Well it has been a hard week! We don't have any progressing investigators at the moment- so people who are progressing towards baptism and there has been a lot of knocking on doors and just trying to get somebody to listen! In my head...with a Nacho Libre accent I just say to myself..."I'm a little concerned about your salvation and stuff". We are working so hard! and trying to find people, but the numbers when the District Leader calls just isn't showing that. So that's been frustrating. There are YSA (Young Single Adults) Elders who cover our area as well..so whenever we do find somebody who is interested we have to give it over to them because the person is between the age of 18-30. It was actually pretty funny, my companion and I were street contacting and between the sparse amount of people who were out and about we were saying how easy the YSA Elders have it. They always have stories about people who just walk up to them and ask questions. And just as we were talking about this we ran in to a guy, we gave him a pass along card and he was all like "Yeah, I'm actually really interested, I have a friend who is Mormon who served a mission but I don't know much about Mormons. Do you have time to talk? McDonalds it right there". Haha so we taught him the message of the restoration there in McDonalds...got his information...and then handed him over to the YSA Elders to teach :( I tell ya, YSA is where it's at! Get them while they are young and not set in their ways! Oh and I did get called crazy/mistaken for the first time this past week. Once again he was male and around 35-40 years old and really wanted to chew us out...the smirk on my face probably didn't help...I just can't help but feel sorry for those people. They believe that the Bible is it, that there were no more prophets after Christ....I'm sorry but that just doesn't make any sense to me...what about all the Apostles? What were their purpose then? Why wouldn't we need direction today? I always want to pull out 2 Nephi 29:6-10, which starts off as "Thou fool, that shall say: A Bible, we have got a Bible, and we need no more Bible.....Wherefore, because that ye have a Bible ye need not suppose that it contains all my words neither need ye suppose that I have not caused more to be written/" But calling people fools probably wouldn't go so great haha It just seems sooo silly that people feel like the heaven's are closed, that we have received everything we need to know! I have been reading Jesus the Christ...(which is awesome, I can't put it down!) but even when Zacharius was in the temple and he was told about his wife who would conceive in her old age, people thought that there were no more messengers sent to the people in that time...Don't people see a pattern here?! Why is it so hard for people to believe revelation today, in their own time?
Anyways,....I've ranted enough :) I can't remember if I've told you about one of our contacts...We contacted him on the street...and he said "I speak french"..and then I was like, well what a coincidence! I DO TOO! haah so we have been trying to get him to church and stuff, but again, he does not live in our area, but the other Elders don't speak french...it's kind of a mess...BUT I've gotten to use my french! So that's awesome.
Oh and there are a lot of Mennenites here! I don't mean ones like at home, I mean like ones who drive horse and buggies through town! haha they even have hitch posts and barns for them while they shop! haha
Oh and I was going to tell you a little about our area, we cover both the outskirts of Kitchener and Waterloo...so we miss both of the downtowns, which kills me a little because the cutest houses are there...but there is quite a commute to those town. I like Waterloo the best and it's where we are spending most of our time. Kitchener has 130,000 people and Waterloo has 230,00 people- you'd think with ALL those people we'd be able to find somebody! It's beautifully green and lush on the outskirts of town! There is a small town called ST Jacobs- we were going to go up there today because it's more like a farming town, with the buggies and everything but it's raining...sooo naptime this afternoon instead :) I seriously fall asleep all the time...I fell asleep saying my prayers...it was right before companionship study and I was kneeling and leaning on my chair at my desk...and my companion was waiting for me...I woke up and it'd been 10 mintues...so I just slyly stood up and pertended like it never happened. I just figured she'd think I was super spiritual or something...but when we were done studying she asked me if I had fallen asleep...sooo I fessed up to it.
I havent been homesick much...I think of all of you a whole lot! But nothing too bad..the one time that it hit me kind of hard was when we were tracting and this lady came out wearing an apron and she said she was baking a cake and couldn't talk to us...I JUST WANTED TO BE HOME BAKING A CAKE WITH MY MOMMY! haha I got over it real quick though.
Oh I had my one month birthday as a missionary! We got Coke :)
We have Zone Conference tomorrow, and I'm just hoping that I see Daylon Mecham or Teancum Carter there! I just want to see a familiar face!
Well I love you all- and I'm still alive!
Oh one more thing...there are these surplus stores here that are awesome! They have a bakery - 50 cent Country Harvest bread, and all sorts of other things, and then they have another surplus store that has everything else your heart could desire...gardening things, camping things..tools....Dad, you'd go crazy :)
Love you!
Sister Allred
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