P Day

When pens freeze....

Hola Familia

So this week has been an adventure for sure. It was really cold this week I pulled out all of my coldest winter cloths to go tracking and the adventure was real. Yup legit me pen froze so I we couldn't write our phone number on the Mormon.org card hahahaha. So funny! Can I just say that fasting works! It totally works. So there has been a little bit of sadness going around the mission because the work in November has been really slow. It was booming in October and now we all have to refill our teaching pools. So Hermana Morgan and I decided that we were going to find new investigators this week. Not just us but all the Spanish Elders in the branch too. So we decided to do a fast just the two of us and oh my goodness miracles happen!!! Let me tell you what happened! That day this less active that we having trying to get a hold of for months called us!!!!! We have an appointment set up with her and I am just so happy!! Then we worked hard all this week but we couldn't seem to find anyone. So then Saturday rolls around and oh my miracle. We go to lunch with this sweet lady in the branch who invited her friends over to meet the missionaries. One family of friends didn't show up but her friend Claudia that she had invited to church the week earlier came. She is the sweetest lady ever!!! Hermana Morgan shared the message and gave her a book of Mormon. She was so happy and said that she had always seen them but no one had ever given her one. It was awesome. So Sunday came around and guess what she came to church!!!! She came to church and stayed all three hours and now we have an appointment with her on Wednesday!! Then Miracle number two. We saw Leila at church and we haven't been able to meet with her in a while just because its been busy so I went up to talk to her and she pulled me aside and said her son Luis wants to be baptised too!!!!!!!!!!! I am beyond excited!!!!!! So we are going to start teaching him to get him ready for his birthday and a baptism! This was an incredible week in the Kingdom of god! It just keeps getting better too! The Elders all had lessons with potential investigators too!!! Both sets! Isn't that amazing! The work is coming the lord has prepared so many people! I am so happy!! Oh and we found out that our wonderful and incredible STLs who we live with Sister Wagstaff and Kendrick had fasted that somehow we could find two new investigators and fasting is real because hopefully by the end of this week we can all find who the lord has prepared. The lords work is timed perfectly! Seriously I am so happy that I get to see his hands! He is truly incredible! So its going to be a good week in the kingdom of God! Love you familia!

Love

Hermana Allphin

p.s oh man I really am frozen Hermana check out these tracking pictures Hermana Morgan I took. It was -10 with windshield so it was actually -20! But no worries mom that coat is amazing it kept me warm! Love you so much! Hahaha I love it!

The Montreal Temple Dedication

Hola Familia!

So the temple dedication was so amazing! We worked hard all week but and had some great things happen but the best part was the Temple dedication! So on Sunday we got the Stake Center about 9:15 and the dedication starts at 10:00 and there is no Spanish translation. So Hermana Morgan and I are like "uhhhh that's not going to work." Everyone kept telling us "Hermanas there is only French and English do either of those work?" I am over here like umm No they speak Spanish...Not French! So all the missionaries and the technology guy for the stake are all running around frantic trying to find the Spanish channel for the Branch. Hahaha it made for an adventure. We got it all worked out in time for the Dedication though so all was well. The talks were so good! And they were so cool in Spanish! Seriously so good. Luis and Leila both loved it! Luis cried a little bit at the end and they both were so excited to be able to go the temple in a year. I just love them so much! I loved to see how much they feel the spirit and the light of Christ in their eyes. We taught Nanci this week, we were not able to teach her family but we are going to keep trying. She is amazing! Truly she is! We have some potential lessons set up this week so I am super excited about that too. Its going to be a good week in the Kingdom I think! Love you familia! I hope you have a wonderful American Thanksgiving! Love you lots!!

Love

Hermana Allphin

The snowman is because we were walking all day and got bored. The one with coat is my STL sister Kendrick and I go home with her! 9 months together! And the last one is Sarah Morales she is the cutest little girl ever! 

when los Conejos turn white

Hola Familia

So this week has been a little slow not going to lie. We have been working really hard though. We just had a lot of our appointments fall through. It's been really cold! Hahaha but the sun is for sure still shining! We had zone conference which was really cool! I love it! I love hearing from President Miles! He is such a good mission president! Seriously! It was really awesome and I learned some really good things that I cant wait to try with the work. We have an appointment set up with Nanci and her family for this week I am so excited for that! Its going to be so grate! I just love her! She is the cutest! This transfer is flying! I can believe the Christmas season is already starting! Everyone's lights are starting to go up. Its so funny because so many people full on decorate here. For Halloween oh my goodness so many cute houses decorated!!! All the Christmas lights are starting to go up! SO CUTE! Hahaha it totally reminds me of dad. Life is good. We are working hard here! Keep on praying for us and the work! Oh and we get to watch the Montreal temple dedication! I am so excited for both Leila and Luis to see it! SO AMAZING! I love you so much familia!

Love

Hermana Allphin

The lord works in interesting ways

Hola familia

So some interesting things happened this week. First of all my companion and I got in with Nancy again for another lesson and it was so good! We asked her if she read the book of Mormon and she said that she hadn't because her mom stole it to read it! We were so excited! She then said that her sisters wanted to learn more about it too! So we are going to have a lesson with them as a family this week!!!!!!! I am so excited Nancy is the cutest ever! I just love her! I know her family is just going to be incredible too! We had an interesting experience on Friday. So Hermana Morgan and I had this person we were suppose to go and see in the south part of the area, but for some reason we felt really strongly that we should go and stop by these people up on central. We didn't have the kilometers for both (because we are only given a certain amount every month). So even though all logic said we needed to go to Evergreen (south) we went on a wild goose chase up in Central. We didn't really even get dinner we went to this little store and boat Spaghetti sauce, tortillas, and frosting. I was a little peeved because we searched and searched for an hour to find this house and we finally found it. This lady wouldn't not let us in because she thought we were Jehovah's Witnesses. I tried so hard to explain. "Nope no worries just the Mormons." but hahaha all is well. So we went to go find this other house and it was cold and super dark and we were in the downtown which is kind of sketchy sometimes. Haha but we found this house and it turns out its one of our less actives! She just happened to be home and let us in! She was just so wonderful and it was a miracle. I saw the lord's hands so much! Seriously! We are going to start visiting her and I just love her. The mission is incredible! Even when you have stressful days and people don't answer the door its incredible! Seriously! I really love it! The Lord is incredible! This week is going to be awesome! I love you so much Familia! Have a wonderful week!

love

Hermana Allphin

El bautismo de Leila

Hola familia

So Halloween was jammed pack full of amazing things! We had Leila's baptism which was amazing! She was so happy! So excited! The spirit was so strong I have never been so happy! Between her and Luis I just am so happy! I was a little stressed that morning because we had a little bit of confusion but everything went really smoothly! Hermana Dean got transferred but because President was so loving he let her go to the baptism with Hermana Ratliff. They are so cute! I just love them both! They are doing so amazing in the Ward. We also dinner with the Morales family. I just love them! We got to talk to Carla who is going on a mission. Then because we had to be in by 6 we got to go home early. It was so much fun! Transfers were crazy I feel like they were an eternity ago. Hahaha but its been awesome! We got all the cookies delivered and it was so much fun! Hahaha I felt like a little kid again. It was awesome! Sunday was amazing too! We got to church and Leila was confirmed and she was smiling from ear to ear! I loved it! Then we went to class and she bore her testimony and I started to tear up. She bore her testimony on the gospel and missionary work and how grateful she is! I just love her. Hermana Morgan is playing the piano for the primary program so we got to go to primary with Leila's son Luis which was awesome! Then Luis our recent convert got to receive the Aaronic priesthood! He was so happy! I just love the Lord so much! Its incredible to see him work and to see his hands. Leila loves the branch so much but I was so grateful that her friends from the ward came to support her in the branch. The work is good. We are just finding some more but its amazing here. Its snowing right now so let winter begin! I love you so much familia! Wish me luck driving in the snow....hahaha love you!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love

Hermana Allphin