4/17/2018 - I am SOOOO Sad to Leave Cardston!

Well hello everyone! So this week was a wild one. But on a more serious note. I got transferred this week. Which has some pros and Cons, first I am SOOOOO sad to leave Cardston! I love that place so much, I will miss it dearly. But the pros are I have a new companion from Ogden Utah. Elder Sagapolu. Hes a dope kid and we get along well which is good..... change is good! We got the transfer calls tuesday night and left thursday morning. I went north again. Up to Calgary. It  was fun, on the 2 and a half hour drive up, I was in a car with Elder Wiwchar and Vea. So that was cool! good to catch up with two of my previous companions. 

I am still a zone leader just serving up in the Richmond ward and Calgary 4th ward in the Calgary Zone. Our zone is in the Downtown Calgary area. Which is a unique place. We don't cover it all however, our area is more of the edge of Calgary in the South West quadrant. All I can say is this place is WEALTHY. These homes here are stupid big, and apparently in the summer it isn't uncommon for a lambo or ferrari to roll up to church.... There is a lot of money. But as for that It has been quite the adjustment from Cardston to Calgary, small town to HUGE city so that has been interesting but I have adjusted well. We have some investigators, havent met them yet. They don't seem very solid however. This area of course just had a baptism before I got here, just my luck so we are going to do what has happened in previous areas, work as hard as we can, then find people to teach and when they get ready for baptism I will get transferred!. Haha hopefully not but It is up to the Lord. But I do want to find someone to baptize badly. Anyway, I am done with this email because this keyboard is frustrating me. Have a good week yall. Especially you SYD!!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

4/10/2018 - I Am Working Hard and Things are Going

Just to let you know about the going ons. I am working hard and things are going. This Sunday was crazy, I spoke at sacrament meeting and my companion was gone because we had the Eagle Speakers family coming to church so we were on splits. It was great. We have another lesson with them this week. They should be more consistent now. Apparently they didn't quite understand that they needed to meet with us and have all the lessons before baptism, so not sure how that wasn't understood but we cleared it up and they should be doing better hopefully. 

But as for that, nothing crazy to report. I was super excited to see our Bishop again, Bishop Leavitt in 7th ward finally got back from Hawaii. He was gone for like 3 weeks and it was awesome to meet with him again. He said he loved Hawaii but would have rather been here working with us. So that was a super nice thing to say because I don't think I could say the same thing! haha. But that is about it, we have transfer calls that go out tonight. I don't really know what I hope happens, or will happen. I really don't want to leave Cardston. I don't know what will happen, kinda have a feeling I am leaving but we will see. That's it, hope you have a good week everyone!

04/03/2018 - DON'T YOU FEEL A PART OF SOMETHING!

Well everyone, here is another one. You are probably getting sick of these, so I am going to mix it up a bit. I am going to send a PICTURE or two!

But first the important stuff, so this week was a grinder. Things just didn't quite go the way we wanted them to. We are struggling to meet with our investigators, the family named the Eagle Speakers (yes they are natives, and yes that is a regular native name). They are still on date for the 28th. But it is looking a little like we might not make that date if they can't visit with us. But I am sure the prayers we will give will help. But then Conference was a great refresher I needed. What an amazing general conference. All I can say is wow! We have a prophet of God again on the Earth. I will share some more thoughts at the end about that one.

This week it also snowed, a lot, like 6+ inches. In April. So that was exciting I love when it snows. It was also cool, yesterday we had a little time before we had a lesson and we went to visit Jason. He is a less active who we had previously been working with. Cool dude, his wife is not a member and she loves us, the hard part is teaching her. Well Jason has been gone since about February working up north and he might finally be back for a bit because of spring break up (when working up north on the oil rigs there is a time in spring where the ground thaws and all the equipment has to shut down or it will sink in the Mud. they call it spring break up). So it was exciting to talk with him and we are going to go visit him tonight and hopefully be able to help him again. He is a cool dude he wanted to take us snowmobiling down the streets, he also told me to come back and visit after the mission and he has a friend who could hook it up with heliskiing! So that’s dope! But we are hoping to help him quite smoking. 

As for General Conference, I hope you all understand we are a part of the Restoration, the dispensation that ushers in the Coming of Christ. Well he isn't here yet and we are still apart of the work that only began with Joseph Smith and has not ceased and will not cease until Christ comes again. HOW COOL IS THAT! DON'T YOU FEEL A PART OF SOMETHING! It is so exciting! With all the changes it is evident that the Lord is continuing to hasten his work! Ephesians 1:10 "That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him." I know that these changes are for exactly that, fulfilling scripture by helping us come closer to Christ, by bringing others with us, member or not. I am so excited for these changes, it is evidence that the Lord will come and a testimony builder that the Lord trusts us to perform them. He loves us and I love him and am so happy to do his work here in Canada! Love you all! Ponder the magnitude of what happened!

Love, Elder Ollis

In an email to dad: Holy cow was it just me or when President Nelson came out of the tunnel to begin conference did he look like a lion sprinting out and ready to take on the world! I whole-heartedly support the changes that have been made, absolutely. It makes much more sense to me. I feel as there have been remarkable changes to missionary work even since Draper has been out that you may not know about, and the changes at conference just reflect, simplify and improve the ability to do the work. After all that is what these changes are for, to bring us as members more prepared and inline with the Saviour and bring others closer to Christ as well. It is truly inspired.

 

03/12/2018 - Cardston Horses

04/02/2018 - April snow in Cardston