hey yal!
So good to hear from yal Sounds like a super exciting week lol CSAP.....
whahoooo lol
MEG!!! YOU GOT INTO THE Y! That's awesome!! So proud of ya! haha all those
late nights of homework and stressin over classes paid off!! haha heck yes! Way
to go! If you got BYU down, you obviously got USU down..... easy. I'm so happy for you....
that's is awesome. You will do super well whichever school you go to. Seriously
you'll be reinventing calculus or somethin.
haha yeah college.... gotta figure that out. I've been going through all the
majors and I am so over my head.... well see what happens. The Lord's got my
back! I know in whom I put my trust.
Kk.... you're almost 12. Holy cow yal are getting old fast.... I'm not gonna
recognize yal when I get back! haha hold up a card with my name I might not know
where to go haha!
Glad you got the memory card. I was worried it didn't get to ya but I'm glad
it did. Can you email me the picture of the palm tree and ol Glory? I usually
sign journals with that but I forgot to get it on my flash drive 1st lol.
Gettin the bike tonight! So excited for it! E. Morgan's bike..... I'm grateful
for it but man the chain slips and I almost crash like all the time hahahahah
keeps me alert I guess but it'll be nice to get my own bike that hasn't been
through that much beating.
So this week was a blast but also kinda hard for me. Biking in the rain was
a blast haha we loved it! Got like an inch of rain in a day or so, but I feel
like we're in the middle of the rain forest haha. We went to dinner one night and
we were just soaked through and through. We got up to leave an hour and a half
later and our pants were still soaked haha! It was so funny, but we love it. Our bodies may be soaked, but our spirits are on fire and we've got the biggest smiles
on our faces haha. Riding by one time this car just flew past and nailed a 3in
puddle and just covered me haha just like in the movies! so funny! They felt so
bad when we got to the light. I just smiled and laughed it off. Lucky I've got
this awesome jacket...... keeps my shirts dry.
We seemed to have everyone cancel on us this week...... members for spits and
appointments but we made the best we could and tried for the pity of us being
cold and drenched to get into houses and that still didn't work lol but oh well
we still worked hard and had a blast. The time of not knowing what to do, lead us
to stop by this LA PM house and they are the coolest family ever! He's only LA
cause he works 2 jobs trying to keep afloat and works Sundays but we chatted
like we were best friends and talked missions and the wife was so cool too and
it was funny at the end of it they said this was the best meeting they had with
missionaries cause past ones thought they like didn't know the gospel and such
and that wasn't cool but they want to feed us! So that's cool plus he's a private
investigator so we heard some crazy stories!! It was cool cause you know some
missionaries just don't jive with some people and its so cool that all these
doors are opening for us.
At church yesterday, this ol lady came up and said I remind her of her son
and kept talking about the comparisons and asked me to bear my testimony so she
could hear me speak lol I guess I just can really jive with ol people lol. A
bunch of people too tell Sonenstahl that he talks alot more and such which is
perfect! cause I just let him take the lead so he can grow and learn and its
working pretty well. I love being the "breaker" of missionaries. My favorite part
of being a missionary because some missionaries are so dang stiff and unhappy.....
its just not good. The Lord has really blessed me to know how to help em, whether
it be rough and tough or gentle and comforting. Its a true blessing of the Lord
and I just hope I can be that tool to influence and help some missionaries go
from OK to happy and good to extraordinary.
So E. Lavelua goes home tomorrow. Went to his out going fireside last
night..... wow he lit the pulpit ablaze with his testimony. That is a man who
happened to this mission. He built up every area and strengthened every
missionary. wow I am gonna miss him so much. He is so passionate too. His eyes
are like on fire all the time...... strongest faith I've ever seen in a person. The
most trusting in God and shows it. I remember the nights we had at LA houses in Menlo where the kids would tell us the're done with life and givin up and I
remember him just speaking so boldly and with fire and passion yet all outta
love. Man it was so cool and the spirit is so strong in those moments. He's a
great guy.... really gonna miss him.
Got to see alot of members from Hollister and Santa Clara too that night, Porcha Suhar, Frank Casio, Navarro's, Moors, McFarland's, Chris Parle, my menlo park
polys! and all my bestest friends from the mission. Man I loved it.
Sis. Barker, who came out with me, went home too. ahhhhh that means 6
months....... crazy!!! I'm so going crazy lol
President
Boyd K. Packer, President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, once attended an
ox pulling contest, where he drew out an analogy. He said of the experience: “A
wooden sledge was weighted with cement blocks: ten thousand pounds
[4,535 kg]—five tons. … The object was for the oxen to move the sledge three
feet [91 cm]. … I noticed a well-matched pair of very large, brindled, blue-gray
animals … [the] big blue oxen of seasons past.”
In
speaking about the result of the contest, he said: “Teams were eliminated one by
one. … The big blue oxen didn’t even place! A small, nondescript pair of
animals, not very well matched for size, moved the sledge all three times.”
He
was then given an explanation to the surprising outcome: “The big blues were
larger and stronger and better matched for size than the other team. But the
little oxen had better teamwork and coordination. They hit the yoke together.
Both animals jerked forward at exactly the same time and the force moved the
load” (“Equally Yoked Together,” address delivered at regional representatives’
seminar, Apr. 3, 1975; in Teaching
Seminary: Preservice Readings [2004], 30).
As
we look ahead and believe, we need this same teamwork in hastening the work of
salvation as we invite others to come unto Christ. In our individual capacities,
we need to follow the counsel of President Dieter F. Uchtdorf to “stand close
together and lift where we stand” (“Lift Where You Stand,” Ensign or Liahona, Nov.
2008, 56). We can tap our full potential, just as was observed by Elder L. Tom
Perry of the Quorum of the Twelve: “As I travel throughout the Church I marvel
at all the positive things that are occurring. Yet I never feel that we, as a
people, are living up to our real potential. My sense is that we do not always
work together, that we are still too much interested in aspirations for personal
honors and success, and show too little interest in the common goal of building
the kingdom of God”
That's what my focus is on this zone..... to humble missionaries to be lil oxen
working together rather than big "me Monster"(Brian Regan skit) oxen. Its
definitely an uphill task but the Lord helped me do it in Menlo so He should be
able to help me do it here too if its His will. Man I love it...... love my mission. Nobody needs a missionary like another missionary.... I feel that's a big reason why
I'm out here...... teachin em how to fish rather that just given em fish ya know? love
it.
Remember me when you're sitting in your car with the weather comin down and
the wind blowing ... picture me in it with the biggest smile and singing country
songs with Sonenstahl with our amazing tone deaf voices and having the time of
our lives :) cause that's how great life is! Happiness is in the little
things!
love yal!
-E. McAllister
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