Sup Famlegs,
Not much is goin’ on here—just chillin’ hard with gnar always in sight. It’s most likely the shreddable type, you know how these sort of things are.
So yeah, things are goin’ good. This week has been pretty cool, I guess. On Tuesday we moved in with a family in Samata. That’s been really cool. The family is dope. We’ve stayed with them before, so it’s nothing new. It’s been sweet though. We pretty much live like Samoans. The family has like four kids, but the oldest three don’t live here. Their oldest son, Price, just left on his mission. He’s serving here, so I’ll probably see him around. And then they have a three year old daughter named Soul. She’s pretty funny about half the time and then the other half she’s just really annoying. Haha.
The house we live in is like a little separate house across from where the family lives. The front of it is a traditional Samoan fale o’o with no walls and a grass roof. But then it has a little room built on to the back of it. One time the little three year old locked me and my companion in the back room and I had to climb out a window to get out. Haha, but living here has been really cool—I’m stoked on it. We both sleep on the floor, but on different sides of the house. I think my comp’s afraid that we’ll fall over in the night and start snuggling. So it’s cool. The other day I saw this humongous spider—it was the coolest. It was like tarantula size—right on the wall by where I sleep. Also there is this chicken that keeps trying to sneak into my room. It is very sneaky. Sometimes I almost don’t catch it. It creeps in very quietly or sometimes it goes in through the window. I’m pretty sure it laid eggs in this pile of clothes in the corner—so we’ll see what happens with that.
The bathroom is kind of like an outhouse but it has running water. It’s like super far away, so that kinda sucks. And the shower is just a little shack with three walls where the water comes out of a pipe. I ran into some awkward situations the first time we stayed here with the shower having an open wall, but now I’ve got it down pat. My comp neglected to tell me that everybody just showers with an ie lavalava.
Oh yeah…the night before we left from Faiaai, we were chilling with the family next door and I was looking around trying to catch lizards and I got one but it did that thing where it’s tail comes off and it gets away. So the tail was just wriggling around on the floor. So I put it in this kid’s ear that was asleep and he got up and got all mad. Haha—it was funny. I don’t know if that story made any sense, but it was funny.
So yeah, things are dope here. We finally watched General Conference on Saturday and Sunday. We missed the Saturday morning sesh cause they had it at 5:00 in the morning and didn’t tell anyone. And then they were gonna have another sesh in English in another room, but they didn’t end up doing it. So I was kinda bummed. My Samoan’s alright at this point, but I didn’t really get as much from it as I would have liked. So, I guess I’ll have to wait til the Liahona comes out or something. But it’s cool. By the way, all you Spanish speakin’ people have it real easy. Spanish is like the easiest language ever—half the words sound just like English, just slightly different. Samoan is a lot harder to pick up.
So yeah, this week’s been dope. We have some investigators we’re preparing for baptism—hopefully this Saturday—two of which still need to be married, but we might do that on Thursday. At least that’s the plan. We also have another investigator in Fagafau preparing to be baptized. The one in Fagafau is just a nine year old baptism. He should be real easy to teach cause he’s been going to church all his life. If we can get all the lessons done, we’ll baptize him this Saturday. So the work is going good. Everything is dope gnar and a rating of 14.C.
Oh yeah, so a lot of people in the village are really envious of the family we live with cause they think they’re rich. Haha, but it’s weird to me cause I think if it was back home, they would probably be considered really poor. My mindset has changed though. Haha, like if we go to a visit and a family has like a fridge or a car or a microwave, in my mind I’m thinking like, wow—these guys are rich! But then I think back home these people would still be poor. Haha, it’s just funny. Like here you’re pretty much considered well off if you can afford to eat food like spam and bread and ramen all the time. But back home, that’s like what the most hoboey hobos eat. In Upolu they eat a lot more of that stuff though, but Savaii’s more legit. We eat dirt and dog skin and we like it.
So yeah, it’s dope. Me and my comp are still killin’ the dank. I’m gonna make him teach me how to play rugby good so I can come home and show everybody up. Oh yeah, one time we were making a visit and the guy that we were talking to was watching rugby. But it just so happened that he was watching my companion’s rugby team play. Haha, so my comp was kinda distracted I guess, but I really don’t blame him.
Anyways, yeah, things are goat gnar.
Love,
Elder Johansens
The Fresh Prince of Samoa
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