Peter sent my kids a few coins, here are the front and back views!
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Letter: recieved Dec.15th, 2009
A lot of this is stuff he has put in his e-mails, but here goes!
Hey Family!
Happy Thanksgiving! Probably with how long the mail takes it will almost be Merry Christmas!, haha. How are you guys? I just got your letter today with the memory card in it. Thank You so much for taking care of tat for me. I hope you liked them. I was looking at some of them today and it seems like forever ago that I took them. Anyway thank you for taking care of that for me. hopefully within the next few months I'll have another one for you.
I did not know that Mandi was pregnant! That's so cool. There are going to be so many many little babies crawling around by time I get home. That's cool that you are helping out with massage and all. Do you think I can reserve a 10 minute massage for when I get home? I'm definitely going to need one!
Everything here is going awesome! I'm still in Ma On Shan (written before the moves), my baby area. I'm in my 4th moves or transfers and almost in my 5th. Time flies so fast. My comp right now is Elder Wortham. He's awesome! We've been together for almost 2 moves now. We're pretty sure that I will probably be moving this next one though, but we will see.
We haven't been able to get ahold of our investigator Mike for about a week, but we've been having some success with a couple of our new investigators, Jessica and Siu Lo. Jessica is 12 years old and a little shy, but really awesome. She really likes treats so we will usually make cookies or cake or something with her. Her mom and dad are members, but went inactive before Jessica was born and just recently started coming back to church. Siu Lo is a 20 year old from mainland China. She is so awesome though. She understands everything we teach her and reads the Book of Mormon almost everyday! It's pretty different that once they took sister missionaries out of our area all our investigators turned into females. At first it was awkward, but now I think they are so much easier. They actually understand and are way more humble then most guys in Hong Kong.
Today for Thanksgiving we went with the entire mission to do service. It was so cool seeing everyone there. I totally rebuilt a fence. I'm pretty proud of myself!! After we had a Thanksgiving Luch. We had mashed potatoes, gravy, turkey, stovetop, cranberry sauce and to top it off.... Pumpkin Pie!! You can't get any of these things in Hong Kong. We were so Happy! After we played rugby. It was way fun. A lot of people here play rugby, because of the British influence. American Football doesn't exist out here. You should tell Ki if he doesn't like football he should try out for Rugby. I think he would like it.
I love and miss you guys so much. You are all amazing! Your support helps so much, seriously! I'm so excited for Ki, Kelten and Knightin to all get their calls ti the China Hong Kong Mission! Haha. Anything could happen. I'll see you all in the next life.
Love,
Elder Uncle McAlllister
He also wrote little notes to each of the kids, but I won't bore you with those!!
E-mail: Dec. 17th, 2009
This Week in West Point:
Hey Family! How are you all doing? How is Christmas going so far? I miss the snow so bad. haha. I'm loving West Point!! This last week was amazing! I can't believe how much i have in my area. The IFC building (Tallest building in hong kong, for now at least) is in my area. the thing i don't like though is that like seriously half the people here are white. I don't like white people any more. haha there just really rich and rude. there are a lot of people from mainland here too so they don't even speek cantonese so i just turn them over to my comp that speaks a little mandarin. it's deffinatly different then Ma On Shan. I love it though. our investigators and members are amazing. One of our investigators, Candy, is the most humble person i've met. We were just at a lesson last night with a recent convert and her husband apperently is an amazing cook so they invited us to there house for christmas dinner. I love this ward so much.My Companion Elder Chan is amazing. i feel bad for him though because he has to put up with my slow cantonese. he's helped me so much this last week. it was just us two living in the appartment so i've been talking straight chinese this last week. i love elder chan though. he's an amazing missionary and an amazing teacher. I don't even feel like a senior comp with him. Half the time i just follow his lead. haha the only time that i feel like a senior comp is at the end of the week and elder chan teases me because i have to do the numbers and not him. hahathis morning we moved all our stuff down the street to the new appartment. i hate moving in hong kong! haha we live with the aberdeen elders now.Well i gotta go family but i love you all so much. I'll email you next week on christmas eve. i love you all and have an amazing week.
Love Elder McAllister
Hey Family! How are you all doing? How is Christmas going so far? I miss the snow so bad. haha. I'm loving West Point!! This last week was amazing! I can't believe how much i have in my area. The IFC building (Tallest building in hong kong, for now at least) is in my area. the thing i don't like though is that like seriously half the people here are white. I don't like white people any more. haha there just really rich and rude. there are a lot of people from mainland here too so they don't even speek cantonese so i just turn them over to my comp that speaks a little mandarin. it's deffinatly different then Ma On Shan. I love it though. our investigators and members are amazing. One of our investigators, Candy, is the most humble person i've met. We were just at a lesson last night with a recent convert and her husband apperently is an amazing cook so they invited us to there house for christmas dinner. I love this ward so much.My Companion Elder Chan is amazing. i feel bad for him though because he has to put up with my slow cantonese. he's helped me so much this last week. it was just us two living in the appartment so i've been talking straight chinese this last week. i love elder chan though. he's an amazing missionary and an amazing teacher. I don't even feel like a senior comp with him. Half the time i just follow his lead. haha the only time that i feel like a senior comp is at the end of the week and elder chan teases me because i have to do the numbers and not him. hahathis morning we moved all our stuff down the street to the new appartment. i hate moving in hong kong! haha we live with the aberdeen elders now.Well i gotta go family but i love you all so much. I'll email you next week on christmas eve. i love you all and have an amazing week.
Love Elder McAllister
Thursday, December 10, 2009
E-mail: Dec 10th, 2009
This Week in Ma On Shan:
Hey everyone!!! =) How are you all? Alot has happened this week. The biggest is that i moved. i've been in my new area for about 3 hours now and it's completely different from Ma On Shan. I moved to the Island!! =) haha i'm so excited! my new area is West Point. its all sky scrapers and buisness buildings. totally defferent then Ma On Shan. My new comp is Elder Chan. I got a native companion. He's way tight! The craziest thing is that i am now senior companion!!!!! I'm only on my 5th Move. I totally don't feel like senior though, he knows the area and he's lived in hong kong his whole life. I'm a little nervous but really excited at the same time. he says that the ward is really good and really like to help the missionaries so that's really good.This Moves 25 Missionaries went home and only 5 came in. the mission is really shrinking. so they are going to close our appartment so we have to move next week. we'll still be in west point but just in a different appartment. so i'll have to move again (moving in hong kong isn't exactly the most fun) haha but it's all good. We'll be in this appartment for a week and then move next week.I'm really excited to have a native companion. I hope that my cantonese well improve a little. He has pretty good english too. so far we spoke mostly Changlish (English / Chinese). haha it's actually pretty intresting because you'll just say a sentance in English or Cantonese and just throw in a few words of the other language. its something chinese people do alot, even talking to eachother they will still throw in a couple words in english.Well i love you all and i'll talk to you all next week. I love you all so much! behave yourselves =)
Love Elder McAllister
Hey everyone!!! =) How are you all? Alot has happened this week. The biggest is that i moved. i've been in my new area for about 3 hours now and it's completely different from Ma On Shan. I moved to the Island!! =) haha i'm so excited! my new area is West Point. its all sky scrapers and buisness buildings. totally defferent then Ma On Shan. My new comp is Elder Chan. I got a native companion. He's way tight! The craziest thing is that i am now senior companion!!!!! I'm only on my 5th Move. I totally don't feel like senior though, he knows the area and he's lived in hong kong his whole life. I'm a little nervous but really excited at the same time. he says that the ward is really good and really like to help the missionaries so that's really good.This Moves 25 Missionaries went home and only 5 came in. the mission is really shrinking. so they are going to close our appartment so we have to move next week. we'll still be in west point but just in a different appartment. so i'll have to move again (moving in hong kong isn't exactly the most fun) haha but it's all good. We'll be in this appartment for a week and then move next week.I'm really excited to have a native companion. I hope that my cantonese well improve a little. He has pretty good english too. so far we spoke mostly Changlish (English / Chinese). haha it's actually pretty intresting because you'll just say a sentance in English or Cantonese and just throw in a few words of the other language. its something chinese people do alot, even talking to eachother they will still throw in a couple words in english.Well i love you all and i'll talk to you all next week. I love you all so much! behave yourselves =)
Love Elder McAllister
E-mail: Dec 3rd, 2009
This week in Horse Saddle Mountain (Ma On Shan):
Hey Everyone! I can't Believe that it's december already!! Time seriously flies when your having fun! =) haha I wish it would slow down just a little. This next week is the last week of this moves. I find out next wednesday if and where i'll be moving. I really don't want to leave Ma On Shan. I feel like we're just now starting to have success. I know that if i move it's what God wants me to do but it'll be hard. I've been in Ma On Shan for over 5 months. any way i'll let you all know next week what happens.This week has been really good. We still haven't been able to get ahold of mike but we're trying. On sunday we had a new investigator come to church though. he said that he's busy durring the week but he would come next sunday. On Monday we met this old guy and pulled him back into the church. we told him about sacrament meeting and he asked if we sing songs. we told him yes. he said good but that his voice sounds bad when he sings. he's really cool. like around 75ish years old. He told us that he can do Coligraphy so we told him to come back and teach us. He came back the next day and taught us. it was so cool. He wrote my chinese name and it looked so tight!Yesterday we tought Bergonia with the help of Bishop Chan's wife. we tought the plan of salvation and she loved it. she said that she wants to tell her daughter about it (the anti christ one. she believes in reincarnation or however you spell it) any way at the end of the lesson she said the most humble prayer. she told Heavenly Father that she was putting her family into His hands. She's so awesome.Last night we tought Jessica the Gospel of Jesus Christ. we tried to think of a cool analogy for each principle. it was really good. one of the analogies didn't really work out. it involved a lighter and a tea bag. we ended up burning 25 tea bags without it working. haha it was funny though. i have a pretty cool burnt mark on my hand now =) haha.This morning we got up at 5 so we could go hike Lions Rock (a mountain that seperates Kowloon from Tolo Harbour) We got to see the sunrise over hong kong island and we could seriously see all of hong kong. it was awesome.Well Family i gotta go but i love and miss you all! I hope that you have an awesome week! be good and behave yourselves =)
Love Elder McAllister
Hey Everyone! I can't Believe that it's december already!! Time seriously flies when your having fun! =) haha I wish it would slow down just a little. This next week is the last week of this moves. I find out next wednesday if and where i'll be moving. I really don't want to leave Ma On Shan. I feel like we're just now starting to have success. I know that if i move it's what God wants me to do but it'll be hard. I've been in Ma On Shan for over 5 months. any way i'll let you all know next week what happens.This week has been really good. We still haven't been able to get ahold of mike but we're trying. On sunday we had a new investigator come to church though. he said that he's busy durring the week but he would come next sunday. On Monday we met this old guy and pulled him back into the church. we told him about sacrament meeting and he asked if we sing songs. we told him yes. he said good but that his voice sounds bad when he sings. he's really cool. like around 75ish years old. He told us that he can do Coligraphy so we told him to come back and teach us. He came back the next day and taught us. it was so cool. He wrote my chinese name and it looked so tight!Yesterday we tought Bergonia with the help of Bishop Chan's wife. we tought the plan of salvation and she loved it. she said that she wants to tell her daughter about it (the anti christ one. she believes in reincarnation or however you spell it) any way at the end of the lesson she said the most humble prayer. she told Heavenly Father that she was putting her family into His hands. She's so awesome.Last night we tought Jessica the Gospel of Jesus Christ. we tried to think of a cool analogy for each principle. it was really good. one of the analogies didn't really work out. it involved a lighter and a tea bag. we ended up burning 25 tea bags without it working. haha it was funny though. i have a pretty cool burnt mark on my hand now =) haha.This morning we got up at 5 so we could go hike Lions Rock (a mountain that seperates Kowloon from Tolo Harbour) We got to see the sunrise over hong kong island and we could seriously see all of hong kong. it was awesome.Well Family i gotta go but i love and miss you all! I hope that you have an awesome week! be good and behave yourselves =)
Love Elder McAllister
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