This
past week my 6 month mark came and went!! Crazy
how fast the first quarter of my mission has gone by!! It really is
true what they say that time out here starts to fly!! I have new resolve
to work hard and really give these next 18 months everything that I
have! This week was probably one of the slowest in my mission!! We had a
lot of opposition and it was almost like we were working in a new area.
For the first time in 2 months here, we got rejected a ton!! We were
both really confused! We had an investigator who we had been working
with and she had a baptismal date for this last Saturday and all of a
sudden she just didn't want to listen to us anymore! Super confusing!
We went to a part of our area that we hadn't really ever been to and
found quite a few new people to teach but I´m still not sure if any of
them will progress or not. My companion and I had a few more little arguments this week
but nothing big. I have decided that I am just going to try and help
him enjoy his last 3 weeks as a missionary and try to keep everything
really calm and fun. We had a lot of fun on Wednesday as it was my
actual 6 month mark. Here as a missionary, every 6 month milestone (ie.
6 months, 1 year, 18 months, 2 years), you do something fun. For
example, at 6 months you burn a tie, and eat a 1/4 kilo of Ice cream.
At a year you burn a shirt, and eat 1/2 a kilo of Ice cream. 18 months
you burn a pair of slacks, and eat 3/4 of a kilo, and 2 years you burn a
suit, and eat a kilo of Ice cream. It's super fun and I finally feel
like I have gotten my feet wet with the whole Mission thing. We have
our
investigator with a new baptismal date for this next Saturday and she
is so ready!! She just has to stay strong and stay single ha ha. We
passed by last night and had an awesome lesson with her!! This week we
had a change in our mission schedule to accommodate the change of
weather! Surprisingly it is actually pretty chilly here now and I think I
may have caught a cold. But as for the schedule it is a hard
adjustment! We now study in the morning, and then work from 1:30 in the
afternoon, until 9:30 at night!! The days are long but we are
adjusting. It has been a long couple of nights these past 4 days. I
have been up with cold like symptoms and my comp snores like a bear.
Sometimes I throw things on the ground hoping he will wake up and
think something just fell. Or sometimes I smack my hand on the wall to
try and wake him up so the snoring stops but nothing ever works!! ha
ha.
That's pretty much it for this week! Hope everything is well at home and
everyone is just loving life!!
I love you all!!
I love you all!!
Elder Ollerton
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