Hey Everyone!
Wow I feel like I say this all the time but the week
flew by! We had a successful week this week and Elder Vidaurre and I
worked in a new part of our area and had a lot of success. We found a lot
of great people! We found a family that really is open to what we have
to say! They have a 20 year old son named Gabriel who has shoulder
length hair and who just loves sharing with us!! His mom only believes
in the Bible and told us its the only way to get answers and basically
prayer doesn't work. She also went off on a little rant on how she knows
its not ok for boys to have long hair, how she shouldn't paint her
fingernails or wear pants and all this stuff. So I pulled out my
pictures and showed her how my hair used to be and told her that all of
those things were ok haha. Gabriel came to church on Sunday with his 10
year old brother Ian and they loved it!! While I was giving my talk
they both were locked in and it was awesome!!
This week was a lot harder
than normal because the World Cup started and so for the next month the
only religion that anyone has is soccer. I'm starting to believe that
Satan uses this as a tool. It's absolutely nuts here!! Everytime
Argentina scores a goal, there are fireworks and lots of celebrating!! Absolute
Chaos! Kind of frustrating as well.
This week Elder Cross and I
headed to Posadas to take care of my visa problems. So I haven't really
talked about this much but my visa to Argentina expired 4 months ago, so I
have been illegal here for this last 4 months haha. So Thursday we went
to Posadas and I assumed we were going to take care of my problems in
Argentina but we ended up at the Paraguaytian Consolate and I got a 10
year long visa to Paraguay in a couple of hours! The Argentine
government just doesn't like Americans that much. We ended up having
to leave the country for a couple hours so I didn't get deported. ha good
times. We went to Paraguay for lunch and we had Burger King! It was
the best thing I have eaten in 8 months. Sad huh? A little taste of
home was unreal!!!
Today we went and played a game called Paddle. It's
like tennis but on a smaller court and you can use the walls
it was great!! Today is also difficult because I found out that after 4
months in Puerto Esperanza, I will be transferred on Wednesday, I am
headed to an area called Ita Puro. Its in Encarnacion (Yes its ok to
sing the Nacho Libre song now), Paraguay!! I will be hopping the border
again ha. I will be a Zone Leader now and my companion is Elder
Magdeleno from Mexico. I am looking forward to new adventures in another
country.
Stay tuned!! Love you all!!
Elder Ollerton
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