I can't believe that I am already 19, I feel like I should still be 17. I am now 10 months out which is crazy! The times sure are going fast. I was reading in Jacob 7:26 around the time I was about to have my birthday and a line in that verse caught my eye, when It said that, "also our lives passed away like as it were unto us a dream". When I read that I thought wow I really need to make sure that I am doing the right thing because before I know it, it could be too late. And I thought that the best thing that I could do is come to know the Savior more in my life. I found another scripture that is in Jacob 1 6-8 talking about how they knew of Christ. And they knew of Christ because they believed in him, and because they believed in him they came unto him.
This week we found out that both of our baptismal dates were not going to work. Carol-Lee for some reason isn't making it to church which is really weird and so we are going to have to put it off until June. Keely is still really solid and is walking to church every Sunday even when it is snowing. It is a shame that nobody in the ward has enough love to stop and pick her up, we talked to the Bishop about it. Rob had been meeting with him because of past transgressions and he doesn't feel like the bishop cares or loves him very much and so he has completely stopped coming to church because of it. I know that this isn't totally Bishop's fault even though it is very discouraging. We tried telling Rob that even though it may seem like he doesn't love you he was called of God to be a Bishop and that it might just be the way he acts, but unfortunately it didn't change anything. Its too bad, it's crazy how hard the adversary will work on people.
We have had some pretty cool miracles through a couple of the members though. This past week our WML who is such a sweet guy, he is so on the ball. He had a neighbor who had been suffering from cancer who died a few days ago and his wife came up to Sister Bender and told her that she would like to join our church. She said that she had been wanting to but it was just hard to do anything with her husband so sick. My mouth dropped when Sister Bender told us that. Yesterday at church we also had a younger guy maybe in his mid 20's come up to us at church and told us that he has been dating this girl that had been taking lessons before and would maybe like us to start teaching her again. Those were a couple of great miracles that I have had this week. And I am excited to see what comes from them.
So for the past few weeks we have been doing what is called the spring fling, which is a point system and every companionship has to get so many points per week and if we do we get to go to the temple. We got points based on member lessons, investigator lessons, people to church, studies, service, and street/tracting. Our mission has been a little low as a whole, our zone was good, which was pretty cool. Since our mission was low we weren't supposed to go but Pres. Miles already made plans and so our mission will be going. They are splitting the mission into two pieces the North and the South. I am in the South so I will be going to the Cardston temple. I am pretty excited because I have never been to it and I hear that it is pretty neat. I will have to send you all some pictures, we are going tomorrow.
That sure was scary to hear about the experience that Derick had. I can't help but think of how much we need to have the spirit with us to guide us through these dangerous times in our lives, both physical and spiritual.
I love you all and am looking forward to face timing you on Mothers day, have a great week!!
Love, Elder Allred
