11 months

Hi Family! I can't believe about that crazy storm in Phillipines. I am glad to hear that Mckay is safe. I just found out about that yesterday at stake conference because someone prayed for the people in the Phillipines so I started asking around and found out. I am so glad he is okay.

This week was really great. I ended up being in Switzerland for about 4 days because I had the austausch there and then we had stake conference Saturday and Sunday. I really love Switzerland. So it was fun. This week is going to be even crazier because tomorrow we have interviews with President from 9-12 and the zone training meeting from 12-3, then the Sisters serving in Freiburg and Offenburg are coming and we are doing a mini tausch, and then on Wednedsay we have Zone Conference from 10-5. Then Saturday there is a stake youth activity here in Singen and we are helping with it. So I think this week is going to be a little crazy.

The Austausch with Sister Lohmann went so well. I loved working with her! We were unstoppable together and made a great team. It was really great to learn from her. It is crazy because I am one of the oldest (longest out on mission) sisters on the mission, so seldom do I have the opportunity to work with someone who has been out on the mission longer than me. Gosh isn't that weird? Tomorrow will be exactly 11 months for me on my mission. I'm not going to lie it is freaking me out! Time is going so fast.

We were only able to meet with Achmed once this week because he was out of town. He read some anti mormon literature so the lessons haven't been going as well, so we are a little worried, but we will see what happens. I am just praying my little heart out because I know this Gospel will change his life. But I feel like it will be good. If he is reading daily in the Book of Mormon and praying I have no doubt that he will be baptized. Because the Book of Mormon is the evidence!!  If anyone reads the Book of Mormon and prays about it they are going to get an answer. (I have no doubt:)

Zorro on the other hand is sooo awesome. O my goodness. We met with him a few times this week and he just loved everything. We taught him the plan of salvation and just keep nodding his head and agreeing. We were able to set a baptismal date with him!! So that is awesome. He just keeps saying "Ich lass mich taufe! Ich lass mich taufe!" (I am going to get baptized!) hahah So great. I wish I had a picture of him. He used to be a truck driver and always wears this leather jacket and this big black mustache. hahah I hope you can imagine him in your head. He is so ready.

I really love being a missionary. Last night we were talking to the Ehepaar The Gurney's and we got on the topic of the beginning of my mission. Satan was really on me the first two transfers of my mission. I honestly hated being a missionary and I wanted to come home every single day. I just remember feeling like there was this dark cloud constantly surrounding me. I look back on that time and I am just soo grateful. That time I probably hit my lowest of all lows that I had ever experienced, but I am so strong because of it. And it is so great to see how far I have come. I can truely say that I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY!!! I love it. It is so hard, but you experience things that you would never be able to experience without a mission. goodness. I just love being a missionary:)

Well Christmas is coming and I am so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope everyone is getting excited to listen to Christmas music. hahah

Okay well i love you alll!!!

Have a wonderful week:)

Sister Allman

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This week was a great week for us. We were able to see a lot of sucess and teach a lot of lessons. We have 3 new investigators!! Wahoo!! so that has been really great.

I want to tell yall about one of our new investigators. He is this Italian man with a large black mustache and we call him "Zorro" because that is his nickname. haha He is so hilarious and just your typical Italian man who works at an Italian restaurant and he loves spaghetti. He was found at an austellung about 2 months ago and we had called him then, but because his Italian accent was so strong we could never understand him when we talked to him on the phone. Well we decided to try again last week and with the help of the Lord we understood him enough to make an appointment out with him. The appointment was Tuesday after district meeting and it went so great. He kept telling us that he was looking for the Truth. We told him that he had found it!! We told him all about Joseph Smith and he loved it. Zorro's real name is Guiseppe and supposely that is Joseph in English. Well he was saying "his name is joseph and he was looking for the truth???? my name is joseph and I am looking for the truth!!" We set another appoinment up with him for the next day and we showed him "The Restoration" film. He cried-he loved it so much. Luckily the elders had a baptism this weekend so we invited him to come. He was so excited to go. He LOVED the baptism. the whole time he kept saying "Ja Wohl!" (o YEAHH!) and he came up to me after the baptism and said "The next baptism that will be here is going to be mine!" It was so cute. We are planning to meet with him again this week and hopefully set a baptismal date. He is so prepared and loves the church. He said he has been to so many different churches, but never has he felt the way he has felt as he does when he comes to ours. He said that he feels "füll" and at home in our church. He is so wonderful and prepared!!! You guys would just love him. 

Achmed is still doing great. We were able to teach him the Word of Wisdom and it went a lot better than we expected. He hasn"t been smoking. He came to church and the baptism and is making great progress for his baptism in December. We have an appointment tonight with him so that should be good!!!

We have an exchange tomorow and I get to go to Winterthur Switzerland so I am super excited. The swiss people talk so funny, so I am curious to see how much I will understand.

Mom, i uploaded a ton of picture on dropbox under the "newwwww" folder. Most of the pictures are from our district halloween party on pday. It was so much fun! We bobbed for apple and carved pumpkins and laughed a ton. I hope you like them!!

okay well i love you guys!! have a great week!