hah..
haha.. sorry im just kidding. It was good. i was telling Di though that
it felt weirder than all of the other calls ive done up to this point. I
really enjoyed it though. you guys all look good. especially Col with
his luscious locks!
ill be straight up
honest... this change has been harder than the others.. its my last
change in the office and even though ive been living it up and we have
so much fun im just really really ready to have two changes outside
working full time in the normal field. it gives you a different type of
satisfaction working all day and just getting home after having given
testimony ALL DAY. obviously i know what i do is important and that we
help other missionaries be able to do what they do, but its gotten to
the point where i feel like i have too much time to think about things.
all i want to do is finish my mission as strong as i can and do exactly
what the Lord expects of me and nothing less! im still working hard but
sometimes i get off topic especially when the other two secretaries are
dying as well and wont ever leave the office. we really do have a good
time though i love elder staton and elder ammirati. Good guys.
President and the assistants went to interviews today and wont be back till friday
but yesterday they surprised me with a birthday party in the office
that included Dr Pepper, lunch, and a big huge Lucuma cake. if you dont
know what lucuma is you`re missing out. its this deluctable celestial
fruit that i will dearly miss. it was really good though. Hermana Dìaz
got me a big package filled with more dr pepper, root beer, chocolate,
and other candies. Theyre the best i love the office. Also this morning
Elder staton, Ammirati, and my comp elder rogerson told me we were
playing basketball at 630 at the church. which is normal, but what i
didnt expect is cinnamon french toast in the office for breakfast haha!
ive been treated well here. today these other two missionaries Elder
ROjo(its funny because im elder todorojo) and Santa Ana are in Viña and
theyre gonna take me out to lunch for mexican food, so the plans arent
looking bad! I cant believe im 20 man... what the heck.
news from our sector - Catalina came to the conference and is getting baptized this saturday!!!
were so pumped, it will be the first baptism in this sector since
August of last year. Her family is going to attend and all of her soccer
teammates as well. We also had a sweet lesson this week... we went with
a sister from our ward and taught about the ten commandment adn the
word of wisdom and while we were teaching Catalinaàs aunt and 8 year old
cousin were there. her little cousin is almost always there when we
teach, his name is augustin and hes our homie. what we didnt know is
that he has some issues. at the end of the lesson we sang a himn and
gave the closing prayer and before leaving asked if we could do anything
else for them... Catalina`s aunt looked at us with a tear in her eye
and told us that her son has problems with violence and always hurts
other people, but that lately hes been better about it and she thinks
its cause hes been hearing the lessons. she asked if we could start
teaching him as well and if she could take him to church on sundays! we
were like heck yeah you can take him to church. hes 8 years old right?
chiste chiste. it was cool though.
we also had
another investigator come to stake conference named Herminia. we have
been teaching her son and daughter in law but she committed to come and
came through and the other two didnt so that was a miracle! shes 86
years old and took the bus like 20 min to get to the stake center.
dedication lets go! she`ll have a baptismal date this week.
Well,
its been another awesome week. I love this work, i love the gospel, and
theres nothing more gratifying than living it every day and sharing
with everyone.
Love you fam.
-Elder Allred - Chilean Street Raptor
photos: heres a pic of the squad, and my lucuma birthday cake.
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