March 19, 2011

It's almost ridiculous how fast time goes...it's already week 6 (essentially...on monday) and the transfer is pretty much over... we'll see what happens in a week from monday on transfer day!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MOMMY NEXT SUNDAY! horray!

so
here we go

so
sunday....church
J who was baptized the sunday before wasn't confirmed due to some things he was still struggling with, but was confirmed on wednesday horray! church was good tho it was 10 am and there were 5 people there..... i guess college kids and day light savings don't really mix. so by the time 10:10 rolled around the room was kinda full.....yea church was good during Elder's quorum i knew that P was going to get ordained... and then right before it happened, he was like..Elder Allred, will you ordain me..and i was like...uhhhh, yes..?! i think i can do that... so i did and it was awesome. After that we did a bunch of zone things, went to dinner with the people we live with who have a big dinner every sunday. the boulder missionaries were there to and we had a good time. we finished weekly planning and collapsed.

Monday was busy, we had our weekly conference call.
met with J.
lunch
lessons
a little bit of pday with our district....
the went contacting, lessons, dinner and fhe we went bowling. what a sad day it is to be required to go bowling on the mission :( (sarcasm).

Tuesday lots of lessons........dr appointment. the dr said that i have some fat growth (attractive i know) that's like cancer (but it's not) in the way that, they don't know why it forms (it's not cuz of my sucky diet, surprise!) but it just does, and it gets really hurty and annoying... so they're going to slice it out fun.
more lessons.......
then exchanged with the louisville elders, where i went to louisville with Elder Starnes. It's his first transfer and it was his week to be senior, he did really well. We tracted in the morning and talked with this lady, E, who was about to have back surgery :!
She said that we could come back and talk about the Book of Mormon with her. HOrray!
Then we ate lunch (sister gordon took us to caraba's. she is the one i used to live with in louisville, it was kinda cool to stay the night there again). Changed into service clothes and went to turn over a ton of dirt/earth at an older sister's house so that she could get some gardening done. it was like 70 degrees outside and it felt so good to be working with my hands. like....so good. i can't wait to get home and work in the garden....in december? after that we got cleaned up and went out to work more.
The members that took us out to dinner ended up taking us out again (chili's) and i'm officially the fattest boy in camp! (name that movie). not really, but i feel like it. we saw some members that i knew down in arvada...that was cool.
Then we had a missionary meeting, finished life up and exchanged back.
Oh, i forgot to mention it was mutual night, so i saw 1/2 the ward and they were all like...ARE YOU BACK!?!?!?
and i was like...nah, and then they all punched me in the face, not a good thing. j/k
but yea it was good to see people.

Thursday 2 rounds of district meeting with a 5 min taco bell lunch.....so exauhsting...
then 5 lessons cancelled....yea
had one, had dinner
and did some paper work.
horray again.
o yea, some sneaky kids took us out to buffaloe wild wings...and the byu game just happened to b on....SNEAKY!
jimmer's got a good take lol.

Friday we were exhausted... had a dr's appointment for Elder Blumell in the morning.
The slicing dr called me and told me that my social security number didn't match up, so i was like..hmm
called sister ely, she said call ur mom, so i did! talked to mom for like 8mins and 35 seconds or something and then got the news that Elder Blumell will probably get stiched up too.
fun stuff.
lessons in the morning. we had a lesson with a member and his girlfriend who's investigating....that was fun (she goes to ohio state) then power lunch super quick b/c we had a milllion calls to make before. saw sister Rice briefly and they're off to utah also! then met up with abbey for like 5 minutes b/c lunch went over....and then M and J. J is doing super well, and asked for a blessing for things to keep going well. He asked me to give it (he felt bad b/c he wanted me to confirm him but i wasn't there on wednesday) so i gave him a blessing. Yea, I definitely know that what was said wasn't from me. I'm glad that the Lord will use me and bless me in His work as I speak.
So, after that we went and did service.
Ran and got dinner.
Went home to get stuff and then peaced out for The Erie area to have a transition lesson with some Elders who had found a YSA for us to teach. We will call him J and he's super awesome. The plan was to teach the first lesson of the restroation...and 1/ 2 way through they're companionship would pass it off to us. And that lesson was really spiritual too. The other elders are pretty young and are still getting used to everything, so they pretty much "textbook" taught the lesson. And when they passed it off to us, once again, i knew what i thought i was going to say, and i asked a quesiton and it totally changed the direction of the lesson. We were able to still teach, but with personal relevance to J's personal questions, interests, and needs. It was super awesome as we helped him understand just how the gospel (and the restoration) effected him. One of the things that we're focusing on is teaching people not lessons, and I feel like the Lord really helped us to do that...and to set a good example for the other Elders. He's now set for baptism on April 9th and we're super excited!
So, after that, we had some errands to run at the mission office, took care of that, went home and found out that we missed a party for one of the friends of our memebers. so they made us eat some of the left over food which was amazing.....
talked a lot with the birthday man (50 years old) and stuff like that. super cool family.
then peaced out.

This morning, we did the normal schedule till 10 when we took a nap. so good.
hung out, did some shopping and now we're emailng.
that's life in a nut shell
it races on and I just do what I need to, to stay awake and help people.
it feels good.
so
love you all
hope that everyone is in good health and good spirits.
Much love
Elder Jonathan Allred