Hey everyone,

So yeah this week was pretty good. We got a lot done and our ward is
kinda working with us now. We have dinner appointments every night
this week, and we got a new bishop who is way cool. So im excited
about that. He is way young to, like 33 or something so thats kinda
weird.

That little girl never came to church yesterday so once again were
going to have to postpone it. Oh well could be worse haha. We are
trying to find more solid people though. We can teach millions of
people but none of them will commit to anything so it sucks. So right
now we are just going to work with the part members and less actives.
We started that on friday and its always funny to see the excuses of
why people are not coming to church. One lady told us she found out
the catholic church was true by reading the bible and praying about it
so she converted. It was funny haha. Its hard to know what to say most
times without sounding sarcastic.

It is weird its thanksgiving. It doesnt seem like it at all. The
weather hasnt changed here once since i got here. It rains a little
everyday and its like 83 degrees. So you guys can go have a wonderful
chilly holiday season. is everyone going to our house? i cant remember
what you told me.....

k well here are my 5 things.. in no specific order just the way they come to me.

1. Being on a mission.
2. Family support, lots dont have it.
3. The gospel. Yeah i never thought i would say that one either.
4. The ability to gain a testimony.
5. American food with no rice.


Tell whatever you want to whoever you want haha.

k well thats about it for this week. my garment size is 32 or 34
whatever you want. i figure they will fit either way... and my top is
large. oh and dad if you could send me some of those wing tipped shoes
that you showed me for christmas i would love it. my shoes have about
had it out here..... in rockports they are size 9 and a half so just
something to think about.


love you all and thanks

elder allen

Monday November 14, 2011
Hey everyone,

Yeah this last week was pretty good. it flew by. I cant believe its
over already.... Still not that much going on though, just the same
old same. Except Tomasa, that lady we baptized like two mondays ago
just disapeared to chuke this last week and we have no idea where she
is haha. So yeah that sucks. oh well. everything else is good. My comp
is doing good. He is really just fine. I think his last companions
just kinda let him do whatever and he got used to it but we have a
good routine going now so its all good. My arm is doing fine and im
just keeping going.

The wachters are doing ok but keep praying for them. Its getting
better slowly though. I think were going to have a fast for them soon
so i will let you know. We are going to have thanksgiving with them
and we are going to Hickam to some chief buffet thing so im excited
for that. It will be fun. We already eat with them like 4 times a week
but it will still be cool haha.

The roads here have been packed from apec being here and all the world
leaders so im excited for when that ends cuz traffic sucks. we were
late for church cuz i had no idea the freeway wouldnt be moving at
all.... Oh well

Well mal happy birthday. Finally 16. Matt Davies is filling in as
your big brother for a minute so dont think you can just date anyone
you want haha. He has good taste just like me... so watch out. Oh and
mom you gotta get 65 signs of the times by david j ridges. Im reading
it right now and its way good. you would like it so check it out.


K love you all

love elder allen

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Hey everyone,

Yeah this week was crazy haha. I got a new comp on wednesday named
Elder Kabunare, Ka-boo-nar-eee. is how you pernounce it. He is from
kittybus. which isnt really how you spell it but it sounds the same so
thats what i say. Its kinda by fiji i guess. I teach him english
everyday for an hour and guess what. Its way harder to teach someone
english even though i speak it everyday. I spent like 30 minutes
coming up with a definition for innumerable. He doesnt understand very
well haha.

So ya im working him to death. He is kinda lazy but its all good. I
just motivate him. IM sure if i was 300 pounds i wouldnt wanna go walk
around the ghetto either haha. He is good though he humbles me alot.
Just the other day we pulled up next to a homeless man. and he told me
to give him some money so i rolled the window down and he gave him 20
bucks. he comes from nothing and still gives all he has so he is a
good guy. i learn just as much from him as he does from me.

my arm is doing way good. it doesnt even hurt. its not swollen and i
think its getting way better. I will find out though at my next
appointment. which im not sure when that is so its a good thing.
thanks for all the prayers. Oh and the baptism went good i hear. i
couldnt make it but we are confirming her this next sunday. I heard
she just cried the whole time. Thats good haha

k well i need that face cream and also 65 signs of the times by david
j ridges if at all possible some day. maybe christmas haha. happy
birthday mom i hope you got my envelope and happy november haha.

not much else to say just im doing good and jsut pluggin along. love you all

elder allen

Hey everyone,

Im good. This last week flew by. This is the last week of the transfer
and i cant believe it. At the begining i thought it would never end
haha but it has been the fastest transfer of my mission. Everything
went good this last week except our baptisms got pushed to this friday
because they couldnt get work off. So this friday at 9 am and 6 pm we
have baptisms for leah tina who is 9 and tomasa pakiu who is like 50
from chuke. You could say i can speak chukeese basically now. Easy. Im
glad you all liked the pictures. Yes my new place is
way nice. Just super hot. I was hoping heat waves would show up in the
pictures but i guess not...... Oh and the meeting went good. Kinda
scary but whatever. And elder whiting actually lives here dad so i
didnt ask about fruit heights but he could be still.

We got to go on hickam air force base this last week which was way
cool. Its huge and has everything. Its also the pearl harbor naval
base so its massive. There are huge ships in the harbor and planes
everywhere so its cool. We went and hung out with a member who is
chief of the naval dive squad and did work outs with them and stuff. I
cant join the millitary but it was fun haha. Tell richard and ryan and
rhett all good work and thanks cuz it isnt easy. Maybe one of them
will get sent over here on these bases. There is at least one of each
so i could see them eventually haha.

The only cool story about missionary work this week was some lady was
driving and turned around to come talk to us and said "i know you
probably dont hear this ever but can you come teach me?" and of course
we said yes so we have an appointment with her tomorrow and she came
to church already. I have no idea where she came from but she is nice
and just happens to live in our area. That was cool.

Not much else happend. After your here for a while everything just
rolls into one so sorry i dont have more to email about but that about
raps up my week haha. k well i love you all and yes thanks for the
packages and everything. Ill let you know what is happening next
monday for transfers. I dont even care anymore haha.

i can just go with the flow.

love you

elder allen

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

hey guys,

this email might be kinda short because i forgot what we did this week
haha. It was just way busy and we talked to like 5000000000 people so
i dont even remember. The coolest part was pearl harbor. we got to go
do service there forever. We stripped off all the painted lines on the
port and then painted them again haha. It took forever but was funny
cuz i have done it a lot. So when we go back i can show you my hard
work at a national landmark.

After we finished that we went on a tour of the uss misouri and
everything else there it was way cool. I knew one day i would go there
i just never thought on my mission so it was cool. i kept expecting
to see someone i knew but it never happend. it was way fun though.

After service we went back home and we live with non members. He was
doing something with his car and i asked if he needed help. He said he
was changing his oil for the first time and didnt have a clue what he
was doing haha so while my comp showered i changed the oil in both of
his cars and it was hilarious. I hope i did it right or get
transferred soon so that i cant be blamed for destroying both of his
toyotas haha. so it was a good week.

We taught like 20 lessons and visited 21 part member less actives. it
was crazy. when we work like that though you dont even realize what is
going on and the day is over. its kinda cool. I finally understand
what everyone has been saying about missions going fast. I cant
believe that this transfer is more than half over. Interviews are next
week and its done. They say it goes faster than this after a year to
so im basically done i have decided haha.

k well i love you guys. you all sound like you are doing great. keep
up the good work..

love elder allen

hey mom,

yeah this week has been way better. I just had to adjust to the
craziness of this island for a minute but now that i have i really
love it. The days fly by because of how fast paced it is and we teach
all the time so its not slow like maui was ever. its kinda nice haha.
My comp is doing good. He is still learing a lot though so its a lot
up to me and i still feel like i know nothing but its all good. Were
doing good. Yeah we still have our baptisms scheduled and we got
another one yesterday... Some lady ran up to us when we were walking
through the ghetto and said her son wasnt baptized and asked if we
could do it. His name is John Paul haha. and he is 11 but thats cool.
We had the highest numbers in the zone. That felt good. Our zone is
way closer than maui because of how close we all live to each other so
yeah i see everyone all the time. i like that. so even though we live
in a 2 man its not really like that because someone is always over so
its cool. As district leader i dont do much else, just busy work.
report numbers for the district, do baptisimal interviews, and train
on tuesday my district, oh and on friday i get trained by the zls. its
cool i guess. just more work.

Yeah for conference we saw it all. We live with a non member and we
watched it in his house. That was cool and was way better than the
mtc. I liked conference a lot and felt like 99 percent of the talks
applied to me haha. The how to raise a daughter one sucked though
mom... lets get real i couldnt apply it. but yeah elder hollands talk
was way cool. My favorite quote from him now is "In this family, we
serve missions!" Im kinda scared of him honestly but he made me feel
proud to be a missonary. sometimes you forget and dont wanna do it but
it was good motivation.
  
Thanks for all the food. the reason we eat out so much is because to
get back to our pad is a freakin hike and a half and its not worth it
to take out 3 hours to get back so we eat out places. its good for
dinner though. we dont eat as much with members so thanks.... thanks
for everythign.

i love you guys and keep sending letters haha

k love elder allen