December 6, 2010

Family!:
My shirt sizes are 14 1/2 32-33 Tailored fit please!!

This week went well! Nora and Gabriella have a baptismal date set for January 1st, 2011! We're pretty excited for them. The ward has been somewhat helping them, but not as much as we would have hoped. We had a lesson with them on the Tuesday following their first time at church. Apparently Gabriela recieved the up&down look from one of the other girls in the young womens and Nora didn't feel very loved. Hopefully they really did enjoy church this week, I felt like it went a lot better -- it also helped that we were able to sit with them during sacrament meeting.

Poor pooty :( I'd rather him be put down than suffer though. If you're waiting for me to get home and prolonging his suffering, I'd rather just remember him as the active gomer cat than come home and see him suffer and die :(

Lets see so what happened this week. Well, Elder Goncalves is now in Pawtucket, my grand-father (as far as mission genealogia goes) and this is his last transfer. He's an amazing teacher, kind of a weird guy, but he'll be great to learn from. We have changed the car share, so now We share the car with Pawtucket only which is nice so we don't have to make useless trips down to Providence and waste a gazillion miles!

This week we taught a less active member, the daughter of the secretary of la sociedad de socorro, he name is Lina. They're Colombian and have been here about 8 years. Lina is 19 and was baptized in Colo. But, has since fallen away from the Iron rod. She has a non-member boyfriend, and works at Dunkin' Donuts. We had a good lesson with her and she really reminded me of myself when I was home. Just didn't really worry at all. The warning bells haven't really gone off in her head yet. She says "I'll come back at some point, it's just not my thing right now." I didn't know eternal salvation was a trend, but we'll see what we can do to bring it back in style.

So about 3 weeks ago, Elder Phillips and I decided to go on a Gospel Spanish music hunt and entered a store called "El Rey." The girl that worked there asked us where we're from because we didn't look mexican, and we explained to her how the mission works and why we're here. So we have been stopping in here and there to say hello. The other day her friend was there as well, she has recieved the missionary lessons in Guatemala! The both of them have started to take the lessons! Really cool! We just need to get them to come to church. But we had a good lesson about prayer yesterday at the Laundromat haha. It was very much like running into Daisy in Hartford! Miracles happen!

Anyway, not much else has been going on this week. I hit my year mark on Thursday!!!! WOW! I'm pretty happy that I've made it! It's not easy, I feel like I have been carried the whole time. This week has been tough. Just hoping I have done the best I can. I love this place, I hope the Lord is happy. I just hope He knows that I'm doing my best, even when I'm not really "doing my best" I'm still just trying to keep fighting.

I love you, Merry Christmas!!

-Elder Conner Allred