February 10, 2019

Dear Farmington Whanau,

Elder Allart here, my comp has been sicker than a dog!! We had to be quarantined this last 2 weeks and we finally got realesed just today to go out and visit people. We were told he just has flea bites on steroids. Like little jelly beans on his skin. We had to move closer to the mission home too. But that has been us the whole week. Literally nothing. Ofa atu

Elder Allart

January 28, 2019

Dear Whanau, 

Holy Moly Transfers have come and gone and I found out what happened and I am not gonna lie it totally came out of left field. So President called and Elder Lokani and I were talking with him and he said the I am training again. and we are opening a area in Hamilton called Pukete and I honestly have never been here before. 

So after I said my goodbyes and got on the bus, I finally met my companion and I found out who I am training. I am training the only Missionary in our mission from Japan.He is the man, but very quiet and very shy. WE have been living off of Google translate since we have been here, and I am not gonna lie I am really missing Elder Lokani, but we are gonna kill this area. Already since we have been here we have found heaps of new people and this area is soo prepared and white ready to harvest. It is good, we will just really have to work hard though. 

On our first day I had that infection in my leg from the begging of my mission came back and I ended up having to go back to the hospital to get on another course of Anitbiotics. The doctor was not there till 11:30 so we were there for ages. 

We also had church yesterday and we were able to find heaps more about the area.

Thanks for all of the love and prayers, stay safe back home.

Elder Allart

November 11, 2018

Dear Farmington whanau, 

Well, this week has been awesome! Elder Lokani went and did some tracting and we found a new family to teach their names are Evan and Melissa. We also took Elder Lokani out to his first NZ beach. It was mean. We also had our zone conference it was way good. Our mission president said that we have not smart phones but smart missionaries using phones. We also went and celebrated my year mark last week which honestly makes me so sad that I have already done 1 year here, but I am really glad that I know I have done some amazing things. I also am glad that I am living with absolutely zero regrets. I can tell how much personally I have grown also as of from when I left you all. Life is great though. 

New Zealand is still one of the greatest places on earth. We were out visiting a bro this week that we found and holy moly I have met some crazy people but wow this guy we met was a Indian fella. We went up to his house and knocked on the door, no one was home but we heard music coming from the Garage so we went there. First stepping in this guy hard pornography all over his walls and we were actually about to walk away when  he asked us to come inside and sit down and talk to him. As we were talking, beer and cigarette in hand,  he told us that we should be so happy because we just met the "man". He then continued to tell us that he was god. It was crazy he said you remember when Jesus parted the Artic? We said that we remember some one parting water (moses and the red sea) and he continued to tell us that it was him. We just testified to him that he can be happy, and that he needs to read the book of Mormon,  because we know that he will be happier. So after we gave it to him we got up and left. But he really was pretty interesting. Another funny story from the mission Haha. 

Arohanui

Ofa atu, 

Elder Allart

November 4, 2018

Dear Farmington Whanau, 

Elder Allart here, so last week was really hectic. We had a Elder get into some trouble with his companion. So, as their District leader, I got a phone call from the Assistants and they told me that one of the Elders was over reacted during their weekly planning and they got into a little argument  and the elder called our mission President, which is something you only do in emergencies, over a little thing. So they both ended up coming to me and we had to do a mini exchange. 

It was wild. Later though, we had Transfers. So, this time Elder Johnson is getting shifted to one of the coolest areas in the mission, Gisbourne. For me I  am getting to train, again. I was so happy and excited because my son or trainee is not from America or Canada. He is from Papa new Guinea.  He is amazing! I was honestly  humbled so much when I came and picked him up, he only had one small Suit case. He has almost nothing, and he comes from a country where they have heaps of Poverty. He is extremely Humble. His name is Elder Lokani and when we do missionary work, it is crazy how much he trusts me and how great his English already is. We visit everyone and he hasn't  seen all of these things that I just take for granted all the time. 

On Sunday, I had to show him how the microwave works. He said that back home, they use Umbrellas to spear fish. It was amazing, in my interview with President Cummings, he talked with me about Elder Lokani. He said that where he comes from, he had nothing and he told me that he really trusts me to train Elder Lokani because when he goes home, he will be the future of the church in PNG. He already knows that when he goes home he will be a branch President  because the church is so new in PNG. He said that he really had to think about who he could really trust in this mission  to take care of Elder Lokani and he said that he felt that I would do the job. I honestly felt so honored  to be able to help out President with this and told him that you can trust me I will take care of him. When he first came in he did not have a winter coat, so we went and got him one from the missionaries up here in the zone, everyone pitched in. I gave him two of my sweaters and our Zl gave him 3 other coats to choose from. I just love how much we as missionaries take care of each other and how we are like a Family. 

The other day I was thinking, I have little bits of words and phrases in about 23 languages on my mission, a lot of them this last week from a south African Family  in the ward. But there is different phrases in each language that there is in no way English could ever put it more perfectly.  In Samoan, the word for our brotherhood is Uso moasa uma, or "brothers every day"kind of. We really do take care of each other. I learned a little bit of the click language this week or Torsah (click your tongue on the T and you do it with the roof of your mouth) it is insanely cool I learned some Swahili and Malagasi and Zulu this week Haha it is insane how many languages are out there in the world today. 

Some really good news this week is that we finally got the Whetu family set for Baptism on December 1. We are also trying to hit this area hard this transfer and to go away from focusing on LA so much to just actually finding more people through tracting. We also got to go to a baby blessing this week and I tried to practice my Tongan with a lady from the Tongan family of the baby. Holy moly they speak speak so fast!! I got talking with her about little small talk and eventually it just came to the point in the conversation that I would just say io or e-o which means yes and Tongan and I would just laugh if I didn't understand her Haha. I still have heaps to learn a phrase for you guys is Tau Alo or let's go. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY DAD who finally turned 25 and my mate Nick Bell and Ed Baker who just started their mission! 

Ofa atu 

Elder Allart

October 10, 2018

Dear Farmington Whanau!

Well, this is my last week with Elder Johnson we think, eveything is good here though. We are really giving it everyhting we have this transfer and We were able to set the Whetu family for baptism which was amazing! We also are teaching this one guy named Steve Parkinson, and man it was a week. 

As we have been talking one thing that we lewarned is that Steve is a massive as fisherman. like HUGE. We were talking and he said that he wanted to take us out Salt water fishing off the beach with either two types of ways, the first one is called a surf caster and you cast the line out past the wave break and fish for massive Kawai, but apparently they are power houses. 

The second way is called, get this, Kite fishing. What you do, is you hook 1 kilometer of line to a kite and sent the kite out  over the water and attach like 20 hooks on the whole thing and see what you get, for us, we went Kite fishing because Elder Johnson will probably leave next thursday we went last week. It was great, the only problem was that the wind was blowing the wrong way so we ended up having to call it and now we will have to do it next week, but still it was awesome! 

After, We went back to his house and had a Kai, one of his family members showed up and started talking and had this suprised as look on his face. Later the next day, we found out that he was his uncle, and he was talking to us about what we did going fishing with him, and he told us that no one has ever gotten this close to him on talking about the gospel and bring him back to church. not even his close family. We were shocked and we both just were blown away that this guy basically called us miracle workers, but man I must say, I am so humbled to be in this part of the Lords vineyard. I love this work soooooooooo much and i never want to come home sorry haha.

Elder Allart

October 1, 2018

Kia ora Farmington Whanau,

I did the impossible this week, I finished Jesus the christ, a 793 page book, in two weeks. Dude you have to read it. It has so much knowledge in that book it is not even funny. I love this place though. So this week I actually had to send my trainer home to  the air port! It was sad, but he had to go. I love ELder Olctott, he Taught me many amazing things for the mission and the rest of my life. We did have one unfourtunate thing though, While I was with him I actually went to go get some star fish for when he  goes home and I got a twelve fingered star fish, at the expense of my pants, It can be fixed, but the rip went all the way up the seam, it was crack up as, most star fish have 10 fingers, but the one my poants got done on had 12 fingers, in hunting terms, it  was a "toad" haha. As I was runing away, I got the water literally at my heels. It was epic. Another thing that we did this week is that some of the ELders iin the district had to cast a devil out of a home so we had to go help them, wasn't anything crazy  though, we just blessed the home. This past week we also lot the car, the sisters scratched it before us so now we have to get it serviced for a week, it will be wayy rough though because we coveer heaps of farm towns, like 10 cities, it is a huge area. While going though we managed to set up a dinner appiontment next thursday and we will hopefully start teaching a Part member family, the Fatais'. The are a tongan family and the helped me out with my first raw kena. Next we rode bike to a place way out of the way to 222 waiuku road at 6 at night to in vite the Fahina family to church. once we saw them the actually ended up telling us they could not come. I also was able to find out that they are feeding their rooster KFC. Freaking crazies. We are also teaching a family out of the opposite side of town.

Elder Allart!  

Happy 4th of July!