Hey yal,
So glad to hear the good things comin to our family.... love it!!
So before I forget.... I figured the money in my account was for the suit and
the stores in Gilroy so I've got the reciept and waitin on Pres to give my the
green light to go down. Its hard with all the mission rules to go an hr south
for a suit and back.... so we'll see. It'll happen in the next monthish. The longer
it takes, the nicer the suit will be looking when I get home and better condition
it'll be in haha!! So I'm OK with patience. Yeah so I'll let you go for the shoes
unless you want me to shop around. There's a nordstroms rack here which I hear is
fantastic! Nordstrom stuff for like Ross prices, so I can try that out and if I
don't find anything, we can go from there? idk how you'd like to go forward.
Cinnamon rolls were fantastic! Loved em and Lavelua ....aka lava girl.... never
had one before so he tried one and fell in love with em haha.
Yeah singles are weird looking at it from a missionary point. Theres some
really great girls and the guys are all super shy and scared kids to ask em on a
date. Rations like 10 guys to a girl in the younger ward and like 14 girls to 1
guy in the older ones. Really interesting haha. Yeah our WML is a RM and we
didn't have a chat yet cause conference and we tried talkin to him at a ward
function and yeah didn't even acknowledge us... oh well..
Yeah I probably
showed how tired I was haha I couldn't keep my eyes open while emailing haha but
Lavelua told me something interesting.... he was like " when I prayed I asked to not
be so tired and God like was angry with me like you signed up for this and you
want me to take it away?" and so I got thinking... man that's so true how would we
grow if we just had God change our natures to give us what we need. If we gave a
kid candy every time he wanted it he'd be like Fat Albert "hey hey hey" and I
think its the same with God. He knows we're tired and stressed and working hard
and he's happy and he can see the growth even if I can't.
This week was crazy
jammed. 4 district meetings to go to 6 hrs total. Mission leadership council for
8hrs. Temple twice! 1 for endowment 6 hrs. one for visitor center. 4hrs. man oh
man plus 10 hrs of General Conference. And that's how you get a really really
busy week haha. But it was great! I loved every tired eyelid falling second of
it, specially the temple. Its always amazing to go there and to take place in
the work of salvation for the dead. You should go do baptisms for the dead some
time soon.
We picked up a new
investigator and she reminds me so much of Claire Genesy, the girl that was
baptized in hollister. same voice and concerns mostly and everything. Its so
cool! She wants to be baptized and just doesn't know what church and is having
spiritual experiences and knows it and is so happy. Like on the drive home from
our lesson, she asked HF to play a church song on the way home if what she's
doing is right and boom last song before she got in the driveway. And now she
can't find it on her ipod of 2500 songs. Heavenly Father has a special love for
her. She is so prepared and is going to do such great things when she starts
acting on faith more and more. Really cool experience. plus over the past 2
weeks, 4 investigators have randomly come to church and 3 are solid courtneys
one and the other 2 the sisters are teaching. I love singles ward..... so much fun!
I've just got my family ward cobwebs covering my singles ward self so I'm workin on
dustin it off.
Conference was
fantastic.... best one yet! totally get that one on DVD.
So best part! Sister
Latu, my MTC teacher, is dating a guy in my ward and came to conference! We got to
catch up and all... it was so cool! Who sees their MTC teacher on a mission??? no one!
haha it was sick! SO happy! 1st thing she said was "awww you've gotten fat" I
was like great.... haha but it was hilarious. We talked about the whole district
and all. She apparently still talks to missionaries about us and stuff, its crazy! She still remembers us haha even though we were all like lil pups there in that
MTC. so cool.
Ah, so E. Baumert.... he's
in the zone and a total kill joy basically so I took him at the last DM and
broke him and I was planning on being really mean and just getting inside him
and tearin him apart because he doesn't want to be out here and is dragging
everyone down and out right hating life right now. But the spirit was so strong
and all that came out was love and cheerleading and told him to go to the temple
looking for joy and happiness from Heavenly Father and oh man I saw him on Sunday, 4 days
after the temple, and he had a smile on his face and was laughing and talking and
his whole countenance turned happy and positive ahhhh!!! I'm sooooo happy for him! Hes on his was to loving his mission and the great miracles that come! So happy....
sooo sooo happy! What a change the spirit can bring to anyone. Hopefully the
momentum continues.
Life's great. I keep
feeling that this won't end and I'll be a missionary forever and I'm in love with it. Serving the Lord and being dead tired at 5 in the afternoon is the best feeling
ever...looking back on it. In the moment, it bites but that's OK
haha..
Loving every second of it out here. I wish I had like a go pro camera and
you could follow me around for a day.... its sooo amazing. Ah, I just love it
haha
Have a good week.... enjoy break! Remember I'm still waking up at that crack of
dawn Meg when you wake up at noon............. hahahahah
love yal
-Elder McAllister
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