mother of Anthony and José. She is progressing. It’s
a very slow progression, but nonetheless she is progressing. She is reading the
Book of Mormon. She is praying. We had a great lesson with her like we did with
Daisy. She is getting there. We were helping her try to recognize an answer from
God about this message. I asked her "Do you believe that the Book of
Mormon is inspired by God?" She was able to answer that “yes, it is”. We
read in Moroni 7:13,16-17 about how anything that invites us to follow Christ
and His teachings is inspired by God. She believes it. So then we read the
introduction of the Book of Mormon. In the very end it says that those who gain
a testimony will know that Jesus Christ is our savior, and that Joseph Smith
really was a prophet and that the true church of Christ has been restored. We
told her this and invited her to be baptized. She said that she would prepare,
because she feels like she's not ready either. Which is where we come in. That
is our job, to help them prepare to be baptized. So we tried to make a goal,
but we were unable to agree on one. Because she believes she won’t be ready for
years. We are going to work with her on that.
We found this
cool new guy to teach. His name is Abel. He is a referral from our zone
leaders. We found him and at first he wouldn't have anything to do with us. He
was just leaving us at the door and trying to kick us off his porch. We were
able to chat a little more and he invited us into his home. It was really cool.
We had a great discussion about the Book of Mormon and the restoration of the
gospel. We invited him to read the Book of Mormon and to be baptized. He feels
very content with his baptism in the Catholic Church, but he said he was going
to read the entire Book of Mormon and research it out. We came back a few days
later and he was through 1 Nephi 7. It was awesome. He denied our invite to
church. We even went to his house on Sunday to invite him, but he couldn't
come. He loves us, he always likes to invite us in and we talk. I think there
is a good reason why he likes us. The Spirit is touching him. So we'll get him.
We are still
seeing the Villegas family. They are doing the same. They haven't read or
prayed about the Book of Mormon. Only the 13 yr. old son did and now he was
asking us about what they need to do to become Mormon. Ha-ha it was awesome. He
prayed for the first time in his entire life with us. It was great. We had a
great discussion with him on Sunday because they still hadn't read what we had
left them. We talked about the importance of reading and praying. In fact, the
sister of the Hermana that we are teaching was there. She was the one that
referred them to us. So we were able to talk about their conversion. It took
her eight years before she got baptized. We talked bout how key it was for her
to read and pray about what we were teaching. Without doing it it's impossible
to receive an answer. They have to do both. If they miss one part they might
miss out on an answer. So we hope and pray that they read and come to church
this Sunday.
Oh another
great thing that happened was we got a cool referral from a less active family.
We taught him about the restoration and it was a great lesson. Afterwards we
decided to stop by Brenda's and see if she was home. It's been very difficult
to reach her. She not only works in the mornings, but now the afternoons as
well. She's nearly impossible to find. I had been praying for days that we
would have a chance to see her and talk to her. God answered my prayer because
when we decided to stop by, she was coming home from her first job. It was a
miracle. She told us that she's reading and praying still. We set up an
appointment this week with her. We are hoping that we can have a miracle with
her and get her baptized this Sunday. Please pray for her and this situation.
We know we can get a miracle with her.
That's all I
have. Thank you so much for all of your support. I love you all so much.
Elder Dallin M. Ollerton
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