9/17/12

hello hello from can you guess it????????????? give ya some hints, its got 30k people, mostly illegals, lots of farms and small stores, poorest place in the mission, and its crazy hot. any ideas? ok here's another hint, its a store in the mall. Hollister, CA. this place is crazy!! but i absolutely love it! all the members and recent converts are the nicest of people and a lot are quite funny too. I have a bike half the week and a car the other. there's 4 elders and 2 sisters down here for the whole town! theres 2 wards and a small Spanish branch. plus i already have to talk next month....... oh well. there are so many teaching opportunities so my gospel knowledge is coming fast and hopefully good. it truly is a wonderful place here. and boy oh boy do i get fed good here. seems everywhere i go theres people eating and giving us food. I've got to try cactus which is pretty good and some spinach smoothie things that turned out ok. idk what i ate but the past 2 days I've had horrible cramps.... hahaha but other than that I'm 100% healthy and ready to go. theres sadly no In- N- Out here which is killer but at least theres a taco bell just past our apartment, our apartment too is the nicest in the whole mission which is funny sense its out here in poor Hollister. but I love it everything is so lovable out here! even the people that yell and scream at ya. got 3 baptisms coming up this next month so i definitely got thrown in the heat of everything! its all been gas and go for me and so today i took a good 2hr nap which recharged the batteries tremendously. we have quite a few investigators so ill definitely stay busy. we don't track here which is nice. Elder Perry came to us like 6 months ago and said if we street contact 175 a week and teach 20 lessons a week we will see more success and more baptisms so that's what were doing!! the ward takes care of us so well. there all fantastic and easy to talk to and love. i think I've already bike the whole town besides the sisters ward which is tiny lol so all in all I'm going all out. hopefully that will make things go by a little quicker than this past week. my companion is fantastic Elder Clarke from Canada, hes so spiritual and very very planned out. he is always jumping for the next thing. so I've learned to just go with the flow but all in all were kickin it here! already taught a dozen lessons and a few of which were the first for the investigator so I've got a few start to finish investigators going now instead of catchup from others that i know nothing about! already broke a bike and gone supermaning off the bike...... my comp. stopped and i nailed him because i was trying to beat the gate to our apt. and my bike stopped but i kept going haha didn't get hurt just blackened my shirt but it came out. this place is awesome. honestly i feel I'm in the best place in the mission already. I get to go to the Oakland temple before GC each 6b months so that's good! i cant wait its giant!! theres a wonderful work going on here i tell ya and here in Hollister is going at like 90miles an hour so i gotta try to keep up!!

Email is way easier now. I've got a much time as i need. hope y'all are doing amazing know that i miss you and love you sooo much! keep me in the loop and tell everyone hi for me,

my new address for about the next 6months will be

 

Elder Tyler McAllister

500 Hillock Dr. Apt # 133

Hollister, CA 95023

I love ya guys so much! i really do miss you. hopefully the time starts flying for you and maybe a little for me because i still don't want to let everything go by but a little faster would help.

Love,

Elder McAllister