This week has been pretty great it hasn't been so cold. It had to have just been a cold snap that went through because pretty much this whole week it has been above freezing during the day.
So the highlight of the week was the lesson we had with Kyra and Shannon talking about the restoration and the Book of Mormon. It went very well and Kyra already has a great desire of being baptized. Something that I thought was amazing was that Shannon was already reading the Book of Mormon with Kyra for betime stories and they were a little way through first Nephi.
We are hoping that Shannon and Kyra will get baptized in the near future. The only problem is, before I got here Shannon says that when she prayed about a baptismal date she got her answer of being baptized in May on Kyra's birthday. She thinks that she had that as her answer because shortly after getting it she got custody over her granddaughter and she figured that they would be getting baptized together on Kyra's birthday. The only problem that I see is that Shannon is already ready for baptism and Kyra is going to be ready in the next few weeks, so in all reality they could get baptized a whole lot earlier. I think that it would be neat, and also neat for them to be baptized on Kyra's birthday but why would you want to postpone the wonderful blessings of baptism and the Holy Ghost?
Something that was pretty cool was that on Saturday we didn't have a dinner and so a member in the ward gave us a $50 gift card and a separate $50 bill for the Beef Eater. We thanked him and headed to the restaurant. We walked in and didn't realize just how fancy this place was. We ended up getting the top 2 most pricey things on the menu which was a steak with crab legs, and a steak with shrimp and then split the shrimp and crab. It came with a side of stuffed potato and french fries and all you could eat soup and salad. It was soo good maybe a little over priced though. Our meal was going to cost us a little over $100. But the thing was, that somewhere in the restaurant a pipe broke and there was water running out of the bathrooms and the kitchen it was crazy. We were one of two tables that the owner of the restaurant came up to and said your food is on me. We said oh no you don't have to do that and he said no its on me this was not as enjoyable as it should have been for you. So we got over $100 worth of food for free and ended up tipping the waitress $15 off of the gift card and then returning the money and gift card back to the member it was pretty awesome!
We have also been moved out of our apartment temporarily due to members of the apartment smoking in it. Apparently there is not anything in the contract that tells them that they can't smoke and so for our safety they have moved us out for the time being until we get a new one at the end of the month so we are going to be staying with another set of elders until we move into our new one. And then we will have to move everything out of our old apartment into our new one.
Well I'm running low on time, but I sure do love you all and I hope that you have a great week!
Love, Elder Allred
