Dear Family,

This week has been crazy. we finished the transfers and sent the missionaries home. I sent 2 old companions Home. 1 that i was good friends with and the other that i didn't really get to know. Now i know why President says that the Assistants have to be stronger that the other missionaries, now i know why he says the Assistant´s Job is harder than an average missionary´s. 1- You get rather trunky talking about home with 18 other missionaries who are going home, just to go out and work for 3 days trying to get the results you would have had working for....6.   2-  you have to do it every 6 weeks, apart of daily reports, weekly reports, meetings, training meetings splitz damage control traffic control ETC. Its very occupying. there is very little time to one´s self. from 9:45-10:00 every night and 4.00-6:00 every Monday afternoon. not the most ideal schedule for a normal person. but for a missionary its very awesome, 0 free time, lots of work and lots of Joy for doing it :)

last week i barely had enough time to write on Monday and didn't even get my clothes washed or anything. president gave us Wednesday to recover from Tuesday night when we went to sleep at 2 after help weight suitcases and getting things ready, and got up at 3 to go to the airport. i took a shower before laying down and then slept in my suit so i would just have to get up and go. i was in the airport with a 5:00 (Blond) shadow at 4 in the morning helping the other missions mission president´s wife cause she doesn't speak Spanish and trying to get 4 American missionaries through immigration and stressing cause the line was half a mile long because of a cancelled flight. but it all went over well. i finally got to wash clothes and everything else on Wednesday instead of Monday i also slept from 10 to 2. that was my p-day..... yep lol

The rest of the week was great we taught 2 investigators that we had had for a long time but this time on levels of spirituality that were higher than normal. which is how it should be, they now both have baptismal dates. :) one we planned and it worked out just like we had practiced and the other was almost ruined by a member who started talking right as i was about to invite to baptism, destroying the moment. so we prepared another lesson and came back a day later took control of the lesson and invited her, who in turn accepted. the is a hoarder and 2 times a week we go and help her throw things away. normally the things she had gathered while we weren't there throwing things away, but Hey! its progress. i would suggest (for those of you involved in missionary work) in sharing your testimony over more than one thing. Pure Testimony as Elder Bednar says. short simple powerful and true. when you vomit your religion on a person they are naturally repulsed..... i wouldn´t recommend that!

Anyway i gotta Bounce and i think i am out of things to say for now, so this is Elder Allen reporting, over and out.

Love you all,