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| Elder Tiakia 6 month celebration with the burning of the tie tradition! |
Monday, May 9, 2011
May 9, 2011
Hey everyone,
Ya that phone call was way good. Its kind of deppressing that we wont talk again for 7 months though. Thats so far away. Oh well. I kind of got homesick after and am still kind of feeling it but it will go away. Sunday was good. We ate some pretty good food at the Manehas and just made it quick. We ended up in church teaching relief society, elders qurom, (we each taught a different one) and i taught that sunday school class of kids my age. I had about 7 minutes to prepare for them so you could say it went well. Not much else exciting happend though that day. The rest of the week was pretty good. We got like 4 appointments from tracting for this week were in now and so im excited for those. Our first one is tonight at 6 so we will see how they go. We started teaching Ryan and Ian who both know the bible very well so its difficult to teach them because they have scriptures for everything we have to say. There last question they had was why Jacob said adiue or however you spell it in the end of his book. They said that native americans didnt know french... I had no idea what to say, how am I supposed to know that. There wasnt a class at the MTC that covered why people say the things they say in the Book of Mormon so we will have to figure something out. Also I almost got attacked by a guy for the first time this week. I started walking up his driveway to say hi and he started yelling NOT INTERESTED and so i backed up saying ok... He than continued to yell that when he says that to hurry off his driveway, so me being me said back YES SIR! He didnt appreciate that form of sarcasm and came after me hahaha. Good thing he was like 73 though or i would have been done for. We baptized an 8 year old girl on Saturday from a less active family. It was good. Thats about all there was exciting this week. Im learning to really like tracting. We try out a bunch of new approaches to get in their houses. We have asked if we can help with their yard work if they are outside, complimented them, and have even asked if we could use their bathroom. haha We asked one man working in a yard if we could help him pull weeds. He said no, but set up an appointment for us to come back. When we went back the home owner said that was just their gardener who only comes once a month. The gardener was just playing us. haha oh well. Our baptism for Cece is still a go this next saturday at 430 so that will be good. Ill probably be a witness or something we will see. We are hoping to teach some other samoans we have met. They are way nice but very sarcastic. When its time to get serious they have a hard time being serious. The pictures i sent are of me that i took and of Elder Tiakia and I burning his 6 month tie last night which was kind of fun. So ya. It was good to talk to you all yesterday and i love you all a ton. Keep doing what your doing.
Love Elder Allen
Monday, May 2, 2011
MAY 2, 2011
Sounds like everything there is going awesome. Happy birthday merc. Everything is going good here. Its a nice 75 degrees today, partly cloudy with a slight breeze. Very good. Well this last week some good and bad happend. The car guy from the mission office called and im the new driver thank goodness. Its so fun being able to drive again, plus i dont feel like im always going to die now. Part of being alowed to drive though is you have to get sunglasses so the ZL's took me to the sunglass hut in the mall. So i was thinking when i got there ok ill buy some cool ones not to expensive, but no its a huge deal apparently. Yes tylers baptisimal date is off. We still teach him but he cant get baptized when he isnt willing to live the law of chastity and word of wisdom. They dont work like that. Cece is still on though and passed her baptisimal interview. She is getting baptized on the 14th. That will be fun. Mom ask grandma to email me those talks she gave about the holy ghost and baptism in case i have to give one. I will edit it but it would for sure help. Elder Davies the zl who is my way good friend now, wrote like 4 girls back home i know and it was so funny. Im anxious to see what happens and if they will write back. He hasnt gotten a letter for like 4 months so he is so excited. Today were going to Lahaina, Im not sure if thats how you spell it but it will be fun. Its a little town on the other side of the island. Look it up on google i hear its way cool. Yesterday i was supposed to teach in elders qorum ( dont know how to spell that either) but someone else stood up and taught a totally different lesson so i wasnt to bummed about that. It was weird though. The ward here is so much different than back home. Everyone is so much nicer and friendly and i dont know you just have to experience it for yourself to see what its like. On saturday we did a service project called mormon helping hands. We went to Kula Elementary and just did tons of yard work and stuff. My comp just stood around though. Not wanting to get dirty. It felt good to do some manual labor though again. I got some gloves and stuff and just worked and it helped clear my mind and everything so i enjoyed it. This month we are going to fly to the Big Island. Its called mission tour and its just the guys from maui going so it will be way fun. Chris Robbins is on that island and so is elder moritz so im stoked to see them again. I miss all the mtc guys. and ya its me elder tiakia and the zls. it will be way fun. Well there isnt much else exciting that happend this week. Sorry no cool stories. This is week 5 of the transfer so transfer calls are the sunday after mothers day and transfers are on that wednesday so we will see what happens. Well everything here is going good. One day at a time i guess. Some guy in our zone just went home. Just more motivation to do what needs to be done. I look at all the people that i have seen fail at missions or other things in life and honestly it drives me more than anything else. Thanks for everything and if you want anything else let me know. The tongans make some way cool stuff. I cant believe this is already almost over. Thank goodness. Just kidding. Well write if you need anything else from here. Love you all
Elder Allen
Elder Allen
Monday, April 25, 2011
April 25, 2011
Hey guys,
Ya this last week was good also. Not as exciting as last week but still fun. Thanks so much for the easter stuff. I waited until sunday morning to open it and so it was even better except we were having a mission fast for Vision 100 so i couldnt eat anything until that night. It was awesome though. We had stake conference on easter so all the wards in Maui came to the center of the island and it was all about missionary work so it was cool because im doing it. We went to the stake presidents house for dinner and it was way good. We had ham and mashed potatoes which all tongans hate but they make them for us because they think we are all obsessed with them. Its funny. Vision 100 will happen for sure. On saturday we taught another girl named CeCe.Her older brother is a member and got baptized a year ago named foley. He is awesome. Cece is 23 and added you on facebook haha so accept it. I think it says cj but anyway the missionaries have been teaching her for 7 months and they thought she was going no where but we had the coolest experience where we had all of us kneel down after a lesson and had her pray specifically to know if baptism was right for her, she paused after praying for like 5 minutes and we just sat in silence but she said she didnt know so i said, lets do it again and i promise god will answer so we prayed again and she finished and looked up after 5 more minutes of silence with a huge smile on her face and said she knew. I cant describe truly what it was like but she is getting baptized also on may 7. its amazing how much specific prayer can work. On tuesday after our district meeting we got in a car accident because my companions driving gets worse and worse every day. Im hoping he cant drive anymore and i get to do it from now on but it was so funny. The car wasnt damaged but he was looking at a girl in a bikini on the right and looked forward and a truck was stopped in front of us and nailed him hahahahaha. It was so funny. Journal entry for sure. Im not sure how the car wasnt destroyed though. Divine intervention i guess. Im glad you liked the maui built stuff. That store here is so sweet but im sorry i couldnt get you guys shirts. I dont know how to do stuff like that. My comp is the dark haired balding guy in that picture. THere have been tons of people that have sent you pictures. Did you get the one of us doing service? Tyler is still going strong. He gets doubts about it but is still willing so thats good. We were at walmart on Tuesday after the car crash and all these people from utah that just got off the cruise ship were there and were giving us tons of money. Tim is loving the mtc and is nervous about leaving tomorrow but he will be fine. you should talk to his mom or something. We tracted to a Jehovhas Witness house and since i do all the talking it was just me and these two crazy women talking. She came out yelling that she asked our leader to have us stay away from her house so i said you talked to our prophet? that must have been awesome for you to speak to someone so in tune with god and she freaked out and i couldnt help but laugh haha. SHe just wanted to argue on how were wrong and the JW's are right. Very interesting.
This morning we got up at 4 am to go watch the sunrise at the top of Haleakala Crater which was awesome, we were at like 9000 feet and i was frozen but it was cool. Its crazy because you can see the island were on, the big island like 40 miles away and a few other things but mostly water so you can see the curvature of the earth as the sun comes over the horizen. It way cool and so is the volcano we were on. The ZL's picked up elder siakia and i and we drove in the dark for like an hour. It was awesome but im dead tired. they called at like 1030 last night to see if we wanted to go. Its cool because they didnt invite anyone else so its way more fun. Well thanks for everything, keep praying for vision 100 it is for sure working i am a witness of it. Love you all
Elder Allen
Monday, April 18, 2011
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