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This is a licence plate that Elder Dolinar found in Coaldale.
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This past week was great! Carol-Lee came to church when she said that she was going to be gone. It surprised us both because she hasn't been the best at coming to church. We met with her this last week and talked about Joseph Smith and the Mormons a little bit more. It was great that she was able to come to church because the speaker did a really good job on talking about what repentance was and why it is needed for everyone. And the other speaker talked about hope and a story that had happened to him a few years ago. I will have to tell you about it.
This past Friday we got to brand like all day with a non-member it was really fun. We branded maybe around 70 calves. It was really annoying, some of the people that he had there to help him didn't know what they were doing. They brought about 5-7 of their horses and it took them forever to get them up into the corral. Elder Cox and I had to help them on foot to get them into the corral. After we finally got them in they had like all of their horses in trying to separate them. It was discouraging. So we kinda let them do their own thing in the corral while Shah, Cox, and I were separating them. One of the guys helping out wanted to run all the calves through the shoot to get them used to going through or something dumb like that. Thank goodness he gave up after he got one calf through. But even though we had a couple guys that were goof balls we still had a fun time.
So he started off by telling everyone about his life story. He was born and raised in panama until he was about 4-5 years old and then moved to Mexico because of the wars that were going on during that time. There was still a lot of violence there and not very good jobs and so his family decided that they were going to set off to cross the border into the United States. He then went on to tell us that they left in the night with a guy that was going to lead them into the States. There was a border patrol car that ended up driving pretty close to where they were and they were all hiding behind a bush and he said that he could remember that his mom kept telling him to be quiet but the 5 year old kid that he was wasn't quiet and they were caught. They were taken to a big building where after some time they got to come into the States, and after that he grew up in Los Angeles. He grew up there and then moved to Canada and found his wife. He said that he liked taking martial arts but it was getting too expensive for him to do it and to have his son in it too and so he dropped out. There was this one time that he and his wife were going to see one of his performances and he found a pair of socks on the ground, and how his son had a habit of talking off his socks and throwing them on the ground and losing them, he said socks sure can get expensive that way it was pretty funny. He told us that he picked up the socks folded them and put them into the hoody of his son's jacket. After the competition was over his 8 year old son was crossing the road and got hit by a car, he ran over to his son and his son said sorry dad I got hit by a car as he was laying on the ground. His dad said I know son. An ambulance came and took him into the ER and shortly after the Bishop came. The guy that was giving the talk said that he didn't want to give the blessing because he didn't want to say anything that was what he wanted and not what the Lord wanted and so the Bishop gave his son a blessing. After a while the Doctor came out and said its crazy but your son doesn't have even a scratch on him. He could have been seriously injured but the socks that were in his hood cushioned the back of his head. I think that is pretty cool just with the feelings that we sometimes get that are from our Heavenly Father that help us through our lifetime here on earth.
Yesterday we helped a family build some of their fence that was broken. We dug five 3 foot deep holes with shovels for the posts and then screwed up the boards. That was fun as well but I got a bit sunburned from not being outside without a long sleeve shirt and being white going out in the sun. I will hopefully be nice and brown in a couple of days.
In a couple of hours we are going to be doing some more branding so I will have to tell you how everything goes next week.
All of our investigators are doing a lot better this week thank you for all your prayers. Sorry I gotta go I will tell you about them later. Have a good week I love you all.
Love, Elder Allred
