Hey everyone,

Yeah we had a baptism yesterday. I got to baptize him. It was that kid
named John Paul. He is way cool. We have two more this friday coming
up and then our last one that we have scheduled is next friday.
President called last night to tell us we were doing a "stellar" job
for having just whitewashed so im happy with everything that has
happend.

Things are going good. This last week was busy. I went on exchange
with elder woodfield, my zone leader and we had to go to tripler
hospital to visit people in our ward who needed blessings and some
permament hospital dwellers there. Its the huge pink one on the side
of the hill and it is probably the biggest hospital i have ever been
in. I was shocked. It was built in like the twenties and i think its
the one that paul sutherland says he goes to paint every year. It is
so big though. So that was kinda cool to go to. Its also a military
hospital so its nothing but military up there and so thats why the
inside is so cool.

Ya everything is going good though. Were working on getting more with
dates so we can continue our success into next transfer but im
starting to realize that even though people are way more humble here
they are not committed. they just tell you what you want to hear and
like it while we are there but we walk out the door and they are back
to there old habits, so we gotta sift out all the crap to get to the
people who actually are willing to live what they say they will. Thats
the only struggle we are having right now.

Well that and my companions arm came out of socket on saturday so we
had to go to an urgent care place, (which reminded me of when i got my
appendix out) and they shoved it back in. Apparently he needs surgery
on it though so that it stops happening but he would have to go home.
So pray that it will work its self out and he wont have to because i
dont think he would come back.

k well thats about all for this week. I hope you get that disc with
all the pictures on it soon. Im excited for you guys to see where were
living and stuff but until then just pretend haha...

k love you all

elder allen