Wazzup in the hood,
Yeah, it's me here, your boy EJ Detwiler, the kickball king. Not much goin' on, just shreddin' the gnar as always. This week was the dopest danks. We had a baptism on Saturday--it was legit. I'm pretty sure I've already told you about her--the girl's name is Auvusa--she's like fourteen. She's Talulelei's older sister and Evelige and Silia's cousin. Anyways, the baptism went really well. I got to do it--it was sweet. We had to go like two hours early and clean out the font cause there were all these dead cockroaches in there. But yeah, it was good. And we started teaching her grandma and her two aunts this week. They're the ones that got up in testimony meeting and bore their testimonies before we'd even started teaching them lessons. Their family is ready, it's awesome. They wanted to know how they could go to the temple, but we told them they have to be baptized first. They're real eager and super stoked on the church. So we're planning the baptisms for the grandma and the aunts this Saturday, so that should be good. I'm stoked for them. They have a way good family.
But yeah, not much really going on this week. We've just been getting Auvasa ready for her baptism and then teaching lessons and stuff.
Later today, I think, we're gonna go explore these ancient pyramids. They're on this dude's land that we met like two weeks ago. He's like the counselor in the bishopric in another area in our zone. So he said he was gonna hook up up, cause they usually don't let people go explore them. I guess these German scientist dudes came over and wanted to come check them out, but the guy wouldn't let them unless they paid $500 bucks. So I guess I'll let you know how it goes. It should be real dope. Lately we've been doin' lots of cool stuff on p-days. It's been sweet.
So yeah, things are double bones good. I'm still with my same companion, Elder Nansen. He's dope too. The more I talk to him, the more I'm surprised about him--cause right before his mission he got offered $500,000 dollars to play rugby for only two weeks for a team in Australia. But he turned it down cause he didn't want to get hurt right before his mission. But I was like, freak, man--the dude turned down half a million bucks and he would have only had to play for two weeks. The dude's a stud man. I told him he's gonna have to fly me out to Australia and pamper me, the royal treatment cause he'll be a rich and famous rugby player--in fact he kind of already is. So yeah, I'm gonna milk him for all he's got--he owes me for being such an awesome companion to him.
Oh yeah, so you asked who paid for my medical treatment when I had tonsillitis. So, I guess the mission pays for everything while I'm here, so I'm set. It's only if I get really sick or something or if I get surgery that takes a long recovery, then they have to send you home for awhile and your family pays for the medical treatment. But that's never gonna happen, so it's all good.
So yeah, I also left some missionary scriptures for papa to use. I just wrote down a bunch of them. He can just pick a couple that he likes. Oh yeah, I've also got a doctrinal question for you father--Alright, so the other day I was studying in Faith Precedes the Miracle by Spencer W. Kimball, and it says that everything is matter. It's just that you need more pure, spiritual eyes to see all the spiritual matter. So I was kinda pondering about that it kinda led me to think about our limbless brethren. So here's my question: Do people with missing arms and legs have their "spiritual limbs" still intact? Is this what gives us the phenomenon that scientists have been baffled by throughout the ages--the phantom limb? I truly believe those spiritual limbs are reaching, kicking, grasping, just waiting for the day they can be reunited with their physical counterpart. No hook or prosthetic mockery can replace the true nature of the limb. And the truth of the doctrine is that we will not be able to take our favorite prosthetic leg into the afterlife, no matter how much we may want to. Limbs are ordained for mans use. We shouldn't be jealous of those who use the arms and legs of man's thinking. It says in Exodus 20:17, "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's hook, nor anything that is thy neighbors." Anyways, I could ramble on about this for hours.
Keep shreddin' the gnar,
Elder Johansen
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