Subject: Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved. Pres. Monson
HI everyone!
This week I have spent a lot of time doing missionary work. And thus I don't have any good stories. :) Just kidding. Janet came to church again this but will not be coming back for a week or two because she has family visiting. And I think just about every other investigator we have has also told us they are out of town for a while. So I guess we are back to the finding stages for a little while.
Since I came to Lincoln, I have already tracted every street near our apartment. Most of our area is about four miles away and we have to bike through someone else's area to get to it. Elder Boody has bad knees so we can't do much riding, but I know there is a lot of work out there and I really want to spend a week or two in the far side of our area. The part that is hard to get to is called Sun City. It is a small sub-division with about 6000 homes. In order to live there you have to meet a couple requirments including being 55 or older. It is a golf cart community, so tommorow during interviews I am going to ask President if we can use a members golf cart while we are in Sun City. The members are all for it, and it would save a lot of time. It takes us over an hour to ride o some of our appointments.
Last Wednesday, we found ourselves without a dinner appointment, so we gave Billy a call and asked if we could take him out to eat. He refused to let us pay for him to eat, so instead we made dinner for him and ate with him at the church. A couple nights later, we were agin without a dinner appointment so we ate by ourselves in our apartment. That night I was pretty hungry so I made sure to fill myself up before we headed out for the evening. When we got to our seven o'clock appointment however, they were just sitting down to eat and they had set out extra plates for us. I have never been so full in my life.
Other than that, we have had a pretty slow week, especially with zone conference taking up so much time.
I love you all.
Elder Allred From Texas in California
(I had to start telling people I was from texas, there are too many missionaries from Idaho and Utah.)
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Monday, March 9, 2009
March 3, 2009
Subject: They call us "The God Squad" ...Literally
Hey I haven't been doing very good at keeping you guys informed about how the work is going here in California, so I will try to give you a brief overview of each of our investigators really quick. We have eight really good investigators (Seven of which we didn't even know six weeks ago, so our finding has been really good)
Al - In answer to dad's question, Al is doing great. He is the strongest convert I have seen and he didn't even know what the church was four months ago. It has been great to see him change soo much since I got here in November. I will have the oppurtunity to go on exchanges with him in a couple weeks, and he will be able to teach others what he has been taught.
Billy - Sad news. This morning Billy called to let us know that he will not be able to get off parole for another year, and thus he cannot get baptized. He was doing soo great and they were trying soo hard to get him off parole a year early. Well he is pretty much a member already other than his Word of Wisdom problems. He even has a calling. He is also the one that calls us the God Squad. We just challenged him to read the whole book of Mormon, one chapter a day. You should do the same.
Casy - A member referral who is a seventh day Adventist. He is very intimidating especially now without Elder Rick or a companion who I can lean on. Elder Boody and I are both soo young. But we avoid talking about the Sabbath and try to let the spirit work. He even said if we worshipped on Saturday he would be a Mormon.
Trent - we don't hear much from him but he came from tracting and has a lot of questions so we are trying really hard with him.
Roger - Stands about six foot six and weighs probably about three hundred pound, but he is just like a great big teddy bear. We also tracted into him a while ago and are trying to get him to church. He doesn't see much urgency so it is hard. I think he knows it's true. It has been hard for us to find a fellowshipper because we don't have any bikers in the ward.
Vikki - I have told you a little about. Last week we committed her to church and she said she would ask her boss if he would rearrange her schedule. Sweeeeet!
Leon - He is a beat mixer who has a problems with African Americans and the priesthood. Any ideas would be great. Other than that he is awesome. We are trying to get him the perfect fellowshipper because my zone leader promised me that there was someone in my ward that would be able to bring him into the gospel. I know it's true, we just have to find out who.
Janet - Miracle of the week. We were having a horrible day last Wednesday and we were tracting to make it worse. We were cold and tired and someone had just finished yelling at us, so we almost gave up early. We decided to stick it out, and on one of the very last houses we met Janet. She let us right in and we taught her the Restoration. Two days later we took her on a chapel tour with another member. They are now best friends. Then she came to church and loved it! She still has a lot of concerns but I think she will be all right because we just taught her the second lesson this morning with her fellowshipper and new friend. The already have plans to meet and she told me she planned on continuing to come to church.
My companion is great. He is from Virginia and he came out with me in November. We both have a lot to work on, but it's great that we still both have our Greenie Fire!
Well I love you all! Stay true
Elder Allred
Hey I haven't been doing very good at keeping you guys informed about how the work is going here in California, so I will try to give you a brief overview of each of our investigators really quick. We have eight really good investigators (Seven of which we didn't even know six weeks ago, so our finding has been really good)
Al - In answer to dad's question, Al is doing great. He is the strongest convert I have seen and he didn't even know what the church was four months ago. It has been great to see him change soo much since I got here in November. I will have the oppurtunity to go on exchanges with him in a couple weeks, and he will be able to teach others what he has been taught.
Billy - Sad news. This morning Billy called to let us know that he will not be able to get off parole for another year, and thus he cannot get baptized. He was doing soo great and they were trying soo hard to get him off parole a year early. Well he is pretty much a member already other than his Word of Wisdom problems. He even has a calling. He is also the one that calls us the God Squad. We just challenged him to read the whole book of Mormon, one chapter a day. You should do the same.
Casy - A member referral who is a seventh day Adventist. He is very intimidating especially now without Elder Rick or a companion who I can lean on. Elder Boody and I are both soo young. But we avoid talking about the Sabbath and try to let the spirit work. He even said if we worshipped on Saturday he would be a Mormon.
Trent - we don't hear much from him but he came from tracting and has a lot of questions so we are trying really hard with him.
Roger - Stands about six foot six and weighs probably about three hundred pound, but he is just like a great big teddy bear. We also tracted into him a while ago and are trying to get him to church. He doesn't see much urgency so it is hard. I think he knows it's true. It has been hard for us to find a fellowshipper because we don't have any bikers in the ward.
Vikki - I have told you a little about. Last week we committed her to church and she said she would ask her boss if he would rearrange her schedule. Sweeeeet!
Leon - He is a beat mixer who has a problems with African Americans and the priesthood. Any ideas would be great. Other than that he is awesome. We are trying to get him the perfect fellowshipper because my zone leader promised me that there was someone in my ward that would be able to bring him into the gospel. I know it's true, we just have to find out who.
Janet - Miracle of the week. We were having a horrible day last Wednesday and we were tracting to make it worse. We were cold and tired and someone had just finished yelling at us, so we almost gave up early. We decided to stick it out, and on one of the very last houses we met Janet. She let us right in and we taught her the Restoration. Two days later we took her on a chapel tour with another member. They are now best friends. Then she came to church and loved it! She still has a lot of concerns but I think she will be all right because we just taught her the second lesson this morning with her fellowshipper and new friend. The already have plans to meet and she told me she planned on continuing to come to church.
My companion is great. He is from Virginia and he came out with me in November. We both have a lot to work on, but it's great that we still both have our Greenie Fire!
Well I love you all! Stay true
Elder Allred
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