1/1/25: Ano Nuevo (Blackout Year)

 Hey guys. Happy new year. Crazy we're already in 2025. Time flies by when you're having fun.


New Year's is an enourmous holiday here in latin america, and they go crazy on the fireworks here. It was a pretty wild night.

This last week was pretty good. Maria Jose got an answer to her prayers after much study and prayer (on ours and her part). She's hopefully gonna get baptized here soon. 

We have a blast with the Venezuelan immigrant members that are here in the area. They are all waiting to recieve information about a migration appointment called CBP 1 that they have to recieve before they travel through Mexico legally. Usually it takes around 3-5 months to recieve the information about the appointment, and they spend all that time waiting for it here in Tapachula. So we have a lot of Venezuelan (and other) homies that are like temporary members of the wards here in Tapachula.

I also just finished my blackout year (mission slang for the year where 100% of the time is spent as a missionary) and that's crazy to think. 2024 will be a well remembered year.

Scripture of the Week is Jacob 4:11. It talks about the wonderful blessings that are given to us by Jesus Christ. The question we can ask ourselves is what do we need to do to really enjoy/partake of these blessings.

That'll be it. Thanks for reading and have a wonderful new year. Love y'all. Adios.

- Elder Allen





Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

12/25/23: Feliz Navida...hey that's my phone

  ¡Felíz Navidad todos! Christmas is awesome and we should all remember why we celebrate it. Because Jesus atoned for us, and thats why His birth is so significant! Its an awesome time in the year, and super groovy in México too.  Alma 7:10-12 is the Scripture for the week. Christ's Atonement and what that means for us. A favorite in teaching for me.  Anyway, the email is way short this week cuz I don't have a phone... I done got mugged and gotta use my comps phone for stuff today, so I'm pressed on time with emails and stuff. But I gotta keep the streak up! So he gave me a little time for this one today. It's also Christmas, gotta email on Christmas. The Mugging story if you really want to read it: There was a dude who approached us on the street as we were on our way to our Branch Christmas party, and he looked pretty interesting. He then asked us to walk with him, pointing to a gun he had in his pants. We did not. We asked him what he wanted and he asked for the grin...
Read more

2/5/24: Hijole

Image
  Casi Hermanos y Hermanas, casi... I almost didn't get one out today guys. That would've ruined a nearly 5 month streak. But nah, here we are, I gotchu, I know y'all are probably on the edge of your seats and scratching your heads thinking "golly gee, when's Elder Allen gonna get his email out today?" But fear not.  In all honesty, this week was a little slower, but still good. We did a lot of meeting with members, inviting inactives to church and other activities and reading Come Follow Me with those people. We have developed some good relationships with these members, it's cool to see. I would write more, but I'm short on time. Scripture of the week is Matthew 5:48, "be ye perfect". Won't lie, I suck at keeping this commandment. All of us do, but that's why we have Christ and His atonement! Each day we have opportunities to get better at trying to be perfect.  Thats all I can throw down today, have a good week! Adios! - Elder Allen...
Read more

Who Knew Eclipse Glasses were so Swag? 10/18/23

Image
  Hey all, or as we say here in the MTC, Hola, mi Español es muy mal. It's been a good week, a lot of Spanish and a lot of classtime. It's actually surprised me how well I'm grasping the concepts we're learning, especially considering how well I did in remembering high school Spanish. It's tiring for sure, but I'm learning a lot. Reassignments came in this week, and there were a lot of changes. In our district we have 10 guys going to Mexico and 5 going to the DR. 8 got reassignments. Out of the 10 Mexican missionaries, 7 of them got reassignments due to visa issues and things. I was one of the 3 who managed to squeeze through. So that is kinda exciting. I guess the Lord really needs me in Tuxtla Gutierrez. There was a Solar Eclipse here in Utah, so that was kinda cool. One of our teachers gave us all some glasses to watch it, and we kinda had a photoshoot, it was pretty sweet. I have some pictures attached below. We also had a really good devotional with Elder ...
Read more