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