Saying Goodbye to President and Sister Foote

***It is official! I received Sam's flight plans this morning.  

He will be home on Thursday July 19 at 10:14 am.  

His homecoming will be Sunday July 29 at 9 am 

with food at our house after!  

Hello,

Great week with President Foote! We had our last zone conference with the Footes. It was really sad saying goodbye to them. They have been the greatest thing about this mission.

On Thursday they arrived in Fort D. Friday morning President showed up at our house to drop off my package from my mom. He thought he would meet with us, study together a little bit, and have some interviews... Then we told him that we usually played soccer on the beach on Fridays. He hurried home to change into some shorts and then we met the other missionaries at the beach.

Saturday we had the conference and learned a lot. Seeing as how it was the last Conference with him and for most of us here in Fort D. we talked with him all day long getting deep doctrinal questions answered and advice for life. President Foote has definetly taught me a lot about what kind of person I want to be; for myself and for others around me.

This morning at 3:00 a.m. we woke up and hiked Peak St. Louie to see the sun rise on the horizon. It was freezing cold at the top of the mountain and I was the only one that had brought a blanket so we all cuddled and shared it.

Next week.
Sincerely,
Elder Allen

We've Got A Lot Planned

Hello,
Nothing too eventful from this past week except we had an amazing zone conference with Pres. Foote.

There were also a couple of days when I had a bad migraine. That made going out to work very hard. I stayed in on Sunday because I just couldn't work and use my brain any more, let alone open my eyes with out it hurting. I am feeling a lot better now though. My eyes still kind of feel sensitive and sore but my headache is gone.  So back to work.

This next coming week should be great. We get to Skype home this next weekend. Probably Saturday early morning. We will also have some of our investigators getting married and baptized this Saturday!!  And It is my birthday next Sunday as well. We've got a lot of things planned. It should be a pretty good time.

Sincerely,
Elder Allen

I sent a picture of Elder Smith sleeping with his eyes open. 

Its like Gandolf in The Lord of the Rings.

Our Cyber where we email

A Testimony vs. Conversion

Hello,

Yesterday we had a conference with Elder Palmer the Area General Authority from the Quorum of the 70. He came to our church and I walked around with him from class to class translating for him as he spoke to the members.

The Conference was really good. We were asked to read some talks to prepare for it. Tad R. Callister's talk on the Book of Mormon was one. It was really good and insightful about how true that book really is and the miracle of it. The other one that I read was David A. Bednar's talk about the relationship between testimony and conversion. A really good quote from it was, "A testimony is knowing something is true. Conversion is staying true to what you know." We may already know or have a testimony that the gospel is true. Being converted means that you stay true to that testimony whether it is convenient or not.

Funny story from the week: The other day we were driving home in a taxi. As we were getting close to the house, a crazy lady walking and talking like a Raptor from Jurassic Park comes towards our car. At this moment Elder Wolfgram starts rolling up his window and shouting at the driver to keep going even though we were just about to stop. He stress-fully switched into gear and pulls into our walled off driveway. The Taxi drivers instantly started to laugh hysterically. It was pretty funny.

Sincerely,
Elder Allen

Zone Conference

Zone conference with Elder Palmer

Sam on the beach today for P-day.

Elder Wolfgram, Blatter, Passey

Elder Shelby, Hunter

Elder Monson & Jackson

Elder Allen, Elder Monson,  Jackson, Hunter, Shelby