Elder Kyle Alldredge

Magandang Araw sa inyo Lahat!!!

These past two weeks have been loaded with miracles in our work here in Maria Aurora!!! One was that the Skyping worked!!! I actually literally have no idea how it worked, its just a MIRACLE!!! My companion was not able to skype his family, just call, but the prayers were answered and it was amazing to talk to the FAM:) I don't know why I was blessed with such an amazing family, but I'm so GRATEFUL!!!!

Another miracle that has been taking place over the past 2 weeks is with our investigator brother Jeferson. He is 14 years old, but really he is super advanced in thinking and always has a ton of questions for us, which is literally the BEST!!! So the first miracle, was that he accepted the Baptismal Goal Date. And he also told us he would try to read the whole BoM before that goal date, so that was AWESOME!! Then he really started opening up to us this last week, he told us about his struggles with talking to people especially people his age, and how he only has really 1 friend, and how he always gets super nervous and basically freaks out when there are lots of people around. But we reassured him that we would be right next to him, and help him out, and pick him up for church. So we went to his house sunday morning, and he was so ready to go, he had a polo and jeans and everything, lookin good!! Then at the church, the older members were super nice talking to him and making him feel good. Then the youth took him to the youth class, and I was just praying that it would turn out well. After the class they were all in by the piano and he was playing with all the youth surrounding him, I seriously felt pure joy for Jeferson right there!!! AAAAHHHH so happy!!! So he made lots of friends and so we will continue to hope and pray that he will want to come back!! So that was just an HUGE MIRACLE this past week...

We had a Branch Family Home Evening again on Saturday night and over 40 members came!!! It was a HUGE turnout, and we were super excited! It was a good time, and its always good to help members to become closer, and become more of a family in the branch, thats the goal! Then we had dinner and it was super fun!!! On Sunday we had 50 people at church, and only 2 investigators because 2 of our investigators had a fever, so next week hopefully they are feeling better!!!

Last Monday I had a crazy experience that I seriously never thought would happen in my life! I was able to dedicate a grave of an endowed member that lives about an hour away from our area. It was really interesting because there were no other priesthood holders out of all the over 100 people there. So it was a really neat experience that I will for sure never forget!!

So life here in Maria Aurora is good:) The people are super nice here, and so many people here say "Hey Joe" hahaha, so I just try to have fun with it and make them smile or something... Also its transfers this week, and most likely I will have a new companion, but if not that would be super cool, because Elder Dolotina is a super good hard-working missionary and the members love him here!

Thanks for all the emails!!! Ya'll make me so happy!!!

LOVE YA!!!!

Elder Alldredge