Hello everyone,

This last tuesday we had a visit from Elder Bednar, who spent all this last week in Mexico on several assignments in missions, ward and stake leadership conferences, and meetings with several government officials. He arrived at the temple grounds where the 400 missionaries from the east and west missions were gathered in the stake center (which is right next to the temple) we all had the chance to shake his and his wife磗 hand, together with Elder Johnson, the 2 mission Presidents and their wives and 3 other area 70磗 that were present. it was a great expirience. Before he visited us Elder Bednar asked us to study 2 of his past articles 创look for learning by faith`` and 创Ask in Faith`` (general conference addresses 2008) we learned a ton by only reading the articles but then he came and taught us by talking with us, asking us what it was we had learned and how we were applying it in our lives. I could put everything i have learned here but they would have to give me another P-day to be able to do it, also the majority would probably be misunderstood as we learned by the power of personal revealation. Elder Bednar gave us an hour to make statements about what we had learned and an hour to ask him questions and obviously not everyone got to ask their questions etc. at the end of the 3 hours we had he asked us to raise our hands if 创we didnt have the chance to ask our question and sombody else didnt ask it, but recieved our answer anyway.`` the majority of the missionaries raised their hands. his big focus in the whole meeting was 创Espiritu santo es el maestro`` i will leave that to the translator, i thought it was cool cause he said it in spanish. he also translated a few scriptures from the book of mormon. now he read them in english, they were translated into spanish, i understood both, but that man as a seer pulled a deeper meaning from the scriptures, a meaning i had never considered. that is part of his holy calling. Mosiah 8:17, 2 Nephi 30: 17-18. I know the church is true and that every person is entitled to recieve revealation. DyC 42:61&65.`` man cannot recieve the holy ghost without recieving revealation创- Joseph smith, index; Holy Ghost. This church is the true church, if the evidences dont do it for you its time to get on your knees and ask the personal revealtion to be given to you so you can know it. I Love you all. Untill Next week,

Elder Paden W Allen

 

Return to Monterrey

Dear family and friends,

This week was way wierd for me. i arrived in my new area, and the next day i had to go to my old area in splits cause the 2 elders there are both new and neither one really knows they area and they werent teaching a whole lot of people during the week so they sent me there to help them out. it was cool to see a few of the members  i knew, recent converts, well not so recent as it was a year ago that they were baptised etc. My area is a bit bigger than the first one i had and about half of it is on Cerro de la silla. If you dont know what that is, google it. :) But my companions are super funny and great teachers. Elder Morrison is 21 from Utah and will be returning home wednesday. Elder Tovar is from Hidalgo. hes 26 and an engineer. he has a computation school at home but let it in his moms hand when he came out on the mission. he`s been out 20 months and it is possible that i could be his last companion. but the area is great. I`m looking forward to destroying my shoes climbing the mountain daily and preachng to anything thats still breathing. I`m Gonna miss Nvo Laredo but i know i will enjoy the new ward i am in as well.

Good luck to Devin in singapore, Jared and Jeanie in Arizona and congrats to Lincoln and Heather. Love you all!

Atte: Elder Paden W Allen

Transfers

Hello everyone,

This week was a tough one, but at the same time, full of blessings. We had some miracle investigators show up to church we had invited them to come like 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times and they fianlly came :) we also had a baptism. Sergio Valentín Almazán Ponce, 20 years old was baptised the 7th and confirmed the 8th he was one of those super prepared Investigators that pretty much just needed someone to fill up the font for him, even if there would not have been anyone to perform the ordinance an angel would have come down to do it i´m sure.

     Also  i Will be returning to Monterrey tomorrow, straight to where i served my 1st 6 months in the field. I Am going to Guadalupe Nuevo Leon.. Again.. Haha! Area: La Silla Zone, Los Angeles. I will be in the area which borders my first area. I´ll even be going to the same chapel building, very rare when that happens, I will be going as junior companion, zone leader, i will be in a trio, Elder Morrison and Elder Tovar will be my new companions. I will getting to know the same people all over again in splitz and getting to know the other ward better. I´m phsyched and nervous at the same time. the funny thing is I already know where everything is... The chapel... the house... The Bishops house... the grocery store... So its not going to be SUPER new but new at the same time. I´m going to miss the area i´m in currently but i know the Lord has more for me waiting back in Guadalupe.

Love you all,

Elder Paden W Allen

182nd General Conference

 A Mis Seres Queridos,

     This week was amazing with General Conference. First off there were allot of family themed messages, its crazy how the lord reveals the same theme to several different authorities in order to communicate the message necessary for us to hear. Also Dillon was looking might handsome that Saturday afternoon session ;) haha it was a great choir. 

     Other than the General Conference messages that i loved there was an extra special experience we were able to share with a family of a recent convert, they had an aunt pass away. and as the Catholic priest was busy they invited us to present something at the viewing. Saturday between the 2nd session and priesthood session we went to the funeral home and sung 3 series of 2 hymns 6 in total. we sang 2 and had a prayer and a small message by our zone leader. we sung 2 more and had an small testimony meeting. then we sang 2 more and a closing prayer. Our zone is not the most gifted of singers but that day we really felt the spirit very strongly and the sound of our voices was not our own. we literally felt Angels singing with us. and it sounded like it too. every person in that room felt the spirit even the workers paused their smoking break top coming in sit down and listen. there wasn't a single dry eye leaving. it was a super special experience.

     Sunday we were siting in our little classroom, 5 gringos listening in English :) and we were surprised by a family that came in and sat in a row of chairs right behind us. they were from Texas. The mom was the only member, the 2 daughters were quite extreme. One with bright red hair, apple red BTW, the other with green, and they brought there boyfriends a couple of bags full of bones. we sat for about a half an hour in silence taking notes like mad men. then all of the sudden the lady tapped me on the shoulder asking me something about the bishop,  ``which bishop?´´ I asked. ´´I don't know,`` she said, ´´he told me to come in here and look for the missionary  that speaks English. You speak English right?`` ´´We all speak English.`` I responded. ``Oh.´´ was all she said, soon after the bishop came in and indicated the missionary had been referring to. it was a rather humorous event that set the whole room into laughter. 

Anyway that's the update this week. Love you all!

Élder Paden W Allen.