Happy Halloween!

I hope the pictures below at least give you a little bit of an idea of how this last week has been, I'll try and explain a little bit more haha! I has been an overall fantastic week! some of the highlights to give you an idea is for starters it's been a little bit colder then it has the last few months... not much! but a little bit colder. Also a lot of the trees down here are changing as you can see!

one of my favorite things that happened this week started when we went down to a little collage town called Montevallo. We were previously in the town this last Tuesday where we learned that there was going to be a little bit of a festival going on in the middle of down town. As I would hope anyone who hates knocking of doors might do we jumped on the chance to see people face to face! On Saturday we went down around 10:00 and could not find anything, so we were a little dissapointed. As we started to ask around we found out that It was not starting till 1:00, so with that we volunteered to help with the set up.

Long story short, we eventually got our own booth up. Pulling back out our Big Poke-ball sign and a ton of Jesus pictures we had a great time and met a lot of people! I don't know if I wrote in last weeks email but on of my past companions just transferred down. It's been really fun to see each other again. We get to see each other quiet a bit. Tonight we are all going to be meeting up at families house here in the ward for Halloween. Elder Purcell and I are going to go as "Holy Cows" well have to send a picture or two!

Other then that not a whole lot has happened. We turned out not to have our interviews till this week, so were all very excited to be able to see President Sainsbury soon! 

Alabama is still the best place! 

I love y'all lots!

Elder Landon Aldana!

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Hello, from Alabaster!

I can't say for sure that I have a solid day coming home, but I can say that it's going to be within the first week of January. I'm not entirely sure what day yet, but when I find out I will let y'all know! 

but one thing that I can say is that were Elder Purcell and I are doing great! It's starting to cool off and feel a little bit more like the winter that everyone is talking about, I know the last 2 winters here really did not get too cold until around January. My hope is that if the winter starts late here, and ends early back home I could just skip winter all together! well see what happens thou. 

Things are going moving along quiet well. This week I would say really the only big thing is that we have interviews with President Sainsbury at some point. Elder Purcell broke one of his teeth the other day. He has 2 fake front teeth and as we were eating something a little sticky he went to spit it out and he goes. "STOP!" and I saying..... hgu? He ended up breaking and spiting his fake tooth out into the road so we spent a little time looking for it, found it, and it's safe back in his mouth after a quick visit to the dentist. 

Other then that, not a whole lot of crazy things happened this week. Still super excited about everything!!!

Love y'all lots!

Elder Landon Aldana!

Dear Family! 

I hope that non of y'all are like our young friend Eutychus (acts 20) falling out of windows because of my "long preaching!" but I must say, there's not a whole lot to talk about over here. This weeks was transfers and Elder Purcell and I are going to be staying together for the next 6 weeks, and what we hope to be for the next 11 weeks and well call it a day! we have both really been enjoying our time together so far. We always try and keep it interesting each day so that we don't go crazy. We also just found out one of the past companions is going to be coming to our neighboring area and going to be the District Leader, I'm very excited to see how each of us has changed over the last few months.

I must say some of my favorite people that I have met over here are 6 Latinos! Maria, Anna..... and others 0.o but they own a bakery here in town, and I'll be the first but not the last to testify that its the most celestial food you will ever done eat!!!! It gets better all of them are members of the church. Converts, and super strong ones at that. The husband is the branch president of the spanish branch down here, and they LOVE missionarys! although we are not spanish missionarys and there english is not the best, we enjoy talking and seeing one another. They are so kind in that they give us sweets periodically, if they lived any closer I think I might just blow up its so good! 

I will say I think there is one thing that's changed the most sense coming down here. The more that I stay down here the more I tell myself I might could live down here... Then I remind myself that I do have a home somewhere over there our west! Alabama is a great place thou, full of some of the best people that I have ever met. One of these people we met about a week ago and they invited us back over for diner with them to talk a little bit about religion. I could not be excited about someone inviting us over. We have a great conversation they were not very interested, but I could not help to think and hope that when I get back home I sure hope people are as nice as most people are over here. I sure do love it here!!

Elder Landon Aldana!   

Hello!

To start off I guess a little bit of a update, I'll be coming home ruffly January 4th. Sometime in the first week of January at least, that seems to be the best time for coming home. When I get closer and we settle on a concrete date i'll let y'all know! also If you were wondering a little bit about any of the pictures sent....

The first one with the big burger, (called the southern comfort...) Is just that, a really big burger! I think that for all intensive purposes it should give you a good idea of what a burger should and can look like at a restaurant. This one happened to be called "twisted root" I might just say it was a very good, fulling burger. Ain't got none like them back home!

The one with the "center of Alabama" written on it is just that! the CENTER of Alabama... or so they say it is! Elder Purcell and I were out and about in the boonies, and someone asked us if we know what was down the road we were walking on was. He says, "Down there is the center of Alabama" and were like... "really???" so we found it just like that!

The last one of a painting is of Martin Luther Kind jr. We spent most of our day the other day down in Birmingham at the civil rights museum, were we took the grand tour! It was once again humbling to see really what these people went threw down here. Pure hell was fought threw by very brave black people who changed the U.S. by there actions. It was very cool to see just a few of their stories!

Other then what happened last week... this week has been great as well! Between B.B.Q. and Football season I can't ask for much else haha! This week I had a super cool chance to go back to collumbiana again, (my birth place in Alabama!) and see a few people I taught months ago! It was a very cool moment to see old friends again, about what I suspect it will be like when I come home.

Alabama is still the best place in the world!, Still a love hate relationship. Someone once said, "it's the hardest thing i've ever come to Love!"

I Love all y'all!
Elder Landon Aldana!


October 3rd, 2016

Hello!

I'm glad to hear that everyone is staying busy and having a good ol time, I know we have been very busy over here as well. We {Elder Purcell and I} have been having a blast together this transfer doing a lot of different things and having a good ol time! playing basket-ball, and meeting with different pastors I've reminded myself just how much I love Alabama! I've really enjoyed just about everything here, other then a few things that are a little extreme. Food, Culture, Religion, theres a whole lot of everything! Something interesting happened this week..

It thought that sparked from a Christian song that was playing in the background the other day. I say background because just about everywhere you go you're going to be listening to some sort of Christian music. If you're in McDonalds or Wallmart, someone is listening to Christian rock. so much so they even started a church.....but the thing that took my attention was the chorus!

But if we are the body Why aren't His arms reaching? Why aren't His hands healing? Why aren't His words teaching?
And if we are the body Why aren't His feet going? Why is His love not showing them there is a way?
There is a way I could not help to think about US! as the body of Christ (1st Cor 12:27) I think that all these apply to us! are we reaching out? helping others? teaching? Helping people see there is a more perfect way?
It's been very interesting down here with all of the different religious that all claim to be the true one, but very few come close to be able to do all of those things I talked about. It's hard to teach about something you don't know. These last few weeks we have encountered several people with very strong anti Mormon beliefs. Many things that did not make much sense.

The more I talk with people the more I think about our job to very respectfully help others see as Apollos did (Acts 18:24-26) "the way of God more Perfectly."  so that they may "mightily convince the {other southerners} shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ" the south is full of very strong spiritual people, who although may have bad feelings towards the church now may one day join us!

enough of this preaching thou!! if anyone bothers to read it anyway! :D better yet if it makes any sense, does in my head! were having a ball! God bless Alabama and the people in it as he already does!
Love all y'all!!
Elder Landon Aldana

Hello! 

I'm glad to hear that everyone is staying busy and having a good ol time, I know we have been very busy over here as well. We {Elder Purcell and I} have been having a blast together this transfer doing a lot of different things and having a good ol time! playing basket-ball, and meeting with different pastors I've reminded myself just how much I love Alabama! I've really enjoyed just about everything here, other then a few things that are a little extreme. Food, Culture, Religion, theres a whole lot of everything! Something interesting happened this week..

It thought that sparked from a Christian song that was playing in the background the other day. I say background because just about everywhere you go you're going to be listening to some sort of Christian music. If you're in McDonalds or Wallmart, someone is listening to Christian rock. so much so they even started a church.....but the thing that took my attention was the chorus!

But if we are the body

Why aren't His arms reaching? Why aren't His hands healing? Why aren't His words teaching?
And if we are the body Why aren't His feet going? Why is His love not showing them there is a way?

There is a way  

I could not help to think about US! as the body of Christ (1st Cor 12:27) I think that all these apply to us! are we reaching out? helping others? teaching? Helping people see there is a more perfect way? 

It's been very interesting down here with all of the different religious that all claim to be the true one, but very few come close to be able to do all of those things I talked about. It's hard to teach about something you don't know. These last few weeks we have encountered several people with very strong anti Mormon beliefs. Many things that did not make much sense. 

The more I talk with people the more I think about our job to very respectfully help others see as Apollos did (Acts 18:24-26) "the way of God more Perfectly."  so that they may "mightily convince the {other southerners} shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ" the south is full of very strong spiritual people, who although may have bad feelings towards the church now may one day join us!

enough of this preaching thou!! if anyone bothers to read it anyway! :D better yet if it makes any sense, does in my head! 

were having a ball! God bless Alabama and the people in it as he already does! 

Love all y'all!!

Elder Landon Aldana