Hello everyone!!
I hope everyone is having a great holiday season
and getting all ready for Christmas!! We have had another challenging
but successful week here and the hand of the Lord is evident. First,
the good stuff. We got the Marquez boys and their dad to church again
and also to the First Presidency Devotional last night. We are still
trying to get their daughter Rosio to come and it is difficult to get
the mom as well. Mostly because every time we visit that family, Neomi
is drunk and goes on random rants about weird things. She then makes
her kids pray for forgiveness and makes them say that they are sinners.
Its weird ha ha. While in Priesthood this week, a member asked Mario
(the dad), if he was a member. His response shocked all of us when he
said ¨"Not yet!!!!!!" We are so pumped and we are right on track for
their families baptismal date of January 18! Please continue to pray for
them! We also stopped by Bonifacio and Marias house to just see where
we stand after last week. Bonifacio told us he wanted to have us over
for dinner so that we could go to church on Sunday, but he had a prior
commitment this last Sunday. We were playing with their pet Parrot and
it was just walking around my shoulder when all of a sudden everyone was
laughing and I didnt know why, until I turned around and saw the stupid
thing pooped right on my shoulder!! Bonifacio got it off me then bathed
me in cologne. ha! ha!. We had another pretty creepy experience this week
but it turned into a cool one. We had been teaching a woman named Maria
Rojas, and it just so happened she lived in the same village that all
the guys that want to jump us live in. We went to talk to her on
Saturday and she told us that she didn't want to go to church so we
turned to leave when a big man named Victor came over and told us he
wanted to talk about the Bible. He also smelled really strongly of liquor!! We sat down with him and immediately all of us had a bad
feeling. Once we sat down with Victor all the other guys in the area
left somewhere. He kept quizzing Elder Merrill's scripture knowledge and
saying stuff like "What does John 3:16 say?" Then he told Elder Merrill
to give him his bible and Elder Merrill wouldn't do it. We all stood up
and left and Elder Merrill was like, "I had the strongest feeling he was
going to steal my bible!" We all were glad we got out of there.
Also, as we walk down the street and we get a lot of cat calls
because we are 3 well dressed white boys ha ha. Some lady told me I had a
nice butt. People are crazy! Christmas is very different here
because most people just get drunk and party. They do a ton of
fireworks but no one leaves their houses because people steal a lot of
stuff on Christmas!! We are working hard and counting the days till
Christmas! We decorated our Pinch this week and it looks great !!!
Mom I also bought a 3 liter bottle of Coke and made a gigantic
Slurpee!!!!!!!! I love you all and wish you the very best
Christmas!!
Elder Ollerton
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