All September Emails!

 September 3rd

Hey everyone!  I don't have much time today, the library is closed, so we are at a members home using their computers.  This week we had a ton of success! We taught 6 first lessons by knocking doors. That's the best I've had my whole mission! Some of the new investigators we found already dropped us, but a few are still looking good so far. The Lord is really blessing us here. One of our new investigators is from Japan, he was being taught by the missionaries there for the last 3 months. He just barley got to the states. He already has a testimony and everything. He's really cool. The only thing holding him back is his wife... She doesn't like the church. That won't stop him though. I'm excited for him.

Well I don't have much time today, talk to you all next week. Love you!

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Elder Allen 

September 10th

Hello everybody!

This week was really good, but kind of crazy. I went on exchanges with Elder Earnshaw (from West Valley) this week. We found a really cool guy who was wounded in action in Iraq. He didn't make it to church, so we're going to follow up on him. We are also teaching our Japanese friend still. He said he is ready to be baptized, even though his wife is still not the most supportive. She will come around. We went on Splits with the Elders Quorum on Sunday, I got to ride in a brand spankin' new Porsche. So sweet, 6 cylinder turboed boxer motor, all wheel drive. We broke all 4 tires loose. I was with the Elders Quorum President! Haha he's so cool. He's a billionaire, like for real. Next Saturday he is hosting a ward party, and paying for the food. It will be catered by a stinking fancy restaurant. The best part is he's a totally normal guy, who only wants to serve in the church. His family is super normal and fun to talk to. This ward is sweet.

Everything is going good here, these last two days the weather has been AWESOME!! The cool (dry) fall air came in for a while. Next week it will probably go back to the hot muggy humid 100 degree weather. Dumb. Texas is too hot. I miss the fall so bad.

Well thanks for everything everyone! Talk to you soon.

--
Elder Allen

September 17th 

Today it's been 22 months since I walked in the MTC!  Crazy.

This week was pretty good, our awesome Japanese Investigator has a baptismal date for September 29th. I'm excited for him. He has some really good Japanese Fellowship in the ward.

We also taught an awesome guy we found last week. He is a disabled war vet. He was in Iraq. He can't read too well, but he's been listing to the Book of Mormon on LDS.org and following along with his copy. We had a really good member fellowship there with him in our lesson.

Things are going good, were still knocking a lot of doors and trying to find people.

It's been raining a ton for the last 4 days. I've gotten wet on my bike every day. Lame. It's fun though.

Well talk to you all next week.

--
Elder Allen

September 24th

Hello everyone!

This week was awesome. I got to go on Exchanges with Elder Patrick. We had a few miracles handed to us. While we were looking for a former investigator we knocked into someone who has been wanting to go to a Mormon Church with her family! We had a lot of fun.

I also got to go on Exchanges with the Zone Leaders, I went with Elder Holt. We also found a few cool people and set up return appointments.

Jacob our Japanese Investigator is getting baptized this Saturday. His wife used to be pretty anti, until a member of the ward took Jacob and his wife to lunch and talked for 4 hours about the Gospel! She is very open now, and coming to the baptism! The lord answered our prayers and softened her heart.

Everything is going well in Austin. Thanks for everything. Talk to you soon.

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Elder Allen