Pretty normal nothing too crazy happened. We had zone conference on Friday and it was the shortest zone conference I have ever been to, it was only 3 hours long instead of 6-7. That was a lot easier to sit through haha. Not that I don't like zone conference it's just hard to sit for that long when you don't have too much cushion if ya know what I mean.
This week we also met with Bradley he is doing well, we taught him the stop smoking program and it actually went very well. It was hard to find the cinnamon mouthwash and the 100% grapefruit juice, but we ended up finding some. This past Tuesday Bradley actually took us out ammonite hunting. We got up at 5:30 and were out by 6. We found a few fossils and then Bradley, who was walking a bit ahead of us, said oh my goodness! Oh my goodness! So we went over there and Bradley had found a big chunk. So we started turning over stones and found a ton of big chunks, our back packs were full and super heavy and so we had to head back. But what we had found was actually quite rare. As we were headed back we missed the trail that we were to go back on and we were walking through some cottonwoods and bradley looked up from watching the ground for rattlsnakes and said what the he** just happened.. it was so funny, he didnt really laugh but I did. After we made it up out of the coolee we went back to Brad's and washed them off a bit and got a picture with it. He just texted a picture to us and it is almost a whole fossil. It's just missing a couple of spots but pretty much the whole thing.
We had another lesson with Bradley yesterday, he had smoked a few times and drank coffee again and so we went through the stop smoking program again and recommitted him to follow the 15 steps for the next 7 days. He said that he would. He had one cigarette left and we got him to rip it up and put it in the trash, so I think he's pretty committed. We also put him on date for July 21.
Neil and Heather are still doing the same they have been reading their scriptures which is really good. Heather told us that she wants to be baptized. It will be hard for her to stop smoking but I believe that she can do it.
Yesterday we had a lesson with Connor at Brother Smigle's home and his friend Carissa came! We had planned to teach the plan of Salvation to Connor and so that's what we taught. Connor is a Born Again Christian and so he likes to try and argue about everything, it's funny but also irritating. Carissa on the other hand seems very interested and I feel really enjoyed the lesson. We have planned to meet with them again tomorrow so that will be fun, I'm excited.
Last week we also got to go to Waterton last p-day and that was really fun. We attempted to climb to the top of a peak but when we got 3/4 of the way up the wind was blowing so hard that we couldn't go any further. It was blowing so hard that we could jump and the wind would carry us a bit, it was crazy, I have a video of it. We also got to see a bear and it's three cubs! I'll send you the pictures.
Well this is my last email and I'm pretty excited to see you all on Wednesday! These two years have been great, it hasn't necessarily been easy but it has been great and I know that I have grown so much. I have truly come to know just how true this church is and that Jesus Christ is my Savior and your Savior. Sorry again for this being so late.. love you guys and I'll talk to you in a few!
Love, Elder Allred
