This week was great it has been super cold and our car is barely starting in the morning but other then that things have been good. I still feel like it should be 2016. Braden Hartle just emailed me and told me that he is in Canada, about 5 hours away! Sure is crazy to have someone I know visit Canada when back home I thought that nobody visited it.
So some exciting news, we got our letter back that we sent into the police about our parking ticket that we had received for parking in the loading zone of our apartment complex. I forgot to take a picture of it so I could show you so I will have to next week. But apparently our complaint was good enough because it has been canceled, so that saved us a good 25 bucks.
On Thursday we were at an older couple's home visiting them. The husband isn't a member. I have no idea why because he comes to church pretty much every week and has been through the discussions a few times. He is a great guy but maybe just needs some time. While we were over visiting them right before we were going to leave they got a phone call from their daughter in California. They had it on speaker phone so we heard the whole conversation. Their daughter said that she had some strange pains in her chest and was having a hard time breathing, she said that the doctors thought that it was a blood clot in the lungs and she said that she could possibly die at any time, and they were headed to the hospital that was about 3 hours away. It was pretty sad listening to the conversation. After the call ended they were a bit shooken up and we asked them if we could pray with them. Elder Whicker was asked to say it. It ended up being pretty good and the spirit was definitely felt. The next day we called them and asked them how she was doing and they said actually she is doing great! When they got to the hospital they went in met the doctor and surprisingly enough the doctor had the same thing a couple of years ago and he knew exactly what to do to help. As soon as he gave her a bit of medication she was 100 percent back to normal. It sure is interesting just how powerful a simple prayer can be.
We also got to help Dave and Mariet Chop up and split some wood. It was fun being able to run the chainsaw. We had a pretty good system. Dave would bring over some logs I would chop them up with the chainsaw and Elder Whicker was splitting. After bringing some of the wood in and stacking the rest of it outside, we went in and Mariet had fixed us dinner. They always make a ton of food and it is so good. After dinner we talked a little bit about their religious background and talked a little about our church and even invited them to come to church. Elder Whicker and I don't know why they won't come but they are pretty great people. They have a nephew that is out serving a mission in England close to where Dave came from. Dave said that he is going to have it hard in that part of England. It has been neat though hearing them talk about their nephew and what he has been doing on his mission.
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We also got to visit Sharon and Kyra, they are doing well they do have to go to court one more time to get everything finalized with Sharon taking custody of Kyra. We offered to give Sharon a blessing and she said, "Sure I could never turn one of those down."
So we ended up explaining to Kyra what a blessing was and what we would do and all that good stuff. Sharon and Kyra both ended up getting blessings it was pretty cool. We have planned to see them again Tuesday night and share the first discussion with them. We are pretty excited for that.
So we ended up explaining to Kyra what a blessing was and what we would do and all that good stuff. Sharon and Kyra both ended up getting blessings it was pretty cool. We have planned to see them again Tuesday night and share the first discussion with them. We are pretty excited for that.
Well that is just a few cool highlights of this week. I hope that you are all doing well I sure do love you guys and hope that you have a great week!
Love, Elder Allred
