This is Elder Allen's mission
These are some of the stakes he is living around.
This is his stake! (area)
Well sorry my email is a day late. We thought since it was Veterans Day that the library would be closed but I don't think it was. It has been a good week, but I am a little sick right now. It started yesterday and I hope it doesn't bother me too much. Well here are the notes I wrote down!
I got the Shirt Stays Mom and they are awesome! Thanks a ton!
What am I going to get for my 1st Diabetes Birthday? It is Nov.29!
One cool things I noticed is that we have 3 Marquez families in our ward. So Jill and Cisco need to move out here to make it 4!
One cool thing people could send me is Book of Mormon action figures! They are cool!
I went on exchanges this past week with Elder Cook on bike and it was super fun! We are both new (greenies) and we had a great day! When we would go to talk to people and say we are representatives of Jesus Christ, some would say "No hablo ingles" and I would say "Yo hablo espanol!" and they would either look really bummed cuz now I could tell them about the gospel or really excited because I'm white and can say 3 words in Spanish!
I SAW SOME CHICKENS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I want to go to the thrift store sometime on P days but we are so busy doing other things so that stinks.
Hey Dad could you send me the book called "The Book of Muscle?"
I'm not too good about testing myself but Elder Dial is defiantly improving.
So I have ate a ton of different food but the weirdest is probably pigs feet with hominy It was really good! No joke! Some other things that I might eat in the future is tacos de legua (tongue tacos) and menudo (intestine) apparently they are pretty good. We get fed really good here!
This is his church building
This too...
and this too!!!
I have attended lots of baptisms of other missionaries here and even spoke at one this week which is really cool!
We have given lots of blessings on people and over there homes which is really cool.
Don't send packages to the Hardy's because I get them later than usual. I got Robyn's package and wrote here a quick letter and then I got Morgans later that night and didn't have time to write a letter. But I loved the packages and have eaten most of the junk food already but next time pick out some healthier food so I don't get super fat in these next 2 years!
He says he loves the palm trees.
Elder Allen & Elder Dial
More palm trees!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It was pretty cold on Saturday and got down to 56 degrees but yesterday was incredibly nice at 76 or somewhere around there.
On Thanksgiving we are planning on playing foolball for a couple hours which will be fun and then we will just go to a bunch of members houses and eat a TON!
Carmen Arevalo was the hermana that I baptized.
Thanks so much everyone for all your support and help that I get from you. It is amazing out here and I am loving every day!
Gracias
Elder Allen
For all of you who think about Evan and his diabetes!!!
His A1C (3 month test of blood sugars) It was 5.8 which is REALLY good. It is AMAZING for him to not be on insulin and still doing this great. He just got this test done this last Monday. One year ago he was told he had diabetes and his A1C was 12.7 and in 6 weeks got it down to 7.2 and it kept going down and he is still doing so good. I know its because his Heavenly Father knew how bad he wanted to serve his mission! Some people don't understand this when I tell them but as a Mom I know how BAD he wanted this and nothing was going to stop him from doing it! I have had people ask me if he was pressured into going and I can say not at all. He is such a great son! I love him so much!
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