"You know, I don't know that much Spanish. I don't have a perfect testimony of everything. I am only 19. I get proud. I get discouraged. I get impatient. I have problems. But the God of heaven and His glorious Son appeared to a fourteen-year-old boy with problems in the woods in New York. The creator of the entire universe answered a humble prayer of a boy with miracles that resulted in the restoration of His gospel. I am young, and I am not perfect, but that doesn't mean that God doesn't want me or that He can't use me. There is a scripture in the Doctrine and Covenants that goes something like this: 'And by the weak things of the earth shall I thrash the nations by the power of my Spirit.' I love that verse. We are weak, but He is able. Even though the missionary force is very young and not perfect, the Lord will continue to thrash the nations. To bring them to repentance. To help them receive the blessings of His gospel.
I am so thankful to be a part of this miracle."

Monday, June 9, 2014

The stone keeps rolling!


To my wonderful family.  I miss you and love you so much!

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It has been a pretty great week.  Me and Sister Hansen started it off with a Monday-evening-first-day-of-summer meal, complete with corn on the cob, barbecue chicken, watermelon, and potato salad.  We were quite proud of ourselves.  I live from little party/tradition to little party/tradition.  I guess we could say the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, eh? :)  Haha this week we have a great plan to do a little s'more making.  Now that's summer if I've ever heard it!


Speaking of summer, we are roasting here.  It is so hot!!  It is kind of fun, actually, to be so hot.  It is almost past annoying and just funny.  Nothing like biking in the summer!  And it's only June! Love it.

Mom, you will love this.  There are two young men we are working with right now who aren't currently active in the church.  They are 16 years old, and they are twins.  One's name is Kendall Javier [last name], and the other's name is Kendall Javier [last name].  They. Have. The. Exact. Same. Name.  Not even kidding!  I couldn't believe it.  I was and continue to be completely fascinated by this.  Their names are the same.  And they are twins.  Fraternal, but still.  And supposedly there was supposed to be a third Kendall Javier!!  Crazy times.

We have had a great week full of a lot of good things.  We have been really trying to work with the members, and it has payed off!  A lot of them have people that they are working with.  It is exciting to play a little of all parts of the missionary field.  We do a lot of all kinds of the work - active members, recent converts, returning members, contacts, potential investigators, the whole bit!  It is so great and I really love this area.


So we had the best experience ever last night! I wrote to President about it, so I will copy and paste it here:


We had a wonderful experience yesterday that really showed that God loves His children. We were leaving an apartment complex, and I was backing Sister Hansen out of her parking spot. I noticed a man sitting on the stairwell of his apartment building. I felt like we should go talk to him, but I quickly had a million excuses why we couldn't. I figured that Sister Hansen was already in the car, we only had a little time to go to our next activity, and so forth. But I knew that when God gives us promptings He expects us to follow them so we can get more, so I told Sister Hansen and she hopped out of the car to go. As we started talking to this man, he quickly said he was having a bad day and wanted to be left alone. We offered our help and gave him a pamphlet and a smile slowly crept onto his face as we told him who we were and what we do. His sister came out of the apartment and, upon finding out who we were, said, "Well you just came out of here saying we needed a pastor to come bless this home! I guess God heard your prayer!" We agreed, and went in to their home to say a prayer with their sick father. We testified of the truthfulness of our message and that we were sent from Christ. The whole family could not believe the answered prayer and were happy to exchange info and receive a visit from the Elders so the father could get a priesthood blessing. Both the family and us recognized the love of God in that answered prayer. It was amazing. He cares, and He hears. Everything. I love that.

It was so awesome.  It was so awesome to feel the Spirit work in me to answer a prayer.  And that God trusted me enough to act on the prompting.  It was such a great night.

D is getting baptized on Saturday!  Every investigator is so different, and it has been fantastic to work with her and help her with her challenges.  Please keep praying for her to feel ready and find a love for the Book of Mormon!  I like our experience with D, because looking back we can see the hand of God slowly helping her and preparing her.  She recognized that she felt the Spirit this week, and that was wonderful.  I will keep you posted!

Me and Sister Hansen are learning so much together.  I really love her and her example to me.  We learn and grow, we share and repent, we have fun and work hard.  It really has been such a blessing and I am doing so well.

I continue to be blessed every day.  My mission, day by day, is being filled with memorable experiences and gained knowledge and deepened testimony and cherished relationships.  I am learning for a lifetime.  Thank you for everything you do every day to make this possible for me.  I love being a missionary.  I love trying to hearken to the call of Jesus Christ to follow Him every day.  Someday we will all be perfect, but for now we will repent and always get better.  And I am ok with that!  


I love you all so much!

Make it the best day ever!

Love, Sister Allred

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