Dear Family and Friends,

This week was good for finding new investigators. even though we cant knock on doors we found several part member families that we are now teaching. we havent had too much success with member referrals but we´re getting there. we did lots of walking which i recently found out is actually doing lots of damage to my body. I will spare you all of the details for the moment. if you absolutely HAVE to know more my parents are a LOT more available than I. 

We are teaching a wonderful old lady who is 81 years old and still strong. she is proggresing rapidly despite her failing memory. she should be having her baptism performed this week if we arent backed up by my health problems. shouldnt be too much of a problem though.

Sorry i dont have alot of time but I have been really busy with doctor visits and all that so i have had very little time. i havent even got my hair cut yet!!

Love you all, and dont worry nothing suer dangerous, all is well in Zion!!

Dear family and friends,

     This week has been crazier than crazy. I´ve been so busy i dont have time to think but when i do think i tend to think about my future career as allot of people have been talking about what they want to do and i wasnt so sure. So i thught about it all week between 9:45PM to 10:30 or 11:00 PM when I fall asleep then i dream about it and to make things easier on myself and to not worry about it too much for the next 5 months i have decided i will be changing my major from Biology to be an English when i return. problem solved :)

     But that is the least of what happened this week!! Elder Talavera and I have been working our brains out! Tuesday: Splitz in matamoros, Wednesday: Full 2 days worth of work in 6 hours. Thursday: Weekly Planning. Friday: Splitz with Stake Paraíso. Saturday: Work untill Elder Allen falls as a burnt crisp before the intense and ruthless mexican sun. Sunday: wait for investagators and visit those who didnt come. Monday: Recieve Reports from Zone Leaders..... The week flies by.  We are getting ready to go have a meeting in the mission house then eat then go bowling with the mission president, His Idea, not ours. it feels strange going to "hang out" as he put it and it was very strange to hear ´enough with: all work and no play.´ come out of his mouth. its a more personal relationship with President Walker than i have had in the past. not complaining.

I am really enjoying the mission and am happy when i hear from people :) *cough* Hint! *cough* Hint Hint *cough* *cough* anyway, love you all :)

Dear Family and fiends,

     I have run out of things to do during the day. Not being able to look for our own investigators is fairly difficult!!! We run out of investigators at about 3 and have to go visit members. The problem is our ward is very extremely small. we have already visited the active members like 7 times already and they don't know anybody good ;/ we´re working hard however. next week we go to matamoros in splitz with the Zone leaders. it should be fun cause i have never been to matamoros. I am actually very excited to do so cause i once saw the town when i was in Rio Bravo but i haven't ever been able to go there. I have been to Reynosa, Nuevo Laredo, Rio Bravo, Apodaca ,Guadalupe, Villa de Juarez, San Nicolas and Monterrey. Matamoros and Valle Hermoso are the 2 new zones where i will be able to visit. it is really cool having permission to go to whichever part of of area we want.

     In our Area we are doing lots of meetings with the members asking for referrals and its hard cause the members dont share the gospel with anybody. that shouldnt happen i would invite you all to share the gospel it just makes everybodies lives better :) if you dont think its possible just read the book of Alma in The Book of Mormon and then get back to me on that one. :)

     I am rather very exited for the new changes that are going down in the Mission and its exciting to be involved in the organization of the whole ordeal. Everything is great with my companion. he is a great guy. makes me think of Elder Marsh who was one of the missionaries in my MTC District. Every Sunday and Monday we have a campout in the mission offices cause at 8-10 AM me and my companion are here making phone calls. I miss the study time but its a sacrifice  that we have to make. We also don't have much of a P-day either although they tell me i am lucky cause the Mission president has been in the border the last 2 Mondays and we haven´t had the mission correlation meeting. that is normally from 11:00AM to 2:00 PM, but its all good. loving the new assignment and working hard as always. :) love you all!

friends and family,

So its actually alot different being in the offices cause we are the ones doing everything that before just kinda happened like magic. planning, more planning, working like mad men to finish everything in one day what a normal missionary does in four. well at least this week cause its a wierd week transfers just got done and all. normally i wouldnt be on by now. update on AP: AP is an assignment we dont have senior or junior companion, we both have a cell phone and we are primarily in charge of the zone leaders, also any kind of event on the mission level we organize like the zone leader conference thats coming up. we also have to help with whatever the president needs. sometimes he feels that we need to do splitz with different places and we do it. anywhere from Monterrey and Linares Nuevo leon to Matamoros, Reynosa, Rio Bravo, Valle hermoso, Nuevo Laredo and san Fernando Tamaulipas. We also have our own area to work in there are time when there is nothing that comes up in our own area :/ my comanion is from Villahermosa, A small town outside nuevas Casas Grandes chihuahua grandma knows who the family is because they are skilled artisans in Pottery.

Love you all and best wishes!!! :)

Hello friends and family,

     So to start off with, this whole transfer 6 of the 14 missionaries have told me at least weekly (and at least daily  in the case of my companion) that this next transfer i would be passing it in the office with the president as AP (Assistant to the President) it had become a large joke between us. especially for my companion and the X-AP who is now a district Leader in our Zone. To my surprise,  Sunday night comes around, 8:00pm hits when the assistants always call to give us the transfers, and they don't call.... around 8:10PM the phone rings, i was in the other room packing up my things cause the president never leaves a companionship together more than 2 transfers, its very strange that 2 companions are together than that, and my companion only has 1 transfer left so he was obviously staying, that and the president told him he would be staying in the interviews. Anyway, the phone rings and my comp shouts ´´Its for you!!!`` i hear him talking to someone and the he says ´´Elder Allen, President wants to talk to you!``... I about wet myself thinking, ´uh oh, what did i do wrong??` well he talked to me about how i felt and asked us how we were doing on baptismal dates, we told him we had 13, he was very happy then continued to tell me that he had prayed and received Revelation and he felt that i had been prepared to be his new assistant.... he asked me i f i would accept it. i said ´´Sí está bien...`` followed by him telling me that it would be practically the hardest thing i had ever done in my mission and that i would have double work in my proselyting area and as his assistant. I never thought that it would happen to me but that's when the Lord calls you, when you don't expect it. I am excited nervous and anxious and a bit sad to be leaving my area, we have 3 families with baptismal dates and i wont be there to see their baptisms but i trust the Lord knows what he is doing. we had the best week we have had all month this week with 6 lessons with member and 11 others. 8 new investigators. its hard in Guadalupe but not impossible. The Lord always sends blessings when one is diligent in his work. I felt the end of my mission coming closer this week when my companion told me i only have 4 transfers  left which is 24 weeks, but i have lots of work to do so there is 0 chance of getting trunky.     Also the way we work in my mission has changed completely we will now not be doing any talking in the street or knocking on doors, but we will be run completely off of referrals from members. that's is a very large difference because until this point we talked with 140 people weekly in every companionship in the street apart from knocking on Doors etc. 4 of the 20 investigators we are teaching right now are from a member referral. we have allot of work to be doing. the work of the Lord is Progressing, no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing; persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent, till it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished, and the Great Jehovah shall say the work is done.

Here we are there´s not much anybody can do about it and now if we get bored and don't have people to teach we´ll just go chill on a members couch until he gets so sick of us he gives us a referral, teach, Baptise repeat. :)