Another week gone here in the Puerto Esperanza. I
want to throw a quick shout out to Justin and Amarae! Congrats on the
calls!! You two are going to kill it!!
This was definitely a crazy week with a lot of success. This last Tuesday after our Zone meeting, I did divisions with one of my Zone Leaders Elder Ortiz from El Salvador. He seemed super quiet on the phone and so I didn't really know how he would take to my personality. Turned out he was awesome!! We got along great!! He was looking to learn from me as well as teach me. We had a ton of success looking in a new part of our area that I have never been to before. It's clear out in the jungle and so its quite a walk to get there. My only worry about this new area is that the distance will make it so nobody will come to church. We went out there and immediately found success. We found a new family with a ton of people!! We talked a little about the church and what we do and we left them with a pamphlet about the Plan of Salvation. We passed by two days later, taught it, and committed all of them to be baptized! We went by on Saturday night so we could meet their Dad and it turns out he drinks... a TON. He couldn't even sit still he was so drunk. He kept trying to take us off on tangents and so we ended the lesson and decided to return the next day when he was just hungover and could listen to us. We went back the next day and he was the same!! He drank and drank and drank. We had plans to teach about the Book of Mormon, but I decided to just cut the problem off right then. I started to talk about the Word of Wisdom and the first thing I said was that we can´t drink alcohol. He immediately asked me why that was bad. I thought, "are you kidding me??" We explained to him why we have this commandment and then he actually tried to argue with us that even Christ drank! We cut that argument down pretty fast ha. We have decided now it would be better to teach the family when he isn't there and then teach him separately. Pray for them please ha. Our divisions ended up lasting for 4 days because Elder Ortiz´s companion Elder Cross got stuck in Posadas doing his document paperwork. I was super excited for the divisions because Elder Ortiz was super cool! We had a ton of success and I am so grateful for all the opportunities we are having to find these people! Other than that It was a pretty normal week.
It has been really cold here lately and so I am a little sick with a cold or something but nothing big. If you would have told me 5 months ago that it would be cold here I would have told you that you were crazy! But it actually happened!! I admit it, I am from Utah and I can officially say that I am cold here. Also this week I officially completed 6 months here in Argentina! Time is flying!
I love you all and hope you all have an amazing week!!!
This was definitely a crazy week with a lot of success. This last Tuesday after our Zone meeting, I did divisions with one of my Zone Leaders Elder Ortiz from El Salvador. He seemed super quiet on the phone and so I didn't really know how he would take to my personality. Turned out he was awesome!! We got along great!! He was looking to learn from me as well as teach me. We had a ton of success looking in a new part of our area that I have never been to before. It's clear out in the jungle and so its quite a walk to get there. My only worry about this new area is that the distance will make it so nobody will come to church. We went out there and immediately found success. We found a new family with a ton of people!! We talked a little about the church and what we do and we left them with a pamphlet about the Plan of Salvation. We passed by two days later, taught it, and committed all of them to be baptized! We went by on Saturday night so we could meet their Dad and it turns out he drinks... a TON. He couldn't even sit still he was so drunk. He kept trying to take us off on tangents and so we ended the lesson and decided to return the next day when he was just hungover and could listen to us. We went back the next day and he was the same!! He drank and drank and drank. We had plans to teach about the Book of Mormon, but I decided to just cut the problem off right then. I started to talk about the Word of Wisdom and the first thing I said was that we can´t drink alcohol. He immediately asked me why that was bad. I thought, "are you kidding me??" We explained to him why we have this commandment and then he actually tried to argue with us that even Christ drank! We cut that argument down pretty fast ha. We have decided now it would be better to teach the family when he isn't there and then teach him separately. Pray for them please ha. Our divisions ended up lasting for 4 days because Elder Ortiz´s companion Elder Cross got stuck in Posadas doing his document paperwork. I was super excited for the divisions because Elder Ortiz was super cool! We had a ton of success and I am so grateful for all the opportunities we are having to find these people! Other than that It was a pretty normal week.
It has been really cold here lately and so I am a little sick with a cold or something but nothing big. If you would have told me 5 months ago that it would be cold here I would have told you that you were crazy! But it actually happened!! I admit it, I am from Utah and I can officially say that I am cold here. Also this week I officially completed 6 months here in Argentina! Time is flying!
I love you all and hope you all have an amazing week!!!
Elder Ollerton
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