Coming to you from Austin....

So this week I got Transferred to Austin!! I'm back in the stinky smelly busy city. Haha just kidding Austin is TONS nicer than San Antonio. I'm on a bike for only half the week. We share the car with the other missionaries in this ward. The ward is so big that my companion (Elder Moote) and I cover the North side of the ward, and the other two missionaries cover the South side. The ward is called Shoal Creek. My area is Shoal Creek A, and the other Missionaries area is Shoal Creek B. My New Address is 12148 Jollyville Rd #1513 Austin Texas 78759. So tell everyone! haha just kidding. 

The ward just barley split last week, we went from 500 members to only 400. I'm still used to Fredericksburg when 60 was a big crowd! I was a bit overwhelmed. I was in the mind set that I was going to be able to get to know all the members on a personal level like I was able to in Fredericksburg, but big wards are different than small Branches. I hope I'll be able to get to know quite a few of them tho. I'm still a District Leader, there are two other companionships in my District. I'm going to get to know them later today when we go play volleyball. That is a change too, I'm used to being the only missionary within an hour plus drive of any others!

Elder Tanner is in my Zone, so I will be able to see him twice a week! I'm really excited about that.

Elder Moote is my new companion, he is from Nampa Idaho. I've known him for a while now, He was in my District in Fredericksburg for a while before I was the District Leader there. I think we will get along ok.

The beginning of the week I spent allot of time saying goodbye to the awesome members of Fredericksburg. I was Transferred on Thursday. They announced I was going up to Austin! So I rode in the van with elder Riley Johnson (the one I graduated with) and we talked the whole time. Elder Jacob Isaac drove the van, He's from Spanish Fork too, he Graduated the same time we did but from ALA. We knew him in Middle School and Jr. High. It was a fun drive.

Once I got to my new area we cleaned the apartment... and were still not done. It was a WRECK! So that will be an ongoing project, but it looks much nicer now.

We taught an awesome lesson to a guy that the previous missionaries taught before. He wants to make some major changes in his life and repent. We brought the Stake Patriarch with us, It was a sweet lesson. I'm excited to go back and teach him.

Well that's my week, Tell everyone to write me letters at my new address:

12148 Jollyville Rd #1513

Austin, Texas 78759

I love you all, talk to you soon!

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Elder Allen

Goodbye Fredericksburg!

Hello everyone! So the big news this week is that I'm leaving Fredericksburg :( I will leave Thursday morning. I'm kinda bummed. But it will be good. I have a feeling I will be on a bike for the last 4 months of my mission. I guess we’ll see what happens. I hate the bike.  This week has been a really good one. We've taught a few lessons to some cool people, one of them has a date for baptism in August. She will have to make a few big changes for it to happen, but I believe she can do it. I'm excited to get to know a new ward and work in a new area.  Thanks for all you do! Oh, and Happy Birthday to Grandpa Harris and Ashley Scoubes!



Love,


Elder Allen

Hello everybody, My week was awesome.

On Monday while we were at the thrift store looking for ties, a lady walked up to us and asked if we were Elders. She explained that she was baptized in Kerrville, and had been less active for years. We taught her on Friday and she came to Church yesterday :)

On Tuesday I was on Exchanges with an Elder Rosdahl who's serving in Boerne. We Did service for some members in our branch. They own a Feed Store in a little town called Harper. They picked us up and drove us down there. They needed help out at someone Ranch. A few days before they delivered a couple thousand lbs of feed into their home made Cylo. But the motor on the Auger burned up, so they replaced it, and it burned up again. They found a piece of an Extension cord coming out the top of the auger. So they in listed us to help shovel all 3000 lbs of feed out of the bin into bags so we could get to the bottom of the Auger. We were there for hours. It was way fun, I loved it.  Turns out there was no extension cord in the Auger. Oh well.  Then we went to another members house and helped him work on his Lighthouse for a little bit. He's the one from Spanish Fork. He taught us to drive his Dozer too.

On Saturday we drove out to Mason, a little town in our area. We visited all the members who live out there... all 4 of them.  At 3 out of the 4 members we dropped by there was a non member visiting too, and we got to share quick messages with them. It was really cool. One of them wants to keep meeting with us.

Sunday was the best Sacrament Meeting in Fredericksburg I've been to yet. It was awesome. We have a non member family visiting too, there really good friends of the Moellering Family who invited them. It was a great Sunday.

Well that's my week. Talk to you all later.

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Elder Allen