June 17, 2013
Well there are a couple of notes I wrote down so here they are.
I need my big English Preach My Gospel that I sent home. Sorry
I got the weights that Elder Dial had and I am so excited to start working out harder with them! Our workout area looks pretty cool for being in a barn.
We had a baptism on Saturday after the transfer party and it went really smooth but the Tino's wife, Alma, was supposed to get baptized but she called saying she was sick and so we will have it next Sunday. Ivette Guijarro got baptized though and she is 11 and her whole family are members. There is a picture at the bottom. Us and the senior couple missionaries, the Rogers, taught her and Elder Rogers baptized her. It was really cool.
Did you guys get my paintings?
Rudi sent me a $20 Chik-Fil-A gift card for my birthday and I just used it. We went after the temple for milkshakes and when I got the balance back it said $88! I asked them about it and it was still the same so there was $100 on it. It's so cool but I hope Rudi didn't really pay a whole $100 that would be crazy!
I hit 10 months this past Saturday! Time has been going too fast!
Well I am staying here in Jurupa with Elder Harris again and I have a district full of sister missionaries so I don't have to go on exchanges!!! I don't like leaving my area. Nothing too big happen. Only a few missionaries that I know are leaving the mission and one is Elder Green from my MTC district. He seems fine with it though. My zone got split too so now the Jurupa stake has 2 zones of missionaries in it. I am excited for this upcoming transfer and it should be good!
The transfer party was fun and I loved seeing everyone I knew from Moreno Valley and the MTC. Nothing else too big happened there.
Well that should be all. I miss you Mom and Dad! I love it out here and am ready to get some more work done!
Elder Allen
PS I found a corn field out here! Check it out! I felt so at home!
June 24, 2013
So I am just going to write down the stuff from my notes for the week.
We play board games at night when we have time in the barn with Elder Knudsen and Tchan. I record them with my mp3 player and only Elder Harris knows I do. It is so funny because the other two say really stupid/funny stuff. They also get really mad and its funny to listen to afterwards.
Faustino and Orlando his son got the priesthood on Sunday and Javier, Omar's brother, passed the sacrament and it was really cool! I love seeing people progress in the gospel!
We just went to Costco and got $1.50 Hot Dogs and Drinks and then I bought some eggs too.
We are in the process of finding knew people and it is super frustrating because now we have to knock on doors again and look for people who used to be taught. I am hoping we find 6 new people to teach this week
I don't know if I have told you guys this but we have a pet black widow named Boyf ( the F is silent so its pronounced like boy). Anyway, we caught a cockroach and put it in and the black widow caught it and they fought but Boyf won. I have a video of it and it is super sweet, like you-tube material! Anyway it is huge now and we are looking for a grasshopper as its next victim, then a lizard!!!!!! That would be so awesome!
Javier, the one that just passed the sacrament, is 13 years old and he wrote a love note to one of the sister missionaries in our ward. It was pretty funny but now we have to go talk to him about it and tell him how missionaries can't go on dates and stuff. I laughed quite a bit because it is a funny note.
Shout out to Laparra and Beeston. I am so jealous you are companions!
Well to end the email, we had a baptism! Faustino's wife got baptized and that completed the family. Her name is Alma and she said she loved her baptism and it is so cool to have introduced the gospel to a family that never knew of it before. We are visiting them every day and helping them set goals to keep progressing. I love this family and it motivates me to keep searching for those people that are being prepared by God to listen to our message.
I learned how to tie a new knot and here is my desk
That's all I got and I plan on sending a bunch of pictures so what isn't on here should be on my blog when my Mom updates it! I love you MOM!!! Well gotta go!
Elder Allen
July 1, 2013
Well most of the days this week has gotten into the 100's and it has been really hot. It is a different kind of hot though. If you find some shade then it is a lot cooler and you don't get as sticky as fast, I really don't like humidity.
Elder Harris and I found some new people to teach and I am pretty excited about that. We haven't had anyone for the past week and a half and it was getting frustrating.
The Vargas family that got baptized over the past month is basically finished. Alma, the mother, got the Holy Ghost in sacrament meeting and now we will be focusing on the temple with them. It will be so cool to come back in a year and go to the temple with them!
Can you believe it is already July?! I feel like it was just May! Time flies out here but a missionary that was here came back to visit and I asked him if time slows down when you get home and he said it definitely does. I just can't believe how fast it has gone by!
I am almost about to finish my first journal and I got a second one too. I haven't missed a day yet and I hope I can keep it up!
There is a team-up in the ward that we take out quite a bit and his name is Ramon. He is 18 and his papers just got finished and I gave him the Melchizedek priesthood. It was really cool and I can't wait to see where he gets called to!
Nothing else really happened this week except our black widow ate another spider and a lizard so it is basically a beast!
Thanks for all the support! I miss you all! Don't forget to write back! It has been about a month for some of you!
Elder Allen
PS This is our spider and it ate the one on the ground! And here is a California sunset!
