08/14/2018 - Time is Flying Too Quickly!

08/07/2018 - The Chateau Hotel at Banff

Well hello everyone! What a crazy week we had, sorry about not sending an email last week, we went to Banff, which was really cool!  We moved around a lot while we were there so we saw a lot of it. We hiked around Lake Louise area, then to a waterfall and hiked there.  We did some shopping for just a short time right in Banff, so we didn’t get to see the cool hotel or really much of the town, but I preferred the mountains anyway.  It was a lot like the Tetons, really.  I kept feeling like I was there again.  But it is a very beautiful place.  So many foreigners. It was a lot of fun!

08/07/2018 - Elder Ollis at Lake Louise in Banff

So first update, Friday was crazy hot. We hit an all time record for Calgary, it's hottest day on record. It hit 36.5 (97.7 Farenheit) which was wild. And then by sunday it was 12 (53.5 Farenheit). So from really hot to thinking about a sweater. That is how it goes up here in Canada. Also it has been really smokey too! There are a lot of wild fires and the smoke keeps pouring into the city.

Last week we were able to find a couple of investigators but we already dropped them pretty much. Really flaky and not wanting to meet with us as much as it first seemed. But still working to improve the work here. Things are moving forward. We have been out and about all week, talking to as many people as possible. Our ward is hitting all time low numbers, we had probably less than 50 again this week and at one of the wards a missionary was speaking after his return, so he had tons of family there. So not a lot of people around anymore. But we are working hard none the less. Yesterday we were able to go get a new apartment all figured out. They are splitting one of the areas in our zone and we needed to drop off a bunch of furniture for the missionaries coming up this week. We also have been handling a bunch of logistics for this transfer this week as a lot of our zone is changing and we are going to have to drive people all over the city to figure out rides and move more beds from one place to another. So it should be a fun week. It is nice though, I never mentioned this before but we drive a Chevy Colorado, it is a cool little truck and makes it really nice to move things around.

But not much to update you on. We are working hard. We have seen some cool things happen, every once in a while we will get in to teach someone but they don't seem to want to learn anymore. It's really hard but we will keep plugging along to make things happen. Transfer calls go out tonight, we already know a lot of the changes that are going to happen. There is a high probability that I will get transferred, which I will be sad for. I really love this area, it has had some hard things but there are lots of good people and I sure like serving with Elder Johnson. But we will see. I don't know for sure, just an educated guess.

That's all I got, sorry it isn't too specific on things that happened but that is how missionary life goes. Time is flying too quickly!  Love, Elder Ollis

08/01/2018 - Visit to the Calgary Tower