01/01/2018 - Just Chillin' Up Here in the Norf.....Literally, at -37!!!

Well hello everyone.

Super weird this is monday and pday again. But its only for this one week so things will go back to normal. But we had a nice chilly week. So yesterday it was -37!!!!! It was a great drive to church, my hands nearly froze to the wheel haha! It was great too because we had tons of ice inside our car, especially on the floor mats. So elder Crockett pulls one out to get the ice off and the rubber just broke in half. it was pretty cold. It should warm up tomorrow. Today it is only -22 but the wind chill is supposed to be -40!!! So hope it doesn't pick up because it wasn't windy this morning.

But today is the new year, so I officially enter my dark year. It is the one full year in your mission where you don't see home. But I basically have two so its all fun. Today is also Elder Crockett’s birthday so happy birthday to him. I am super happy to be serving with him. he is a great Elder and we have done some awesome work. This week we had some cool stuff happening. We are really moving the work forward but we haven't found anyone to teach yet but we are close. I want this so bad!! We were on exchanges again this week and I was in Pincher Creek. It was cool, because we found a new investigator there. it is so easy, but really hard in cardston. It was funny though we had a fun experience while we were working off our part member families list and dropped by the house. A lady answers the door and we ask if she is the person we were looking for. She said no, they moved away over 25 years ago!!! Haha somehow that name has stayed on our list. But anyway that is about it for the week. Just Chillin’ up here in the Norf.

Elder Ollis

12/20/2017 - Elder Crockett, Elder Ollis' companion

In an email to mom when he was asked to explain “so easy, but really hard”: That was humor a little bit. It seems just easy else where but incredibly hard in Cardston. Let me explain our odds right now. And I am not discouraged I have the faith we can find but just listen. We have a ward map of one of our in town wards. I counted the non-member homes and it was around 12. So 12 people we have to try and get to accept the gospel. Now multiply that by 5. So 60 non-members roughly that we get to try and find. So that is what is difficult. Trying to get around the non-members. If you and the family have any ideas let me know.

Fun note from an email to dad: Fun connection to Bishop Bectell, the bishop of 4th ward. He served his mission in salt lake, his first area covered where our home is. Super cool. But the best part was he grew up in Calgary, 13th ward. Which was my first area. So cool. We lived in each other’s greenie areas!!!

Another note from Mom: We also received another text message on 12/31/2017.  They didn't share their name but we so appreciate the kind people who send us pictures of Elder Ollis!