Monday, January 7, 2013

Happy Birthday Luke !!


LUKE YOU´RE GONNA BE 8---YES! Don´t forget to take lots of pictures and to write in your journal on the day of your baptism. I´m glad that you had a blast at the fireside--way to be PUMPED about the gospel--to many people in this world think that being spiritual isn´t ´cool´ but the truth is that it´s totally awesome and it´s what brings TRUE HAPPINESS--REAL LOVE FOR THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST--THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS! 

Tchau Willy--I´ll be praying for you--you´ll do awesome!

Thanks to all of your PRAYERS EVERYONE--I AM HEALTHY!! I was a bit frustrated this past week because I knew that my stomach problems were not normal and that I probably had some kind of virus or something and really didn´t want to get shipped to Teresina to the hospital or something. After a crummy stomach for several days my companion and the other missionaries advised me to rest one day in the house, eat nothing but liquids and we got a bunch of stomach virus pills from the hospital!! I took all the advise and I lost a bit of work time but now I´m back to 100% and so sometimes it´s important that you take a small rest and recover rather than trying to continue at half speed and just get worse and worse. The sad thing is that two of the other three Elders here with me, including my companion, have been having problems with fevers, tooth aches, stomach, etc. Our mission president sent out a list of new food eating and water drinking rules and we have to be really careful what we eat here. I know that my stomach thing was from some of the water I drank or some food that wasn´t properly washed---I am definitely going to have to use a lot more money and time to buy things to cleanse water, wash fruits and veggies with vinegar, boil stuff, etc. 

This week we only had ONE INVESTIGATOR IN CHURCH---but hey--that´s a blessing--sometimes we have zero. Learn to always follow through with your word people. Saturday we called and visited probably 3 families and 12-15 people in total that said: YES I´LL COME TO CHURCH BUT THEN DIDN´T SHOW UP---GARBAGE. We have to keep having faith. This week we learned a great lesson about teaching with the Spirit and working better together as a companionship--never leave the house or make a decision without the Spirit--if you need to, take some extra time, study, pray and get the Spirit back with you and then you can continue your day! 

This week I made even better friends with Henrique and Rogerio--the only problem is that their families is in the area of the other Elders---blah---they´re stealing my investigators--hah--no just kidding, we´re all in this together. I invited Henrique and his mother to church and Henrique loved primary, he adored it and by the end of church was wearing my name tag, taking pictures with us on his mother´s cell phone and his mother and him talked about getting baptized--I love it when young innocent people feel the great influence of the Holy Ghost and then influence them around them with their excitement. Keep up the good work you younglings: James, Luke, Hyrum, all of you cousins, etc. The rest of us--become more like little children--the Holy Ghost is real--if you don´t believe it--GO READ THE LIAHONA, LISTEN TO GENERAL CONFERENCE, READ THE SCRIPTURES AND THEN SEEK, KNOCK AND EXCERCISE FAITH AND THE MIRACLES WILL COME! 
Amber and I still haven´t baptized any of our investigators but like Amber said, by the way I love you e-mails--they pump me up and I love your spirit and everything you write, we´re going to always be excited and look at every Saturday as if there is going to be a baptism--like truly plan for it, have faith with works--not just say that there will be a baptism. 

My companion is going to remove his wisdom teeth this week--pray for him to recover fast so that our district can return to normal health and work 100% Last week we lost close to 4 whole days combined with all of the sickness. 

Satan is working hard so we have to WORK HARDER THAN HIM--REMEMBER YOU CAN CRUSH HIS HEAD AND HE ONLY HAS POWER TO BRUISE YOUR HEEL. 

I know that Jesus Christ lives and sharing your testimony helps to strengthen it. Well gotta send an e-mail to the AP--I will talk to you all next week--have a great time in the awesome cold weather--that´s so cool that it´s soo freeezing! Love you guys! 

--Elder Allen

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