Dear family and friends,

This week was a good one. we had a baptism. YAY!! a little 12 year old girl who is the grand daughter of the stake patriarch. she was a blessing from heaven in truth. we prayed for blessings and she almost literally fell from the sky screaming baptise me!! We have been working alot with less active members and part member families. its been inspirational and motivating expirience. I dont think i could ever enjoy being a less active.

This week the really heat started... 115 degrees and 105 at NIGHT. I didnt miss it at all. but the good thing is that it has taken a while to get here this year. last year it was hot in februrary. it s almost june and just starting to get unbarable. people frequently ask us if we´re hot... and if we are hot why do we walk around in the sun all day.  I often feel like saying: ´´Truth be told its blistering hot, and we walk around to avoid fainting and faling to the ground, that and we are saving souls here, can we come in for a bit?´´ its always fun to hear that conversation 6-8 times a day.

I love being a missionary though. thousands of slammed doors in my face makes the few awesome moments worth the pain and blisters.
Love you all,
Elder Paden W Allen

Family and friends,
This week was very tiring. the sun has come out and the heat has begun. but the good thing is that last year it was this hot in februrary. its alsmost june and its just starting to get thick. We had a good expirience this week where we helped a guy cut a few limbs out of his mesquite tree. we were there for a long time but it was all worth it when he and his wife showed up to church 3 days later :) that was cool. He was a refferal from the Missionaries in Tacubaya, which is right next to our area. they were walking along the border street between our areas and the Man (Edmundo) called them over to his house. the only thing was that he lives in our area. so they called for permission to teach him once and they passed the refferral. its a big family and they are progressing little by little, and they are preparing for baptism :) even better when they arrived in the chapel it turns out that the sister (Lourdes) is friends with 2 or 3 sisters from our ward so it will be even easier with the fellowshiping. but of course everything depends on them and their will to follow christ if they get baptismed or not.
We have been working alot with less active members and several families have returned to church and there are several 9-11 year old kids we are teaching so that they can be baptised. the members feel this is better cuse they have the expirience of conversion. but we were studying it this week and it is actually the opposite. For a memeber of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints we have the responsibility to teach our children so that they can participate in baptism when they reach the age of 8. D&C 68:25-27. The opposing option isnt too bright. Thats just one of the things i have learned this week. Our district Leader asked us to study D&C 4 frontwards backwards referenced and crossed referenced. WOW i would and invite all of you to do it as well. almost every point of the gospel of Jesus Christ is in this small 7 verse chapter in 1 week i have studied verses 1 and 2 and have discovered how completing with this section will help us complete with every other requirement the Gospel puts on us. i am going to continue studying it and 创Sucking out all the Juice`` and the didstrict Leader invited us to do. He is really one of the best district Leaders i have had, Elder Brandenburg from Virginia. One of the coolest guys i磛e met in the mish.
Dillon, read the BOM in your language study out loud in spanish DAILY. for 5 to 10 minutes. it will help you have the gift of tongues and be able to understand wht the other people are saying.
Love you all,
Elder Paden W Allen

scripture of the week: Alma 6:6. Apply it, then as Elder Bednar says: Get to work!!

Week 5/6 of Transfer 11.

Family and friends,
This week was great. We had a baptism thisa week of a 9 year old girl named Lupita. She was difficult to teach because she is Attention deficit and also has never been away from her mom for 5 minutes or had any real reason to even speak. But we were able to help her understand everything so that she could be baptised by her father, who has been active in the church again for 2 months now. It was an interesting and humbling expirience. Also it was a very rainy week. we got drenched saturday night when we came left our last appointment at 9:00pm and it just started pouring. it was dark and wouldnt have even noticed the clouds if it wasnt for the lightning. but in literally thirty seconds we were soaking wet! it was cool cause we were a mile from home. so we threw everything in plastic bags and ran home. I havent been running in a while and i realized that i`m outta shape! But that can be fixed more or less easy.

busy week with almost nothing accomplished

Family and Friends,

This week was crazy fast with the Zone conference and then with crazy three way splitz and normal splitz as well. we went crzy knocking doors and talking to random strangers in the street. but we had no success due to who knows what... :( But basically We fought through and dropped alot of people that were not progressing. this week shold be better. looking forward to the phone call this week. Love you all, and sorry its short!

Love, Elder Paden W Allen

Killer Week

Hello all,

This week was a killer, i walked my soles off... well one soul. its been held together with shoe glue for about.... 7 months but its finally pealing its way out of my life haha. but we are struggling to get people to come to church so we are going to try harder to stress the importance of church attendance this week. we have 12 people preparing for baptism adn only 1 came to church this week,a little  hobbit of a girl named Lupita who is nine years old and comes with her parents who are returning to the church after being inactive for 5 years which is great but 8 percent attendance isnt great odds, considering the odds should be 75....

But thats apart from the awesome week we had as a zone this week. 8 baptisms. 3 families that found the true and restored gospel :) sorry its short this week folks but my time is now up. Love you all!

-Elder Paden W Allen