This week has been really good. I'm all better from being sick, and the weather has been pretty warm! Its great! In fact, the weather has been so good lately, that we've decided to ride our bikes a lot more, or ya know, at all :) We rode all day Friday. It was great, I loved it!! My companion, not so much though... haha. We guessed we rode about 20 miles or more that day. He was pretty tired by the end, but surprisingly I felt fine. It felt so good to do something again. We biked about 10 miles the next day. I loved it.
As far as our investigators... Ty Lund, and older lady, in her 70's, has a date for baptism on March 12th! Were so excited! She did have some problems with accepting the idea of a Latter Day Prophet, but we told her to keep reading the Book Of Mormon, and she is confident to get an answer through her prayers. She’s so cool.
She is the only Investigator that we have right now that is actually progressing. We did find an awesome Family last Sunday, and talked to them again yesterday. They really want to find a church. (It’s interesting... People in Texas pick and choose churches like teachers in an Elementary school here. So many choices, and they believe it’s the same message, just presented differently) But anyways, they like what they have heard about us, and want to come next Sunday. We are going to try to teach them a Restoration Lesson before that though. They are way cool, and we have a good family to fellowship them. It'll be good :)
I finished The Book Of Mormon in my personal studies. Our Mission President has given us each a pass along copy, and has instructed us to Mark it a specific way. Faith in red, Repentance in yellow, Baptism in orange, Holy Ghost in green, and Other/Endure to the end in blue. I just finished it. I Honestly think it was the first time I've read it all the way through. It was a really good testimony builder. I think i might start over again, or start in the bible, I'm not sure yet :)
Well that’s about all the news I have for this week... I'll be sending home allot of pictures (like 400ish [mwahaha!]) soon so you can see some of them :) Thanks again for all your love and support! I miss you all and hope everything is good back at home :)
Love-
Elder Carter Allen
Monday, February 21, 2011
Friday, February 18, 2011
HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!
HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!
Hello everyone! Happy Valentines day! This week has been pretty good, it went by really fast! We have been doing a lot of knocking. I'm so glad I'm not sick anymore, I still have a cough, but I'm feeling much better! Thanks for all your prayers :) This week our Ward Mission Leader is having us focus a lot on less active members. So its been fun teaching them and their families. Were trying to find ways to get them re-activated. Most of our Investigators are not really progressing. So that's no fun, but oh well, we'll keep trying. Yesterday we helped clean a members house... that was pretty weird. She is a less active recent convert. She was baptized about a year ago. She is struggling with a lot of things. When we called her and asked her if she was coming to church, she said that she had a lot to do, she would be having an inspection on Monday and she had to clean her house. So, we went by and helped clean after church. Oh boy that place was a mess. We scrubbed the walls, and I scraped all the food off the stove, and scraped the refrigerator clean. We helped her out for about an hour and a half. It was kind of fun . Hopefully we can get her coming back to church soon. Other than that we didn't do anything exciting this week... just knocking and talking to people.
Hello everyone! Happy Valentines day! This week has been pretty good, it went by really fast! We have been doing a lot of knocking. I'm so glad I'm not sick anymore, I still have a cough, but I'm feeling much better! Thanks for all your prayers :) This week our Ward Mission Leader is having us focus a lot on less active members. So its been fun teaching them and their families. Were trying to find ways to get them re-activated. Most of our Investigators are not really progressing. So that's no fun, but oh well, we'll keep trying. Yesterday we helped clean a members house... that was pretty weird. She is a less active recent convert. She was baptized about a year ago. She is struggling with a lot of things. When we called her and asked her if she was coming to church, she said that she had a lot to do, she would be having an inspection on Monday and she had to clean her house. So, we went by and helped clean after church. Oh boy that place was a mess. We scrubbed the walls, and I scraped all the food off the stove, and scraped the refrigerator clean. We helped her out for about an hour and a half. It was kind of fun . Hopefully we can get her coming back to church soon. Other than that we didn't do anything exciting this week... just knocking and talking to people.
Love to everyone,
Elder Allen
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Plymouth Special Deluxe Sedan
This week we have been instructed to look at the new http://www.mormon.org/ It is really cool! Have you looked at it yet? It basically answers any questions any investigators might have about the Church. It is a great teaching tool. Every member is invited to make a profile. I encourage everyone to do this! Just think, you can have people look up your profile, and they can read your testimony and what not on the site. It's really cool. There is a chance that our mission will be able to make profiles as well, but for now, we aren't going to.
You would never guess what kind of Car we saw yesterday! A 1947 Plymouth Special Deluxe Sedan EXACTLY LIKE MINE!!! We even talked to the guy who owned it. It was really funny, him and his friend were working on a boat (that had the exact same engine as one of mine did) and I asked him about his car. He let me take a bunch of pictures of it. His came from Colorado too. He thought it was cool that I had one exactly like it, but his had a different motor. He was saying how it could be worth $80,000 but only if you are willing to put $100,000 into it.... The Plymouth's really aren't worth very much, at least not right now... :) It was really cool though.
Oh, this week we went on Exchanges again. This time I went with Elder Barr up in his Area, Walsh Ranch. It was okay, except it was really windy, cold, and I was way sick. No Bueno.
As for the work... not very much work happened due to the weather and me being sick. Most of our appointments fell thru as well. But we did have a few good lessons. We are teaching a guy named Robert (Bob) who is a hardcore Baptist, and the lessons are going well. He's a cool crazy old guy. One of the members here Ike Thorpe knows him, so that helps a lot to. Cynthia is still doing good, just waiting for her court date.
Yesterday was Stake Conference. That was really fun. It was a broadcast from Salt Lake. It was only for Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. We got to hear from Elder Marlin K. Jenson, Sister Ann M. Dibb, Elder M. Russel Ballard and President Monson. It was really cool.
Well that's about all I have for this week. Hopefully next week will have more exciting news. Thanks for all the love and support from everyone! Tell everyone Hi for me, I love you all.
-Elder Carter Allen
You would never guess what kind of Car we saw yesterday! A 1947 Plymouth Special Deluxe Sedan EXACTLY LIKE MINE!!! We even talked to the guy who owned it. It was really funny, him and his friend were working on a boat (that had the exact same engine as one of mine did) and I asked him about his car. He let me take a bunch of pictures of it. His came from Colorado too. He thought it was cool that I had one exactly like it, but his had a different motor. He was saying how it could be worth $80,000 but only if you are willing to put $100,000 into it.... The Plymouth's really aren't worth very much, at least not right now... :) It was really cool though.
Oh, this week we went on Exchanges again. This time I went with Elder Barr up in his Area, Walsh Ranch. It was okay, except it was really windy, cold, and I was way sick. No Bueno.
As for the work... not very much work happened due to the weather and me being sick. Most of our appointments fell thru as well. But we did have a few good lessons. We are teaching a guy named Robert (Bob) who is a hardcore Baptist, and the lessons are going well. He's a cool crazy old guy. One of the members here Ike Thorpe knows him, so that helps a lot to. Cynthia is still doing good, just waiting for her court date.
Yesterday was Stake Conference. That was really fun. It was a broadcast from Salt Lake. It was only for Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. We got to hear from Elder Marlin K. Jenson, Sister Ann M. Dibb, Elder M. Russel Ballard and President Monson. It was really cool.
Well that's about all I have for this week. Hopefully next week will have more exciting news. Thanks for all the love and support from everyone! Tell everyone Hi for me, I love you all.
-Elder Carter Allen
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
knock, Knock, Knocking
So this last week has been pretty good. We have done a lot of knocking. I don't really like knocking all that much. I don't mind knocking in town, with the houses, but my companion loves to knock apartments. but I hate it. Our mission Pres. told us it's a lot more effective if you can try to get to know the person a little before you start talking about the gospel and such. So when you knock on houses, you can ask them about their car, or some weird statue they have on their porch, or anything like that. I feel like a lot more comfortable that way. but when you knock on apartments, you just say hi "I'm a missionary let me in" and they usually say no. Figures. Theres not really anything to start the conversation with. but its just something I need to work on I guess. So yes, a lot of knocking this week. We did find a few people that are going to have us come back. We met a nice family. We introduced the idea of life after death, and eternal families, they got way excited. I think they will go far. We have been teaching a guy named Robert. haha he's a crazy old guy. I don't remember if I told you about him or not. He just had surgery, and he's a baptist. He makes sure we know it. He loves talking about religion ! When we have lessons with him, and we make a statements, he stops us and said whether he agrees or disagrees. Then if he disagrees, we explain it till he can agree. So he is really easy to teach haha. He's cool. When we first met him he said we could come in, but he is never changing from a baptist. By the time we left he said "I'm not converting, but you never know what god has in store for us". We did some service with Moe, the one that we baptized about a month ago. He volunteers at "The Caring Place" its like a DI's. He drives the truck and delivers food and stuff. One day he delivered food to this old home bound lady. He noticed that she had a bunch of leaves in her yard so he called us up and we went and racked them up. That was really fun. Moe is an awesome guy.
This morning I woke up pretty sick :( I haven't been feeling good these last few days actually. I'm taking it easy today.
I'm going on exchanges with the District Leader tonight, we'll switch back tomorrow night. We have a cool District Leader. Elder Shipley. He's from Utah. He's going with my companion, and I'm going with his companion Elder Barr. Elder Barr is cool to. He's only a transfer older than me. He's from Anaheim California. It should be fun. Me and Elder Barr are going to work up in his area. I'm excited.
I'm doing good here, everything is going good. I'm sure I'll be feeling better soon, so don't worry about me. Thanks for all that you do, tell everyone I said hi.
I love you!
Elder Allen
This morning I woke up pretty sick :( I haven't been feeling good these last few days actually. I'm taking it easy today.
I'm going on exchanges with the District Leader tonight, we'll switch back tomorrow night. We have a cool District Leader. Elder Shipley. He's from Utah. He's going with my companion, and I'm going with his companion Elder Barr. Elder Barr is cool to. He's only a transfer older than me. He's from Anaheim California. It should be fun. Me and Elder Barr are going to work up in his area. I'm excited.
I'm doing good here, everything is going good. I'm sure I'll be feeling better soon, so don't worry about me. Thanks for all that you do, tell everyone I said hi.
I love you!
Elder Allen
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