May 9, 2011

Hey everyone,

Ya that phone call was way good. Its kind of deppressing that we wont talk again for 7 months though. Thats so far away. Oh well. I kind of got homesick after and am still kind of feeling it but it will go away. Sunday was good. We ate some pretty good food at the Manehas and just made it quick. We ended up in church teaching relief society, elders qurom, (we each taught a different one) and i taught that sunday school class of kids my age. I had about 7 minutes to prepare for them so you could say it went well. Not much else exciting happend though that day. The rest of the week was pretty good. We got like 4 appointments from tracting for this week were in now and so im excited for those. Our first one is tonight at 6 so we will see how they go. We started teaching Ryan and Ian who both know the bible very well so its difficult to teach them because they have scriptures for everything we have to say. There last question they had was why Jacob said adiue or however you spell it in the end of his book. They said that native americans didnt know french... I had no idea what to say, how am I supposed to know that. There wasnt a class at the MTC that covered why people say the things they say in the Book of Mormon so we will have to figure something out. Also I almost got attacked by a guy for the first time this week. I started walking up his driveway to say hi and he started yelling NOT INTERESTED and so i backed up saying ok... He than continued to yell that when he says that to hurry off his driveway, so me being me said back YES SIR! He didnt appreciate that form of sarcasm and came after me hahaha. Good thing he was like 73 though or i would have been done for. We baptized an 8 year old girl on Saturday from a less active family. It was good. Thats about all there was exciting this week. Im learning to really like tracting. We try out a bunch of new approaches to get in their houses. We have asked if we can help with their yard work if they are outside, complimented them, and have even asked if we could use their bathroom. haha We asked one man working in a yard if we could help him pull weeds. He said no, but set up an appointment for us to come back. When we went back the home owner said that was just their gardener who only comes once a month. The gardener was just playing us. haha oh well. Our baptism for Cece is still a go this next saturday at 430 so that will be good. Ill probably be a witness or something we will see. We are hoping to teach some other samoans we have met. They are way nice but very sarcastic. When its time to get serious they have a hard time being serious. The pictures i sent are of me that i took and of Elder Tiakia and I burning his 6 month tie last night which was kind of fun. So ya. It was good to talk to you all yesterday and i love you all a ton. Keep doing what your doing.

Love Elder Allen