March 6, 2017

My ankle is doing pretty good, still a little bigger then my right ankle, but it is doing great. I am making sure that when I play with the zone that I put my ankle brace on that the Lemay's gave me. 

This week has been pretty awesome! To start it out Lee and Finola I think I told you separated because Lee went out drinking after he had been doing so good. Finola is still going 100% of the time to church and really wants to get baptized, the only problem is that Lee and her still have a little chance of getting back together, and if she was baptized then they would have to get married if they were to get baptized and so we are going to be putting that off for a little bit longer to see what they can work out. We found out that Finola has a few kids from a previous relationship, there are two daughters, one is 10 so we will be picking her up as a new investigator, and the other one is 7 so we will teach her too so that when she is 8 she will already know what she is getting into. 

On Saturday we got to go vaccinate cows! Elder Cox who is one of my zone leaders knew this guy that he had done cows with before. He is a non-member that I think is going to start getting the lessons soon. His wife is a less active but has been starting to come to church. Wow was it weird to be in the corral with cows after 8 months, and be pushing them up the shoot. I have never had so much fun doing cows. It is kind of like how sometimes on this earth we experience some hard times and some trials that we might not want to go through, after we have been having it so easy, and it isn't until we go through them that w

Yesterday at the first ward, Park Meadows one of our investigators, the one that cut my hair came up to me and Dolinar after sacrament and started tearing up as she talked to us and she said guys I am really thinking that I want to be baptized. I knew that she had wanted to but she has had a couple of hold ups. Her dad is very anti and will most likely disown her if she does. Her sister is LDS and is very strong in the church but has gotten disowned a few times which is really sad. Her husband is a non-member and is telling her that he is going to start to go to church so hopefully he will have his heart softened and we will be able to start teaching him too. She is such a sweat lady, I have really gotten to love her and Finola because of the drive that they have in learning more and wanting to be faithful and follow the Savior. They have really been an example to me, because I know that I can always try harder to do what is right, and to become more Christlike. 

In the Second Ward Dolinar and I were asked to help pass the sacrament, we have done it quite a few times because of the lack of youth in the ward, but this time was pretty crazy. We were passing the bread around and I saw one of the counselors just looking at the crowd and he had a pretty bad black eye form playing squash, so I was just kinda giggling on the inside and then when I looked around I saw Brother Oler who had just recently shaved off his mountain man beard and just has a little go tee right now.. but the funny part about it was that he has the biggest baby face if you know what I mean, and it is just hilarious to look at. After that I knew that I was going to start laughing if I didn't look away and so I looked a few rows behind him and there was this dude that was staring me down that had the worst sunburned face that I think that I had ever seen, It looked like his face was literally on fire. I didn't know what to do so I just looked at the floor and thought about the atonement, and that was the only way I could keep myself from laughing, thank goodness I didn't.  

Well this is just a little bit of what has been going on here this past week, I hope you all have a good week and I love you all!! 

Love, Elder Allred