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January 6th, 2014

No time Sorry! I will send a HUGE email next week! I love you all and I love my mission!

Elder Allen

Well Evan way to start the year off!  This was his email today!!  So here is a bit more from my personal email to his MOM!  I'm putting this one here so I can embarrass him.  Maybe when he gets home he will see this and think that maybe he should of done a better job emailing his family. BUT maybe not...he is having fun on his mission and only has one day a week to get things done. I STILL LOVE HIM!!!!!

Mom, 

Well I guess I will need the money to get a camera and I plan on getting a cheaper one. I don't have much time left so I am sooooooooooooooo jealous! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I miss you so much and I would love to hang out with the snow!!! Is Ethan doing better? Is he loving it? I want to hear from Colin and me and Josh email each other every once in a while. Can you try to get Colin's email? A party would be nice! So have dad text me if you put money on my card because we should have a baptism this Sunday! I love you mom!!! 

Elder Allen

New Year's Eve this week!

December 30, 2013

Well first off Christmas was sick! I got a new Humvee watch! It has a velcro nylon band and at first I wasn't too pumped about that but after wearing it for 2 days straight I love it! It looks so cool! Thanks Dad!! I also got my new basketball shoes that I am excited to use for the 2nd time! 1st was christmas night and they work really good! I got so much food and candy! I get to snack all personal and companion study! I also got some subway cards and some money too so today we are going to go buy some stuff! I am not quite sure what I want to buy though. Also on Christmas we went to Denny's in the morning for breakfast and we saw these two guys get in a fist fight and beat the crap out of eachother! We also ate dinner with a family at Jack in the Box too! 

It was so cool to talk to everyone back home! Mom cried!!!! Its cuz she loves me! It was super cool to see all Dad's guns! I can't wait to come home, shoot those guns, get a job, earn some money, and then buy a ton of my own guns! Seeing the house was really cool too! It was super cool to see Cyrus too! 

Christmas Eve was fun too! We had our mission party which was incredibly fun! I got to see Baltz and Beeston and Harris! We had so much fun!!!! The party was so sick! We are so good friends! We partied it up!!!! Later that night when we got back to Hemet we went up to Idyllwild, a small town in the mountains, and we stayed at the missionaries house and played charades and mafia and Elder Johnson and I were Santa and we rung bells on the roof!!

We are teaching these 3 brothers and they are 51 50 and 41 and the two youngest have mental problems but they all came to church this Sunday and are really progressing so we are looking forward to the oldest's baptism on the 12th of January! A member of the ward got them all Christmas presents too!

2 weeks left of the transfer!

I get to see Beeston and Baltz on Friday at MLC!

I love you all! Have a Happy New Year!

Elder Allen

CHRISTMAS WEEK!!

December 23, 2013

ITS CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so pumped for this week!! We are going to have the funnest time ever!!!

We have our mission party tomorrow morning and I am so excited to see all my buds!! It will be so fun! 

We had a baptism yesterday as well and Elder Santos came from Utah for it as well and it was so cool to see him! He was my companion before Elder Dixon and he has been home for almost 3 weeks now! Lucila who got baptized was the last one in their family to do so and it was a really cool baptism!

Well this is a short email because I get to skype on Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so excited for that!

SEE YA THEN!!

Elder Allen

Well there goes another week!

December 16, 2013

Well we had our baptism on Saturday and it went really good! Pricila and her husband Arturo are now members and we have to work with their kids now. Yesterday David, Joe, and Pricila got confirmed and I confirmed Joe and it was in Spanish as well! Lucila is another investigator we have that is going to get baptized next Sunday! That will complete their family which is super cool!

I am planning on Skyping at 2:30 my time so in Ohio it will be 5:30 so I can't wait!!!

Multi-Zone Conference is tomorrow and that will be fun! 

I went on exchanges this week as well and I was with Elder Cochran in his area and we had a member drive us out to a restaurant in the middle of no where and we couldn't even find them and when we went back outside our ride was gone and then the phone died 5 minutes later so we had to walk all the way back into town and we were so tired!

I am not living in a 6 man apartment anymore because this past Tuesday we moved the 2 Elders on bike into a new apartment so now we got a bunch of room again. It was super fun in the 6 man though!

I bought protein last week! Gonna get SWOLL! 

I am a little nervous about sending a memory card home so I might start backing them up out here on my hard drive.

I hit 16 months yesterday as well so that means there is only 8 months left which stinks because time is flying by and it is just going to fast! I need more time to reach my goals!!!!

Well I will email a little next Monday but not to much because we get to Skype! I love you!

Elder Allen 

We are having fun!

December 9th

Well this week was awesome! We started it off finding out we are living in a six man apartment this transfer! We are having a ton of fun and it is so cool living with a ton of people! We then had a meeting with our district leaders and I got to hang out with Elder Johnson!

On Thursday we then had MLC and I got to see Elder Beeston and Baltazar!!!!! We had fun chillin and we will see eachother at Christmas which will be fun! On Friday we had our zone meeting and that went good. We then ate at a Buffet and it was super good!

On Saturday I saw the Buckeyes play because our dinner had it going on their TV and I missed watching football!! It was my first time seeing them play since I left home! I still don't know if they won or lost because no one has emailed me yet! So email me please!!!!!!

We then finished up the week with a baptism yesterday and it went really good! David and Joe both got baptized and I will leave some pictures at the bottom for ya! They are super cool and one lady that was going to get baptized on the 22nd will be out of town then so we are doing the baptism this Saturday so she can be confirmed on Saturday! We are going to tear it up here in December! 

Well I am looking forward to Christmas so I can talk to my family!! I sent my mom some Christmas present ideas so if you want to get me something ask her please! I love everything though so whatever I get I will love! Unless its poop don't send me poop!

I miss you and love you all!

Elder Allen

Thanksgiving Week!

December 2

Well Thanksgiving was a blast! We played flag football and it was super fun! We ate at our bishops house and they had this fruit salad with little snickers bites in it and it was delicious! After that we ate at David's house and he is our investigator who will get baptized next Sunday! After that we went back to the apartment and invited other missionaries over to play Cranium and Mafia and we had a blast! Thanksgiving next year will be a little different though!

Wednesday morning though Elder Dixon forgot to lock the truck so that night it got broken into and my GPS and FM Transmitter got stolen. Elder Dixon's wallet got stolen as well so now I have to drive the whole time. I am a little bummed about that and the cops here wouldn't do anything about it. So I might need a cheap GPS for Christmas but nothing too big because I already know the area here and I would only need it for 8 months. 

David and Joe are getting baptized next Sunday which will be awesome! They are both super solid and they both talk about serving missions as well!

Transfer calls were this weekend and our zone got flipped upside down! We have 3 new District Leaders and one is Elder Johnson! We will be able to go on exchanges which is really cool! Hopefully our zone does really good this transfer! 

Well I will have to put up a christmas list next week or I will send a letter home with one in it cuz I have to get off!

I love you all!

Elder Allen

FINALLY!!

Well we had a baptism this past Sunday! It was a mother and her 9 year old daughter! Her name is Adriana and her daughter is Tatiana. They are super cool and the church is just what they need! There should be some pictures at the bottom but the baptism was really good and the visiting teachers were presented right then and there which was amazing! This ward is really good!

This next Saturday we get transfer calls! I can't believe how fast the time has flown by! Elder Santos came to the baptism though and he is the AP so he knows everything that is going to happen and as he was walking away I asked him if I was staying and he turned and nodded his head yes! We have a ton of baptisms lined up for December so I am happy I will stay!

THANKSGIVING on Thursday! We are going to play flag football and I will play with Elder Johnson! We are going to have a ton of fun and eat a TON of food!!!

So any Black Friday deals? Someone could forward a walmart add or something so I can check out all the stuff I am missing out on! I am going to miss it but next year!! 

I plan on writing Ethan today but I had a dream about him a couple nights ago. So I was back home and Ethan couldn't handle the Marines and quit and was explaining how he couldn't take some of the things they did in boot camp and we were talking about my mission and how he wanted to serve a misson really bad. I was pumping him up and it was cool but only in my dreams! I am going to support him through the marines though and he is going to serve his own mission! I love him though and I wish I could focus more and write him a ton of letters!

I got to get going but I miss you all!

PS this is a pictures of when we went to the temple a couple weeks ago too!