10/29/13

hello everyone back home and all those that i send this email to.

This week was amazing. it was my last week with elder Marin my trainer and it was by far the best week we have had. I got transfered to a town called Mante. My new area is Monterrey 2. it's my second day here and the weather is a lot like Utah. except imagen utah on it's hottest day and that's what it's like here all the time. but that is ok because i'm out of the humidty. We taught an investigator this morning and he has a bautismal date for the 22 of NOV.I'm so excited. I have pictures but i forgot to grab my cable so i will send them next week. My house is bigger then the one in Nuevo Progreso. and it has carpet in our room!! which is odd because no house here in mexico has carpet. My new companion is Elder Puello. It's pronuced like pollo(chicken) put with just a slight diffrence. He is from the Dominican Republic and he speaks english. a lot of english. infact he is pretty much fluent. the first time i saw him i thought that he was from the states. and that he was black. i will show you pictures next week. that is pretty much it. i can't really think of anything else. oh I went to the temple on saturday with some of my investigators from Tampico and it was such an amazing experinece. I love you all and i love getting emails and letters.

until next week

Elder Allsup Menor(for a few more weeks then i will be Elder Allsup Mayor)

10/21/13

hello everyone back home!!!

This week was both really good and really bad! so im going to tell the bad news for just so that the good news sounds better. 

1 i lost my debit card. (but don't worry i found it and i will tell the story. it was a huge testimony builder for me.) (holy crap my spanish is kicking in because i don't know how to spell english words anymore.)

2 i learned a lot of rules that my companion didn't tell me about and the zone leaders were ticked at us. 

3. Me and my companion got into a huge fight( but we are all better now.)

4. we had a little bit of success and a lot of success it's hard to explain but i will do my best.

ok so the story about my debit card. so monday i went to go check to see if i had some money on my card in the atm. when i was done i put my card back in my wallet and left. so on friday at our comida(meal) we at with a memeber that live right next to a bank. so Elder Marin decides that he wants to check his card once more. so i decied heck why not ill check mine too. i went to pull out my card and it wasn't there. i was ticked!!! so when we got home on friday night we ranscaked the house looking for it. it wasn't there. so i was about to email back home today to have you send me a new one. but as we were walking to the church when we were passing soriana (the convient store right next to our house) i got a feeling to ask if it was there. i shrugged it off and said it wouldn't be there. that happened 2 more times. one the third time i turned to my companion and said:

Allsup: ´´hey tengo un sentimiento que mi tarjeta esta en soriana.´´ (i have a feeling my card is in soriana)

Marin: ´´bueno vamos´´ (ok lets go)

the whole time i was asking heavenly father to have it be there or to have mom be understanding about the situation. so we went in and they had it. they said that i had left it in the atm and walked away. i was so happy and i feel so blessed to know that i am worthy to have the spirit in my life to direct me where to go. 

2. so there were a whole punch of rules that i didn't know about that when me and the zone leaders went on exchanges got upset that i wasn't following. but the reason why he was upest was because he thought that i knew about those rules. but when in all reality i didn't know and it was my compaions fault. so he chewed him out pretty good. and the reason why we got in a huge fight is because of what happened with the zone leaders. but on thursday after our weekly planning session we talked about it and we are the best we have ever been.

4. ok so on monday through thrusday we had terrible numbers. we taught hardly anyone and our one of our investigators went and moved and no one knows where to or even how to get a hold of her. so we are devistated about that. but on friday all of our citas (appointments) followed through and we were on fire. and saturday and sunday our numbers fell through again. i was ticked about all those day except friday. anyway that is how we had success and didn't have success.

so saturday it rained really hard and i didn't have my umbrella (don't worry i have pictures) but i found out that my backpack is waterproof! so that's good. but none of our citas followed through. but it's ok i had fun in the rain. well that's all for this week love you all!

ELDER ALLSUP
TAMPICO MEXICO

10/14/13

hey everyone,

No mom i didn't know the missionary that passed away. he was the generation after i was. but the mission priesident said that he was a great missionary and was full of the spirit. 

This week was amazing! I really feel like i can understand spanish now. but speaking is a whole diffrent story. but little by little i am getting it. We taught our investigator Sara and her 3 kids Joesph, Lizeth, and Rumulo. (the names are prounced without the H) any way it was an amazing experince. i really understood what was going on and i was able to put in my input when the time came for me to talk. and after the lesson i didn't know a word i said. i know that the spirit was there and put the words in my mouth. we also got a new investigator HNA Ana. please pray for here because we know how much this gospel can help her. she seems intersted in the church and we can't wait for her to assist this sunday. please pray for our 2 investigators who we haven't taught in 2 weeks because they cancel at the last moment for who knows what reason. their names are Lilian Rojas and Martin Savee. We need and want them in this church because we know how much it can bless their lives. yesterday we ran in to 2 drunks on the street. it was funny because they wanted to learn about the gospel and as soon as they saw us coming over to talk to them they hucked their beers into the street and tried to pretend they weren't drinking i was laughing so hard after we had walked away from them. we are about to end this transfer in 2 weeks. me and my zone think that i will get transfered. the reason why is because my companion goes home in 8 weeks. so we all think he will stay and i will go. i have also started a work out that i do everyother day. i never knew that working out could be so fun. it consits of doing as many push ups as i can to start. (which is 10) then doinmg 20 sit ups. then doing 1 minutie of bicycles. i don't know how to describe them so next week i will have pictures of each work out. then i do 1 min worht of jump jackings and then end with 10 more push ups. my compaion tried to do my work out and died. i laughed so hard. but i do my best to stay healthy and i love doing it. i just wish i would have done it back home.

well that's it for this wek i love you and love hearing from you.

love elder Allsup

here are some pictures

1. is me wearing the outside layer of a soccer ball

2. is me and one of the missionaries in walmart

3. is me acting like one of the memebers of the armies of heleman

4 is me and my zone leader elder finneigan

5 and 6 are what tammy and eric and their kids sent me

10/7/13

10/8/13

Hello todas de me familia y amigos,

mom, i had to use my credit card to go to the doctors and if i did my math right there should only be 30 or 35 dollars missing. 

Yes maam i got your packages. it took about 3 weeks but i did get it. And i was able to watch conference in english. the zone leaders said that all the americans can go into the high counsel room and watch it. it was awesome because we had nice office chairs instead of benches. we had so much food and we were fed spiturally by the holy ghost. I was so amazed of how it seemed like every talk was meant just for me and that i was standing one on one with the speakers. I took so much out of conference and im excited to put it in to practice. our memebers in this ward really needed to hear the talks because they have a hard time coming to church and helping us out with missionary work. it's so fraustrating. but i think that these messages really knocked into their skulls. but only time will tell. and our investigators were there and the mom of one of the familys said that she knows this church is true and she has only been an investagator for 2 weeks. its amazing to see the lord work inmy life and in our investagators lives. That is so cool that you guys got new dogs. what are their names and what kind of dogs are they? i love you all and i love recieving your emails.

love elder allsup

hey mom we are going to a flea market next week for our pday and i was hoping that you would put some more money on my card. I love you and thanks for all the hard work you and dad put in so that you can support me on my mission. i will never forget how hard you guys work and you are such big examples to me. I love you and love seeing you guys smile. i love all the pictures and i will do my best to take more. its kinda hard when you are walking dead tired in to your house at 9 and you just want to sleep. but i will do my best. and I lost 50 lbs since entering the mtc.so it's not getting cold and i have been told that it wont get cold (to utah standards) but it is funny because the natives are wrapped up in the big coats and big pants because they think it's cold. 

8/30/13

hey everyone 

so an average day here in mexico for my mission is

1 wake up at 630

2 get ready for the day and eat breakfast.

3. at 8 we start our personal study}

4. at 9 to 11 is compaionship study were we use a book called the first 12 weeks.

5. at 11 to 12 is language study.

6. from 12 to 2 we have sitas (appoitentments)

7. 2 to 330 is our comida(food) where we eat with members

8. and then we work until 9 (finding investigators, fulfilling sitas. etc)

9. 9 to 930 is planning

10. 930 to 1030 is time to do whatever. (we are usally so tired that we are asleep by 10)

so that is an average day. it's fun but a lot of work!

hey thanks for all the letters and all the emails. it's amazing to see that all the people back home haven't forgot about me yet. i found out that i have lost 50 LBS!! i was so pumped when i found this out. this week was a tough week. i feel like i didn't understand spanish. i just want to be fluent but i know that the lord isn't going to just give me the gift of tounges i will have to work for it. and work for it i will. this week we challenged 4 of our investigators to a bautismal date. they accepted and it's for the 2nd of nov. i'm so happy and can't wait to see them devlop in the church. we found out that our ward just fights with one another and that is why we don't have a lot of people show up. it's so upsetting and we have talked to the bishop, the stake preisident and we are going to talk to the mission president to see what we can do. and on friday on saturday we were on divisions again and we didn't teach a sould because no one was home. but it was still a lot of fun, well that's all for this week so you next week. love you all