Elder Evan Allen

Elder Dial and Evan!

Well I had tons of fun this past week! Christmas was amazing and I had so much fun seeing everyone on Skype! Christmas and Christmas Eve was fun hanging out with all my friends from the MTC and then on Christmas we were up at 7am to open presents! I got awesome gifts! Here is a list of what I remember, sorry if I forgot.

Cyrus got me a sweet Ohio State Football 2013 calender, an awesome Mine craft block of sticky notes, a guitar book that really helps! The really cool one was the homemade Mt Dew Baja Blast! You mix blue powerade and normal Mt Dew and it is amazing!

Rudi got me a ton of individually wrapped Kit Kat bars, $20 to Chik Fil A (bought 2 peppermint shakes already!) She got me other stuff but the candy bars were so annoying to unwrap that I forgot what they were, sorry! Oh she got me a super cool tie!

Mom and Dad got me a new pair of sandals, some awesome socks and I forget the rest but they are going to get me a GPS too because I am so horrible with directions.

Jenny got me a cool orange tie with pink dots on it! Molly got me some tic tacs (apple and cherry!) Emmett got me some cool Ohio State sunglasses that I wear every day! I actually forgot what Max got me sorry! And Chad got me money which is really helpful when you are poor haha

Mama and Papa got me corn nuts, fruit roll, a 3d apple puzzle, this cool think that you chuck at the wall and it slithers down, and a bunch of other stuff!

I got Christmas Cards from Kyle and Kara, Nick and AJ, and Aaron and Nancy. I loved seeing the pictures of all my family!

Michelle got me thousands of $1 bills all wrapped in a ton of presents and it is super cool cuz now I got a fat wad of cash!!!

Grandma got me a ton of office supplies that come in handy and some gift cards too! I also like the OSU napkins!

Sorry if I forgot anyone else I had lots of presents!

Well That was my Christmas! New Year's Eve wasn't too special. We washed clothes for 5 hours and then played volleyball as a zone which was pretty fun.

Here are some of the notes that I wrote down too.

Christmas week was good because we got a break but all our investigators went on vacation or have had family over so we didn't get to teach very much this week. The holidays have also made it hard for me to stay focused and I need to get back on track because I think a lot about home when I see all the new things I just got.

This is the last week of transfers and I am pretty sure I will have a new companion next Monday. It will be sad to see Elder Dial leave.

This past Saturday we had a baptism where an older couple got baptized and their son was the one to do it which was really cool! It didn't go super smoothly though because the guy with the key to the font showed up late so the font wasn't all the way full and then the son who was baptizing his parents didn't have a change of clothes so he had to run back home. The baptism was scheduled at 3:30 but didn't get started till 4. Once it started it was really good! The spirit was there very strong and it was really nice seeing people make covenants with our Heavenly Father.

Hey Mama and Papa could you send me like a 5 or 10 dollar costco gift card so I can get in and buy some cheaper food? Thanks!

I cut my hair! Well Elder Dial did and I just told him to put an 8 on his clippers and cut it off. I like having short hair because it is a lot faster to comb in the morning but long hair is fun too.

Well that is all folks! Thanks for all the presents and everything you do for me out here. I love you!

Elder Allen

I was reading on Elder Dial's blog he is

 Elder Allen's companion this is what I found:

eldermattdial.blogspot.com

go to the email from 

December 3 and read...

I love how these two young men 

work so good together.
Elder Allen just got a new companion after I wrote this.