So not a lot of time and it was a super busy week, so we'll see what happens and please excuse my spelling.
So, last monday i wrote you guys then we went shopping, ate Little Cesar's pizza played basketball and volleyball and some kind of weird game that has no point and is really hard to explain....pretty normal pday. Afterwards we ate dinner with............someone? The Miitchells, had a good time, taught family home evening about Alma 32 and experimenting on the word of God. Good stuff. Then went and stopped by M&B’s, set up an appointment.
Tuesday we went and stopped by a former investigator who we left dropped, wasn't really interested in meeting with us, and that took up most of the morning. Had lunch and then went to The memory care center to do service and play bingo with old people. I got hit on by another old lady, which hasn't happened for a couple weeks so that was refreshing to know that I still got it (for those senior citizens). It was freezing and the wind was blowing like crazy, so it took us a while to bike around to our next appointment, but we got to see a Sister in the ward and have dinner with our Bishop's family. After that we went out to Gunbarrel (really far away) and had our appointment cancel on us due to illness :(. However, we did get to see a cool guy who just moved into the ward and works at this place called Spark Fun. They do like robotic parts and stuff. Super cool office (where we met) and got to see all their toys. There's some really cool chess like game with lazers and a pharo that they had i forget what it was called...but look it up, it looked gnarly.
Wednesday was HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO NETTINA!!! i celebrated her birthday by going to zone conference for most of the day, lol. So we left, got there early, i got to see some old friends from the Arvada Zone. Then the piano played didn't show up. SO i got to play prelude music. Then, he still wasn't there, so i got to play the opening hymn on the spot. That was fun, actually sounded pretty good. So i thought i could relax. However, I got called up to do a review on one of the trainings with my companion, which is weird because I've done a review EVERY ZONE conference, except for one, so like 80% of the time. Then i did get to relax. We had some great trainings on agency and how to be effective, make sure we're doing good things with our time. Since sister Stiefvater (who i lived with for like 6 months) is the Stake Relief Society President I got to see her at lunch time which made my day super happy. After lunch, sleepy, more trainings. Then had a really good zone meeting (yes it's different) and talked about what we can do to improve our efforts. Good stuff. After that it was straight to dinner. After, when biking around and realizing that I smelled bad b/c i was out of deodorant, we hit up a walgreens super quick to grab some. My stench must have been divinely inspired b/c we saw a former investigator who i knew pretty well in there. We talked to her for a while and she asked us to stop by, so we're actually going to go have a lesson with her tomorrow which we're super excited about. She just lost someone really close in her life, so we're probably going to talk about how we believe that families can be together forever, through Heavenly Father's Plan.
We then got to go see DS which was awesome. We started going through the book of Acts, which is pretty cool.
Thursday we biked a ton in celebration of MY YEAR MARK!!!!! no one was home. Which was ok, it happens. For lunch we went to Qudoba and I splurged on delicious food. Soooo good.
After that we had District meeting and I drank my martinelli's in front of everyone to show them how cool i was. After we went straight to an appointment with one of M&B's friends who we had met with before, and shared the message of the restoration of the gospel. We talked to him about what he was thinking about what we were teaching and if he had read and prayed to know if it was true or not. A little background, we believe that God is the ultimate source of truth. And because He loves us, He will give us answers if we ask Him for them. So Todd asked and got his answer! He said it came so fast that he was a little bit skeptical. SO he prayed 2 more times and asked Heavenly Father if the Book of Mormon was true and He said he felt peace and comfort and joy and knew that that was his answer! It's so wonderful to see someone understand and have an experience where they KNOW that God is there and loves them. We invited him to be baptized and he said that he wanted to come to church before he set a concrete date. Fair enough. After that we biked super fast up the hill to dinner. And then headed home. On our way we contacted this guy from Mexico named Enrique and talked about the true Christmas message. We offered him a copy of Joy to the world and he said that we could come over to his house and drop it off....he hasn't been there...but we're still gonna keep trying.
Friday we did weekly planning (takes forever) and decided to head out to Gunbarrel to do some work. We found out after we left that there were 50 mile winds that day and ended up falling off our bikes several times. It was fun. I got 3 goat head thorns in my tires from being blown off the road, but thanks to the miracle of bike slime, my tire stayed fresh. Made it out there, tried to see a lot of people who either weren't home or weren't' answering...but that's life. We got to see our new move in again which was awesome. Dinner and then headed home.
Saturday we were finally able to introduce E. Rodriguez to our Ward Mission Leader.
After that we went around and weren't able to see too many people, but did have some good contacts. It was Elder Rodriguez's first day of serious tracting....his eyes have now been opened, let's just leave it at that :D. Dinner was good with the Fishers and then more contacting on our way home.
Sunday we super good. Our fast and testimony meeting was really powerful. Todd didn't make it to church because the family he was supposed to come with didn't either :(. Super Sad. But we did get to see them afterwards and found out there's some stuff going on but that it's going to be ok. Todd was actually up and ready to go but, with some extenuating circumstances no one made it out. After church we got to see a lot of people before heading over the the First Presidency Message at church, which was awesome. Then we worked on an object lesson idea that I had and it turned out great, maybe I'll send you guys something else in the Christmas box. It's a test lol :D.
But, moral of the story is. This week was packed. It was busy. I loved it. I love helping people understand that life can be and is good if you have the right perspective and understand what will truly make you happy.
It's a wonderful life.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays
love you all
Elder Jonathan Allred
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