Elder Allen

Elder Brandon Allen is the protagonist and narrator of the 2000 film God's Army. He is an LDS missionary who is sent to Los Angeles to serve a mission. He is assigned a companion named Elder Marcus James Dalton (aka "Pops") who teaches him about serving missions. His fathers (his biological father left when he was seven, and then his mother remarried another man before they got sealed in a temple) and mother are excommunicated members.

Elder Allen does not let when Elder Dalton cannot show up (such as being hospitalized) stop him from serving a mission: first, he takes Elder Sandoval "the Lamanite" (a nickname based on Samuel the Lamanite) with him to talk to one household, and then (though he was going to take Kinegar) Elder Banks to another. Eventually, when, for a while, Dalton is out of the hospital, the two companions give a blessing to a friend of Dalton's, Benjamin "Benny" Yao, who is crippled. After a blessing by the authority of the Melchizidek priestood, Benny is healed to the delight of his sister Elaine.

After Elder Dalton dies, they have a funeral, and Allen is given a new companion: Elder Downey, along with a replacement for Kinegar named Elder Rex. Then Allen is baptized three times and becomes good friends with Downey.

After having done a lot of good, Allen returns to his home right near Kansas City. He marries a graduate student named Jeanine Fronk two months after she replaced his English teacher permanently. Two months before their first anniversary, they have a son named Dalton (after Allen's old companion), but mostly, like those who knew Elder Dalton did to him, they call their son "Pops."

Elder Allen was played by Matthew Brown.