This last week has been pretty good we have been able to get into quite a few homes with the people that we are working with and invite them to the corn bust on Wednesday. The corn bust is where there is all you can eat corn on the cob, and it's Taber Corn, everyone up here thinks that the Taber Corn is the best of the best. So whenever we tell someone that, they just have to come. We are expecting to have a lot of non-members show up to the ward party so it will be interesting to see.
For the past few weeks it has been smoky off and on here in Calgary from the British Columbia fires. It was really bad on Saturday, it was so smoky that you could feel it in your eyes. The sun was super red, I will have to send some pictures of it to you.
But the highlight for this week was Aaron at Sacrament Meeting during fast and testimony meeting. Aaron bore his testimony at church, he went up there with his scriptures and told them of his story growing up, about the teacher Mr. Runno, and how he would teach the class about Adam and Eve and then in the next class teach them about the Big Bang. He also talked about his conversion story and how he had become a knower and not just a believer. He then told them, if I look a little shaky up here it is because I have gone without coffee for 6 days. Everyone laughed and then he pulled out an empty cigarette box and told everyone that he smoked his last one this morning and he is going to stop because he now knows that there is a higher power that he can rely on. In Gospel Principles we talked a lot about sealings and more on prayer. He bore his testimony to us all again. Something that was really crazy was that he payed fast offerings, he heard that's what we do and so he did it, and keep in mind at this point we had only taught him the first lesson. After the two church meetings we had another lesson with him and we put him on date for the 23 of September, and this will be a goal that he is going to shoot for and that will give him extra motivation to quit smoking. Today marks the 3rd day that he hasn't smoked. He has been smoking since he was 14 years old, he is now 47, it is pretty impressive that he has cold turkeyed it after all those years.
If all goes well, Danica will be baptized on the 16th and Aaron on the 23rd.
I am really loving the mission. I am a bit tired right now because we got Adam, who is 17 in one of the wards, to invite a bunch of his high school basketball buddies to come and play ball with us today. I have been so excited that I had a hard time falling asleep last night. Adam's dad is one of the coaches at the Bowness High School, and he told him to get a few of the Varsity ball players to play. I can't wait it's going to be so much fun.
Well I love you guys and hope that you are all doing well!
Love, Elder Allred
