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
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Monday, March 12, 2012
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
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
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
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
Monday, January 30, 2012
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
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
Monday, January 9, 2012
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
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
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
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