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

hey everyone,

yeah so this last week was good. i got my new comp elder willyerd from
missoury, or however you spell it. he is super nerdy and never talks
to anyone than me but thats ok. im used to that by now haha. he just
does what i tell him and it all works out good. these last 4 days we
got more work done than all of last transfer i think. We got two new
investagators with a baptisimal date of may 19th and got like 9
appointments for this next week so things are going good again. After
my companion ran away on tuesday i got these two giant zit things on
my nose but i think they were like stress boils haha. my body doesnt
do well with stress but they hurt like crazy. they are finally gone
now. it was a rough few days though.

But some cool stories from this last week. the first is how we tracted
into a chicken fighting arena with like 200 people at it. It was crazy
man. I have never seen that before. it was gruesome and i felt like i
was the only white person there but it was way cool. there was money
everywhere and everyone betting. Rolling dice, playing pool. it was
like a ghetto hawaiian vegas. glad i got to see that haha. It usually
costs 20 bucks to get in but they let us in free. That was nice of
them.....

the second is how yesterday we were teaching a lesson and a fire got
started in the field right next to the house and they guy grabbed us
and said come help save our house so we assisted nanakuli's finest in
putting out a fire haha. it was nuts but kinda fun. cant say i have
ever done that before but it all worked out good and the house didnt
even get touched. kinda crazy though.

im doin good. i dont have much money and thats why i dont take my
suit. you have to pay right then and its like 20 bucks so i havent
done it. if you could send some more of those chicken cans i would
appreciate it haha. oh and have mal write elder mafi. he is so excited
for it. thats about all for this last week though.

thanks for everything. love you guys.


elder allen

Hey everyone,

this last week was pretty good. we found out my companion is getting
trasferred for his last one so i wont be his last companion, he was
only here for 6 weeks and is now off to maui. so i will be getting a
new kid to train here. it would be a good area to be trained in
because everyone is super nice, and there is a lot of work to be done.
so im excited for that. it will take me back to my roots kind of. so
yeah. my comp here is super trunky and ready to go. it makes me
homesick to but we just keep pressin on haha. tell dad i got s sweet
picture of a camaro the other day that i will send home soon. 67 i
think. parked in some guys back yard. there are a lot around here. the
recent convert dinner was good we had converts from our whole stake
come and we had a whole presentation. THey had us stand and clapped
for us. it was good and the spirit of all of there new testimonies was
very strong. then on sunday night we had a missionary fireside. it was
way good. they had us sing and everything. it was awesome. president
came and a lot of people from the stake. we did the restoration
musically and then had food after. it was way fun. so yeah. everything
is going good. thanks for all the prayers and letters. love you all.


elder allen

March 27, 2012

Hey everyone,
 
yeah this last week was alright, we got a lot done actually. we have
some baptisms this saturday also so im excited for that, as well as
general conference. it will be a good week. we started a bible study
class last week that is supposed to be non denominational which was
hard to prepare. It took elder hall and i almost 2 hours to figure out
how to teach it without sounding like we were one sided haha. it went
way good though. we decided that as we keep getting more people coming
that we can start talking about everything else so that will come with
time. just for now it sucks. We did have a bunch of people show up and
even had refreshments so it for sure looked like we knew what we were
doing.
 
My companion is not doing so hawt though right now. Last week
wednesday he woke up with a kinked neck and everyday since then has
gotten worse, we went to the ER on saturday morning, i stayed there
all night until sunday afternoon with him and slept in the lobby, that
sucked bad and was freezing cold. and then he got released that night
but cant move his neck so he turns his whole body. he also started
losing strength in his arms and hands, so we went back to the doctor
yesterday and are trying to figure out what is going on. they took an
MRI and then tomorrow we will go get the results. So keep praying for
him.
 
One cool story about yesterday though. President called me and told me
that i had two rules that day. Number one was that i had to take care
of elder tora, and number two was that i had to go find a girl that
was baptized in my last ward who was not cofirmed, no matter where she
was and to confirm her, so about 3:30 pm elder hall and i went on
exchange and started searching, going to family members that she had,
calling around and searching, we drove 150 miles in like 6 hours and
went to 4 different zones but finally found her in waipahu zone in a
super ghetto place, we confirmed her right on the spot. it was way fun
actually. some tongan family took us to sizzler and president was way
happy that we got it done. I told him that we should be called the "go
get it done AP's" they have the office and traveling ones but we need
the get it done kind haha. He said he would pray about it. It was
definatley a miracle though that we found her and way fun.
 
There is my excuse for not emailing. That and we didnt get home until
like 10. I was dead tired haha.
 
 
well glad all is well back home. love you all
 
elder allen

March 21, 2012

>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> how are you guys? it sounds like a way good but busy week. im glad
>> everything went well though....
>>
>> everything here is going good. we had a way good baptism on saturday.
>> one of my most stressful but good ones. They showed up way late to the
>> church with there whole family (which is almost all non members) and
>> then had to change still. They asked me to baptize her which was cool
>> but the only baptisimal suit i had didnt fit good at all but i wore it
>> anyway. way to small. but after that it went way good. her mom told me
>> that she knew i would baptize her daughter from the moment she met me
>> which was cool. and i got my first like real lei made from tea leaves.
>> it was way cool. The other reason it was tough is because it felt like
>> my ward didnt help at all. us and our new ward mission leader took
>> care of everything which sucked but its all good. But then the stress
>> continued. They announced nohea getting confirmed and she wasnt there
>> in church so it made us look bad haha but she showed up right after
>> sacrament so we did it then. in the end it went very good and we got a
>> lot of compliments but im gonna have grey hair soon haha.  but yeah it
>> was good.
 i didnt get your box until today. i told you that would happen haha
 but its ok. alright love you all.....
elder allen