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This week has been crazy we have been so much busier having to cover another ward, it is crazy.
The thing that bothers me the most being out here and it makes me really frustrated is when people say that they have anxiety and they can't do something. There is a guy in the ward that we just recently took over that loves us missionaries and takes us out to lunch every week and has us share a spiritual message with him. He tells us how much he is blessed and receives miracles when we come over and all this and has a pretty strong testimony about the church but he is inactive and I don't understand why. He says that he has an anxiety with crowds but he takes us to Costco for lunch and talks to everybody where there are tons of people. I am pretty sick and tired of this anxiety stuff, I feel that we all have our discomforts and we just have to figure out how to get past them. I feel that in a lot of situations this anxiety stuff shouldn't be an excuse but I don't know maybe I'm wrong. But I do know that because of the Atonement we can get past anything some people just don't get it or just don't want to get it and it's super sad.
But to end on a positive note the work is going great and I feel that I have the best companion in the world right now. We have been riding our bikes a ton to street contact and burn calories but one of the bikes broke while we were riding in the rain and so we are going to have to try and find another one somewhere or call the mission office and see if they can get us one.
Just lately which has been really cool in a couple of our dinner appointments I have had the opportunity of sharing a spiritual message with them. Not that we don't share something every time but these were pretty cool. I love when you have something that you are going to share with them and then flipping through the scriptures you think or turn to something that you feel you should share with them. And after sharing it with them they say thank you that was actually an answer to my prayer or I was actually praying this morning for an answer about that. It's pretty crazy how the spirit works, we can be asking for an answer and get it, or they can get their answer through us as we are in tune with the Spirit.
Yesterday we were tracting and this has been the most successful tracting experience that I have ever had. It was so cool we ended up knocking on maybe 10 doors and there was only 1 that said no, not interested, and closed the door. There were 3 that we had a really good conversation with and the others weren't home. The first guy that we talked to, his name is Ed, is 85 years old and has just recently lost his wife. At the beginning he wasn't interested but we got talking before he closed the door on us and broke the ice and I ended up giving him our number and a plan of salvation pamphlet which he was flipping through and reading while we were talking to him, it was pretty cool. He said that we could come back and teach him.
The second person that we talked to was this guy that had his door open and it smelled like indian food. The man who came to the door was a short little pudgy guy, I asked him if he was making some food and he looked at me like what are you freakin talking about, so I said are you from India and he said, yes I am why do you want to know? Then I told him how much I liked Indian food we talked to him for at least 30 minutes, it was so funny. We were hoping that we were going to be able to teach him the lessons but he told us no, I already know about your religion and then he went on about how all religions have something good about them. And I think that I somewhat believe him that a lot of religions have some good about them but what I like about this church is that we have the fullness of the gospel. The people may not always be the best, but Christ's gospel is.
The third person was a lady from South America, and it was Elder Darrow's turn to knock and he gave the whole shpeel about how we are missionaries and how we do free service and all and she said that she wasn't interested and as she was closing the door I said, boy you have some nice plants growing out here in the front of your house. And she opened up the door and then had to show us her whole yard, the front and the back, it was pretty impressive, it made me think of what mom will be like when we are all moved out and the missionaries stop by haha. She also cuts hair so we are going to go over there to get our haircuts and talk to her and see what happens.
Well I sure do love you guys and I am having a blast out here with my new companion Elder Darrow. I hope that you all have a good week, and I look forward to the time that I can see you all again. Keep up all the good work!
Love, Elder Allred
