February 24, 2014

Hey yal!

So really really good week! man it was awesome but 1st to answer your email!

So I'm super stoked to get track updates! Go get em sisters! Seriously go all out! Track will be fun! Meg's gonna average 100+ and I know you don't like my tips buttttttttttttt watch videos of throwers and analyze how they throw and such to help you with your form:) That's all I'll say the whole season I promise!! ok dang 1 more.... throw throw throw! best practice!

Jenna, sorry, got no help for ya on jumpin. pivot your foot and push off like your taking off to the moon! Practice high jump on a volleyball net and you should get your spikes down and high jump :) hahahaha

So that's my plan with the bike..... just use it here and sell her here to a missionary! Should work out perfectly if the Lord wills it so. Specially with all the sisters taking up the cars haha!

My ankle was getting really good then in a wrestling match I got it slammed on the corner of the bed frame and the pain all came back hahaha so the pain's still bad butttttttt I'm doin therapy and Sis. Carlson is on me too tellin me to keep on it haha. She's super loving and helping keep me from messing it up again! She's awesome!

ahhhh mom!!!! What are you doing talking about my release date!!!! haha don't get me more trunky than I am hahahaha the mission sends my travel papers home and such 2 transfers before I go home. so that'll be the official. haha don't remind me!! I love it out here toooo much!

So this week was boss! loved it!

So for my amazing district, we were down by tons # wise with our monthly goals and this past week was the last week to hit em. So we went ham! absolutely ham and it was awesome to see em stretch and we used our district meeting to make a plan on how to do it.... it was so cool to see everyone step up and use there strengths and really work hard for the others. Reminded me a little of Holland's talk, we are all enlisted the part where he's like...

"This is a life-and-death contest we are in, young men, so I am going to get in your face a little, nose to nose, with just enough fire in my voice to singe your eyebrows a little—the way coaches do when the game is close and victory means everything. . . . So we need young men already on the team to stay on it and stop dribbling out of bounds just when we need you to get in the game and play your hearts out! . . . .I ask for a stronger and more devoted voice, a voice not only against evil and him who is the personification of it, but a voice for good, a voice for the gospel, a voice for God. Brethren of all ages, unbind your tongues and watch your words work wonders in the lives of those “who are only kept from the truth because they know not where to find it.”

We all were pumped! We went ham and talked to everyone we could and it was amazing! I seriously loved last week and was so tired when Sunday night came round .....oh buddy my feet were dun. so dun... hahaha but it was worth it and my amazing district called down the powers of heaven and performed miracles in the lives of these people. It was inspiring and motivating!ahhhhhh love it !!! so much! So we're gonna have a super fun DM this week!

Plus just to add to awesomeness, my amazing Menlo Park zone.... where my heart is with those missionaries..... is leading the mission in baptisms like crazy! Their at 12 already this year! killlin it! So happy for them, it is amazing to see the work miracles in that zone! ahhh Do you realized how amazing these miracles are?!?!? its crazy! The Lord is so engaged in people lives. He is hastening his work.... He is moving his church forward and man we as members are about to be part of the steamroller or part of the pavement. That's how the work is moving. Hope we all are on that steamroller! I love this work. oh man it is so amazing! Can I just stay out here? Is that allowed?? haha I'd be totally OK with that. Its amazing out here. ahhhhhhhhhh love this. I can't even describe how amazing it is....how much I don't want to leave... how much it hurts my soul when people don't accept our message and how happy I am when someone makes a covenant with our Father in Heaven or renews them through the sacrament after 10 yrs of inactivity. Oh man. Its the best. Nothing can compare.... nothing.....zero. It is truly remarkable.

So have you ever had Boston Market?? oh buddy, sooo good!!! I almost ate a whole chicken lol and taters and yams like it was bomb! So delicious! Better than KFC by like a mile! haha so good!

Oh funny moment of the week! So we're at Cypress Senior Center and do kitchen duty and its super fun but they feed us lunch and we get those like school milk cartons right and so we found 2 weeks ago if we fold the top down we can smash em and they pop and its loud and super funny. Well Sonenstahl had the bomb idea of doing it with a full one! So we're like heck yes! and everyone ran and I stayed on the table and put a tray up to block if from me and looked around it to see it blow up and it blew up right into my face!! So funny! Got everywhere!! Man haven't laughed that hard since Ketywan.... it was hilarious! Covered in milk. all over so funny! Except we had an 1.5 hrs of dishes after and by the end I reeked!!! hahahaha so awesome though. loved it! We have so much fun together, its ridiculous haha so funny.

So blessed! There's a RC that lives in Santa Clara ward and he is the manager at Red Robin in Saratoga and so when we go every like 2 weeks or so he always pays for us! We even tried payin him and he's like, nah well just give it to your waitress. Man, guy's so loving.

Oh had a good phone call with Lance King last night too! He's doing well in LV now working for Dell. He is such a cool guy! We'll see if I get to see him again! He's super chill and smart. Learned alot about the scriptures from him and about health and stuff. Remember he was the one that said milk was bad and I didn't drink milk for like 3 months. Yeah well, now I drink milk because its delicious with oatmeal! hahaha

Life is good out here! Love it so much! Love you all too!

-E. McAllister