Hello Family and friends,

This week was a crazy expirience. For example, friday we get a phone call and we are invited to the temple to see yet another of my companons converts recieve their endownments that was great. we found 2 new famlies to teach and we had a stranger come all by his onesy to church :) this is the expirience i want to share with everyone.

His name is Jose Carlos Rubio Salinas. he showed up late to sacrament meeting and attended gospel principles with us. satrting the class we were called out by the stake young mens president to be invited to a stake high priest council to help organize a missionary activity with the stake. ill tell what went down wth that in a bit but after that we returned to the class and were there for 2 minutes when Carlos started sharing something about faith in Christ which is not bad its just the class was about the creation and the teacher hada just started basically cause it was like the 5th time he had done it. so the teacher asked him to be quiet so we could go over the theme and that we would give him time to share his testimony after the class.  she hadnt even finished the sentence when he said ok i understand i´ll just be going now. and he grabbed his bag and left.... we were like ok we gotta go after him we cant let him go with this kind of immpression from the church. so we followed about 30 seconds behind him and caught him aout 3 blocks from the church and when he saw we had come to invite him back with us he said ´´i know you are representatves of christ and that that church is his church, cause you dont even know me but love me enough to leave and invite me back. so we went back to church everything was straightened out and turns out he is having a bone transplant tommorrow and was looking for the church of christ before the operation. wednesday we are going to teach him in his home. one day after the operation. it was a very awesme and spiritual expirience, also very humbling to see a grown man so humbled. Ill never forget that exprience.

Hello Everyone!
    First off happy Fathers day to all the fathers out there, especially the one that lives in the house at 47 Reynolds st. in good old Hick Town Malad Idaho!

    This week was crazy. we had a visit from the 2nd conselor in the area 70`s presidency, Elder Tenorio. he talked about concentrating, working hard and Accomplishing your dreams. he made my comp quite trunky who is only 8 weeks away from going home. but he made me more than excited to preach the gospel!

    Its an average 90 degrees here at midnight recently, it makes me scared of Idaho cause it gets less than 90 and i get cold....... i have been sadly desensitized to heat. people often ask us how we can stand in the sun instead of the shade in a street contact. sadly i hadnt even thought about it....

    We are working hard with a family of 4 who is quite excited to be baptised they just dont seem to understand the importance of goiong to church on Sunday... the parents are in the 40`s and the 2 kids are 18 and 13 and VERY rebelious. but they seem to accept well enough. the 18 year old son has stopped wearing his eyebrow and ear piercings and has stopped bothering his mom about getting a Tattoo. we had very little time to work this week cause my comp got sick and we had lots of half days  and yesterday the Assistant to the president called us with special transfers and we had to go help the missionaries in my old area get moved out of the house, then go pick up the sisters who moved into the house 1 hour afterwards. it was interesting and strange to see the mission President in such an informal situation and i realized that without his suit coat the guy is really quite skinny... anyway thats all for this week. Love you all. Stay strong!! 

Photo: Who ever said i wouldn`t ever use them all? paisley collection :)

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-Elder Paden W Allen

Mosiah 4:30 & 5:5

Working to make the world a better place, one door at a time.

Hello all,
Este semana fue despacito un cuanto a la obra... oh its supposed to be in english write? haha anyway this week was slow but we got to go to the temple with a famly my comp baptised a year ago :) that was awesome. i was kinda nervous to do it in spanish with all the big words and i dont speak vosotros that great.... read yes, speak no. for those of you who dont know what that is its the thee thy shall stuff but in spanish. but it was good i think i did better than in english... haha but it was amazing i saw my first live sealing and it made me want to work all that much harder :) i also included a pic of a whole lot of cocroaches... those are all the ones we killed in 3 days in our apartment. it is flat out rawnchy when it come to cocroaches in mexico... well monterrey at least... not a whole lt to say as it was a slow wek but love you all and talk to yall next week!!

Hey Peeps,
So this week was a miracle week. we realy had a hard time at the first part of the week for a zone leader conference we had and also the weather was crazy! 46 degrees (celcius) and random tropical showers. when they say tropical shower they really want to say 创there is so much water falling from the sky you cant see your own nose`` or 创you might as well go swiming`` it was fun. we had a baptism friday an 11 year old girl named nataly we helped her mom return to church and stay there and now the whole family is memeber except dad. they have to get married before he can get baptised though and its kinda complicated for divorces and stuff that they have to do so it will be a long time before it happens. Thats pretty much all tough. way super busy today we have to train one of the district and get them up to date on a few changes that went down in the mission. Love you all!!