Hey guys,

Sounds like the typical maddness going on there but sounds fun. Kinda
wish i was there but its all good. Things here are all good as usual.
The only thing that sucks now is that elder davies is going home soon
and also that we still cant email in the family history center so this
whole library thing is awful. Oh well ill be transferred soon and will
not have to deal with it anymore.

So this last week has been way tiring. We have a new ward mission
leader as you know and he is moving into a huge house up on poli poli
road, kinda by oprah. But he is redoing like the floors and the walls
and everything and we have been helping. It has made me homesick for
real work haha and for once Kurts class in highschool payed off. I
probably should have payed more attention though... Its good that i
saw dad tile though all the times that he did cuz elder workman
and i hardybackered his entire upstairs floor which is probably the
size of our basement. It took forever but it was way fun. There just
happend to be country music on in the background as well so you could
say this last week has been way good haha. Oh and im sealcoating his
driveway this week with the home depot seal coat. i did that like twice
so that will be interesting. I shouldnt have warn my morgan shirt
haha. We have still been teaching a lot but no one is committed it
sucks. Oh well.

I sent a package home today with just stuff that i have picked up
since i have been here. We have zone conference here next week on the 7th so im
excited for that. THose are always fun and we get to see president again. That will be
good.

K well not much is going on here. Im ready to be out of here though
and start somthing new. THese days are flying by though and its weird
i have almost hit 6 months. Thanks for everything everyone...

K love you all and keep up all the good work.

Love elder allen

Hey everyone,

Hows it going? it sounds like your all doing good. mom this is my only advice to you
about the young womens thing. Its how i used to feel about missions
until i just kinda bucked up haha. In fact i dont even know if this
will help but its my advice of the week. So a word i no longer have in
my vocabulary is inadequate. I used to feel like i couldnt do it
because i was inadequate. Which when i felt like that it was very
overwhelming and stressful so i got rid of that word, prayed hard and
discovered that if you do your very best the lord just fills in
everything else. I know im sounding like the corny missionary i used
to make fun of and I said I would never be one, but I also found that
its easier for people to understand if I went through the same thing
so this is why I share my story of when the word inadequate was
destroyed from my head haha.

Ok so there is my advice for the week. Take it or leave it but i hope
it helps and of course i will be praying. I do it anyways.

i am sending the package either tomorrow or wednesday, we will have to
see how everything works out but it will be this week. And yes i got
the packages, thanks so much. it was awesome.

Last week was crazy by the way. Elder workman, the greenie from cali
had an apendicitus, so i knew exactly how that felt. He has become one
of my way good friends as well. Im glad im with him for like my whole
mission haha. So he was in the hospital for 2 days and then stayed at
a members house so that was kinda weird. Elder pincock came with us
the whole week. he is back now and seems good as new. he is a tough
kid. Were struggiling right now to find some committed investagators
though which blows. We teach a lot and people love us but they want
nothing to do with commitment. Pray for that to get better. we taught
18 lessons and no one is willing to be baptized. That needs to change
haha. Our samoan ward mission leader was released on sunday and we got
a new howlie guy who is way cool brother brantley. He lived in isreal
and is the reason brother buell got baptized. He will be great at it
and im excited to start working with him.

One crazy story from this week was we tracted into a bounty hunter
that is hiding in the hills of kula with his family. He is from
Kaysville. ya blew my mind to haha. he knows the broughs and all these
people and its weird to talk to him. He is a member but super less
active because of his opinions but we had a good chat with him and
then he said to go get in his hummer so we did ( partly because we
were scared he was going to murder us) and he drove us up some
mountain to see the view haha. It was scary but he is super loaded and
has tons of cash, He is taking us on a helicoptor tour next week and
so im excited for that. Im glad we met him but still scared. He told
us his name was jff. Yeah im not sure what that means but I assume its
jeff. He even spelled it that way on our phone. Its so weird but he is
nice and im glad he likes mormon missionaries haha.

Alright well thats about how my week went pretty good. Hope everyones
school was good. Glad to get going again i hope..... love you all

elder allen...

Hey everyone,


Yeah everything here is goin good. This last week went by pretty
quick. The new missionaries came in. Elder williams that I knew from the mtc came
into our zone, so im stoked about that. He was way cool. It was almost like
seeing a long lost brother and i only knew him for 3 weeks. its
weird that way. But yeah its going good.
We're just working on the ward list here to reactivate people in our
ward. There are so many people that are members that dont come so
bishop asked us to work on that. We started yesterday. Most of them
just tell us that they want nothing to do with it and will come back
when they are ready, but they know its true haha. So weird.
We both spoke in church yesterday. They just asked us when the
speakers didnt show up. Its a good thing im doing better at winging it now
so it wasn't bad. It was on prayer and everyone thought we
prepared something. I like that im getting better at that now haha. Its a good
feeling.
Do you remember Lori and Tyler i told you about? Well they asked me to
perform the marriage of lori and her boyfriend so thats cool haha. I think it will be in
2 weeks. I didnt know we had the authority to do that but im good with
it. That will be cool because then they can be baptized and Tyler will
probably follow her example. So im stoked about that. Ill keep you
updated.
Look in past church newspapers by the way because a member of our ward was
called as the kona temple president. I know him way good its Boyd
Mossman. He is a way cool guy so thats a sweet calling. He is going to
be way good at it so try and find his picture in the church news.
Hey could you send me some face cream as well in the next package. I
need some im out and occasionaly i get zits still. Ok well thats about
all but I love you guys. have fun at school next week HAHAHAHAHAHA


Love elder allen

Baptism of the Buelle family
Saturday August 6, 2011
Kula Hawaii

Kole, the Buelle family, and Elder Savage

Hey guys,

Yeeeeeppp so im gonna be here for 6 more weeks. That will be my 6
months and ill make it to Elder Davies final transfer meeting. That
will be cool so im excited about this. 6 more weeks and we should have
at least two more baptisms. My goal is one a month so if you count all
the ones i have done now im one ahead so thats cool. Im excited to be
here one more espescially with everyone still here with me.

This last weekend was awesome. We had a tongan mini missionary again
and it was the Buells baptism. It was way cool. I got to baptize all 4
of them and elder savage and i both gave talks and our whole ward
was there to support them. I promised myself I wouldnt cry after my farewell but it happened again  so that sucks haha. It was way cool. I only had to do the
little girl twice because she got scared in the freezing water when i
dunked her so it was funny haha. So yes they all got confirmed
yesterday in church and it was cool. They are full on members of the church now
and they love it. You should have heared brother buells talk. it was
so good i was blown away haha. right after they were baptized he did
it so it was way cool. Good experience. so ya this was the coolest baptism ever haha. im kinda sad its over
but its all good.


Nothin else really cool happned this week. We taught 21 lessons and
got 104 o.y.m.s so thats good. Pretty successful week. So ya were just
hangin out up country today so i gotta go but i love you guys and ill
be back on later. love you all

Love elder allen

Dannys baptism from Sat. July 31!



Swinging Bridges hike in Wiluku!



Hey everyone,

Sorry it took me so long to get on today. We went on a way cool hike
called swinging bridges in Wiluku. Its like some huge trail and you go
over bridges over rivers and stuff and yes they swing so i dont think
you would enjoy it much mom but it is way cool. So ya we just got back
and im just reading everything. It all sounds good there though. Just
one day at a time right?

Well this last week was pretty good actually. We baptized danny on
Saturday. Elder Savage Baptized him and i confirmed him yesterday.
That was kinda scary but not to bad. I am over the scariness of all
these ordinance things and actually enjoy doing them now so thats more
fun for me. He actually moved back to utah today so we just did it
yesterday. There were to many bad influences on him here so he needed
to go back to family. If your ever in milford look him up haha. I have
his number.

Yes the Buells are still planning on baptism this saturday i think.
They have been in Oahu for the last month almost so i havent seen them
for a while but i call them weekly to make sure they're ok. Its going
way good with them.

An investigator who came to dannys baptism named patricia told me
while they were getting changed that she wanted to be baptized as
well. We have been working with her forever and so that was cool. I
tracted into her back in april so its good to see it finally come to
an end. We have committed her at like every lesson and all it took was
for her to see one. She even came to church for the first time
yesterday so thats cool. Gotta just dunk everyone

Transfers are this next sunday. Im staying another transfer i think.
Elder davies worked way hard to get me to stay with him for his last
one haha. Im hoping thats how it turns out because then i would fly to
oahu with him and be at his last transfer meeting. It would be way
cool. Im almost ready to get out of this area though. Time for change
i think. 6 more weeks is fine. This one has flown by. i really cant
believe it.

So ya everything is all good. Ill send pics in a minute i have some
good ones. K love you all. Watch for the
wunders to call. They are the best

Love elder allen