01/23/2018 - We found a new investigator!!! First one in Cardston!!!

Hello Everyone. 

So this was an exciting week. We found a new investigator!!!! It was awesome. We had dinner a few weeks ago with our relief society president and she mentioned that there was a lady she invited to church who had just moved in. Well she ended up coming to church and so we set up a lesson to meet her. It was awesome. She is a single mom and has two kids. She has a lot of troubles she is going through but she gave up smoking recently and she loved church. She even went to the relief society activity during the week, came to church again this week (she said she was so excited for it) and went to the self reliance classes Sunday night too. It was really cool. We were able to teach her portions of everything. She is really hard to teach as she is really scattered in her thoughts but we are really excited to have an investigator. First one in Cardston!!!!

We also were able to visit a PM family last night out on the Reservation, in a town called moses lake. It was great.  The lady is a member and she seems open for us to come back and teach her and get her back to church and she has two boys that are unbaptized and a husband who could investigate. We are really excited. It was unfortunate though, we (ok it was me, I am the Driver) got stuck in the snow right in front of their house last night, so we had the boys in the family help us dig, and then drag our car out of the snow with their SUV. I felt so dumb, but to be honest is was a great time to talk with the boys in that family. Sometimes the lord works in mysterious ways. We are working hard here. We have some things going for us and we just need to get them. We are going to find one more investigator this week and are excited. 

01/22/2018 - Digging ourselves out of the snow

A couple more thoughts, we had MLC this week and I got to admit I am really excited for Smart phones! They have so many things that will help us do the work of the Lord. But that is a wrap.

Elder Ollis

01/17/2018 - Missionary Leadership Council

In an email to mom: Hey mom, I can't believe I hit a year too. It is crazy. Time is going way to fast. Our p-days are super boring to be honest. We are the only Elders in Cardston, the closest elders are about 45 minutes drive. So we really only see them once a month. But we usually shop, email, and then spend time at the church. Elder Crockett will play the piano and I just kinda listen. But that is mostly all we do because it's too cold to just be outside. Kinda lame but that is what it is. Thank you for sharing about the book of mormon reading. I am like that too. I can't get very far because it is just too good of a book. One thing I thought about this week that I had never realized. We know that Lehi was of the Tribe of Manasseh, and Ishmael was of Ephraim, both tribes were present, well the nephites find the city of Zarahemla and the people of Mulek. Mulek was the son of the king Zedekiah, and it is safe to say then that the people of Mulek were of the tribe of Judah, I had never thought of that but it makes sense. You learn something everyday. Thanks for the pictures of my dog. I miss him a ton. Also the weather has been so nice. It was like 3-5 degrees all week and will be all this week too.