February 21, 2018

Hello Y'all :) 

Another AMAZING week in good old Childress Texas!! Seriously though this town is incredible!! 

So some awesome miracles this past week:

PATRICK:

Patrick is a cousin to one of the active members of our church and he attends every single week. He was even fasting 2 weeks ago. Yea you can only imagine we wanted to jump on that opportunity. Mind you multiple sets of missionaries have approached him and tried to set up appointments or even leave him with a pamphlet and he rejected them all. His cousin also told us that we needed to be really touchy and careful around baptism because he had had a very spiritual experience in the past. Well in true Allart fashion we leave no solider behind. So Sunday after church we approached him and he said we could come over and teach him!! We tried to meet with him once and something came up but we then had a lesson in one of our members home and we sent some expectations and other fun things and then asked him:

Patrick what are some of your expectations with meeting with us?

Patrick: "Well I guess just to help me be prepared to be baptized"

.....He caught us so off guard...

Well Patrick will now be getting baptized on March 10th. He is literally the most prepared person I have ever taught. He literally knows everything. In the same lesson he asked us how soon he can go to the temple after he has been baptized!!! We were teaching him a little bit more about temples yesterday and he was like "It's literally like Disney land!" and "I really have to wait a whole year before I can receive my endowment?" He's awesome. The only sad part is that he'll be getting baptized in Colorado because he has some family there. So we won't get to be there for it but it's for him so it's okay :)

DAVID: 

okay before I jump into David you have to understand that the first time we met David and his wife Joise we knocked into them and David was very firm in his belief and understanding that the Pentecostals were the right church. At one point he literally through the pamphlet we left with them on the table and was shaking his head. He is probably what you would consider a "Bible Basher" Well we looked him in the eyes and testified of the truthfulness of our message and respectfully left. Well about 2 weeks later, this past Saturday we are in bed and at 10:43 pm the phone begins to ring with a number that was unknown to us. As much as we wanted to answer the phone we didn't because we wanted to be exactly obedient. You better believe though first thing in the morning, after praying, we listened to the voice mail that was left. IT WAS DAVID ASKING TO SPEAK TO SOMEONE. After a bit of phone tag we got in contact with him and he said him and his wife wanted to start attending our church. our jaws were literally on the floor of the car. He was the LAST person we would ever think to call us back. We are planning to meet with them this week!

Yea this area is so prepared the Bible bashers are calling us back. It really is a great day to be a missionary!!

Thanks for all of y'alls support, love, and prayers!!! I hope it's a wonderful week :)

SISTER Allart

February 6, 2018

Well folks there was a change of plans. If anyone had known previously...don't know how you would have cause I didn't tell any of you BUT I'm actually not in Brownwood anymore hahaha.

So Sunday night I got the call from President Hales that I was going to Brownwood Texas and that I was going to be in a trio but President Hales called me at 10:30 am Tuesday when we were packing my bags into the car to leave and asked if I could go somewhere else and now I'm in Childress with Sister Peterson!! :) It reminds me so much of Eastland except it's a lot more dry and windy :) I literally love this place though. There are so many prepared people!! The whole switch threw a lot of people off. It was funny Sister Seamons came up to me and was like HEY and I was like hello! I'm not your companion anymore!! hahaha I don't know if she was confused or sad but it was quite the expression on her face hahaha. 

I don't really know what to talk about exactly... We've seen quite a few miracles though! We set a baptism goal for the next 6 months with the branch president and we have a goal for 8!!! hahah Childress has only seen 2 baptisms in the past 2 years and past that it's been a while... 1 Thessalonians 5:25. 

Sunday though we approached a man who is basically a dry Mormon. He was even fasting this past Sunday. Seriously though. He had told the missionaries in the past that he didn't want to meet and just a couple weeks ago had denied a pamphlet. Well if you haven't figured it out yet we like to do awkward things for Christ! So we came up to him I introduced myself and now we have an appointment with him Friday!!! yeaaa I'm pretty excited you could say :) It's going to be a great transfer :) On our bike day we met 3 people and they all thanked us for talking with them and then set up return appointments. Like I said it's going to be a great transfer :) 

Also GUESS WHAT!! Remember Spencer Warren? HE GOT ENDOWED THIS PAST WEEK!!!!!!!!!!! He then moved to Indiana like the next week. I remember before I got transferred I was across the table from him and I said spencer if the time comes that you're going to go receive your endowments please invite me I would love to come. He just laughed and was like yea that's never going to happen I'm only here to make some friends I'm not interested in doing the whole Mormon thing. Little chump did it without me :) It's okay though because I'm so happy for him :) 

Also please keep Norma Lopez in your prayers and Sean (pronounced Shane) Seacrist. They should be getting baptized in the next 2 weeks :) Thanks for the prayers!! I love y'all!! Don't forget to Remember Him :) 

SISTER Allart