November 9, 2009

Ryan's Letter:

Subject: "Nobody loves you." -Sisiter Moss



I love Living with Sisiter Moss. It is so great to go home every evening after a long day of constant proselyting to a nice, warm, comfortably, roomy, perfect place, and a wonderful lady who reminds us every night that nobody loves me because I don't get any mail. This is Elder Allred by the way and if you read this and think that I am trying to get more letters out of this true story, you couldn't be more wrong. Quite simply I love Sister Moss because she is so practical and positive in everything, and she has only slapped me twice now. I would send you pictures of her but she won't let me take any. It's great to be alive.
We had a great week this week. Garret has been interviewed and is ready for his baptism this week. We had another person just drop into our teaching pool today who already has a baptism date, and we are confident that there are more who are ready in this area. We are working on building our faith of the doctrines and principles of the church, because the very first line of PMG ch 9 says that this is what will build our faith to find so God can lead us to those who are ready, or lead them to us. It seems it has been more of the later lately, but that works for me!
As father has pointed out to me in a very casual way, I have now passed my year mark as a missionary; sad day. But I had a really good day that day because I had the chance to be on exchages with Elder Talaipa who came out with me. He is a huge Samoan and great teacher. While tracting we came accross a house with a gate on it without on intercom system so we were standing there for a little while trying to figure out how to share the message of the restored gospel with them without breaking any laws. Actually we just stopped to stare at the huge house about half a mile up the hill that could only be reached through the gate. As we stood there, (remember this is a true story) the gate groaned and began to open. Not a soul was in sight! I felt like the hero in some great battle movie as I walked shoulder to shoulder with a Samoan through the gate. There was no possible way we could have opened the gate from the outside without a password, and as soon as we were inside it closed behind us so we know no one used a remote. It was a long hike up to the house but we were able to talk to the lady for a while. She was also very confused as to how we got in, but she accepted a pamphlet and said she would read it. I thought it was pretty cool.
We are still eagerly awaiting the conference addition of the Ensign. As a missionary, we look forward to that as much as people look forward to book releases in the real world. It reminds me of all my friend when Harry Potter came out, you know the ones that went and camped out at the store to get it. On Sunday in a meeting someone pulled a copy out and used it for a spiritual thought. I don't know how he got it, black market maybe, but just seeing it made both Elder Haines and me jump in our seats. We're not weird, we're just missionaries!
Love YA!
Elder Allred