Hey mama.

so this week was way busy. It was transfers on wednesday, and we just
had a ton of appointments. crazy week. We have 4 with a baptisimal
date, reed spence, vianne tamatasi, and vasaline pakiu and her son.
the little girl that looks like brie is her daughter. they are
awesome, it has taken for ever to get her with a date though so im
excited. they are all for january 14th so that will be a good day. We
have been teaching like crazy. I guess the christmas spirit really
opens up peoples heart because they let us right in, My comp is even
really motivated. He said that this has never happend to him so all
the prayers are working out. He doesnt even slack off anymore and just
sit down haha. Its been way good.

We both spoke in church yesterday, our topic was the scriptures. i
couldnt think of a topic more broad than that but it went well. Other
than the fact that my companion spoke for 7 minutes. We only had one
youth speaker who spoke for 3 and then i had about 25 minutes to talk
haha. Good thing i have gotten way good at winging it and people kept
coming up telling me i gave a great talk and then our dinner calender
was full. Our bishop got up after i spoke and just told our ward that
he was so grateful for us and it will be hard for him when we get
transferred so i feel like this ward has come full circle for me. Its
no pukalani but its still good to be in.

the 12 days are going good. my whole district takes turns doing it
every night. Since they live in a 3 story apartment building its hard
because they live on the 2 level and everyone here has tons of windows
so its hard to sneak in. But so far so good. We crawl on the floor to
the door and the door is always open so we just drop it inside on the
carpet. They have a gate up so the little kids cant run out. its
funny. I will record it one night and send it to you so you can see.

the pictures are good. i have more but the halls had to go so i
couldnt send more but the one where elder grover and i were looking at
the wall with the wires was an old abandoned army bunker on a hike we
went on. it was way cool. i like stuff like that haha and the high
rise was KPT that i have told you about. They are trying to make it
nice and not so ghetto but i found out that once a ghetto always a
ghetto. its the people that make it nasty. if they want to improve
send the micronesians back to micronesia haha. but yeah thats where
the cat pic came from to. The rock picture is elder grover and i again
and anytime you see a black missionary its chancy wilson. I knew him
back home. He is from bountiful. he went to elementary with tim jones
so thats funny. we hung out a lot in high school. he has been out for
like 3 months now.

so yeah my week was crazy but not as bad as yours sounds like... tell
the mole to keep her foot away from the gas pedal haha. oh yeah we
dont have a car again..... oh well

love you all

elder allen