06/06/2017 - The Lord Really Does Bless Us

Hello everyone, 

06/02/2017 - Retrainers Meeting

So this week was LONG! But was a good week. Lets just say however that 8 days with no P-day was hard! It was weird yesterday waking up and going to work again, this whole week was weird. But Let’s get down to it. So the week started off good, we were out and about on foot this week. We did our Book of Mormon class Thursday and didn't get as many people as we would have liked but it will grow. Hopefully quickly. Friday we went to retrainers meetings so that soaked up most of the day. But we got to see President and Sister Miles, which is always good.

Also interesting fact about what I am doing right now, we are being filmed by the Calgary news. They are doing something about the library and we happened to be here. They also interviewed one of the sister missionaries. So that’s fun. Some guy has a camera right behind me.

But anyway, I thought Monday would be hard with the Pday change but we were blessed, a lot. It was really cool. We did planning in the morning and realized we had some time to fill and we just prayed for some service opportunities. And sure enough about 30 minutes later we get a text with some service for us to do. The Lord really does bless us. I am grateful for Monday. I thought it would be hard but I just kinda changed my attitude and tried to talk to everyone and we ended up picking up 3 potentials in a day. Which is something we really needed and hadn't done in over 3 weeks. So things will pick up. I am super excited to get back to work. I just know that the Lord will bless us. We just need to be better. That simple.

Love you all. Elder Ollis

In a letter to dad: Also I have a funny story to tell you. You will appreciate. We were at a part member family for supper last night. The husband, R isn't a member but is super nice and a really cool guy. One of those people it just kills you because they aren't interested but would be an excellent member. But we were with the mandarin speaking missionaries because we do a week where they come with us to supper. Anyway. We were leaving the family with prayer and Elder Chen, from Taiwan was asked to say it in Mandarin. While he was praying, the daughter about 3 years old, suddenly in the middle of the prayer bursts into speaking what she thought was Chinese. It was one of the funniest things I have heard. R apologized for the slight racism.

T is doing well. She can't be baptized. Her parents won't let her until she is 18, in December.  But we keep meeting with her. And she has a STRONG desire to serve a mission. Which is cool. I am super sad I won't be the one to baptize her though.