Feb 27, 2014

hey everyone back home how are you?????? And yes mom i got your package and it was so nice to get. i'm so glad it came when it did. because i was about to go buy new scriptures but now i don't have to. So this week was a really hard week on me and my companion. well ok it was a good week and a bad week. we had a lot of success with our  invistagators that we have. but on saturday we went to go to a investigator and her daugther but when  we got there they told us that they wanted to go to their other church instead. they were really nice about it but i tried to get them to stay. I said ''before you guys shut the door on the church please come to one church meeting so that you can feel a diffrence. they didn't attend yesterday so i'm sure that we have lost them. but one of her daughters is still willing to listen to us. so we have a lesson with her tomorrow and i sure hope that the example of her daughter will want her to come back to the church. but that's all i can do. we also had a meeting with our mission president this week. which was really good. if we do what he said we have the oppurtnity to have a baptism everyweek. so me and my comp are going to work harder then ever! I would really like to be a missionary that says we had a baptism everyweek!!!!!! I mean how cool would that be! me and my comp are getting along really well! and my spanish is better then ever!

this is a picture of the food we ate today. 6 of us elders bought and ate hamburgers it was way fun. we played chess and just sat and talked today it was amazing! well that is all i have today! love you and thanks for all the support.

After we told Teano about his Grandfather passing, these are a few of his back and forth email responses.  

yeah, it's going to be tough we went and ate with some other elders today and i was fighting back tears the whole time. I tried not to let it show but it kinda overwhelmed me.,

yeah i was fine until dad emailed me but i'm fighting through it.

i know today i was reading in alma 40 11 you guys should read it because it tells us where papa is right now. thats good. when i found out floods of memories were in my head and i almost cried.  yeah, tell everyon i say hi too. it's going to be hard to teach today but i'm going to do my best!!!! tell dad that he will be in my prayers and as well as the rest of the family!

i love you and i have to go now but i will talk to you next week. I won't let this keep me from working. this week will be the week i have work the hardest in my mission. I love you!!!! just know that i will always be prayin for you

Teano is named after his grandfather Teanton Leonard Allsup.  We reminded him that he is working hard on the other side of the viel for all the work Teano is doing on his mission.  It seemed to help him to hear that!