Hey guys,
>>>>
>>>> Yeah i forgot to bring my camera, im on exchange with Elder Davies so
>>>> i forgot to bring it. So sorry, ill send some friday. Everything there
>>>> sounds like its been going good. Kinda makes me trunkie but its all
>>>> good. Only one more summer and im home. Thats weird about the
>>>> chickens, You should beat the other ones and they will stop. You gotta
>>>> watch people around here raise chickens and you would learn a lot, I
>>>> bet merc is doing way good though.
>>>>
>>>> So ya this week was pretty good. Last sunday we talked to bishop about
>>>> this guy who wanted to commit suicide and needed to hear the gospel so
>>>> we were invited to dinner with bishop so last p day we went there and
>>>> taught him a way good lesson and committed him to baptism that night
>>>> so we have another for august 6th. It was way cool. his name is Danny
>>>> Freeman and he is from cedar city utah. Thats weird but cool. He came
>>>> to church yesterday and bore his testimony on prayer and reading, with
>>>> his ear rings out and wearing a suit. Its the fastest conversion ever
>>>> haha.
>>>>
>>>> This week flew by because of things like that, I went on exchange with
>>>> the Ap's that i became way good friends with one more time before they
>>>> are relased this last transfer. They go home with Elder Davies so that
>>>> will be deppressing. We also had president interviews on thursday
>>>> which are always fun. He came up to pulehu with us 4 and was with us
>>>> for like 3 hours, him and sister dalton. I love them both a lot.
>>>>
>>>> Oh by the way President Wunder, our stake president that i love and
>>>> talk to all the time is coming to bountiful and wants to meet you guys
>>>> so im going to give him your number so it wont be this week but the
>>>> week after this one they will be there and so answer to any hawaiian
>>>> number that calls you. They are so awesome and its cool they want to
>>>> visit you. Im excited for that.
>>>>
>>>> Oh and this weekend we had a mini missionary come with us so that was
>>>> fun. He is deciding if he wants to go on a mission so he was set apart
>>>> and everything and was with us for 3 days. We went on exchange with
>>>> the new missionary and the mini. I taught the plan of salvation by my self
>>>> which was actually pretty good haha. That was fun though. So ya i cant
>>>> believe its p day again already.
>>>>
 Nothin else cool really happend this week. Just the usual. Everything
 is good here and were doing awesome. Im gonna send that package home
this friday so watch for it next week. Love you all though
 Love Elder Allen

Hey everyone,

Everything there sounds like its going good. It all sounds fun and i
wish i could be there but its weird that i will only miss one more
summer and im home for the next. Mission time is so weird man. I just
got the package. Thanks so much for everything those books help me out
so much and im excited to start on a marvelous work and a wonder. Tell
becky and her family thanks for the package and its awesome. You could
say that i was making everyone jealous here big time haha.

So ya this last week was good. Lots of weird things happend actually.
Ill just share a few of them i guess. When i get home we can have
story time every night because i am getting a lot of them now haha. So
the weirdest one was on thursday. Elder Pincock and i were on exchange
in my area and were just visiting some potential investagators, i
remebered that we had tracted into a guy in Pukalani though that
invited us back to learn more about Joe Smith as he called him. So i
was excited to go teach this guy whats up and so we got there, got out
of the car and i was half way up his stairs when he just came out
yelling and swearing and saying that we scared his mom so we needed to
leave. This happens like everyday though so i wasnt worried about it
and turned around and said see ya man and then the next thing i knew i
was flying down the stairs because he just punched me in the back of
the head. So i was way confused and didnt know what was going on but i
saw pincock chasing him back up the stairs going after him so i
figured he went after him to so i went up to get him and we were
running back to the car and he came flying down and spit in pincocks
face and ran off. He was crazy you could say and we could have
destroyed him but i didnt want to get Emergency transferred and for a
second i felt as jesus did so thats a cool feeling. But ya im ok that
guy was weak. YOu all know how tough i am haha.

THe next weird thing that happened was we were helping a less active
lady in the ward with her yard because her husband just died and she
invited us to the funeral which was at her house. So when she said
that i just assumed that we would attend it but when we got there we
were shocked to find out that we were basically running it and had to
talk the whole time so yes i have now been in charge of leading a
funeral and even gave the closing remarks. That was fun haha. They had
a bagpiper and the national guard come and they all waited for me to
turn the time over to them. It was the weirdest thing ever. Im glad
its over for sure.
 
Thats about all that happened this last week. Thanks for everything
though you guys are the best. Time is going quick. I cant believe it.
Keep up the good work and let me know if you need anything.


Love you

Elder ALlen

Hey everyone,

Yeah things here are good. We got a lot of work done this week and
taught a lot of people actually. No one really is close to baptism but
its all going good. The Buells are still on for August 6th. Vick (the
dad) actually called me yesterday to see if he could speak at his own
baptism so thats sick. I was very happy when he called. He even bought
a white shirt and tie and wore it to church. It really is amazing to
see people start changing.

My comp is good haha. We get along pretty good and he usually just
vents to me so i feel like im a girl sometimes but if he needs it i
guess i will listen. Its all good. His name is Elder Savage from
Vegas. He is cool just different. He loves star wars and i can see how
someone would want to beat him up but it still shouldnt have happend.
His last comp wasnt sent home because actually Elder Savage started it
haha so yeah my comp is crazy. Oh well i have learned more about my
patriarticle blessing in the last two weeks than i have the whole time
i have had it so thats good.

The other new missionary is doing good. I took him on exchange this
last week and he told me like his whole life. He had his aunt and
uncle die the last week he was in the MTC and his best friend died
last saturday. Thats gotta suck so we just stayed busy and i helped
him get through his fear of tracting, He was terrified. He would shake
at the doors talking to people so i helped him with that because
pincock isnt that much better haha and thats all i feel like i can do
so ya it was good to go with him. He is a cool guy just under a lot of
stress. Total redneck and i like him.

Yeah i remember chase norton. Thats way cool that he did his talk on
that i wish i could have heard it. He is way cool.

Thats awesome about derek, Tell him good work and to keep pressing
forward. Life only gets better haha.

The jeep also sounds sweet. You guys keep saying your going to send me
pics but i never see any, Will you commit to me to send me some
pictures for heavens sakes?

By the way those books you sent are amazing and i love them. I decided
though that i dont need the old testament ones but if you could get me
the book of mormon ones, D&C, Peal of great price, and send me the
isiah one we had i would be in heaven. Just take money out of my
account and go buy them all. I NEED THEM. Oh and see if they have the
ammon tie bar. Elder Katanuma has it and its so sweet so yeah. Thanks
for the last ones though they are cool. No one has the Angel moroni so
its coveted here you could say.

4th of july was awesome we had Brother Akeo come to Pulehu and grill
for us and then the Buells came and 10 missionaries and we had a
barbeque and played football and stuff, and then all the missionaries
slept at our house. I had to share a bed with elder davies which
sucked but i slept suprisingly well. IT was way fun to get everyone
together like that and just relax. Thats why i didnt send letters so
sorry guys.

This week tracting was hilarious, Elder Davies and i went on exchanges
and had a dog chase us through the neighboor hood, had some guy yell
at us and almost shoot us with a staple gun, had another guy yell that
he didnt want to wear my underwear, which i responded i dont want to
give my underwear to you i need them to him. It was the funniest week
ever tracting. We also caught a guy doing drugs who almost killed us.
Great fun haha.

Finally the worst story of the week, Which im not sure if you should
put in the blog or not. Im actually debating sending this home even
but i will because i have never been so scared in my life. So im not
sure if you guys have heared about the like spiritual things that
missionaries go through on there missions, not like good spiritual
things but bad evil things. I had heared them but i never believed it
until friday night. In fact we were even warned multiple times by
president and other missionaries that it happens a lot but i was like
whatever. Apparently hawaii is very spirtual and i happens here more
than most missions so thats so wonderful. But anyway on thursday night
Elder davies came and slept over for our exchange the next day and
savage went to wiluku. We woke up the next morning and davies told me
how aful he slept and he kept hearing sprinklers hitting the house and
he was sweating all night long and i was just like that sucks dude
sorry and didnt think of it. So that night after he went back downt to
town i went to see if we had sprinklers hitting the house but we dont
even have sprinklers in the yard. Hawaii doesnt have them because of
the rain we get so i was like what a weirdo haha. K thats the lead
into the next part. SO we went to bed again and none of us could sleep
so we just talked for a while until i drifted off and i woke up at
like 3 am to my companion screaming and so did elder workman the new
one, so i was tripping out about what was happening. but he just layed
back down so i layed down to but 5 minutes later he sat up again and
started talking and clicking his toungue and stuff and i was freaking
out. he would like get up on his knees and yell and stuff click and
then every ten minutes would lay back down until he did it agian so
needless to say none of slept because we were all terrified. It didnt
feel right and i couldnt wake him up so we just watched for 3 hours as
he did that all night, so the next morning we called president and
told him like he said and he told us what we needed to do so we
rededicated our pad, the chapel and the grounds its on, then gave
savage a blessing and cleaned our place like crazy and its been fine
since but its like the 7th time it has happend where we live
apparently so im still scared but whatever. Gotta trust in the
priesthood elder davies told me haha

So ya i dont mean to scare you guys but thats how my week was haha.
Tell dad to dedicate the house if it hasnt been done. It was amazing
to feel the difference when i blessed it and dedicated it to the lord
again. It was night and day difference.

Ya i love you all. Dont be scared of that part just know it for sure
does happen haha. Keep up the good work
Love you

Elder Allen

Kole and the Maui Zone at Zone Conference

Cooking pig underground with Fijians!

Hey everyone,

So this last week has been crazy. It was really slow and that kinda sucks. Everyone is gone or just not wanting to hear from us so it was a discouraging week. We did have some highlights though that made it more fun. The Buelles are still not back from vegas. Only Vick the dad is so im not sure where the rest of them are. We will go check tonight but as of yesterday they werent home yet so i hope the baptism is still on. We will see.

So yeah i forgot to mention the volleyball tournament this last week. The stake had a huge one and all the wards were invited. Even the ward from Mololai came over on the ferri so it was huge. They had the tongan wards and the Palangi wards and everything. So we went the first night, it was thursday thinking it was just going to be a joke for fun thing and its like dead serious. There were like 500 people there all cheering and yelling and watching the teams play haha. It was for sure the biggest stage i have ever played anything on but it was way fun. We made it to the finals but lost to the Tongan Kahului team. Tongans are way good at volleyball apparently.

So yeah the fun night we had this last week was in haiku at that guys house named chief. He is the other fijian. I dont know if you guys have heard anything about it but there are all these canoe things going from fiji to new zealand all the way to here and from here to the main land. Its like a huge journey and they wont even be back in fiji until next june. The website is www.pacificvoyages.org so look it up i hear its cool. But anyway they made it to maui on like tuesday night so Chief called and invited us to his house because he was having them all come over for a party. So we went and it was way cool. They cooked the pig and chickens underground in the ulu, and they sang fijian songs for ever and it was just some huge cultural party with like 55 fijians. And we got taught a lesson by a fijian pastor which was weird but interesting. It was way cool though. I will send pics home of it all but i loved it. Those guys are crazy. I would never row a canoe across that much water. But whatever Missions are way easier than that haha

Oh one more cool experience. Apparently Oprah has a house in my area and i found out where it was and tried to go tract to it but got stopped by some lady driving up it who said she is jehovhas witness so i didnt see Oprah. But a member in our ward says she wont be here until july so ill go try again then. Look up her house i was like 500 yards from it. Type in like Oprahs house in Kula Maui. ITs a cool house and im probably going to baptize her haha.

Ya not much else happend. We got our transfer calls last night which are way stressful and i hate them but im still gonna be here for at least 6 more weeks. Elder Davies said he is keeping me here until he goes home so if thats the case i will be here for 3 more months, Im ok with that i guess. I will just be easy going even if that doesnt happen.

Everything home sounds good and i wanna see pics of the chicken coop and of the cars dad. Send them to me, it takes like 3 minutes haha.

K well i love you all. Thanks for everything

Aloha

Elder allen

JUNE 20, 2011

Hey guys.

 Yeah things here are good. This last week was slow. Once summer hits everyone just seems to have left. Its kinda weird everything is way slow and relaxed. it kinda sucks actually. Elder Tiakia said thats why Oahu is better because its not like the true island life so for missionary work its better. I wouldnt know though and apparently the other islands are worse than this so who knows.....

We have a new investagator though who is in a wheelchair, im not quite sure on how to baptize her but i guess if she makes it that far we will figure something out. Her name is Ellen and we taught her the restoration and she believed everything we said but she doesnt want to leave her church because she likes the people in it. Confusing but yeah she said that. We went tracting a bunch and i went on exchange with Elder Tiakia twice this week so my comp could go do a baptisimal interview with the other missionaries. We ate at this tongan guys house on saturday night and it was way good corn beef and rice and all this stuff called lou pulu but it made me super sick. I was up all night throwing up. I think it was because of how greasy it all was and it was like 7 gallons of oil sitting in my stomach. Kinda gross but what can you do. We went and visited That guy in the hospital again and he wanted another blessing so i gave him one. I used to be terrified of them but we give like 2 a week now so i like them. This lady in our ward is pregnant and she called for a blessing also last week. I enjoy them but wonder why the fathers or husbands dont give them. Its weird. They will stand in a circle with us but wont do the blessing. I dont understand that.

I also forgot to tell you guys that at zone conference they gave out prizes for things like the cleanest pads, cleanest cars, blah blah blah and we won cleanest car and got some cool certificate and some armour all wipes. I thought you would be proud of that one dad.

Fathers day was fun, Brother Kapisi the Samoan one who is our ward mission leader came to Pulehu and grilled us and his family chicken and steak and stuff so it was way fun. We just sat out there and played the Uke for a while and sang and ate. Plus we got invited to a fijian party in Haiku. Its probably the coolest place i have been so far. ITs a black beach with weird sand and he is a professional spear fisherman named chief. His house is like on the beach in the wilderness by no one else. Its so sweet. ITs one of foleys friends and i hope we can teach him soon so ya it was a fun party. Fijians are funny.

Oh and yeah the buells are in vegas. Pray they dont do anything that that place has to offer except rollar coasters.

Thats about all that happend this week for me. Have fun at efy and everything. Tell dad to email me pics of the car cuz i still havent seen them. love you all

ELder Allen

Monday June 13 2011

Ward Camp out!

Kole at Kona Temple

P-Day!

Hey Guys,

Yeah this last week was pretty busy. Im pretty beat haha. Sounds like everything in Colorado went well. Im glad for that. When I would be driving to appointments i was kinda wishing i was there but its all good no worries. I should probably be here i guess haha. Thats good about the reception and the farewell and everything. I bet it was fun. Thats weird that Rob and i spoke in church on the same day. What are the chances of that. My talk went way good actually. I wrote it about 1 hour  before i gave it and felt way better about it than even my farewell. I had to talk for like 20 minutes but it was way easier than i thought it would be. Speaking is easy i have decided. I talked on righteous judgements. Ill send you a copy in case you need to speak on it haha.

This last week went way good actually. The Buells have a date for July 3rd and they are super solid. No chance they will back out. They are more motivated than sometimes i feel i think. No one else is even as close as them so its gonna suck when were done with them haha.

We dropped ian and ryan. They were not the "elect at the moment" haha. Thats what we say when they go nowhere so ya im not worried about them.

So we had a cool story with the Buells, The dad was having issues believing everything we were telling him and he wanted proof from the bible. So we have this guy in our ward that lived in like the middle east and stuff who knows the bible like crazy and we took him to a lesson with vick. He basically taught the whole thing and we left thinking it went good. The next day he woke up and said everything we were teaching was true and they needed to baptized so ya thats cool. Definite miracle there.

Also this last week we had Zone Conference which was way fun. I can see why everyone likes them. It was an all day thing and we were there with president and his wife and everyone so it was cool. President volunteered me to lead the music but i had no idea how so sister dalton just guided my hand all the way through called to serve haha and now president calls me the " Mormon Tabernacle Quoir" Chorister. Its funny. Gay reputation but i guess ill take it. We got to know each other way better because he sat by me at lunch and he has some awesome cars. Ferrarris and Bentlys. He is so loaded so we will go visit his garage one day dad haha.

On thursday i went on exchanges again with the ZL's. Elder Davies is like my best friend in the mission i would say. You gotta go to his homecoming in september and talk to him. Probably the best missionary i have ever taught with. He is awesome so that was a ton of fun. Im glad i got to go do that. So ya thats all that happened this last week. It was fun. I enjoyed it a lot. Sorry no new pics but yeah thats about all.

Love you all and im glad you had fun in colorado. Ill talk to you guys soon

 Love elder allen

Hey everyone,

Yeah im doing good how is everything there? Has the craziness settled a bit since the wedding? It sounded like fun. My mouth is good. It will be better any day now. Dont worry about it im fine.

Flying to big island was so fun. The airport is outside so you get off and walk down stairs on the run way just like the old days. The whole thing is outside just like 8 tiki huts so its weird and very small but its so cool. Thats the island with the active volcano on it so you can see it smoking and there are the rocks that are dried lava everywhere. You can see right where it ran down the huge mountain. Its a super cool place. So ya i already told you we missed our plane so we got on the next one and had to be picked up by the AP's at the airport which was nerve racking but i became way good friends with two of them and actually they flew to maui on wednesday to go on splits with me because we became good enough friends. That was way cool and im glad i got to do that. So anyway after the aps got us we drove to the Kona Temple which is right next to the stake center there. Its a really small temple but beautiful. Unlike any temple i have ever seen. I have pics but ill send them next week. We took pictures in front and then went in to hear elder pearson talk to us. That was good, it was one of the most like motivating influetial talks i have ever been given. It was way good, It also went all day so we didnt even get home until like 9 that night but president bought the entire maui zone burgers at burger king so it was worth it. He is a way cool guy. So ya we didnt go in the temple but i was at it. Very awesome experience.

Everyone were teaching is going good. They wont come to church ever but they are progressing with building testimonies. Were going to try some new approaches this week with Ian and ryan and if they are butt heads about it then were dropping them. Last week was a rough lesson so ya were not sure what to do with them. We will figure it out though. That lady patricia i told you about fell and broke her arm so she couldnt come to church but she will be baptized in june. Same with that family i told you about so there is 4 baptisms that will be done this month. Thats good.

We hit vision 100 today actually. President called and we got it so thanks for all the praying and everything you guys did to help us achieve that. We couldnt have done it with out all of your help. Now were going on to june so we gotta keep the faith that we will reach it again.

I miss home less and less each day. I mean i still miss it but its not constantly on my mind anymore. Im not sure if thats good or bad but i think its good.....

Today were going to a tongan memmorial day party at the lahaina beach park. That will be way fun because were all going, including foley. He is just like a huge fijian older missionary who i love haha.

Well have fun in colorado this next week. Drive and fly safe and hopefully you can email me from there. Let me know how everything is. Thanks for all you guys do and ill send pics next week. Love you tons