HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMBER!!!

Hey-----AMBER YOU ARE THE BEST MISSIONARY IN THE WORLD AND I LOVE YOU! 

This week was pretty good. José Vitor likes to go and visit people with us--he is a teacher in the ward. He is 14 and wants to know if you saw his friend request on facebook Spencer??

Elder Boccia likes to run and clap his feet in the air. He is pretty crazy but he´s a great missionary and teaches with a lot A LOT of ENTHUSIASM!!

I love you all! I hope that Goldie has a great baptism and that everything works out with the garden and all. This internet is SUPERSLOW.  This week we are hoping to help Markin accept a baptismal date and enter the waters of BAPTISM!! 

gotta go--love you all!!

HAPPY APRIL!

Hello---HELLO EVERYONE---HOW IS LIFE GOING? Thanks for all the wonderful e-mails:

 

JAMAICA---SERIOUSLY---SCOTT!!!!! ENGLISH SPEAKING??? HOW CAN THAT BE? IS THIS A JOKE OR IS HE SERIOUSLY GOING TO JAMAICA??---CONGRATULATIONS SCOTT--YOU ARE THE MAN!!!

 

This week we reveiwed the Plan of Salvation the night before the baptism with Isabela--she was BAPTIZED SATURDAY NIGHT BY ELDER BOCCIA---HIS FIRST BAPTISM HERE ON THE MISSION!!!

 

Amber thanks for your e-mail of working hard and taking everything one day at a time. Keep up the good work there in Poland--I love telling other people that you are serving there!!

 

This week after Isabela was baptized she shared her testimony and all she could say is I´M SOO HAPPY, I´M SOO HAPPY AND IT WAS PRETTY COOL. It was a great meeting and we sang a bunch of hymns! Church was good. I bore my testimony.

 

Tell Holly and Joe--thanks for all the GREAT E-MAILS--YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST!!

 

YESS--I RECIEVED A LETTER FROM AMBER, RISHI, THE PACKAGES---NEW SHIRTS, PANTS, ETC.---I LOVE IT!! LOVE YOU ALL!

 

We just have to help the less actives here to be a bit less lazy---LAZINESS NEVER WAS HAPPINESS AND LAZINESS AND PROCRASTINATION ARE OF THE DEVIL.

 

Love you all and I´ll keep praying for you. Talk to you all later!!

 

--Elder Allen

 

Happy Easter !!

Hello and Happy Easter everyone!

CONGRATS TO TASHA---BABY COMING SOON!!

AMBER´S B-DAY IS THIS MONTH!!!

NATHAN YOU GET YOUR CAST OFF SOON?

I am now training Elder Boccia from Paraná Brasil! His father died a few years ago and his mother was inactive until he turned ten and was baptized. He has 9 years as a member and went through the Curitiba Temple! He is a great missionary and we invited Isabela to be baptized like the second day he arrived and she accepted and we are going to have family home evening with her and a few inactives tonight!! She is going to be baptized on April 13! Church was good--I decided not to play the piano because I kind of destroyed the last meeting with my terrible piano playing. We spent of bunch of time organizing things here in the house. Love you all. Have a great week--I´ve gotta go already!

THNKS FOR ALL OF THE GREAT E-MAILS---NO E-MAIL FROM AMBER???

UNTIL NEXT MONDAY!! PLEASE KEEP PRAYING FOR ME AND I´LL PRAY FOR YOU!!!

Love, Elder Allen

Happy March Madness

Hello family!! I´m sorry I didn´t write a decent letter the last few weeks. Two weeks ago we had the opportunity to baptize a young man that lives across the street from a church that is really big here in Brasil, Assemblea de Deus.  

I have for sure been struggling a bit these last 4 weeks and don´t feel on the same spiritual level of awesomeness and confidence like I had in the MTC and in Araguaína BUT I´m going to regain my confidence and spiritual awesomeness because I know that nothing is impossible with the help of Jesus Christ and the scriptures and all of you--awesome family members. 

Congrats Jenny---YOU´RE GONNA BE AWESOME 

MASON BAILEY--THE SAME MISSION AS MY DAD---THAT IS SOOO AWESOME! A

Thanks for sending the awesome pictures of the moodbloods that Shady had!

This week I played the piano in church again and also gave a talk in church about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and missionary work and didn´t do too swell but I will do better next time. It looks like my companion is going to be transferred tomorrow and I´m going to train--TRAIN---a brasilian--I´m not 100% sure who will be my companion but I think that he´s Brasilian--I sure hope he is--I want to have even better Portuguese. 

GO BYU---I HOPE THEY CAN WIN THE TOURNAMENT 

SORRY TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR BRACKET SPENCER. 

Thanks for all of the great pictures and letters I sure love them. I hope that you all have an awesome week. If some of you could pray and fast for me to return to be the same missionary that I was in the MTC and in Araguaína that would be awesome--I know that I can do it---REMEMBER THAT THIS IS THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST!!!

LOVE YOU ALL!!!

quick hi!!

Hello family!! Everything is going great here in Açailândia. I love you all and I will have to write more next week. We have a training in Imperatriz with the Mission President tomorrow!! Love you all and THANKS FOR ALL THE AWESOME E-MAILS!!! 

ACAILANDIA!!!

Hey everyone!! How was this week? This week I had the great opportunity to know Robson!! He is an amazing young man that was baptized only five months ago and he has a testimony like Gold--we taught like 10 lessons with him this week and he has a missionary planner a back pack and everything and is preparing to serve a mission here in a year!! I spent a boatload of time writing to others today and doing things with the mission. Remember that Christ lives and that he atoned for our sins and that we are all His children and that He loves us and can help us out. I love you and have a FANTASTIC WEEK!! I´m sure going to have a fantastic week! Keep choosing the right and never be lazy or procrastinate or let other people affect you---keep your testimony strong ALWAYS! I promise I´ll write more next week. Love you all.

--Elder Allen

Happy Birthday Mother and Happy March ev...

Hey EVERYBODY! This week was great here in Açailândia, Maranhão!! The ward here had a frequency of close to 120 people---ya! I played the piano during sacrament meeting and I´m going to be giving a PIANO LESSON on Wednesday for 5-8 people in the chapel for one hour. There will be less actives there so pray for everything to go well and that they can decide to leave their struggles and angers behind and COME TO CHURCH AGAIN!! We invite people to come to church all week long, testify of the Spirit there and testify that it is a holy edifice of the Lord--the chapel. ARE YOU DOING YOUR PART AS A MEMBER OF GOD´S CHURCH TO BE PREPARED EVERY SUNDAY! I encourage you all to go onto LDS.ORG and print off two or three talks about the Sabbath Day and see what you can do better during the week and especially on Friday and Saturday to prepare for GOD´S DAY AND THE BEST DAY OF THE WEEK. Remember there are missionaries that are depending on the 3 hours being amazing, spiritual, extremely reverent when necessary and remember the reality of the sacrament. Are you taking the sacrament worthily? I know that I´m going to do better to prepare for the Sabbath day! You may have to make sacrifices and do some hard things but there´s no feeling like being 100% prepared when the time for delivery comes!

Well my hour is up---LOVE YOU ALL. Keep praying for Amber and everybody in the whole world every day--we sure still have a lot to do before the Second Coming. WE´RE SOOO BLESSED TO HAVE THE RESTORED GOSPEL--LOVE YOU ALL!

 

--Gregg

--Elder Allen