june 13, 2011

Family,

Hey all! Well, another week gone by -- I hit my 18month mark this week! Crazy!

Here's the new boston office address :

Boston Mass. Mission

182 West Central St. STE 203

Natick, MA 01760

Well, we had a pretty good week this week. We had a great lesson with Alicelin and her son this week and he really enjoyed it. We played basketball with him last week and it was a lot of fun! He is 12 and would be perfect for the branch, being able to pass the sacrament etc. This week we also taught a little bit to Rosa Hernandez's son, Enrique. He was baptized at 8 years old, but it's amazing how the catholic community really gets to people here even in the church. He gave us a hard time for not "saying grace" before we ate and then we told him to do it. He did the cross with his hand on his chest. I was really surprised. I said "Where did you learn that?" haha. It's really interesting.

We are doing the cleaning here too, maybe it's something from the first presidency?

We had a good district meeting this week. A little bit of a pick-me-up. The work is quite slow in all of our areas and I think it's just a case of the lazies. It does get frustrating to visit people and then not see them at church. This week, in fact, we visited the normal group of people and they all promised they'd come to church, we started church and had 10 people there. Kind of frustrating. Hopefully we will have some better luck next week. Hopefully they'll understand the reality of these things.

Well, not a whole lot more to talk about! We will officially be part of the Boston mission on the 26th, t ransfers are in two weeks! I'm pretty sure that I'm leaving -- but you never know! I kinda want to leave, sadly, just because I want a change of pace. But, if I do stay I'll see it through to the end!

I love you all.

Elder Conner Allred