October 21, 2011

So, here we are again, weird.
It's been almost two weeks since I've emailed, feels like eternity.
You know life is good when you look forward to something as small as emailing.
Right?
So, first things first, i'm not getting transfered as far as i know.
my new companion is cool, it'll be good times, i'm super sad to see Elder Montague go though.
We've had some great times together and yea, it'll be a sad transfer day.
So.....let's rundown the highlights reel.

Last time i emailed, the rest of the day flew by. We talked about the Book of Mormon for FHE, it was tight.
Then we played catch phrase and I was straight up boss-ing (doing really well).

Tuesday was awesome, we met with a ton of awesome people and had some super good discussions.

Wednesday was a day jam packed full of district meetings. Had one of the best discussions of my mission. Somehow the night disappeared, i'm not really sure.

Thursday we met with a new guy, super cool.
Long day and even longer night, we ended up in loveland at 10:30 to get a hide a bed for the farm house....nuts-o.
Got home at like 11:30, bed at like 1...no bueno.

Friday we finished the saga of E. Montague getting a bunch of cavaties filled...i can only wait and find out how my teeth are doing. We drove out to Fort Morgan to do a baptismal interview. Good times. such a long boring drive. Then when we got home our washer discharge pipe was clogged, and our land lord told us that we couldn't stick it out the window b/c there are fields of corn and what not near us, so......i scrounged up a pipe system that drained the washer into the sink. it worked well beyond the estimated expectations.
Also, one of the people looking into the church quoted Preach My Gospel without knowing it and it felt like I was in a pmg movie or something, it was awesome.

Saturday we got haircuts. Found out that there was a quiditch (yes from harry potter) tournament on the college campus. Went and watched....i can't believe that actually happened.
One of the most ridiculous things i've ever heard over a loud speaker "does anyone have jumper cables? the denver dementors seemed to have sucked the soul out of their car"
it was ridiculous.

Sunday was cool. Met with the stake president as usual. Went to a ysa conference in fort collins and got to see where the temple will be built there. I sang in the choir. It was eh.....
yea.
They needed way more practice, i had only been to two and I was one of the only tenors that could hold the part. no bueno.
Then lots of good things. Ate dinner with a couple that will soon be married!
Did some weekly planning and met up with our ward mission leader.
I also found out how to say "i make it rain" in german.
Good times.

Monday was a day of heavy contacting, it was super sweet.
Found a ton of awesome people walking around.
For lunch, we got ROCKY MOUNTAIN OYSTERS! good times.
We had a visa waiting missionary here waiting to go to Peru.
he wanted to have a colorado experience before he left...he didn't end up going with us, but it was still good times.

Tuesday was awesome.
Went out to lunch with the district and ate entirely too much.
Great day. and that night was even better.
we set up an appointment with someone who used to be looking into the church and after we met with her she decided to be baptized the weekend of thanksgiving!!!
we're super excited.

Wednesday was much more district meetings. Lots of interesting things. Headache.

Thursday, headache, felt sick, was sick, did work anyways.
Drove out to Fort Morgan again.
Got back and met with a bunch of people., was awesome.

and then today.
We went to the temple.
And now we're back.

Themes from this week:
Don't look beyond the mark. Focus on where you are and what you need to be doing.
also, don't look into things more than you need to. Blowing things out of proportion does not help anything.
The Book of Mormon changes lives.
You can't change without God.
God has a very detailed plan, we just have to figure out what it is and then have enough faith to follow it.

Belief+obedience=faith. no obedience = no faith. Faith is the power of miracles.....so if you want miracles in your life, be obedient (to God!)
horray
life is awesome.
I love being a missionary.

Much love
Elder Allred