09/25/2018 - I Love the Book of Mormon and the Peace I Find In It

Hey everyone. Well we had a good week here. 

We worked hard this week. Saw some cool stuff happen. We got a referral Saturday and tried it that afternoon and again that evening. We were able to get in and teach the Restoration to a lady. It was super cool, she had some awesome questions and had seemed really prepared but she wasn't interested in learning more. So we left her with a book of mormon and hope and pray she reads. But we keep our hopes up to find more people to teach. 

Not much more to update you about, we have been going and loving this work. This week are transfers, I have no Idea what is going to happen. Currently there has been a mistake maybe from the mission office emailing everyone their areas? But we have been told those could be wrong. I have no Idea what is going on. I could be going back to lethbridge but that might not be right. 

As for that I just wanted to share a little testimony of the Book of Mormon. I love Nephi as he shares his testimony of the words that are written. He says " And now, my beloved brethren, and also jew, and all ye ends of the earth, hearken unto these words and believe in Christ; and if ye believe not in these words believe in Christ. And if ye shall believe in Christ ye will believe in these words, for they are the words of Christ, and he hath given them unto me; and they teach all men they should do good." (2 Nephi 33:10)  I know all we need to do is read the book and we really can find out that they are the words of Christ. I love the Book of Mormon and the peace I find in it. I encourage you to continue to read, and come closer to Christ. But most importantly share that with others. I love this gospel and love coming closer to him. 

Elder Ollis

9/18/2018 - I Want it For Our Members!

Hey everyone. Hope you are having a great week. 

First things first. Well if BYU is beating top 10 teams maybe I won't make the start at QB. But I guess we will keep training and practicing and hope for the best. Ha ha

But we had a good week. We were out and about and all over the city this week. We met a lot of members and did missionary work like missionaries do. (sorry guys I am slowly getting less creative on telling you on what we did). We still struggle to find investigators. I don’t know why. We are very diligent and are always working. Our investigator Adeniyi, who I have mentioned before, has been in London and is now going to BC. So we don’t see him much. We were on exchanges yesterday and Elder Johnson found a new investigator. Our Mandarin missionaries found her and we got the return appointment so I have not met her yet. I really want to get people to church. I want it for our members because I know they would do awesome if we could get someone there!  But we keep exercising faith and we will find!

We had a leadership meeting last wednesday that was really good and I learned a lot that will help me. We were able to help out saturday with the Calgary food bank food drive. It's a big deal and the church does it every year. We collected food across the whole city for the food bank. The estimated cost of food collected was over $800,000 of food. It was super cold but a lot of fun. Yeah, it even snowed this week and the temp has been down to 0 Celsius almost the whole week. We are expecting it will stay that way for another week. We are working hard and the Lord will bless us. But that is about all I got for this week. Sure hope you have a good one.

09/11/2018 - Elder Ollis and Elder Johnson cooking dogs at the 4th Ward Corn Bust

09/15/2018 - Collecting food for the Calgary Food Bank

9/11/2018 - Visiting Authorities...Definitely the Highlight of the Week!

Hey everyone. Well had a good week this week. To update on what happened. 

Saturday we met as a whole mission in Calgary to meet Elder Gong!!! It was super cool to have the whole mission in one building. We had a great meeting. We met Elder Evanson (70 over this region of the world. He's from Lethbridge), Elder Clayton, (president of the seventy), Gifford Nielson (of the 70, played QB at BYU, replaced by steve young) and Elder Gong. It was amazing. We got to shake all their hands and found out Elder Gong's wife is from Taylorsville. Elder Vea and I were hyped, gotta represent the Hood! Anyway it was a fantastic meeting. Elder Nielson's talk was awesome, he started off by telling us that by shaking hands he could tell who was in and who wasn't in. He said most of us were in. Then proceeded to tell us that we needed to be all in. It was such a good talk. Also that guy is HUGE! Gosh I swear he was like 7 feet tall. Then Elder Clayton shared some wonderful insights to help us in our missionary efforts and Elder Gong finished with a wonderful talk about the Doctrine of Christ and using the spirit in our efforts. He stressed being yourself and allowing your experiences and personalities to connect with those we meet. It was great. Then later that night we heard from them again with a special meeting for all investigators, LA and recent converts. It was a great day. That was definitely the highlight of the week! 

Then on sunday we found out there is a new family in the ward, and the husband plays for the Calgary Flames!!!!! Let's go. We are stoked and hope to go visit them SOON!  Just wanted to share a last thought of the week. Sometimes we are silly and frustrated with ourselves. I know all of us have those moments. But we also have those moments where we feel the spirit. We can't deny them. As we reflect on them it helps us to see how the spirit works and how we can gain that peace and happiness we need. I encourage you to reflect on those moments and try to replicate them.

Elder Ollis

09/08/2018 - All 184 Calgary Missionaries together to hear from Elder Gong!

09/11/2018 - Lambo of the Week

09/11/2018 - Love this painting by our Ward Mission Leader

9/4/2018 - I Still Love This Work So Much!

Hello everyone. 

Well we had a good week. Kinda sad week but that happens to the best of us. We had one last week where people are gone on vacation, school starts and things are finally settling down for the year. So not too much to report, but it will be a fantastic week coming up. Our investigators were all busy this week so we will see when we can meet them next. One of them was in London on business.  Our “golden boy” from last week dropped us and said he wasn’t interested anymore. But we are keeping our heads up and getting to work like always. If you remember the baptism we had for Josh (see 6/19 post), well his step dad isn’t a member yet and he is finally not working all the time so next week we are hoping to go back and teach him.  They are awesome and he was at church Sunday.  So that is our positive moment of the week! Elder Johnson and I are working hard, it is enjoyable, and I still love this work so much! 

We have a great week planned. Excited for Saturday! I forgot to tell you but Elder Gong is visiting our mission on Saturday! So we will see and hear from him.  The Book of Mormon musical is coming to town in a couple of weeks. We aren’t allowed to go near the play, but we are encouraged to just be out and have Books of Mormon visible. And that will raise questions from people and allow us to teach about what the Book of Mormon really is.  So we might go downtown to blitz with the book of Mormon!  So that is all we got this week. Love you all!