On Wednesday we had a zone conference that lasted for 8 hours... To tell you the truth I like zone conference, I just wish that they weren't so long. I thought that my butt hurt going on road trips but that was nothing compared to this. It was good though there is always good things talked about during them. One of the main focuses during the zone conference is the question that we sometimes ask ourselves, what would Christ do? I feel that it is an important question for all of us as missionaries to be constantly asking ourselves because we are representatives of Him and His church. But are we not all missionaries and representatives of Him and His church? I really feel that as we ask ourselves, what would Christ do? that we will find that we will change to become more and more Christlike and less of the natural man which is in us. That night we were in our apartment at 9 and since we have a gym in our apartment's basement we have been working out in the morning and at night in the times that we are supposed to be in. We were heading down the elevator to work out at 9 and I was super pumped to go work out. I jumped a little and the elevator stopped in between a couple of floors and the door opened maybe a fourth of the way (I never thought that that would stop an elevator). I was like oh crap and I thought that we were going to get out fairly quickly that it was maybe jammed or something but no.. We called the people out of the elevator and they said that they would send someone right away and it wasn't until 2 hours later that we got out. I was so bumbed I will never do that again. I guess sometimes we just have to learn from our own mistakes.
On Thursday we had lunch with one of the members in the ward who calls himself the White Puerto Rican Jew. He is really cool, and super funny, but is one of those guys that is like Donald Trump. Kind of the same personality I think. I asked him why he calls himself the White Puerto Rican Jew and he just says because people hate Puerto Ricans and people hate Jews and I am white so why not be both of them. He drives limos around for people and knows a ton of popular people because of that. He knows a guy that owns the WWE (something about wrestling) He's got all the hook ups. We also got to play some softball with the Elder's Quorum in the Tuscany ward. I got a few home runs off of it and Elder Darrow was like unstoppable he is so good. Just being with them we got 2 referrals.
On Friday we went to a garden service with a guy and lately Bob a non-member, has been inviting his friend to come and help us with it and he has been asking us a ton of questions so we are going to hopefully start teaching him soon. We also had dinner with the Somerfelts in Siksika's parents house and the branch president who was in my first area, President Somerfelt was there with his family so it was sure good to see them again.
On Saturday nothing too much happened we knocked on a ton of doors off of the three lists but other then that nothing too exciting.
On Sunday we had our 6+ hours of church which can get really draining... But it was really good at the same time. We had dinner with a guy from the Tuscany Ward who knew the Horrocks from Roosevelt, the one who has the big roping arena that I had been to. He had also been to my companion's home town which was really weird. We then had a lesson with Danica and taught her the word of wisdom, so she is pretty much done with all the lessons now and she will be getting baptized very soon, probably in the next couple of weeks or so.
On Monday we had our district meeting, my companion and I snuck out for a few seconds to grab a couple pictures of the eclipse but nothing really showed up too much. It was noticeably darker out though. I will have to send some pictures of what it was like up here.
Today we emailed a bit and then headed over to Fusion, a really expensive sushi and Asian food place which is alright. My favorite thing there is the spicy crap roll. But I'm not so much of a fan of that kind of food.
Well that's pretty much it. The mission is going great, I am loving it! Have a good week love you all!
Love, Elder Allred
