Baptism and Humidity

Hello everybody!

This week was good. We had a Baptism on Saturday! It was awesome. She was confirmed on Sunday. The girl was being taught by the Sisters who cover the Singles ward, but the girl was only 17 so she had to be baptized in the Family ward. It was really good. I'll see if I can send pictures. She was baptized by her returning from less active Boyfriend.

Sunday morning we woke up at 4 am to the Fire Alarm going off in the whole apartment building!! Everybody was standing outside because the noise was unbearable. We waited for about 20 minutes for the Fire truck to come, and tell us it was a malfunction. I was very tired on Sunday.

We got our Transfer calls last night, Elder Moote and I are both staying for one more Transfer. I'm excited to stay and continue to get to know the ward here. Right now we don't have any progressing Investigators, but we have allot of good potentials.  

 It is Stinking Humid here! I sweat Soooo much. I had to hang my planner and everything in my pockets to dry last night because they were soaked. Being on bikes is rough. We are on bikes Sunday Monday and Tuesday, then we get the car from Wednesday until Saturday. It works out well.

I went on 2 sets of Exchanges this last week too. It was really fun. It was a good week.

Well I'll talk to you all soon, Thanks again

-- Elder Allen

Lessons,Cars and a Baptism!

Hello everybody. This week was really great. We taught a bunch of people that we found last week. We picked up 3 new investigators. They all happen to be out of town at the beginning of this week, so it will be a while until we can teach them again. We had members come to all the lessons. It was really cool.

We dropped by a less active member to teach her and her non member husband, when right after the opening prayer her less active parents walked in the door! They sat down and listened to the lesson. It was really cool. We set up a return appointment with all of them (except the non member husband).

We got to do some more service and help someone move into an apartment we were knocking. They were really cool. His name was Carter too. Then we knocked into a lady who was really struggling. Her daughter is giving her a hard time (stealing the car and letting the battery die). So we helped her get her car going again and gave her a pamphlet. We set up a return appointment :)

We had the chance to participate in a Baptism yesterday! The 8 year old daughter of a recent convert family we have been working with got Baptized yesterday. Elder Moote did the Baptism and I was able to confirm her. It was really cool.

This week was a good one. Hopefully this next week will be just as good or better!

Love you all, talk to you soon.

--
Elder Allen

And that is a "crazy lady"

Hello everybody! This week was strange. We didn't teach any lessons, but I felt like we were way busy the whole time. On Tuesday we had Zone Conference. It was really good. We learned about getting back to the basics and focusing on talking to everyone. I got to hang with Elder Tanner and his companion Elder Glandon, it was really fun.  I also got to go on exchanges with Elder Earnshaw in the district. It was fun. They have some really sweet investigators they’re teaching right now. I'm excited for them.

On Thursday we went to the Hospital to visit a member there, but while we were in the waiting room a “crazy lady” came to talk to us about getting "help and support" from the Church. Then she asked the Hospital to pay for a cab for her, and when they told her no she flipped out and ran around screaming. We left after that. We did give her a pass along card for a Finding Faith in Christ DVD though.

On Friday we got to drive two other missionaries in our district to the doctor since they were on bikes because they’re car is in the shop.

Saturday we knocked all day and talked to a bunch of sweet people and got a lot of return appointments. We have a ton of appointments set up for this week, so hopefully our numbers will go up.

Sunday was fast Sunday, and we didn't have a dinner scheduled. Elder Moote needed to borrow a bike helmet for the day because he left his in the car... So we called a member close by to see if they had one we could borrow. When we got there they offered to feed us dinner! It was great! I love those surprise miracles. A few hours later we had another one when we were talking to a drunk lady and she gave us a half a sandwich from her fridge. It was nice of her. We told her we would love to teach her, when she's sober. So we set up a return appointment.

That's my week, It was a good one.

Thanks again for everything, talk to you all soon.

--
Elder Allen

July 30th, 2012

Hello everybody, This week has been a good one. Elder Moote and I talked to a lot of people, and got a few 1st lessons. We taught a lesson with a guy that was pretty interested. We brought a young man to help us teach. The young man is actually leaving for his mission on Tuesday! He did a great job, he's going to be an awesome missionary.  We taught another guy who has a lot of family issues. We taught him on Saturday night, and he came to church yesterday! He left right after Sacrament, but I think he liked it.  Also on Saturday while we were knocking doors, we ran into someone who was loading up his U Haul truck. He let us help him lift all the heavy stuff. It was fun. Then an hour later while knocking doors, we got to help another family load their U Haul truck! 2 in 1 day! I thought it was fun.

Well that's about all that happened, It was a good week. Austin is a cool city I guess, but I miss the farm land with nobody around :) Haha. I spent 10 and a half months in little country towns, now I'm dropped in the city. It's good though. I'll live.

Talk to you soon.

--
Elder Allen