8-27-12

Yoyoyoyoyoyo Brothers,

It's spank bones here.  It's all red gnar, blue gnar, green gnar, true gnar.  This week was pretty sick.  We had two baptisms--Lanu, who is like 40 or so, and Joseph, who is like 10.  We had the baptism on Sunday morning and then did the confirmations afterwards during Sacrament meeting.  It was mega sick bones.  I was stoked.  We were supposed to have two others as well, but we didn't get the time to finish their lessons, so we're planning for next week.  So hopefully that goes down. 

The work continues to be excellent in Aleisa--it's a really good area here.  So I'm stoked on that.  We've got a lot of work up ahead in the near future, so it's really good.

But yeah, not a whole lot has happened really other than that.  Earlier this week we had to turn in Greg, the best thing that ever happened to me as a missionary.  I would be a liar if I said I didn't shed a tear or two.  Those two weeks with Greg changed my whole outlook on life.  I really feel like Greg and I were meant to cross paths.  I think I met Greg at a car dealership in the pre-earth life and knew he would change my life.  No, but really, I was bummed to turn in that van.  The new van is huge and lame and way suckier to drive.  And the new car doesn't have cockroach parties or do any of the cool stuff Greg used to do.  Me and my companion were both pretty cut when we found out the first van was done getting fixed.  But it's cool.  I guess that's how life is.  I know someday I'll see Greg again.  I can feel it in my heart.

But yeah, it's been a funtime, buntime over here, no doubt.  On Saturday night I got a call from my bishop from my first area who was on a conference call with my trainer, Elder Nansen.  I guess it turns out that our bishop's wife had her baby and it turned out to be a boy.  So our bishop was calling us to let us know that he wants to name his son after me and my trainer, and was asking if that was alright.  Haha.  I was stoked.  He named him Eric Jacob Letoa, after my first name, Nansen's first name, and his last name.  So I thought that was really cool.  We were really close with that bishop.  And that little Samoan kid will get tons of girlfriends cause he's named after the fresh prince of Samoa.  So that was dope bones, neato gnar.

So yeah, honeydew, other than that, not much has gone down this week.

Stay slippery, but don't get weiched

Elder Johansen