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

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

Hey everyone,

Yep im staying one more transfer. Me and my comp so thats ok. Im glad
ill stay one more for christmas and stuff. That will be good. This
last week was good. We got some new investagators and committed the
one we tracted into for baptism the first lesson for the 31st. He told
us his daughter was a member in makakilo and was wondering what all
the fuss was about. It was a way good lesson. First lesson my comp
actually taught with me as well so that was good. He did a good job.
Our christmas party was fun. It was like a huge luau with hawaiian
food. It was actually the first time i tried poi and its really
actually good haha. Remember that baby food called like blueberry
buckle or whatever? It tastes like that but i little bit sour. I
actually liked it though haha.

We also had zone conference this week. It was way good. Its always
good to see president and sister dalton and be spiritully uplifted for
a little bit. We watched 17 miracles and just kinda had a relaxed day.
it was good. They gave us our christmas presents of blankets with our
mission motto on it so watch for that in the mail. Its way cool but i
dont have room for it so im sending it home.

That date story with mal sounds hilarious. I would have loved to see
that. Sorry your sick though mal. Thats no fun. Its even worse when
your away from home so at least the front runner was moving quick
hahahahahaha.

They told me they would send that nativity mama so im sorry. Ill call
today and find out what happend to it. sorry. and yes im going
shopping with elder grover today. that will be fun.


k well love you all.

thanks for everything

mele kelikimaka haha

elder allen

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Hey everyone,

Yeah i watched the Devotional last night..... Why did i never know
those existed haha. It was way cool though and i liked it. President
Monson made me want to read those books he talked about and reminded
me that i need to keep working my butt off so im not in some shack in
the middle of some field. It was cool. This last week was good. Once
again we climbed back up to get the highest numbers in the zone. We
kinda took a break i guess you could say but were back now. We got 4
new investagators and taught a ton of lessons. it was a good week. I
got to go on exchange with elder grover. It reminded me of exchanges
with elder davies and it was so fun. Most fun i have had in a while
and we worked like crazy. I wish we were companions because the day
flew by but ill have to wait for a little bit for that to happen.
Transfer calls are this next sunday, so we will see. I already know
but something could change this week. I want to stay one more but
whatever happens happens. I have learned to just go with the flow out
here now.

That sounds way fun having to clean up all that stuff. What i would
have given to be doing some huge redneck service project. Hopefully
that will happen when i get back home haha. Its to bad that kaches
school wasnt closed, sorry you have to sub all week. that doesnt sound
fun at all but it is some extra money. Thats always fun.

So yeah everything is all good here. Pearl harbor service was fun. We
cleaned rust and repainted some huge thing on the USS missouri. Then
we got to go explore for a little while. Its a way cool ship. I had no
idea that the japanease surrendered on the deck of it. It makes it
that much cooler. The 70th anniversary is on wednesday. I think we
might get to go but its sorta up in the air. We will see.

alright well i love you all. thanks for everything.

tell everyone mele kelikimaka

haha i miss christmas vacation.


love elder allen