Hey everyone!
Wow! What a
week it has been. We have been very busy doing a lot of busy work. That is what
happens as a zone leader in the beginning of a new transfer. Our area covers the
mission office so the assistants use us every now and then when they need our
help. It's been fun! We have had a lot
of great experiences and we have seen a lot of great things. Sounds like
everything back home has been great and there are a lot of things going on.
Congrats Camers on your lacrosse season and mom and dad with your anniversary.
I love you guys so much! The weather here has been a little weird lately! We
have actually had some rainstorms. Nothing
too big, but that never happens in the summertime apparently. So that has been
really fun to have different weather lately. I never thought I would get tired
of sunny perfect weather all the time. But I have been a little! The rain was
really nice.
Richy wasn't
able to come to church yesterday. He was ill and said that he wanted to wait
til he felt better to come to church. We had a really neat experience with him
on Tuesday. After our first lesson, with him, we were thinking of what member
would be perfect to friendship him. We thought of a guy named Tony. They are
the same age and like the same things. We brought him over with us and we began
to teach the plan of salvation. Oh by the way he read and prayed about the
Book of Mormon and told us he believes it's true. While we were teaching him
the lesson Richy was like "wait, you're Tony?" and Tony said "
you're Richy Hernandez?" they got up and gave each other a fist pump. I
guess they had known each other before in school. They hadn't seen each other
for about five years they said. Back then they were best friends too. So it was
awesome. So Richy is in and has a really good friend in the church already. So
it's awesome. We hope we can continue to get him ready for the 11th of August.
He's awesome!
The youth had
their trek this week. There were about 120 youth in the whole stake that went.
None of them had serious injuries. So that was great. The night before they
left we were at the church and a Hermana came up to me and asked me if it would
be okay if one of her girls could represent Alice Ollerton in the trek. I told
the young woman that was going that it would be an honor if she did that. So
the Ollertons were represented at the trek for our stake this year. Pretty
amazing and they had a great experience. They were all beat after wards, so
that was awesome.
We met a new
guy named Francisco on the street not too long ago. We ran into him again later
in the week and he told us to come back so that we could visit him. We came
back and he invited us in. We shared the restoration with him, his wife, and
son. They really enjoyed it and they are super interested in the church. They
said that they are going to come this next Sunday. They all accepted to be
baptized. Not on a specific day...yet. Our bishop is from the same part of
Mexico as Francisco so we are going to bring the bishop over to friendship Francisco.
They are going to feed us tonight and make some homemade tortillas. I'm going
to ask the Hermana for a recipe cause I love homemade tortillas so much! I'm
excited for them.
Lilliana is
doing well too. She was unable to come to church. She had to take care of some
family things. Her four kids were going to come too. She signed up to feed us
last week so she fed us too. It's always a good sign when your
investigators feed you. She gave us enchiladas de mole. They were soooo good.
We taught her the word of wisdom and the law of chastity and she is already
living both of them. So she is progressing towards baptism! We will have to
move her date to a later date because she didn't come to church. We are very
excited for her and hope that we can even get her kids on board for baptism as
well. So yeah!
It's been a
great week. Elder Robinson and I are tearing it up! I’m very excited for this
week. We are going to play some baseball with some members today for p-day.
What a great way to start off the week. I love you all and I cant wait to hear
from you soon!
Elder Dallin
M. Ollerton
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