Zup there fampants,
It's all dank up in here. Everything's beans
gnarly. It's like we're having a goat-face hamster party where the gnar
is always the star. It's a shred fest though, to the days. This
week's been pretty sick, though. We've just been spankin' it out all
day, every day.
So yeah, not much has really been goin' on, just
the same stuff really. We started teaching lessons with Pato--that was
good. My comp asked her to be baptized during her first lesson and she
said yes, so that was cool. She'll be baptized this Saturday, so that
should be good. Also, Palepa is supposed to be baptized this Saturday.
Her wedding is planned for this week, so that should be sick--cause
that's the only thing keeping her from getting baptized is that they're
not married yet. So that should be good. We also started lessons with
Failelei this week. She's tight too. She's probably in her 40's or so,
and she goes to church every week. We just have to get her married and
she'll totally be ready to be baptized. So we'll see if we can try and
make it happen. Also, Faautu, the girl we baptized last week, has a
brother who wants to start lessons with us, so we're gonna do that
tomorrow. His name is Perenise. We'll see what goes down.
And
then when we were eating dinner with a family a couple of days ago,
they told us that they have a daughter who wants to be baptized, so
we're gonna start the lessons this week. We baptized the girl's little
brother, Ailua, back in April. So that should be good. She goes to
church every week, she just hasn't been baptized. And then we also have
Panalisa--he goes to institute every week and has a bunch of friends in
the ward. Word is that he wants to start lessons, so we'll have to go
visit this week and see what the go is. And the nwe have
Faasinoala--she's dope. She goes to church every week too. She just
still needs to be married before she can be baptized. Her man/boyfriend
kept putting it off every time we would schedule a date for them to be
married. It's the dumbest. But then we found out the reason is cause
he thought you had to fill out a bunch of paperwork and he was all
afraid cause he doesn't know how to write. Haha, but pretty much all he
has to do is write a signature, which could pretty much be anything.
So hopefully we'll get that marriage soon, cause Fasinoala's totally
ready. So that should be good.
But yeah, not much else has
really been going on. We're just making visits and teaching some
lessons and stuff. My comp's cool. We're shreddin' the gnar all day
every day. It's pretty tough, like I think it would be tough to do it
all in English, but in Samoan, it's like extra hard. But it's cool I
guess--we try our best. I try and let my comp take the lead in teaching
aand stuff--it's good. My goal is to have him ready to train by the
end of this 3 months. We're just gonna have to read the BofM like crazy
in Samoan so he can get good Samoan. That's probably what helped me
most with the language. I finished it on the boat ride over the morning
I picked up Jackson. So it's good. Things are cool. I'll probably have
pretty good Samoan by the end of this three months. I pretty much just
talk to people all day. But before pretty much Nansen did all the
talking, so it's good.
We're real lucky, though. This area is
mega good. There's tons of work here. But yeah, not much has really
been goin' on lately--just work, work, work. I think these last two
weeks have been like the most serious I've acted in my entire life. I
pretty much just have to stay as closely in tune with the Spirit as I
can or else I'm totally lost. Cause, seriously, if it was only up to
me, this area would die very quickly. Cause my Samoan's still on the
rocks. I only understand things when they're really important--like if
an investigator has a concern or something. Pretty much the rest of the
time I'm just winging it and guessing what people are saying. Talking
to chiefs is especially the suckiest--it sketches me out. We're trying
to reactivate this girl and her little brother, but her grandpa is like
this super important chief in the village so it's always super sketchy
going over there, but we just go anyway. Cause within the Samoan
language, there is like four languages. It's like words that you would
use with a high chief, and then totally different words to use when you
speak to a talking chief, then there's the common language, and then
there's like the slang. It's pretty tough. If you don't use all the
respectful language and stuff, you can offend people. And you have to
learn all the different chief titles of the people in the village and
figure out if they're a high chief or a talking chief before you go
visit them so you can know what words to use when you speak to them.
But it's rude to ask, so you just have to figure it out before you go
visit. Anyways, its dumb. I don't really know any of that stuff very
well--so it's sketchfest. But I don't spend that much time trying to
learn it cause I'm busy learning how to teach lessons and other more
important stuff. So it's cool. The mission's dope though. I'm stoked
on it. Everything's going good. We're "smiting the earth with the
word of God." And that's the dankness.
Keep shreddin' 100% gnar,
Elder Johansen
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