Greenies and Trunky

Haha yeah they still call us greenies, but it goes away after like 3 weeks, or until they can tell that the missionary is'nt nervous. It didn't last to long. Did you guys ever say "Trunky"? Everyone here says it, even the members. It's when you are homesick, or not focused on the work... I don't know, I've never heard it till now. Everything is going good. One of our investigators (Bill) dropped us last night, because his sister wants him to check out another church that his parents went to. He just doesn't want to loose his sister, she's the only family he has left. She doesn't like the Mormons. But he promised to keep reading the book of Mormon, and he's going to get it figured out. Our other investigator Cynthia has a court date today, she just went in. She's going to call us later and tell us how it went. If it all works out like it should, then we can set a date for baptism. That's just about all the news on the people we have been teaching, other than that were doing a lot of tracting.
 
Oh I was going to tell you, we ate dinner at the Harris' house the other night, they are an older couple. She reminds me of Grandma Harris so much! It's weird. I don't think there is a connection, but there might be. I'll see if I can find out. They were cool, there light was broken so I fixed it. It was just like one at the school. That was fun, it felt good to use my hands and fix something. Next we went to another elderly lady's house and put a bunch of stuff up in her attic. It was just like our house so I got to climb up there. It was fun.
Well I think that is just about everything... Thanks for all the love and support. I miss you all a ton. I hope everything is going well back there.
Feel free to take whatever you want from all these e-mails I sent today to use for my blog.
Thanks again, talk to you next week!
love
-Elder Allen

January 10th

We don't spend a whole lot of time in our apartment... we wake up at 6:30 and work out, eat, shower, and study till noon, then go out and work. then we usually don't come home till like 9. Then we plan and do stuff till 10:30 and we go to bed. This p-Day we are going to just sit at home and write letters and things after this and after we go to Walmart. Haha last night me and my companion wrestled... he was shooting me with the nerf gun, and I told him he was going to get tackled if he kept shooting me... and he did, so I jumped on him and pinned him to the ground haha we were both having fun, but it felt so good, haha I got alot of frustration out. Hehe... he couldn't move. He didn't think I could take him like I did. That'll teach him ;)All our investigators are okay. Not a whole lot of progression, but we are working on them. We had a few baptismal dates, but we had to delay them for a little bit until they could get some personal things worked out. One of them has a court date we have to wait for to be over, and the other has to decided if he is actually going to marry his "Wife" or not so he's not breaking the law of chastity. Hopefully everything will work out for them. We have been doing a ton of service for an investigator Cynthia, (the one waiting for the court date) She just moved into a house, and she has so much freaking CRAP!!! We filled an entire storage bin, the big like 10X50's that they put on the ships and things. Its like the size of a semi truck. We organized all of it. She was so overwhelmed with it all, and my comp was confused, so I took over haha. All of your crazy organization madness was passed down I guess. We made a couple piles, and stuffed it all in that thing. It was pretty fun. I was hurting pretty bad tho. My back does hurt now and then. Mainly my shoulders. I have been doing alot of push ups, and built a lot of muscle that I lost. That seemed to help. We just put up our pull up bar, and I'm going to start doing those too. They make me really sore, but I think once I build some muscle I won't hurt anymore. I haven't had to take any Ibuprofen or anything tho, so it's not that bad, so don't worry about it :)
There is a really good talk you guys should read for Family Home Evening. "Find the lambs, feed the sheep" by Pres. Hinkley "from a satellite broadcast given at the salt lake tabernacle 21 February 1999" If you can find it it's a really good one. You can put that on the blog and have everyone read it! 

 (I asked him why he took so many pictures of cars and not of  people)

Well I'm not going to take pictures of people I may never see again in my whole life... but the cars are worth remembering.

Thanks for everything!

Elder Allen

 

Happy New Year

Ariving in the Austin Area

It sounds like you had a good time in Colorado. Oh man I miss driving in the snow!! I miss driving period. My comp is still a strange driver. Oh well. How is my truck doing? Did you happen to take it to Matt? Oh no, you haven't been in town very long. Well, let me know how it's doing. Ugh I miss working on cars. Every time we see someone working on their car we try to help, but nobody ever wants help. Oh well. So it sounds like Colorado and Utah have a lot of snow now, that is awesome. It's still nice and warm here.

Hayden lost his wallet? ah phewy, let him drive. You don't need to have your permit or license with you. If you do get pulled over..... Then they just ask you for your address. Then they look it up that way. They like you to have it because it makes it easier for them so they can be lazy. Tanner Never had his license, and we've been pulled over plenty of times =D haha.

I was thinking maybe you could send me some recipes from home. Like Tuna noodle ( I think I have that one memorized) and maybe some others that we usually eat. I can't think of any right now ... Hey could you send me Alice's book of chocolate desserts? That would be great! Oh I had another idea. When you send my SD card back (if you haven't yet) you should put some pictures on it for me. Like maybe a few of the Plymouth, the dogs, or something cool. I can put them on my GPS as a background

My cool new bike.

     My New Years was pretty good, we just ate dinner at an investigators house with some other members there, and then went home and went to bed. nothing exciting.
     This week has been way cool tho, we picked up a few new investigators.  1. Bill: Bill is in his 50's, he was being taught by the other missionaries a long time ago. but he stopped having them over because of the pressure of his family. But he called us the other day and had us come over. He said he read the whole book of Mormon and had started it over again. He said he wants to be baptized and he doesn't care what anyone else thinks. He's awesome.    2. Jackie and Tim, they were referrals, they said they know a lot of people in our church, and they wanted to come so we got them a ride and they came yesterday. It was awesome. She is actually a member, but she went inactive when she was 14. Her family has been pushing them, and now there interested. It's been a good week.
     Well, that's all I can think of right now, we are going to a tri-zone today. That's when the 3 Austin Texas Zones get together, and have a giant dodge ball thing. I guess it's a really big deal because we don't get to do it very often mostly because people usually get hurt. Haha, it sounded like it took a lot of effort from the assistant missionaries to get Pres. to let us. So that should be fun I guess.
     Well thanks for all your letters and E-Mails. I'll write again next week. Have fun in the snow!
     Love
  -Elder Allen