Week 14

OH my gosh. I LOVE LONDON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't put enough exclamation points on that. I love it. I love being a missionary. I can actually whole heartedly say I love being a missionary now...i might have been faking it just a little bit the last 3 months :) Now I actually love it.

Sooooooo on Monday Sister H. and I spent the entire day pretty well saying good bye to people since we were both leaving :)  So then we packed up and got up at like 5 o'clock on Tuesday and drove to Brampton. There I met Sister S!

So we then we drove home...we had some really good bonding time in the car...she almost killed me. We got flipped off once...or twice...good ol' country girl driving in a big city doesn't mix! BUT I LOVE HER! Like seriously love her. She is so much fun. We came out hte same time and we just laugh a whole lot together. I was so stressed out that my new companion would be boring and think I was weird....turns out she was worried about the same thing and Heavenly Father decided to put us together! We are just insanely weirdly awesome together~! !!!!!!

The people here are soooo much more friendlier...must be something in the water but the people are awesome here. Like everyone knows us. We have people on the bus and in the grocery store notice that I'm new and ask me what my name is and where i'm from. It's fantastic. And the best part is...we are actually busy. AND IT WAS MY FIRST TIME HITTING STANDARDS THIS PAST WEEK! It just feels so good to work so hard and actually see results! We worked crazy hard this last week. we just collapsed every night when we came in. The ward is awesome! And Yes, Bucky Lumsden is here! haha I haven't seen him yet, but we shot him a text to let him know I was here! haha small world eh?

There are a lot of people we are teaching!  I met S. on the bus and we taught her once and then she came to church on Sunday. She has gone through so many things in her life that are so hard and i'm just so excited for her to find this peace and to know that she is a daughter of God.

Oh I should tell you about our apartment.....hahah so it has been lived in my missionairies for like 10 years...Elders for a long time so it definitely has some character! haha but we switched it around a whole lot and it is great. I am just so happy to be here! I tell Sister S. that all the time. I just love it. It is beautiful- we are trying to be healthier so we go running/exploring every morning and it's gorgeous! I am also giving up Diet Coke for this transfer- it's going great and I've lost a little weight so hopefully that continues!

I'm reading the Book of Mormon from front to back this transfer- so taht's all I do in my spare time :) haha but it's been amazing to just read it and get the full pciture all at once! Definintely strenthening my testimony!

I love all of you!

The pics are of Sister H. and I one last time, and of Sister S. on one of our morning adventures!

Muah!

Love you all.

Sister Allred!

Week 13- Pack your bags cricky, we're movin out!

LONDON HERE I COME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

So we got transfer calls last night and Sister H. and I are both leaving! She is going to Missassagua and I am going to London with Sister S. I came out with her and she is sooo cute! I'm so excited! President Scott loves to white wash areas! The Elders in the other ward are also  both leaving and a few other areas. It's not like at home where that only happened if they were bad missionairies. I PROMISE I"M A GOOD GIRL! haha I am so thankful though! and just so excited! I need a pump up  and a new place. It's not that I was really down or anything it was just becoming so....stagnant. :) :) :) :) :) :)

I"m just ready to baptize people!       Ah I am just so excited!!! so so so excited. And it will be a bigger city so we won't have to walk forever to find people! It seemed like our area was shrinking! We would see former investigators all the time! On Sunday we ran into 3! haah it was all pretty funny. We started to walk through neighborhoods instead of the normal streets because we needed a change of scenery! So I am just super excited! Especially since I was mentally preparing myself to be here and have Sister H. leave. It it's going to be sweet. I am going to miss Sister H. a whole lot though! She has been soo wonderful!

 

I was feeling a little down on Saturday night and just didn't feel like I was progressing that much and stuff. Everyone talks about how they just love their missions soo much and they don't ever want to go home and their testimonies have never been so strong...blah blah...and I just kept thinking...yes, I love it, but I definitely am going to want to go home when the time comes! So I felt a little guitly for not feeling like what seems like every other missionary...so I was praying about it...a little confession time perhaps. And then I reflected about how when I got my mission call all I could think about was being a mom. And the thoughts just came of "Of course you won't reach your full potential on your mission, this is just to prepare you to be a mother...that will be your full potential". So then I felt ALL BETTER :)

 

Oh and studying about the Women in the scriptures has been awesome! It helps me stay focus to be writing things down and stuff while studying. I made a goal to not be so sarcastic and be more serious...and then I found a verse just for me...like it was quite obviously written for me...has my name and everything!

 6 ¶And Sarah said, God hath made me to ^alaugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.
So I am clearly just here to brighten people's days....Sister H. told me all the time how much I entertain her :) So the scriptures are pretty amazing! That is now my favourite verse! LOVE IT!
Like always, thanks for the emails :) LOVE YOU ALL!!!!
Sister Allred

PICS: a less active family- they are from Berma and don't speak very much English :)

Week 12

This week we only have a very short time to write emails- so there probably won't be any personal emails this week- but thank you for all of them! They were great! I love getting emails, they make me so happy! They are definitely what keeps me going- just knowing that I get ot hear from you all! This week was pretty slow, we are still just trying so hard to find people and to actually get them to progress! Usually missionairies have to drop investigators...our investigators drop us haha But working hard on keeping my spirits up. Sometimes I just have to tell myself I get 5 mintues. 5 minutes to feel sorry for myself and act like a little girl...then I have to suck it up and get  to work. I just want to teach! We taught Relief Society on Sunday...and I might have cried and just told them I was tired of tracting and needed them to help us find people. I don't know if anything got through to them, but only time will tell!

I'm afraid I am going to be a very plump girl when I get back haha Food is the best comfort! haha and then we are just lazy with cooking after long days of tracting...yesterday we were just too tired for dinner and had a big lunch at a member's home so we just had Diet Coke for dinner. I've corrupted Sister H. completely now- she asks me to go get Coke :) Victory!

Transfers are next week so we will see what happens! I'm pretty sure Sister H. will be leaving- she has been here for 6 months. So change will be good.

I've decided to study all the women in the Bible and Book of Mormon- I just decided this morning- so today I started with Eve and then made a list of all the women- I'm quite excited for this new study topic. I want to do a minor in Women's studies so I figured this was all very appropriate!

I love you all and I"m so lucky for all of you!

Love,

Sister Allred