1/28/19: Enfermo :(

Hello!

Connecticut is SWEET! It's basically Utah up here. We had a meeting with the Stake Presidency yesterday and the building we went to was bigger than any other building I've seen. Our branch is sweet, and half Spanish half Portuguese. So I've been attempting to fallar a little more Portuguese than normal. Only negative from the week, I got some stomach thing going on and that has NOT been fun :( So if you have any good home remedies for that send em! 

The first few days here were super sweet. We had tons of lessons and were able to set 5 baptismal dates with people we're teaching. It's been super cool to see the amount of prepared people here. There seems to be a stigma in the area that it's hard to work in CT, but that is the biggest lie ever; People are the coolest here! 

Our second night in the area we were knocking some doors, and we started talking to this Portuguese guy. He invited us right inside and started feeding us some rice and meet and beans while he and his wife attempted to speak Spanglish to us and drank beer. We got out pretty quick because the coherence level wasn't the highest, but the man didn't let us leave until we gave him a firm handshake and man-hug. Totally thought he was gonna go for a kiss on the cheek and I was about to 40-yard dash outta there. First experience with Portuguese people = interesting 

This week I have been thinking and studying a lot on eternal progression. Brigham Young is the king of this topic, and said "The object of this existence is to learn, which we can only do a little at a time. The whole mortal existence of man is neither more nor less than a preparatory state given to finite beings, a space wherein they may improve themselves for a higher state of being." 

This whole life we live on earth is to prepare us to keep learning and progressing in the life to come. It just makes sense! Knowledge is eternal, and in order to obtain all knowledge we're gonna need a heck of a lot longer than just our short mortal lives. 

Love you all have a bomb week! 
Elder Allen 

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