Golden



Chrismas!

Christmas was amazing!! The best part of course was talking to you guys!! We were also fed breakfast lunch and dinner! Pretty great, oh and happy birthday mom! sorry I forgot to tell you that during skype! Something else I forgot to tell you guys is that I had to buy a GPS with my home money because We were in dire need of one, because the streets here are just one big maze, and nobody else has a GPS! 

 

So it was a pretty great week! Not as much success as we would have hoped, because everybody was gone... but we still saw miracles! for instance, we had received an online referral to this lady who wanted a bible, so we go to the address and the lady answers the door, and she was super crazy, we gave her, her bible and she started going off about Bill Gates for some reason and how he wanted her to go on tour with him? Then she started talking about when she was in jail...haha crazy. So we left, but as we started driving away, I felt prompted to try knocking her neighbor's door, so we did and a dude came out and said "I can't help you boys" and slammed the door, so we tried the next one and again, door slam! so we got pretty discouraged... we decided to try one last door and this lady named Katelyn answered, and she was golden! She had a Mormon friend while she was getting trained to be in the army, so she went to church a lot and said that it was her favorite one out of all the churches! She wasn't raised Christian. So boom miracle! Enduring pays off! haha!

 

We still knocked it haha!

This one doesn't need an explanation.... haha! 

 

Anyways I love you guys a bunch! 

 

Elder Allen

 

 

 

My friend!

 

Warner Robins Christmas

Hello Elder Anderson!   #DatTractingLife



Goodbye Jose Santos.... :(

It is always hard to get transferred! I was super nervous, the leaving is the hardest part now, it used to be the transition from place to place and companion to companion, but now that I've done it a couple of times, it wasn't hard at all! I'm already loving my new area Warner Robins!!! It's awesome! The members here are awesome, our meal calendar is actually full, and we are hoping for a baptism on the 2nd of January!! Her name is Anne and she has been taught by the missionaries for quite some time now, super rad old lady! My new companion's name is Elder Anderson! He is a rad cat, it took a little for him to come out of his shell, but once he did, he was hilarious! 

For Christmas we are being fed Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner, I swear this place is like a mini Utah! haha! and I should be calling you guys around 12 my time, so like 10:00 your time! I'm Stoked! I everyone liked their gifts!!

 



Goodbye Auburn... :(

We were invited to a Christmas party and we had a bonfire!! Good time, good time!

This past week was pretty slow, we worked hard, but not a lot of things happened, we did have a cool experience last night, we went over to this less active/part member family, and showed them the Christmas video, and the wife who's not a member really liked it! She got curious about our beliefs so we are going to teach her this Wednesday!

 

Grandma and Grandpa Allen sent me this Poem that I really liked!



I knew three men, courageous men
One blind, one poor, one ill.
And when I sympathized with them they said it is God's will.

The blind man said, 'tho I am blind
My life is no total loss.
For my sufferings are simple and few
Compared to the sufferings he went through
From the cradle to the cross."

The poor man said "I am rich, not poor
Two ways he has blessed my course,
He has given me a love for my fellow men
In that priceless sermon he preached to them
From the cradle to the cross."

Then spoke the man too ill to rise,
And there as I watched him toss,
He spoke through lips that were parched with pain
"Pray tell me friend, Why should I complain
 When men like me and all mankind, too,
Should thank him for what he went through,
From the cradle to the cross."

Goodbye Garry.....:(

 



#ItsTheMostWonderfulTimeOfTheYear 

#ASavoirIsBorn

#Christmas 

I love you guys a bunch!!

Elder Allen

https://www.mormonchannel.org/watch/collection/christmas/what-shall-we-give-christmas-music-video-1-1

I like this song a lot!!

 

New Address

Elder Raleigh Allen
210 Southland Station Drive #156
Warner Robins, GA 31088-3235

Leaving Auburn!

My boy Elder Clark at Zone Conferences!

Some goodbyes...:(



The Lambsons, a very legit family!!

 

 

Vazion, and investigator!

So I'm getting moved!!! :( I'm pretty bummed, but at the same time I've stayed here for like 6 months so it's been a good run! I'm really going to miss this area a bunch!! It has been one of my favorites if not favorite areas of my entire mission! Good ole Auburn! This coming transfer I could go to two areas Warner Robbins Georgia or Douglas Georgia, I'm excited to find out!! Anything could happen! If I go to Warner Robins, I will be with a greenie, but if I go to Douglas I'll be with Elder Godinez again!! We'll see what happens!

I got you package early so now I have to lug around a bunch of Christmas presents! haha! Did you guys get my package yet? I think you'll all enjoy the things I got you guys!! I hope yours, Jays, and dads presents are alright! They are a little fragile, but you should enjoy!

My Boy Wil Wilson! This guys got some pipes!

It's kinda been a slow week, but we did have 4 investigators at church!! Gary is finally better, and he hit the ground running! right as he healed up, he started reading and looking at lds.org like crazy, he is doing awesome!

https://www.mormon.org/christmas/purpose-of-a-savior

 

Great vid! #It'sTheMostWonderfulTimeOfTheYear!!

Love you guys a bunch!!

Elder Allen

 

some picture from last pday sorry not much..

 

I got the Christmas card you sent!! Let me just say that it is way better than last years! haha! I don't really have all to much to say this week, it started of really well we went out with a member named Wil, to go teach this young couple that we found while tracting, they are going to have a baby here pretty soon, super nice people named Lawrence and Susie! When before we started teaching them we were talking to them about there new baby and Lawrence pointed at a picture on the wall of a different baby, and he said that that was the older brother, but that he had died a couple months after birth. So you know what we taught them! THE PLAN OF SALVATION! 🙆! The best lesson, in my opinion that we get to teach people!!! it brings such a peace to my life to know that this is not the end!! That we will be together as families forever! It's just an awesome thing!!! 

Elder Hawkins before he got sick, haha!

 

Other than that, we went on exchanges with the Zone Leaders, it was super fun and super successful! Then on Tuesday night, Elder Hawkins got super sick so we've been inside for pretty much the whole week... BEING SICK STINKS!! I went a little insane for a bit there! haha!

 

Anyways Love you guys a bunch!

 

Elder Allen

http://www.mormonchannel.org/watch/collection/christmas/a-savior-is-born

 

Let us never forget the really meaning of Christmas!!! If we can remember why we really celebrate, we will simplify this season! I really love these videos! Share them!! #ASaviorIsBorn

Isaiah 9:6

6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.