Monday July 23, 2012

hey everyone,

why in the world would you adopt another chihuahua? cant we get a dog
that isnt completly useless. haha just kidding, well not really but
what can you do. Yeah everything here is all good. We worked our butts
off looking for miracles to hit 13 baptisms and we hit it. Actually
were at 18, Highest it has ever been. Last time they hit 13 was in
1982 so were for sure setting a high new goal. it feels good though.
We have two more baptisms this weekend and then were done for july.
its been good though. i was sitting in church yesterday thinking about
everything and how much i love my mission and i was getting sad haha.
I dont hate anything about it anymore. its like the perfect life.
nothing makes me sad or upset anymore i just have figured it all out
and it feels good. i dont wanna come home. not even to meet faith.....
i love teaching people and tracting even. its weird man but true. I
love this ward a lot to. Pukalani will always be my favorite but this
is a very very close second, so yeah everything has finally come full
circle. so there is my little bit of emotion for the week haha. thats
all i will share. all is good and its going by fast.

love you all

elder allen

Monday July 16, 2012

Hey everyone,

how is everything going? that sounds fun about girls camp. a
missionary that just went home called me this morning and he was out
on utah lake telling me how awesome it was so thanks for rubbing that
one in haha just kidding. No everything is good here. we had a super
busy week and im glad its p day. i needed to rest a little bit.

Transfers were on wednesday and so we got basically a whole new zone.
Its a way cool one too. Like all of my way good friends that i have
gotten throughout my mission (except grover) are all here haha. its
fun. They told us they got all of us here because were BAPTIZERS haha.
 thats hilarious to me because its true.
We got our harvest report for baptisms for each missionary and all the
of ones here have the most in our mission. They did that because our
stake/zone has the lowest amount of baptisms in the whole mission and
everyone makes fun of it and doesnt want to come here. Our goal for
july is 13 which is the highest it has ever been in the history of
this stake, we have 4 baptized and 16 with baptism dates its a good
feeling to be on top of everything like that and were hoping to show
everyone that it can be done in the kaneohe zone. So keep praying for
our success because we have something we need to prove president said.

WE confirmed daisy on sunday and that was good. we also had a miracle.
as of yesterday, to go back with the baptisms we only had ten with a
date and of course some will fall through. So we were praying to find
some solid baptismial dates. Daisy shows up to church with 5 of her 9
kids and i find out that two more of them can be baptized, so this
isnt about numbers or anything...... buttttt we have two more coming
up on the 28 now haha. just what we needed. It still is amazing the
things that happen when you just work. No one was home this week and
it was more like a screw this no one wants to hear anything but we got
some good blessings sunday and its because of our dilligence in not
quitting when it sucked. testimony builders everyday man.

And on thursday we got a mini missionary again to come with us. I dont
know why i always get them but they are fun. His name was jordan and
he is from our stake. He was with us over the weekend and it was way
fun to have him. He brought back a lot of greenie fire i think in both
of us and kept us going because we wanted him to love it so if this
last week had to be a bad one he helped us get over it.

so yeah. everything is good. as long as we hit 13 im gonna be happy.
hope you have fun at girls camp and that everything goes how you want
it to. love you all

elder allen

June 27, 2012

hey everyone,

sorry it took so long to email. we have p day today instead of monday
because we went to the temple. It was way good, cant wait to go there
with all of you. I dont know why but the temple always makes me kinda
trunky for a second. i think because all of my memories of the temple
are home haha. but yeah. fun times. We finished the second car
yesterday. We had to take the top end off twice, becuase we did the
intake manifold gasket wrong and it was leaking but the second time
worked like a charm. if you need anything done to a 96 ford explorer
4.0 pushrod v6 i can take care of it. haha no but it sucked. fun for a
few minutes but im glad its over. All of our baptisms are still going
forward good and are investagators are progressing. the cool thing
about this area is no one tells you what you want to hear. they are
either sincere or jerks so its easy to find the elect that actually
need or want the gospel. we just have to work twice as hard to get
them..... pros and cons i guess. we had a way good fireside on sunday
in which our whole zone sang. it was way good though. elder whiting
gave a way good closing talk. he is a new 70. i am stealing some
things from him for my homecoming talk. thanks to grandpa mcdonald for
telling me to take notes for that my whole mission i think that i will
actually have it ready by the time i do get home. thanks grandpa haha.
but after that we had more food of course and just relaxed the rest of
the night. it was fun. Brother kava, my ward mission leader made the
refreshments. he ordered like 80 loaves of french bread, cut them in
half and stuffed ice cream in them. so warm bread and ice cream.
definitley a tongan thing but way good, and funny. alright well thats
about all. thanks everyone, love you lots,

elder allen

June 18, 2012

hey mama. how is everything going? glad st george went good, cant say
i wished i was at those plays but glad you guys got to go. I know you
all ways said we need like culture or something to our lives but i
have a new culture and it definitley isnt plays haha. just kidding i
would go, just grumble a little bit. Thats cool that you ran into the
aiwohi family. there name is really big over there. i cant say i know
who that is but its cool. made me homesick for maui a little bit. but
its a small world haha.

everything here is going good. we had president interviews on
thursday. that went good he basically told me that it gets hard to
stay focused towards the end so to keep it up. he listed off all this
stuff that he wanted to focus on but couldnt, one of them was the heat
and thunder games and i had no idea they were even playing so i guess
he is just a little bit focused on it haha. it was funny though. he
also interviewed daisy on with date on thursday. she passed and came
to church yesterday so thats good. i know he was pretty bold with her
but she took it well so im excited for her to keep movin foreward. we
also had a 4 hour plan of salvation lesson with some lady who is
basically mormon already. the spirt was there for about 45 minutes of
the 4 hours and then i was done haha but it was good. just way to
long. to many questions and stuff. next time were going to try to keep
it in check better haha. but yeah its all going good.

elder grove and i also did a ton of service this week. on friday we
helped a family move all there stuff onto the lawn for a yard sale and
they just watched us do it all. it was really frustrating. the dad sat
on his lazy boy with a sierra mist and just told us what to move next
so we were both not very nice to them haha. they were very capeable to
do it themselves. they have like 3 older boys but for some reason they
called us. it must be a white thing because brown people dont pull
stunts like that..... then on saturday elder grover and i again went
with our bishop to install solar panels. he just sat down in the
garage and said follow the pattern of the old ones. i have faith in
you haha. i understand that. he is older and it was hard work but i
cant believe he trusted us to do it all. I also didnt know you could
soder copper pipe. we had to do it twice because the first time we did
it every pipe we sodered was leaking, more like exploding water and
bishop laughed and said opposistion in all things. not what i wanted
to hear. but the second time we went much slower and got it. it was
fun.

so yeah thats my week. my thighs are getting jacked from all my bike
riding haha and im losing weight. im down to 155 now. i guess thats
good. i eat like crazy now though haha. im always hungry but its good.

oh and last night went to a tongan fathers day firside at a beach
park. it was way cool. tongans are still my favorite polys. so humble
and loving. brother kava, our ward misison leader calls me his white
tongan son because of all my memmorized tongan i got down and i can
eat as much as him haha its funny. so i call him tamae tonga or father
tonga, its funny. he is way cool. he is going to utah next summer so
you can meet him.

and last thing this sunday were having a fireside for investagators
and recent converts. it will be good and some how we got roped into
singing. done understand that one but ill try to record it because i
guarentee it wont be good haha. elder whiting is the concluding
speaker and its his last talk before he moves back to kaysville. weird
huh?

k well love you all. glad you had a good weekend and happy fathers day dad.


love elder allen

June 13, 2012

Soooooooo, its been a long time since i emailed last haha. A lot has
happened and ill try to get it all in here the best i can,

My companion is elder obray from north ogden utah, he is like the most
normal companion i have had in the last 10 months and for once i dont
feel the stress of doing EVERYTHING. its way good and we work our
butts off. Elder grover is here with me again and we live together on
the third floor of a apartment building with a huge balcony where we
watch over our little town until 1030 everynight haha. its way fun
just seeing all the toursits and people walking around and doing
stuff. This place is really nice. I feel like i finally have a normal
mission and am not babysitting or worrying about anybodys problems but
our investagators which is how it should be. I can focus on missionary
work and thats it. ITs all that consumes my time. Its kinda nice and
im way happy with it.

We have a lot of good stuff going on in our ward. We have 2 baptisms
for july scheduled, daisy and her son korey. 33 and 10. Daisy has 9
kids though and were hoping to baptize 7 of them when they all come
home 4 days from now. that would be a lot of baptisms. She is getting
interviewed on thursday by president for some PT's but is super solid.
We have had some really spiritual lesssons with her. Our other very
good investagator is becky. she is a white lady from here with her
awesome family whose sister is a member in North carolina. She said
she has always been a good example to her and is progressing. we hope
to get her with a date on thursday. These are the most solid
investagators i have had in a long time. I feel like im being rewarded
for the crap i had for a while which im ok with haha. Everyone i tell
that i was in waianae like freaks out and says how was that? and
anything crazy happen there? i for sure have had some of the worst
areas haha.

My ward is way cool. One of my favorite familys from pukalani comes
here and i saw them the first sunday i was here and that was cool. the
general authority is in our ward. our bishop has a huge house and
sells islands for a living(yeah i didnt know you could do that either)
and my ward mission leader is super FOB (fresh off the boat) from
tonga. My favorite polynesian people. I cant think of it getting any
better.

cool story realy quick, so last thursday we had a crazy day doing tons
of stuff going everywhere. we had an appointment at 4 with becky and
then dinner at 5. so the appointment got over and like 515 and we were
way far away from dinner, plus on bikes so we called and then peddled
fast haha but we got there and went to mcdonalds, we had to be at the
chapel at 6 to teach the relief society about how to be better member
missionaries so we were crunched. but while eating my mcdouble
somebody popped my tire on my bike with his knife like 4 seconds
before we were about to go. elder obray saw it but didnt say anything
so that the single lady we were having dinner with didnt have to worry
about us. so we got outside and i started walking my bike to the gas
station to lock up, but some guy pulled up and said hey can i fix your
bike like way randomly so i said yeah sure haha. i wouldnt turn that
down, he took my bike and told me that he would drop it off outside
our church at 8 when we would be done. SO i left and ran to the church
behind my companion alllllllllllllllllllllll the way there. it sucked
but its ok. like 3 miles though taught the lesson which went way good.
and then at 8 went outside to my bike sitting there with a new tire on
all pumped up. I didnt see the guy again and i have no idea who he was
but i appreciate him. Miracles happen every day haha. but yeah. kinda
cool.


well love all you guys. talk to you soon


elder allen

May 21, 2012

Hey mama,

your guys week sounded way good. im glad that everything went good for
grandma them and that she was able to do that. of all people she
deserves it. i bet it was stressful though. this last week was pretty
good, we had that mission tour and i learned a lot, i feel like a lot
more for when i go home then for the missionary work here. how to take
care of less actives and why it is so important. it was way good. I
got to be interviewed by elder holland and talk about everything that
is going on. it was way cool. but yeah. i think our next week baptism
has been canceled, he showed up to church smoking and he told us he
didnt haha so im going to talk to him about that. oh well. we can only
do so much.

sorry it took so long to email but i was busy with zone conference
training. so i just finished it..... i love you guys though and thanks
for all you do.



love you.

elder allen

May 7, 2012

Hey everyone,

yeah everything here is all good. not much went on this week. i guess
thats what happens when you get 5 new investagators the week before.
but the tongan stuff is going good. im not really sure what to do with
it except just visit members and try and get refferals because
tracting half of oahu and trying to find tongans is way harder than it
sounds haha. there are like none anywhere; so i feel bad because im
not doing much for that ward but i dont know how to do it. Its all
good though. we have a lot of work in nanakuli and we have our 3
baptisms this saturday. that will be good. We havent had one of those
for a while now. Im excited. My tongan comp is named elder mavae and
he is straight from the island, or FOB. (fresh off the boat). He is
funny though and it just reminds me that tongans are the best
polynesians haha. WE have mission tour coming up soon like that one
last year when i flew to big island and zone conference to. it will be
a good last few weeks of the transfer. well i love you guys everything
is going good. ill talk to you next sunday.

love elder allen.

April 30, 2012

Hey everyone,


this last week was way good. we got a lot done and this area is really
starting to turn around. we got 3 more with date when i went on
exchange with the ap's and so that makes 5 for may. Once again were
doing miracle may so if you guys could include that in your fast on
sunday and be praying for it we would all appreciate it. our names are
in the temple again and its amazing to see how much of a difference
that makes. Some lady came up to me and my ward mission leader
yesterday with her niece who just moved here and said that her niece
wants to be baptized also so that will be 6 with a date after
thursday. This is the most i have ever had all at once and it feels
good haha. Were leading our zone with everything now. So yeah if we
keep this up we will get 100 easy.

Yesterday after church we went to a part member family and were
teaching them when the cops showed up, with cps. they took all of
there kids because there is an accusation against the nephew that was
living with them that he sexually harrassed them. It was one of the
most sad crazy experiences of my life and made me super grateful for
how i was brought up again. Right when things start going good and you
think you can do it by yourself the lord humbles you is different
ways. We had some crazy lessons with them after and the mom was just
hugging me for like and hour. we were supposed to be there for sure
but it didnt make it any easier. I guess the good thing that comes out
of this though is i had a talk with the dad last night and kinda
chastised him because they are less active and told him the pain he
feels now is bad but think if it was eternity and he set a goal with
me that he will make it to the temple with his family to be sealed
before i leave so this is for sure a blessing in disguise i just feel
horrible for them. Family is everything to these polynesians. The
other cool part is that he went up to the nephew that was accused and
just hugged him and told him that he didnt believe it and that he
forgives him even if it is true so yeah. lots of lessons learned.

We also tracted into some girls i know this week from alta. That was
weird. They are members but less active and they came to church
yesterday. They opened the door and were like wait i know you and i
had no idea who they were haha but they remembered my first name so
mal im still known all over the world. I told you i was popular
hahahaha.

Oh and dont crash the jeep, for heaven sakes haha.

well thats about all. just movin the needle a litttle at a time.

love you guys

elder allen

hey everyone,

yeah so this last week was good. i got my new comp elder willyerd from
missoury, or however you spell it. he is super nerdy and never talks
to anyone than me but thats ok. im used to that by now haha. he just
does what i tell him and it all works out good. these last 4 days we
got more work done than all of last transfer i think. We got two new
investagators with a baptisimal date of may 19th and got like 9
appointments for this next week so things are going good again. After
my companion ran away on tuesday i got these two giant zit things on
my nose but i think they were like stress boils haha. my body doesnt
do well with stress but they hurt like crazy. they are finally gone
now. it was a rough few days though.

But some cool stories from this last week. the first is how we tracted
into a chicken fighting arena with like 200 people at it. It was crazy
man. I have never seen that before. it was gruesome and i felt like i
was the only white person there but it was way cool. there was money
everywhere and everyone betting. Rolling dice, playing pool. it was
like a ghetto hawaiian vegas. glad i got to see that haha. It usually
costs 20 bucks to get in but they let us in free. That was nice of
them.....

the second is how yesterday we were teaching a lesson and a fire got
started in the field right next to the house and they guy grabbed us
and said come help save our house so we assisted nanakuli's finest in
putting out a fire haha. it was nuts but kinda fun. cant say i have
ever done that before but it all worked out good and the house didnt
even get touched. kinda crazy though.

im doin good. i dont have much money and thats why i dont take my
suit. you have to pay right then and its like 20 bucks so i havent
done it. if you could send some more of those chicken cans i would
appreciate it haha. oh and have mal write elder mafi. he is so excited
for it. thats about all for this last week though.

thanks for everything. love you guys.


elder allen

Hey everyone,

this last week was pretty good. we found out my companion is getting
trasferred for his last one so i wont be his last companion, he was
only here for 6 weeks and is now off to maui. so i will be getting a
new kid to train here. it would be a good area to be trained in
because everyone is super nice, and there is a lot of work to be done.
so im excited for that. it will take me back to my roots kind of. so
yeah. my comp here is super trunky and ready to go. it makes me
homesick to but we just keep pressin on haha. tell dad i got s sweet
picture of a camaro the other day that i will send home soon. 67 i
think. parked in some guys back yard. there are a lot around here. the
recent convert dinner was good we had converts from our whole stake
come and we had a whole presentation. THey had us stand and clapped
for us. it was good and the spirit of all of there new testimonies was
very strong. then on sunday night we had a missionary fireside. it was
way good. they had us sing and everything. it was awesome. president
came and a lot of people from the stake. we did the restoration
musically and then had food after. it was way fun. so yeah. everything
is going good. thanks for all the prayers and letters. love you all.


elder allen

March 27, 2012

Hey everyone,
 
yeah this last week was alright, we got a lot done actually. we have
some baptisms this saturday also so im excited for that, as well as
general conference. it will be a good week. we started a bible study
class last week that is supposed to be non denominational which was
hard to prepare. It took elder hall and i almost 2 hours to figure out
how to teach it without sounding like we were one sided haha. it went
way good though. we decided that as we keep getting more people coming
that we can start talking about everything else so that will come with
time. just for now it sucks. We did have a bunch of people show up and
even had refreshments so it for sure looked like we knew what we were
doing.
 
My companion is not doing so hawt though right now. Last week
wednesday he woke up with a kinked neck and everyday since then has
gotten worse, we went to the ER on saturday morning, i stayed there
all night until sunday afternoon with him and slept in the lobby, that
sucked bad and was freezing cold. and then he got released that night
but cant move his neck so he turns his whole body. he also started
losing strength in his arms and hands, so we went back to the doctor
yesterday and are trying to figure out what is going on. they took an
MRI and then tomorrow we will go get the results. So keep praying for
him.
 
One cool story about yesterday though. President called me and told me
that i had two rules that day. Number one was that i had to take care
of elder tora, and number two was that i had to go find a girl that
was baptized in my last ward who was not cofirmed, no matter where she
was and to confirm her, so about 3:30 pm elder hall and i went on
exchange and started searching, going to family members that she had,
calling around and searching, we drove 150 miles in like 6 hours and
went to 4 different zones but finally found her in waipahu zone in a
super ghetto place, we confirmed her right on the spot. it was way fun
actually. some tongan family took us to sizzler and president was way
happy that we got it done. I told him that we should be called the "go
get it done AP's" they have the office and traveling ones but we need
the get it done kind haha. He said he would pray about it. It was
definatley a miracle though that we found her and way fun.
 
There is my excuse for not emailing. That and we didnt get home until
like 10. I was dead tired haha.
 
 
well glad all is well back home. love you all
 
elder allen

March 21, 2012

>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> how are you guys? it sounds like a way good but busy week. im glad
>> everything went well though....
>>
>> everything here is going good. we had a way good baptism on saturday.
>> one of my most stressful but good ones. They showed up way late to the
>> church with there whole family (which is almost all non members) and
>> then had to change still. They asked me to baptize her which was cool
>> but the only baptisimal suit i had didnt fit good at all but i wore it
>> anyway. way to small. but after that it went way good. her mom told me
>> that she knew i would baptize her daughter from the moment she met me
>> which was cool. and i got my first like real lei made from tea leaves.
>> it was way cool. The other reason it was tough is because it felt like
>> my ward didnt help at all. us and our new ward mission leader took
>> care of everything which sucked but its all good. But then the stress
>> continued. They announced nohea getting confirmed and she wasnt there
>> in church so it made us look bad haha but she showed up right after
>> sacrament so we did it then. in the end it went very good and we got a
>> lot of compliments but im gonna have grey hair soon haha.  but yeah it
>> was good.
 i didnt get your box until today. i told you that would happen haha
 but its ok. alright love you all.....
elder allen

March 15, 2012

Hey everyone,

this last week was good. i got a new companion from fiji named elder
tora. he has been on his mission for 22 months and is super trunky but
he still works his butt off, thats a good thing. its like night and
day difference from my last one. I forgot how fun it could be. The
first day i was with him we got two new investagators with dates for
the 31st so thats good. that will be 4 baptisms in march. the most in
our zone. the next one is this saturday at 3. Im baptizing her. I
tried to get elder tora to be able to do it but the mom wanted me so i
feel kinda bad. But its all good. on sunday night after planning and
turning in numbers he came to me and said really quietly, "i havent
done this for a while but i think you and i should drink some kava
together.' so we sat right down on the floor and he mixed it up and we
talked and drank kava for like an hour and went to bed. it was funny.
thats the kinda stuff i will miss about my mission. But yeah it was a
good week.


hope everything there is going good.

love you all

elder allen

March 5, 2012

Hey everyone,

yeah the baptism was way good. joseph is a way good convert that will
do really good in the church. yesterday he was ordained to the office
of a priest already and will probably start passing the sacrement. it
was way good. im staying here but my companion is leaving. he is going
somewhere off island, hopefully not maui because he will ruin it haha.
but yeah it will be good to get some fresh blood in here. elder
robbins is also leaving and going off island and elder hall, elder
robbins comp is getting a special assignment. that will be way fun. so
yeah everything is going good. we have another with a date for the
17th of a part memeber 10 year old girl. kinda a cheating baptism but
it will be good. im excited for that. and yeah mom im still studying.
i have only read one chapter of that other book you sent how ever long
and hard the road. it is good though and no im not done with temple
and cosmos. its a hard book but yes i still read it.

well i love you all.


love elder allen

February 27, 2012

 hey everyone,
 how are you all? yeah this last week was my birthday. not much of a
 change. i actually forgot until i saw my watch and it said the 25th
 that morning. it was weird haha. i didnt really tell anyone though it
 just came and went. it was good though. thanks for having a party. not
 much else went on this week. Joseph passed his baptism interview and
 is still going forward with baptism this next saturday, we found some
 new investagators and i went on splits yesterday with a newly made
 elder of about 2 hours who gave his first blessing. it was weird to
 see because i will never forget that time i gave one with van allen. i
 think that was my first. its scary but he did a way good job. he is a
 convert of 1 year and is going on a mission soon. i like going with
 him a lot. saturday night was the UFC fights and everyone around here
 loves watching them so it was crazy tracting and everyone was inviting
 us in to watch the fights with them haha. i bet its kinda like the old
 days and boxing. good times though. That same day we were driving and
 i watched some guy punch this lady in the face through her drivers
 side window at a stop light...... so i got out of the car and started
 walking towards him...(i strongly dislike woman abusiers now) and this
 huge hawaiian lady opened her door and full on sprint tackled this guy
 across the street and continued to beat his face with her fists, then
 picked him up and through her into the back of the car and drove off.
 So i guess i wasnt needed. and i was terrified i was gonna get beat by
 her next.... it was hilarious though.....
 k well thats about all. i love you guys and will talk to you soon...
 elder allen

February 22, 2012

Hey everyone,


so not much going on here this last week. the only thing is joseph has
a baptisimal date for next saturday. Im excited about that. My goal
was to baptize with all of my companions and i have done it so far.
Thats a good thing. i cant believe its almost march. exactly a year
ago we were in cali. so weird. i wish we were back somedays haha. but
yeah all is good. this transfer ends soon and hopefully i can take
over and get some stuff done. hope all is well.

love you guys

elder allen

JANUARY 30, 2012

hey whats up everyone,


yeah so i finally got transferred out of my last ghetto and got thrown
right into a new one haha. its different though. its not drug and gang
ghetto its like redneck country boy ghetto, im still trying to decide
which is worse haha but its good. It actually looks a lot like
southern utah so its kinda weird. i wake up and think im camping also
cuz our pad is like falling apart and is by far the worst one i have
lived in. Its ok though its all just another adventure. My new comps
name is elder cady. he has been out for like 19 months and is
incredibly trunky which sucks. all he talks about is home so i gotta
focus on something other than his whining..... ok but yeah other than
that i actually like it up here. this ward is better than my last by
far. they feed us every night and are all super nice because its not
so much a millitary ward anymore. thats good. my game plan for right
now is jsut sorta go with the flow the best i can until he gets
transferred and take this area over and turn it around. it wont be
hard. there is so much work to do here but he really wont do it.... no
fun.

this morning elder robbins and i got up and went fishing down at the
ocean. it was like 2 minutes away and there was no one there. we sat
there for like 7 hours and watched 20 foot swells coming in which are
crazy big, all these guys were surfing them. it was sick. and then we
saw a ton of whales off the coast. it was way cool to see. i was like
as far northwest as you can get on oahu and yeah we actually caught
some fish. it was fun.

i havent met any of our investagators yet so im also gonna work on
that this week. we need to get some baptisms up here. its been a
while. before i left moanalua 1st we had 5 baptisms. the last two
weekends of the transfer. those were good. i hope they stay active
though. We went to go take the baptism clothing to veeann and her
little sister looked at me and said i havent been baptized. so i said
how old are you? expecting like 7. and she said ten so i felt stupid,
called elder grover who did the interview and baptized them together.
we taught them both the whole time and i never even asked. god had to
have her ask me haha. oh well at least its done. but yeah its all good
over here. i hit a year this transfer which is crazy. ill send pics
soon..


love you all

elder allen

hey everyone,

man your guys weeks sounded crazy. That date sounded like one of the
funniest things i have ever heard. Mal, sometimes in life you gotta do
stuff that you dont wanna do at all, like eat chuukese octopus, but
guess what you just gotta do it haha. When ever i feel like doing
nothing i always imagine dad saying time to pull up the boot straps. I
always hated that saying until i used it on my self so mal just go
date somebody weird. it cant be that bad. I sure hope girls never felt
that way about when i asked them out hahahahaha.

interviews are this week wednesday so that will be fun... our
investagators are still on track to baptism but none of them came to
church yesterday which sucked. its always deppressing when we stand at
the door and shake everyones hands and not one person we taught this
week comes in, it sucks man. but its ok. they better be there next
week. We even got one new invsetagator this week who we committed to
baptism so we now have 5 with a date. thats good. Oh but i forgot
about vasaline. Her husband came home one night drunk and told her
that she couldnt be baptized. she got up set and he beat her. so he
got arressted and is being deported back to chuke and she is in hiding
until he leaves because he is out of jail and looking for her and her
kids. She is the skinny one i sent pics of with all the little kids.
the one that looks like brie. Very sad cuz its kinda our fault so pray
for them k...

alright well thats about all. everything is all good im doing good. im
going to meet elder toloas sister today with him. he has surgery on
his shoulder on wednesday so pray for him as well. everything is good
though...

love you all

elder allen

Jan. 3, 2012

Hey everyone,

sorry im emailing late im just doing it real fast though.... Happy new
years to you guys as well. It was kinda crazy here to be honest. We
went to the stake center at 8 and like played basketball and other
sports for a few hours and went outside at like midnight to watch the
fireworks. I heard that it was crazy but i didnt know how bad it
was.... there are no laws at all about fireworks so people just buy
like 500 firecrackers and a ton of other stuff and light it off all
night long. The smoke in the valleys was so bad like you couldnt see.
IT was like a firework fanatics dream so i was in heaven. Except for
when we went to bed and no one else did. THat sucked cuz we just heard
them for the rest of the night haha.

What did you guys do? anything fun? any crazy parties you attended? im
doubting it haha. well i love you all thanks for everything....

all our investagators are still on schedule. love you all

elder allen