10/19/20: adjusting to the adjustments made during adjusting times with the adjustments established for adjusting missionaries

 Hello everyone. Welcome back. Big news is that we can start knocking again! I legitimately never thought that I would be doing that again... but we were both super excited to start knocking and as soon as we started we remembered why the heck God provided us with new and better tools in the first place. People really just do not like answering the door anymore... especially right now... but it is a nice tool to have. We have already found some really wonderful people just from walking in our area for a couple hours each evening. 

We have continued to work with our friend Juan (The 3rd Juan...) who was actually on date for this week... but he came to us right before his interview and told us about a huge problem he was overcoming in his life and how he hadn't told us before but that he felt really guilty and wanted to change before being baptized. It was really sad, but also really happy! He is truly converted and wants to be totally ready! So we are going to help him work through everything with a plan. Juan will be a future leader. We have been talking with him about the priesthood and we can just see that God has an amazing plan for this man. There are actually very few active/worthy Priesthood holders in our area and so when Juan is baptized he will be able to help the branch a whole bunch.

We had an amazing exchange in Los Banos again and worked with the Sister Training leader there. I got to work with her companion... HERMANA VANSLYKE! That is right! Una de mis hijitas!! We were companions again! just for the day. But we had an awesome time out and about on bikes, meeting with some members I know, getting bit by a billion mosquitos (como siempre), and even knocking some doors together! What a throwback!! 

We have continued to work with Baltizar... that man just soaks everything we say up. It is so wonderful!! We also visited our branch president way way way way out in Waterford. He is an amazing man. Him and his wife are so adorable and they are both from Guatemala! In my entire time of being here in Ceres I have only seen him a handful of times in person, but it was wonderful to sit down and talk with him. 

We also got a huge ad budget as a mission and we are the page admins for the page here in the north so we worked with the tech specialists in the mission to make and ad!! It got huge and it was so cool to make!!! 

We continue to learn everyday! I am so thankful that my mission has kept me on my toes. There is so much to learn and improve upon. The Lord knows our souls and he knows I like surprises. The California Fresno mission has certainly filled that corner of my soul. 

Hermana Allen

1) cat. Kitty cat.

2) hermana Vanslyke and i out on the bikes!

3) all the little gifts we received from random people when we were out walking an area one evening. One man literally gave me the hat off his head cause I told him i liked it haha!

4) welcome to Fresno in its finest