February 1, 2010

Ryan's Letter:

Subject: "When Satan reminds you of your past, remind him of you Future!" -Elder Glenn

To my favorite People in the world!
(If you are reading this, than you are one of my favorite people in the world!)
Another pretty much amazing week down for the records! We have found soo many new people to teach in the past two weeks it has definitely been a miracle. Everywhere we turn people just drop in our laps. Take Neal and Cathy for instance, last week we just happened to be meeting two other missionaries at the church on a Thursday (we never go to the church on a Thursday) and found them wandering the halls checking out the building. Now we're teaching them! Or the lady we met at the gas station that let us teach her that evening and we found out her mother was baptized when she was eight. Now we are teaching them and they both want to come to church! Or even the random lady I didn't recognize at church (I still don't recognize anyone in the new ward) and introduced myself to. Well it turns out that she wasn't a member but wants to be one! Wow, a lot of blessings!
I can't remember how much I have told you about Kyle and Jolene, but they are the family we met my first week here and then Kyle accepted to be baptized two days later. Well before his baptism Kyle knew he would have to quit smoking but that is something we all know he can do. This week we had to face the harder commandment and tell them that they either have to get married or move out if he wants to be baptized this month. Wow, I have taught the law of chastity to a lot of people out here, but never to someone that was currently not living it. I was pretty nervous because we didn't want to scare them away, but the spirit was strong and it went really well. I love these guys; they said they would pray about it but that they definitely were thinking about getting married! Cool stuff. So hopefully we are still on for his baptism at the end of the month. Maybe a wedding Too! You can call me "Cupid."
I set two goals this week; I want to go to Jerusalem, and I want to learn Hebrew. Just so you know. If anyone is going to Jerusalem any time soon I'd happily let you take me with you. You're welcome.
Congrats Mother for directing the Choir, that's probably going to be the best choir in America. You'll have to replace Brother Craig Jessup if you're not careful. And I heard Mom and Kristie are going to be in a play? Sweet beans!

OK EVERYONE LISTEN UP!!
If you haven't heard yet I have really important news! This is serious stuff.... our mission office has moved! DO NOT send mail to the old office, I may not get it. I am going to type the new address right below this paragraph, and then you can copy it down and even send me a letter if you feel like it.

Elder Ryan Jay Allred
California Roseville Mission
8583 Watt Avenue
Antelope California
95843-9117

Got it!?!
Great! Well that is pretty much everything unless you want me to tell you about what happened with lady we chopped wood for last week. I'll tell you anyway. So we set up another time to meet with her and do some more service then teach her a lesson. When we got to her home Wednesday morning she wasn't home so we gave her a call. We found out that she was just around the corner trying to get her car out of the mud. It has been raining every day since I got to Auburn so everything is caked with mud. We tried for about an hour to get her car out but we ended up getting Brother Smauck's truck stuck as well. It was really bad I'll have to send pictures. But we ended up staying there all day because we had to go get a tractor and even then it took about 2 more hours. But we got good pictures and we were able to teach Star the first lesson while we waited.
Anyway, life is good, hope all is well for you too!
Love you All!
Elder Ryan J Allred



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