December 1, 2008

-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Allred [mailto:ryanjallred@myldsmail.net]
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 3:34 PM
To: Allred, Kevin
Subject: Are you jealous yet!?! You should be!


Hey, um I don't really have any other addresses for you to add but if I get any Ill let you know. Anyone can email me but I have to write them back unless they are immediate family. So if you can let people know what my address is, that would be great. Does Jason get my emails? I want his. And I don't care where you send stuff. I'll get it pretty quick either way. But my first area is in Lincoln, 175 S O St #36, Lincoln California,95648. I think that is the right address.
My companion, my trainer (my father), is Elder Burnell. It turns out he was the captain of the Hillcrest soccer team my Junior year. Unfortunately that was the year I sat on the bench so I never really played him. We got to play soccer with some of the ward members on Thanksgiving though and that was pretty fun. We also played some turkey bowl; there was a guy there, Brother Fear, who played for BYU.
We had Thanksgiving dinner at a members house, but we also got a turkey from someone. We cooked that this morning and it was really good, my father is a good cook. Oh, and Sam Head! I sent him a letter the first week I was at the MTC so that it would get to Brazil about the same time he was supposed to, and I got the letter back a week later because of insufficient postage. So I re-sent it the next morning then I went to look for some of my friends who were coming in that day. I think five guys from Idaho entered the MTC that day, there was around twenty of us altogether. So I found where they had all the greenies and I watched as all of them walked by. I saw Alec Fulmer, Broderick Johnston (from our stake), German Mag(however you spell it, the guy from my soccer team), Curtis Ferrin (the guy who went through the temple with me), and I was about to leave because I thought I had seen everyone and then Sam Head walked past me! It was awesome to see him, but I had just spent three bucks sending him a letter. Oh well, such is life.
Wow, tell Ray I said Hi, Ill have to write him a letter next week, and is Brayten really a priest? I hope they enjoyed giving their talks.
Mom had asked me earlier what I wanted for Christmas, but I don't have time to type my whole list. :) I have ruined only one of my white shirts so far, but a couple of new CTR long sleeve shirts would be cool. And I would really like a sweater. I don't know if it would be cheaper to mail me one of my soccer sweaters or if I should just buy one here. I wouldn't mind some pictures and picture frames. I really like the ones we took when Scott got home from Germany. I think I pretty much have everything else that I need, but can you tell Scott not to send my mp3 player? They changed the rules so we can't have them anymore. I still want the 8 gb sd card and my card reader though. I don't really care what he does with the mp3 player. Maybe if he gets married it can be my present to his wife.
In case you were wondering what happened to all the money on my debit card, I had to pay for an elders luggage at the airport. He was from Tonga and he was having a hard time speaking English. I should get a refund though but if not I figured you wouldn't mind. This week has been really fun. We live in an apartment with four Elders, the other two are Elder Gibson and Elder Weatchler. Elder Gisbson is from Canada. I had a Canadian in my district at the MTC. For some reason, I just really like Canadians so we have a fun apt. Our complex has a lot of random peacocks running around. I don't think they really belong to anyone but they are protected by some law.
We go tracting every day and I think that is the funnest of all we do so far. We taught a guy the first lesson on his door step and left him the Book of Mormon. I don't know if he was really interested but he had some free time and nothing better to do. I set up an apointment with him for this Wednesday so we'll see how that goes. We have taught a few lessons and those are also very fun. It is even easier teaching out here in the field where there are real people to teach. I guess there were real people to teach in the MTC but those were more like fake real people. I'll tell you more about the families we are teaching next week, but it sufficeth me to say we are enjoying the work. Well have fun, I love you, choose the right, be jealous 'cause I'm enjoying perfect weather and I'm on a mission, and all that good stuff.