August 4th E-mail

What is going on??!?! That's exciting that football is starting pretty soon! today has been so tiring! We played 3 hours of basketball and then went and played 2 hours of volleyball! It was nuts and now i can barely walk.. But would i do it again...? Probably.. :D The reason that p-day was today (Tuesday) was because we has Elder Hafen of the Quorum of the Seventy come and tour the mission and he instructed us from 9-4:30 they fed us lunch but oh man was that a long meeting! :D It was great though! He taught us a lot about the Atonement! And doctrinally how the beliefs of the atonement from the restoration are fundamentally different from mainstream Christianity... So it was pretty dang cool! He is the man! Well although it has been great to train once again, and believe me this boy is going to be a good one, The thing that trips me up still is that his name is Elder Allred! ya! crazy huh! I got another Elder Allred! What are the chances? but i tell you that this one in a polar opposite of the other one! And the best part is he is a baller.. So today during basketball we dominated :D He is from Ogden Utah and he graduated in 08 from Fremont. He is way cool and best of all he is very teachable! so we get along great! Its definitely fun to see! and the greenie fire rocks! His first day! I took him to Bishop Rouse's house for a "greenie" dinner (where everything is green). And we were getting ready to share a message with them and right as we all sat down in the living room. (wait gotta back this up first off Bishop was sick and asleep downstairs and all of his boys were gone so it was me my comp and bishops wife and her mother,who is from south Jordan, and bishops 3 daughters..) ok so we here this knock at the door and its this guy selling magazines.. and sister Rouse invited him in to hear a message.. Well he came in and we taught him the first lesson.. Long story short he was going through a pretty rough time in his life and truly wanted to change but before any of that came out i shared the first vision and he got really defensive and said like "Well how many wives did he have at that time?" and i just laughed and he came back with more and more and more and we just let him get it all out of his system.. And then it dawned on Elder Allred that Blaine was there for a reason.. And so Elder Allred told him that and Blaine started crying pretty hard.. and then Elder Allred started to cry and then all the women started crying and i was just sitting there waiting for it to end :D! But he is 27 and he is from Nevada and he was in the army and such and got into drugs and drinks and the whole bit... but we told him to get out of the bit he is doing right now cause those people just aren't a good influence on him.. and so he said that he would... but we will see! WE gave him a BoM and we swapped phone numbers! It was way cool and then he gave us all hugs when he left lol! But for a first night it was pretty dang cool! I was just blown away especially afterwards that someone tracted into us... ya i know that never happens.. lol! But it did and it was awesome! But he found 2 new gators the next morning.. it has just been a great week! Oh and mom i was talking to Sister Palmer who is our mission Pres' wife and we got to talking and she is from Taylorsville and so i was asking her where she lived and all that and then she asked me and what not but i told her i live in west Jordan now and i told her our basic address.. and she said really that's right by my parents and i said really who are they and she said oh you wouldn't know them they are old.. and i said you would be surprised cause i live in a old folks community.. and she said Jordan villas? and i said ya! and her parents live in the villas! They are on the south side of the clubhouse she said and their names are James and Audry Wood and they live in 2106! so you guys should go visit them and tell them that i am in their daughters mission! :D that would be cool! She said they don't get out much.. but she said that they would probably really enjoy that :D She is a way nice lady! But the cool thing is that i have a way now to stay in touch with the Palmer's after the mission :D! woot! I knew that the old folks home would be of use someday! :D But anyways i love you guys a ton! Take care! And good luck with everything!

Love ya!

Elder Penman