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