Dear Family,
Wow. I was really excited to
email this week but oh my gosh I got a lot of big updates. Holy Cow! I
am excited about Hawaii. That will be super fun. I don't know what I
would want to do. I think probably come home to Hawaii and then spend a
little time in Utah or Maryland before going up to Utah. The Lord is
already getting me prepared because he just gave me a Polynesian
companion. (She is Tongan- not Hawaiian.)
So my new Area is felecita ward in Escondido. It is
TINY compared to Del Mar, but there is a lot of work to do. We picked
up 2 new investigators this week and I am really excited about some of our
other investigators. We have a lot of really strong members in this
ward but we also have a lot of member with pretty intense needs. I am
so grateful for the church, I have been so impressed with how these ward
members really try to take care of our members. We were talking to
this somewhat investigator and he was asking if there were service
opportunities in the church. He goes to another church and he hears
about them all the time but then he comes to our church and doesn't hear
anything about service. First of all he never stays for 3rd hour and
also I thought about our home and visit teaching programs. The whole
church is designed around service. Anyway, he is pretty cool. I just
want to get him progressing.
My new companion is Sister Tua'one. She is the sister
that I went on my last 2 exchanges with and got in a fight with on our
first one. Neither of us were that excited to get put together but we
have had a lot of very open and honest talks and I think our
relationship is going to be so much better. We are both very different
but she has a really good heart. Also she is a really good teacher and
that makes me so happy. I love teaching with really good teachers.
We have got a lot of good investigators and I'm
absolutely expecting baptisms in the very near future. The ward council
is just amazing, and really in this area the youth is were all of the
work is really at. We have a really strong youth program which I am so
excited about. we have this one girl how is just so sweet and excited
about the church. we taught her the word of wisdom this week and she
really connected with the idea that our bodies are temples and so we
need to treat them as such. I was so grateful to hear her talk because
she started to explain that her friends were starting to get into some
pretty bad stuff which is sad because she is only 13. Anyway she wants
to find a new group of friends so she isn't involved. How amazing! She
is so strong and such a role model for me. We also have another really
great investigator who is so amazing. She is a newly wed and her
husband is a member. He just started coming back to church and she is
taking the lessons. She wants her family to be like his was growing
up. She talked about how she felt like the things we were teaching were
true but she didn't understand why. She was scared that these feelings
were coming from her, because she wants it so badly. We are going to
be talking to her about faith tonight and trusting the feelings that
invite her to do good. I am very excited about the work that we have to
do.
The members are also great! we have a pretty full
dinner calender all the way up to mid October. I do have to laugh
though. I have had more fast food in this week then I did in a months
of being in Del Mar. Escondido and Del Mar are about 15 minutes away
from each other, but at the same time they are worlds apart. I think
it's possible that I may stay here the rest of my mission. If that is
the case then I with be a south sister. I have never served in the
north of my mission ever! I think I would like to but it is okay if I
don't there is so much to do in Escondido.
Oh! on a small side note. I have been so impressed at
the mobile homes in the Escondido. I would say that at least 1/4th of
the people we work with are in mobile homes and they are so nice.
I have gone into a bunch and thought- I would love to live here! I was
in a few in vista, and they are nothing compared to the ones I have seen
here. Anyway, I think I am becoming a lover of mobile homes.
I'm looking through my planner and I still can't
remember much from this week. It was a bit of a blur but I am happy to
be in Escondido. I miss Del Mar a little bit but this is a good place
to be. Oh! One last crazy story. Sister Tua'one is very scared of
dogs. We had a fat weenier dog waddle after us once and she ran. Well
we were going to check on this less active how was very into nature and
pulled up in her drive way. Much to sister Tua'ones horror we saw a big
dog in the yard eating. I looked at it and told her not to worry. It
was not a dog. It was a coyote. Yes this less active was feeding the
coyotes. I have to admit that even I did not really want to get out of
the car. We honked a little and the less active came out. She was very
sweet, and told us the coyote was the nicest girl named Jamie. We
didn't stay very long at all.
Anyway I love you all. I hope to hear more from you. Rachel, How are you doing?
Sister Allred
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