We did have some success yesterday in investigators coming to church.  We had 4 people show up.  Adolfo and Carlos (a new investigator) didn't show up until after the sacrament which really stinks, and then a part member family showed up too.  We´re a little mad at the members of the ward who never told us about this family, especially since we've been asking and they never mentioned them.  But we're going to start teaching them this week.  The Dad is a member of about 30 years and a high priest, but his spouse and daughter are not members, but want to come to church and learn more.  Hopefully we can see some good progress there and that they really want to change their lives.

That means that Oscar and Sarai did not go to church yesterday.  They ended up out of town this week, and they´re not going to be able to get married this week either so their wedding (and subsequently their baptism) will be postponed a few weeks. Hopefully I´ll still be here, and Elder Marrufo wants to be here too, but transfers are next week so we´ll see what happens.  I really hope that I get to stay another 6 weeks cuz we´re really starting to get going.

Martin and Isidra didn't go either this Sunday, but that was because we never found them to invite them.  We talked to them yesterday night and taught Sabbath Day observance and they agreed to come to church.  Hopefully they come this Sunday (we planned with them this upcoming Sunday morning) and we´re planning on putting a baptismal date with them.  They are both reading the book of Mormon and really starting to understand and progress a lot.  We´re pretty excited.

Adolfo is doing great too.  He's also reading the book of Mormon, and he's gone to church 5 times now.  We're still helping him resolve a lot of doubts that he has about Joseph Smith, but after Gospel Principles yesterday he has a lot of questions about the plan of salvation because the teacher explained it all in about 5 minutes and left a lot of room for people to not understand.  We're going to get all of that figured out tomorrow and we're also planning on putting a baptismal date with him too.

We're starting to have a lot more success with finding people and we have a few other families that are just starting to visit with us too, and we think that they have a lot of potential.  Hopefully I do get to stay because I think that the next few months are going to be really successful and eventful with all of the investigators we're finding.

The TJ´s knocked our door the other day (TJ is short for Testigos de Jehová, or Jehovah´s Witnesses, but it is pronounced Tee Jay by all of the missionaries and because of that nobody else actually knows what it means).  We left the apartment with a lot of excitement and we actually scared the TJ.  She was pretty new to all of this and was very intimidated by us (something about being Mormon does that to people).  She gave us her pamphlet of their version of the Word of Wisdom, what we should eat and do to stay healthy.  So when they passed by coming down the stairs we tried to give them our Word of Wisdom pamphlet.  They said that they can´t accept it during their proselyting but that if we come to her house someday then we can share what we believe.  We got her address and her name and passed her reference over to the zone leaders.  It was so cool.

We also got stuck planning the ward activity last week.  The elders quorum was in charge and about 2 hours before the activity we found out that we were the only 4 elders going.  We had to plan the whole activity (mainly because the ward council told us that we had to do it all, even though it was their activity) in two hours and we actually had a great time.  It was one of the funnest ward activities I've ever gone to, and it only took two hours to plan.  Hopefully the ward does a bit more of the work next time, so that we can get a bit more work done with the investigators.

Then the funniest experience of the week.  We were in a contact and it was going really well.  Suddenly a block away one of the brothers of an old investigator came around the corner yelling.  He was yelling across the street to some people working on building a house.  Suddenly about half a block away, he stopped, still yelling across the street.  He undid his belt and his pants and started peeing in the middle of the street, all the while he was yelling across the street.  He finished his business and walked away.  It was so  weird but so funny at the same time.  We didn't really focus on the contact as much as we should have during all of that, but the contact didn't see anything and did accept an appointment.

I´m still playing the piano for the ward.  I don´t practice as much before as I would like but I can testify that God is improving my talents for the piano.  I have played several songs that are very hard not perfectly but good enough with only two or three run throughs before sacrament meeting, and I´m actually getting better and better at the piano every week.  I can testify that God will qualify who He calls.

I hope you guys have a good break this week.  I  hope that everything is going well.  I pray for you often and I hope that you keep doing the things that you know are right.  Your testimony is either growing or shrinking it never holds still so make sure that you keep it growing.

I love you and hope that every thing is great.
Love Elder Allred