MALO! so im so sorry,  this will be a short email.....

So today was temple p-day, ahhh what a blessing. i didn't want to leave. :) We got up nice and early and took the train as a zone to the city and then walked up to the temple. 

This past week was really long, but it was good! We are starting to build up our teaching pool a bit and Heavenly Father is sure blessing us with miracles daily. thanks for all your prayers, they are sure felt! But please pray for Sister Lilo. I am doing my best to really help her to enjoy the work and to focus on it, but its easier said than done. :) And I know that Heavenly Father can help her and bless her much better than I can, so please keep her in your prayers. 

But this past week was great! We had the blessing of speaking in church and afterwards a ysa came up to me and told me that she had been baptized last year and that her sister also wanted to be baptized but that she wanted to be taught by someone like the missionary that taught her, and so when she saw me speak she said that i reminded her a lot of that missionary and so she asked if we would be able to teach her sister! So i am pumped to be able to meet her!! :) 

Also we are having a baptism this week, his name is Chris, he is from africa and he is about 20. Sister Lilo started teaching him and I have been able to teach him a few times and so we are soo excited for saturday! So yesterday we were going over the baptismal interveiw questions with him and Sister Lilo asked him what is meant for him that we have a living prophet on earth today, and he said, "it is just more convicincing evidence that the book of mormon is true and that Joseph Smith is a prophet." When he said that, man, the spirit was so strong, it melted our hearts. haha i love seeing when people understand and apply the gospel. ahhh its the best feeling ever!!!! But i will tell you more about it on monday. :)  

Also, thank you soo much Heather for your sweet gift! She sent me 2 scarves, one of them i am wearing in the picture with us 4 sisters, but that was such a sweet surprise! 

Well i love you! And ill talk to you in a few days. hopefully you can send me some pictures of what you have all been up to... :) thanks OTE ALOFA IA TE OI!

LOVE, Sister Alldredge

Temple trip!

Bike ride on P-Day

District on P-day

Zone lunch

We love our wraps!

Our favorite little Samoan investigators

In the car

Emanuel and Chris

Favorite snack

More Clif bars

Me and my fellow Samoan princesses :)

Car selfie

More car pics

Temple trip

Temple trip

Watch out for swooping birds

Talofa! oa mai oe?

sooo i am learning samoan because i am surrounded by samoans. hahahah its great!

This past week was so long. hahahah It started off really good!! The first day we got a call from a brother in our ward and he said that the family he home teaches needs 4 of their kids to be baptized and 2 are convert baptisms! So we went and met them and they are the sweetest family from New Zealand. She is a single mom and has 7 crazy kids under the age of 10! I cant wait to teach them! I love them already! It is seriously the best feeling when they open And we met a couple part member families that are awesome too! But then on wednesday we had zone meeting and these two big samoans sisters in our zone made a huge feed for lunch..... yeah, i don't know how they have time to cook like that.. hahahah but then Sister Lilo started getting really sick so we had to stay in the flat for half of wednesday, thursday, friday, and most of saturday. I was going crazy. hahah so we didn't get to do too much work this week, but the miracle of the Wairepo family was amazing!

But our area is very small, only 2 suburbs instead of like 9 that we had in north pine! There are heaps of polynesians, and i can't for the life of me pronounce any of their names. I sound soo white. haha. But thats alright, my great companion will help me to learn! church was fun and I love sacrament meeting and just listening to all of them harmonize the hymns. Its my favorite! Sister Lilo is from sydney, she is the oldest of 4 girls and she is so patient and has a great desire to be obedient!

But a funny story from yesterday.. so we have this pretty crazy less active member that we went to see, and she asked if we could do some service for her yard yesterday, and we were so excited! service is the best... so we came and she told us she wanted us to edge her lawn with scissors and to clean up all of her dog poop that was all over her yard and who knows how long some of that has been there for... hahahaha so me and sister Lilo had a great time trimming the grass as she sat up on her porch smoking. hahah

But i am looking forward to these next few weeks and i can't tell you how excited i am that Kyle is loving the MTC! 

Fasafua!

love, Sister Alldredge

Mission Leadership Council

KYLE!!!! i can't believe he is leaving like, tomorrow!!! AAAHHHHH!!!! LOVE YOU SOO MUCH BUD!!!!! Also, HAPPY BIRTHDAY PARKER!!!!!!!!! sorry i forgot last week...but hopefully you got my letter because that will make up for it. :) haha 

Hello family!!! So yup, you guessed it! I got transferred!! I am now in Marsden in the Logan Zone on the southside of Brisbane, and i am follow up training Sister Lilo (who is samoan and she is from sydney). But she is serisously soo cute and so excited to work! I guess she had a tough 1st transfer because of her trainer who is going home but I am so excited to be her companion! Its a dream come true! Just what i wanted! And apparently the ward is all islanders... so me= palangi (white person). anyways, my new address is at a super flash flat... its so nice. the address is 48/29 Juers Street, Kingston, QLD 4114. look it up. :) I have my own super nice bathroom and everything! and we have a nice view from our balcony on the top floor, its great! :)

So this past week was pretty bitter sweet. Sooooo many amazing miracles happened that made me kind of not want to leave north pine but i can't wait to start meeting new people! :) But one miracle we had was when a member called us last week and told us that her wanted to take the lessons with us. She had gone to school with the member and Katie, her friend, is dating a member as well. So the first time we taught her, the lesson went so well! The spirit was so strong and you could see how prepared she was! Then when we went home, she texted us asking if we could teach her the next day as well, so we went back the next day and taught her the next lesson and she, again, was so accepting and excited to learn more!! So i can't wait to hear when she will be baptized, because i know she will!

But i have the coolest story to tell you.... so there is this less active older man named Shaun, and he is a pretty interesting guy...... just to show you a bit what he is like, he wrote me a goodbye not telling me that they will always love me more than Bill Clinton and that he hopes the first female President, Hilary Clinton, will meet me and welcome me at the airport when i get home... hahahhaahahah but anyways, this past week he said that he was going somewhere and saw a purse just laying on the ground. It was a very expensive purse and as he looked through it, it had over a thousand dollars in cash and $2000 worth of gift cards. Someone must have accidentally lost it but he didn't know where to take it so someone could retrieve it. So after looking through the purse, he found a ladies name and address and so he packaged it up and sent it to her without a return address or his name or anything, just a note saying that if he ever lost anything, that he hoped someone would do the same. then he wrote 'LDS' in the middle of the picture of the outline of austrailia on the stamp and sent it to her. Then a couple days after that, he went down to the bus station near his home, and he say 5 or 6 signs hung up everywhere that said "Thank you LDS." HOW COOL IS THAT?! so today as we were driving to kangaroo point to get my companion, we got an impression to call him and ask him for the address so the missionaries can stop by and knock on her door, because she probably has no idea what LDS means! So lets hope and pray that that all works out. :)  

Anyways, I will keep you updated on stories and those we are going to be teaching in Marsden, and i will send you a picture of me and Sister Lilo next week!

LOVE YOU!!!!!!! AND GOOD LUCK KYLE!!!!!!!!!!

love, Sister Alldredge 

                                                        1. whats left of the cairns district

                                              2.  goodbye to the beautiful Pelesasa family

                                                  3. Jr and Brynee, sure love this family!

                                                                    4. Rea family

                                    5. Ortega's and a scrapbook that Sister Ortega made me!

                                                                      6. kolo family

                                                        7. Katie, our miracle for the week

Last week at the Temple

                                            Some left over clothes we found when we were cleaning :)

                                  Kia, the most solid investigator I have ever met!!  She will do amazing things!!

This past week and a half has been great! And sooo much has happened!

But first off, we find out about transfers this Saturday... I'm pretty sure I'm leaving but I only 80% want to go.... but you wouldn't believe the miracles that are happening!! the one major miracle is that we got a new ward mission leader! He is so excited and ready to hasten the work which by the way makes the biggest difference!!! He used to be a bishop in the most successful ward for missionary work in our whole mission at the moment and he moved into our ward about 6 months ago and was put into the young mens presidency right away, but Heavenly Father knew we needed him more. :) Then when we went to our ward council last week, our bishop said that he felt like we should put a greater emphasis on missionary work and that he was going to ask the whole ward to fast for it. I just started crying. Oh man, I can't tell you how happy I was!! Soooo grateful!!! So the ward is really starting to pick up and more people have been happier to come out with us. So that is why I kind of want to stay... but I always do seem to leave areas when things start to happen. hahaha but that's alright, I'll go wherever Heavenly Father wants me to go. :)

Another tender mercy we had.. so we were teaching the Talbot family. I think I told you about them, they are a part member family, they have a daughter who is 19 years old, her name is Jacqueline and she has spina bifida and a few other health problems but she is the sweetest thing! So this past week we had a lesson and we were talking about the restoration and baptism was brought up and Sister Talbot set it up perfectly, ha! she asked her if she wanted to be baptized and she said, YEAH! and the spirit was so strong and she asked if she got to wear a whilte dress. We were all tearing up, including her mom! But her husband isn't a member so we will have to wait and see if he approves it or not.. but please pray for her! :)

Funny story this week... Soooo we have been having a really bad cockroach problem and Sister Sweet is terrified of them so naturally I have to kill them all. sooo gross. Some of them have been like 4 inches long. But one morning, Sister Sweet came running out of the bathroom screaming and telling me that there was a cockroach in the shower head that kept sticking its legs down as the water was running. hahahahha so we can't really do anything about it.... so its been up there, still alive and wiggling around for the past few days... hahahah

Also we got to go to the temple today, what a blessing!!!!! I LOVE THE TEMPLE!! It felt soo good to be there and to feel so close to my Heavenly Father. I needed that. :) Especially thinking about how Kyle is leaving so soon and how he had his farewell and everything. I am so excited for him! So give him lots of lovin before he leaves! :) But I love you sooo much!!! And wish me luck for this coming transfer, and hope and pray that I don't go to a islander area and get fat. :)

talk to you on Monday!...

love, Sister Alldredge

                                                               1. us and jacqueline

                    2. Me and sister sweet on the plane to cairns last week.. forgot to send it to you :)

                                                                  

                                                                 3. P-day in cairns

4. Fireside in cairns with William Hopate (famous rugby player in stralia that served in the ABM and doesn't play on sun

         5. Saying goodbye to the Biehler family, (they came and saw me off at the airport. :))

 
 6. Sis Todd, a sweet lady in NP that returned home from the Oregon Portland mission last October

                 
                                                                  7. Twins for MLC

                                                            8. We love the Clydes!!

                                                      9. Me and Sister Sweet at the Temple!

BEST WEEKEND EVER. 

So yup, i'm in cairns right now!!! sadly i have to leave tonight. :( but it has been sooo much fun being here and seeing everyone again! you should have seen their faces.. hahahhaha. On friday night when we got here, they were having a dinner with the relief society, score! so i got to see all of them, it felt like going home! Plus this weather is soo warm. ha! winter.. please, i was still sweating outside one day. haha but we got to have dinner with the Biehlers on saturday which was so fun! we played 'dont eat the prophet' (dont eat pete i think thats what we called it at home), with them and it was so fun! hahhaha, and they were all fighting over who got to sit by me and stuff. :) The the next day, Aunty Dessy, the best and most generous women on the planet, brought me all of that stuff on the 2nd pic to me as a going home and going away present. she is so sweet! i sure have missed her! Then when i went to church and saw everyone, people were like running up to me and even Brother Sr. Luki said i dont care about the rule and just hugged me... hahah and then he apologized to sister sweet. hahahah Then everyone kept telling me i need to move back here. There really is just nothing like the Cairns family branch. And you will probably never hear the end of it from me. :) haha I also got to see Neals Biehler (the dad) pass the sacrament! and He is now in the young mens presidency!! I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY!!!!!!! you should just see the Biehler family now! Their countenance is changed and they are soo happy! I am soo grateful for this gospel!!! But i don't have much time today.. sorry bout that. :) but know i love you!!!! and i know kyle will do an awesome job on his farewell talk!!! everyone give him a big hug from me please. :) i know he will love it! ;) hahaha 

love, Sister Alldredge

ps i have temple pday next week!!!!! hallelujah! so that means i wont be emailing until wednesday, so ill talk to you then!!!! 

Cairns for Splits!

Cairns!

Aunty Dessy

Presents from Aunty Dessy!

Dinner at the Biehlers with the girls and Spikey!

Little baby Titus that wasn't born yet when I left Cairns

Love this family!

Me and Larina. Ahh, she makes me soo happy!

The Morrisons. Still the best!!!! hahahaha

Last day together

Wow. let me just tell you about our crazy week. hahaha

Monday: we still had the mini missionaries and we had to go to the doctors to check the results for Sister Sweet's CT scan, but good news! All is well! :) I cant remember if I told you but she had the car accident at the beginning of her mission and so her back has been hurting her but they said she just needs to strengthen up her muscles.

Tuesday: the mini missionaries had to leave :( so sad. It was crazy to think that they are the same age as Amber... I think its going to be a shock coming home and the little girls aren't going to be so little any more.... Then when we were on splits with the minis, sister Sweet and Sister Pearse followed up a potential and set a baptism date with her the first lesson! They said it was an amazing lesson and Kamla (lady from Fiji) was crying and said that she knew it was true. So that's awesome!!

Wednesday: we had to go to the mission office to get something and we got to meet President McSwain!!! Then we went to the mission home and had a STL meeting with Sister McSwain... I LOVE THE MCSWAINS SOOOOO MUCH. I thought it would be so hard to get a new mission president and so different, which it is, but it is a good different! They are seriously soo chill and relaxed and so genuine and you can just feel so much love from them! It is a big change from President and Sister Henderson's super intense, give every little ounce of energy you have. But I do miss them too! Then we picked up the Gladstone sisters from the airport.

Thursday: took Sister Rangthang (sister Grawrock's golden) to the city for their golden orientation and then travelled back to our area to work for the day. Lots and lots of driving this week! but it was fun with sister Grawrock! And we had a miracle street that we went finidng on and found 5 potentials all on the same street in less than an hour! finding by the spirit is key and works miracles!

Friday: me and sister sweet woke up feeling sick with a sore throat and cold. but we had to take Sister Grawrock back to the city so she could be there for the 2nd half of golden orientation. So we weekly planned at the chapel next to the temple and then when we were freezing inside, we came outside to stand by the temple in the sun for a bit and a family, that I knew was American, came up to us and we were talking to them and they were from Arizona. they said they were here because their daughter was on BYU cheer and they were performing in the gold coast. And then one older couple said that they had just finished a stay a home mission in Arizona and apparently they served in the same mission with Jessica Purdy! So they totally knew her! so cool! Then me and Sister Sweet fought through the sickness because we had some appointments at night.

Saturday: we woke up even more sick and had to stay in bed. Then sister Sweet noticed a bite on the back of her leg, so after talking to the mission doctor, we had to go to the emergency room to make sure everything was ok. then we came home and rested some more. hahah

hahah so yup, that was our crazy crazy week! It was a good week, and we were grateful for the things we were able to get done, with Heavenly Father's help. We couldn't do it without him!!

And the best news of all............... WE FOUND OUT THAT WE ARE GOING ON TRADEOFFS TO CAIRNS THIS WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! I CAN'T WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we leave Friday night and stay there until Monday night. So we get to be there for a few work days, including sunday and p-day!!! I can't waittt!! just please pray that we will get better soon so we can go up there and work as hard as we can!!!! :)

Love you sooo much and have a great week!!!!

love, Sister Alldredge

Our cute mini missionaries gave us cute presents! 

STL meeting with Sister McSwain

Sister Grawrock came for tradeoffs

When we got sick and our favorite cute Chilean couple in the ward made us yummy healthy soup and stuff.

Hey fam, so don't have much time today because I tried to send lots of pictures... but let me just give you a quick run down of my week.....

so the beginning of the week was reallllyyy slow. No one was available because of school holiday and Sister Sweet's back has been hurting her because of a car accident she got in at the beginning of her mission and so we had some doctors appointments and stuff and so we would just kind of laugh through our tears type thing because who likes to be sad anyways, and we had gotten up to Thursday and we had 6 contacts for the week, (a contact is just talking to anyone new from door knocking and stuff like that) and we had like 3 member present lessons. But the great moral of this story is to have faith and trust in God! So we kept praying for miracles and on Thursday we had an powerful lesson with Fiona and set her on baptism date again. She seriously is soo ready and prepared! she just needs to go to church!!! and so we were feeling so grateful and then we were able to get about 30 contacts that day, but we were still soo far away from the 'hastening standard' for the week that President Henderson had set for 175 per week for ZL and STLs. But we continued to have faith and push through the pain and we got 55 contacts of Friday because two girls in the ward came out with us. Then Friday night we get a text saying that we would be getting a mini missionary!!! So we were sooo pumped and on Saturday morning, Sister Pearse comes and gets dropped off and then she tells us that we are getting 2 mini missionaries! ANSWER TO PRAYERS! so we got to do lots of finding on Saturday and we were able to talk to 74 people that day and teach quite a few member present lessons so after sunday, we reached the 175 contacts. Wahoooo. Heavenly Father is very aware of us, and with Him, nothing is impossible. I LOVE THIS WORK. and I love being a missionary!

Also, sister cashman got permission to come and see us and have lunch with us one day this week, so that was kind of crazy to see her! in pants too! hahah she also trained sister sweet, so it was a great reunion!

And we got to listen to our new mission President, he sounds soo cute. I cant wait to meet him!!! I mostly likely will be able to this week, but ill let you know how it goes!! LOVE YOU ALL SOOO MUCH!!!!

love, Sister Alldredge

My best 10 year old bud Bepe

Sister Cashman came back to see us!  She trained Sister Sweet!

Breanna & Sister Sweet

Fajitas for dinner

Sunday best with a family friend of Sister Sweet's who is in our ward

P-Day with our two mini missionaries who are both 16 years old.

We wore out the mini missionaries!