Hello Hello Hello!!!

I hope ya'll had a great week!! Because this week was a pretty great week here!  I learned a TON and I am super excited to apply those things I learned to our teaching and investigators this next week.  

So ya we had Zone Conference this past week!!!! It is seriously the most spiritually uplifting/Pump up/amazing experience every time I attend a Zone Conference!  Also because I am assigned in Baler Zone, we had an extra special week because we were gone for 2 days just to go to Zone Conference!! So we left on Thursday and rode in a bus for maybe 5 hours to Cabanatuan.  Then we got there and stayed the night at Elder Zachilli's house in Cab, if you don't remember he was my MTC companion!! So lets just say we had some fun talking about everything that has happened on our whole mission!!!  It was so fun!!!  Then the next day we woke up early and left to go to the church for Zone Conference.  I played the piano... of course:)  But it was a rock solid conference!!  

President Clark really is such an inspired man and he really knows exactly what we need every time!!!!  We learned about forgiveness, and how this is something that can literally set us free.  If we let ourselves be offended or don't forgive, we are literally stopping ourselves from progression, from becoming better, more like our Savior Jesus Christ, and it really is our choice!! No one can make you be offended or not forgive, so that was an awesome reminder for us!

He also talked about how miracles really are everywhere, and we must be praying for them, but also WORKING for those miracles to happen!!  And when we do this we will truly have Angels among Us.  He played that song "Angels Among Us" and it brought back some good memories back in the day;)  So ya you should listen to that again, and really pay attention to the words, its so good!!!!

We had 55 people at church this week, which was a little drop from last week, but we will work harder this next week to improve again!  But we did have 3 investigators at church. Ashelle Infante who is 12, Jonathon and JC Saludo who are 12 and 14.  These kids are pretty awesome!!! Now we are just trying our best to help them read the BoM and pray.  

One miracle I have seen over my time here in Maria Aurora is the Saludo family.  My first day here, we had a one day mission with the members.  And while we were walking down the road we saw her waiting for a trike with a bunch of little kids.  And she has been a member for 8 years but hasn't came to church in about 4 years.  So we invited her to church, and the 3rd week I was here, she came to church!!! And then this last week she brought her two sons and 3 little girls, 2 of which are our investigators!! So its such a miracle that this family is again coming to church again!! And now our goal is to help the kids be baptized to really help this mom out... The gospel is amazing and it has made their family very happy again!!!!!!  I LOVE IT!!!!

So its been a great week!!

Lots of learning and ways to improve!

Thats the beauty of the gospel, we can ALWAYS improve!!!

Have a fantastic week!!

LOVE YA'LL!!!!

Elder Alldredge

No pictures from Kyle this week so I had to get one from the mission blog.  His Baler Zone has traveled on bus 5 hours to Cabanatuan for a zone conference.