The Oregon Drizzle

 Monday October 7, 2013

 

Hola Familia! I love you guys so much!

 

I got to watch all of conference and I  CANNOT GET ENOUGH!! Have to wait 6 months for the next one but it is something to really look forward to! How did you guys like it?

 

So this week we got a new car. Our "OLD" car had 25 thousand miles and was losing the shine i guess.... Because we drive everywhere in what is called the "Oregon Drizzle"! Our spanish area is huge so we need to cover a lot of ground without getting drenched so we are in a car a lot more than i would like to be. So it is the newest car I have ever been in! we got the all new chevy cruze 2014 with only 9 miles on it! still had the tags on it and everything! the church is crazy to hand that 20,000 dollar piece of merchandise to us!

 

The second week was just as good as the first. It is amazing as an ambassador of the Lord how people just open up to you and plead your help and guidence. We had two crazy amazing experiences this week where we were guided to certain people. One lady we met just outside a bus stop and as we started to talk she just told us everything, like everything. She is in a really tough situation and she told us how she had been drinking for the first time and years because of the struggles she is having and that she is terminally ill and how she doesnt want to leave her son now because he is so far away from choosing the correct things in life. Through her tears, She told us how last time she was in a crisis like this that the two mormon missionaries showed up as well, just walking down the street like we were! God knows his children and he sends us, his ambassadors to help them find the path and give them comfort. I know that we are only a tool in his hands to accomplish this work. So i asked if we could come in and share a short message with her. We shared Helaman 5:12 and I know that she felt the spirit. We have so much strength in the Christ! Sad thing is though all the people we contact that are white we have to turn them over to the white missionaries! (we are the brown ones)! I want to teach her again though!

 

Another lady came up to us and said that she had a house that was filled with bad spirits and is under the influence of the devil. she asked us to come bless her home and cast out the spirits! So we get into her house and like always Elder Keller turns to me to give me the chance to do everything which I am very greatful for because I have grown a lot and it is probably what I am going to do with my trainees in the future. That was an interesting experience but I love the knowledge that we have in regards to this that we can call on the powers of heaven for ourselves. She verywell  could have blessed her home as well. She is entitled as are we all to the lords help wherever we are.

 

This man came up to us during General Conference and said "Get with the program. if it aint fun then you aint doing it right and it aint worth doing" Soo true! Everything can be done in a way to foster the spirit of God and help us find joy in what we are doing. 

 

Conference was amazing and we got some of our investigators to attend which was a blessing, chewie and his wife stephanie and lots of kids and relatives.  You can put your money on the prophets to deliver inspired and persuasive messages, and that is whay they did. I love those men so much and I admire their spiritual tenacity and I hope to be able to be more bold and filled with love all at the same time. During Elder Hollands talk I thought about RACHEL! She is going to be such a perfect spirit and she is just trapped right now in this body but she will be resurrected in all glory. I cant believe I forget that so often when I am around her. Forgive me Rachel! I LOVE YOU! gotta go!

love

Elder Allen