Hey there dude bones,
This week was sick bones sick. We thrashed the
skunk dunk on our blades like it was 1993. Not a ton went down this
week really. We picked up a new investigator--this 11 year old girl
named Ena. Ena's tight though, just a quiet girl. Her story is pretty
is pretty crazy though. So apparently she used to live in a village
called Tuana'i, where she lived with her parents. But her parents were
abusive and would beat her up, so she took her 5 year old brother and
her two year old brother all the way from Tuana'i to Aleisa to her
grandmother's house, carrying the two year old the whole way. I don't
know how far exactly Tuana'i is from Aleisa, but it's probably like 10
miles or something. It's pretty far. So now Ena is living with her
grandparents and she's been going to church with them. So yeah, we've
been teaching Ena this past week. We were planning to have her baptized
this coming Saturday, but then we found out that's when they're
broadcasting General Conference for Samoa, so it'll be the week after
that when Ena is baptized.
We haven't heard from Nikolao for a
little while, but we'll visit him this week and see if he's down to be
baptized next week with Ena. We also haven't heard from Olive as well.
I think she's now living with her parents in a different village. But
we'll see what happens. Also, we had a roller coaster week with
Fogalele this week. We got a call from him on Wednesday and he was all
excited. He's like, "Hey! Missionaries! We're on for Saturday!" and
my comp's like, "What?" and he's like, "The baptism...it's on!" So we
were all stoked cause he said he sorted out everything with his family
and he was good to be baptized. But then on Saturday, like right before
the baptism, we tried calling him a bunch of times and he didn't
answer. And then finally he called back and said that he couldn't be
baptized because he was at the doctor's office getting his stomach
checked out. So that was a bummer. And then he missed church on Sunday
too, so I dunno. We'll have to go figure out what the deal is. But
it's all good--he'll come around when he's ready.
Also, one of
our investigators, Teinisi, told us she couldn't continue taking
lessons, so that was kinda sad. She said it was because her husband
wouldn't let her, but then her mom said something different, so I
dunno. But that's a bummer. We'll keep visiting anyway.
Not
much else really happened this week. We had zone leader council--that
pretty much took up the whole day on Wednesday. Seriously, it was like 7
hours long. Pretty much the only good things about those meetings is
the food they have after. This time it was sloppy joes. So that was
good. Other than that, it was like the same as every other meeting.
Also,
I hit my year mark this past week--that was cool, I guess. It's gone
by pretty fast--it's nutso butso. Mom called it my "hump day" in her
letter. But I don't think I'm going to call it that. I don't know
where she gets these ideas, but I'm not going to call it that. All is
good though. I don't know what else to say. The mangoes are getting
ripe, and the pineapples are close. So I guess that means things are
good.
Keep em' dank,
Mega Fresh, Mega Bones
Elder Johansen
Friday, October 26, 2012
9-30-12
Hullo there neighbor!
Everything is quite lovely and snuggly over here in Samoa this week. It has been like tickling the fleshy underbelly of three goats which causes them to cackle and then to wheeze and cough, being that this time of year now approaches "Blundtober", the month when goats store up gregarious amounts of fat and muzzle back into their mother's wombs.
So it's been a lot like that really, this week. It's been pretty sick though. We had a way good service project on Saturday. I was stoked on it. We went out into the jungle with this other dude from the ward and cut down all these trees and did tons of tough MAN work. Sometimes you just gotta put everything aside and chop down some trees and shout and yell and punch stuff and wear flannels. So that was totally cool. We ate tons of mangoes and I snagged us some coconuts from the tippiest tops of the tree. It was pretty sweet though. I got tons of pictures. Plus the family we did service for is inactive. The dude that we went with has recently been coming back to church though. He's a cool guy. He pretty much sleeps at our house every night and does the dishes sometimes. So that's totally bones for sure.
Also, Saturday was mega sick cause we had baptisms. We had actually planned to have five baptisms that day, but only ended up having two--Lisa and Faavae. It was mega sick though. I was happy with it. And the other three will probably be baptized in the near future. The one, Olive, she was gone the last part of the week visiting other family or something, so we're scheduling her baptism for this week. And then Nikolau is still waiting on his parents cause they're tending to the grandmother who is in the hospital. So Nikolau doesn't want to do the baptism without them there. So that sort of just depends on when his parents are available. Hopefully this week though. I guess we'll see.
And then our other investigator, Fogalele, we had planned to be baptized as well, but he couldn't. Fogalele's got a mega sick story though. So we just barely met him last Sunday when he came to church and introduced himself in Priesthood. He's been Methodist for most of his life and his family is all Methodist too. But yeah, so this is the reason he wants to be a member of the Church: When he used to live in Savaii like a year and a half ago, they lived in a village where the Mormon church was forbidden. But for some reason there was this bishop from the other village over that kept coming into their village and trying to get people to come to our church. And after this went on for a while, the people started to get way mad at this bishop. So they all got together in this big mob and took the bishop and tied him up. And then they all decided they were going to burn him to death because they were so furious with him because he was trying to bring people from their village into the Mormon Church. So they got all this wood and piled it around him and lit it all on fire, but then, just as it started to catch fire, this cloud blew in and just started pouring rain right exactly over where the bishop was being burned. So he didn't end up getting hurt at all and because of that experience, a ton of people were then converted to the Church. And Fogalele saw the whole thing first hand, and he said ever since then he knew the Church was true. So that's mega sick. It was crazy when he was telling the story. But yeah, since then he has always tried to go to our church, even if he had to ride his bike like mega far to get there. He's just recently moved from Savaii here to Aleisa and is living with his uncle and their family. And we've been teaching him like all last wee. The first lesson he told us that story and he was just saying how he wants to be a member of the Church. So we committed him for baptism on Saturday with Lisa and Faavae, which he accepted cause he is totally ready. He's been going to church in Savaii, and he wants to be baptized. But then, on the morning of the baptism, we got a call from him saying that the family he lives with told him that if he gets baptized in our church, then they were going to kick him out of the house and he wouldn't have anywhere to stay. He said he was like crying hard out all night. I felt way bad for him. So that's the reason he didn't get baptized yet. But he said he was going to talk to the family and he came to church on Sunday as well, so we're just praying that the family he lives with will let him be baptized. He's like 22 or something, so he could still choose to do it, he just wouldn't have anywhere to live. So it's kind of a bummer situation, but I think he'll get baptized soon. He's totally the dopest.
But yeah, not much else really going on this week. We found a new investigator a couple weeks ago who's name is Hitler. He's more like a potential investigator actually. But I just thought it was funny that his name is Hitler. I think half the reason I would want to baptize him is just so I can say that I baptized Hitler. Haha, jk jk.
So yeah, it's bones party dankness all the way this week. Mother, to answer your question "Do you have any weird rashes on your behind or in your ear canal?" (I never asked this question.) My answer is "No, just funguses (fungi?) and tapeworms." But really, I don't need anything (That was my question). I can buy pretty much anything I need in Apia cause all the ZLs have to go to the office every p-day anyway so we just buy whatever we need in town.
But yeah brothers, keep snoggin it all,
Elder Johandsome
Everything is quite lovely and snuggly over here in Samoa this week. It has been like tickling the fleshy underbelly of three goats which causes them to cackle and then to wheeze and cough, being that this time of year now approaches "Blundtober", the month when goats store up gregarious amounts of fat and muzzle back into their mother's wombs.
So it's been a lot like that really, this week. It's been pretty sick though. We had a way good service project on Saturday. I was stoked on it. We went out into the jungle with this other dude from the ward and cut down all these trees and did tons of tough MAN work. Sometimes you just gotta put everything aside and chop down some trees and shout and yell and punch stuff and wear flannels. So that was totally cool. We ate tons of mangoes and I snagged us some coconuts from the tippiest tops of the tree. It was pretty sweet though. I got tons of pictures. Plus the family we did service for is inactive. The dude that we went with has recently been coming back to church though. He's a cool guy. He pretty much sleeps at our house every night and does the dishes sometimes. So that's totally bones for sure.
Also, Saturday was mega sick cause we had baptisms. We had actually planned to have five baptisms that day, but only ended up having two--Lisa and Faavae. It was mega sick though. I was happy with it. And the other three will probably be baptized in the near future. The one, Olive, she was gone the last part of the week visiting other family or something, so we're scheduling her baptism for this week. And then Nikolau is still waiting on his parents cause they're tending to the grandmother who is in the hospital. So Nikolau doesn't want to do the baptism without them there. So that sort of just depends on when his parents are available. Hopefully this week though. I guess we'll see.
And then our other investigator, Fogalele, we had planned to be baptized as well, but he couldn't. Fogalele's got a mega sick story though. So we just barely met him last Sunday when he came to church and introduced himself in Priesthood. He's been Methodist for most of his life and his family is all Methodist too. But yeah, so this is the reason he wants to be a member of the Church: When he used to live in Savaii like a year and a half ago, they lived in a village where the Mormon church was forbidden. But for some reason there was this bishop from the other village over that kept coming into their village and trying to get people to come to our church. And after this went on for a while, the people started to get way mad at this bishop. So they all got together in this big mob and took the bishop and tied him up. And then they all decided they were going to burn him to death because they were so furious with him because he was trying to bring people from their village into the Mormon Church. So they got all this wood and piled it around him and lit it all on fire, but then, just as it started to catch fire, this cloud blew in and just started pouring rain right exactly over where the bishop was being burned. So he didn't end up getting hurt at all and because of that experience, a ton of people were then converted to the Church. And Fogalele saw the whole thing first hand, and he said ever since then he knew the Church was true. So that's mega sick. It was crazy when he was telling the story. But yeah, since then he has always tried to go to our church, even if he had to ride his bike like mega far to get there. He's just recently moved from Savaii here to Aleisa and is living with his uncle and their family. And we've been teaching him like all last wee. The first lesson he told us that story and he was just saying how he wants to be a member of the Church. So we committed him for baptism on Saturday with Lisa and Faavae, which he accepted cause he is totally ready. He's been going to church in Savaii, and he wants to be baptized. But then, on the morning of the baptism, we got a call from him saying that the family he lives with told him that if he gets baptized in our church, then they were going to kick him out of the house and he wouldn't have anywhere to stay. He said he was like crying hard out all night. I felt way bad for him. So that's the reason he didn't get baptized yet. But he said he was going to talk to the family and he came to church on Sunday as well, so we're just praying that the family he lives with will let him be baptized. He's like 22 or something, so he could still choose to do it, he just wouldn't have anywhere to live. So it's kind of a bummer situation, but I think he'll get baptized soon. He's totally the dopest.
But yeah, not much else really going on this week. We found a new investigator a couple weeks ago who's name is Hitler. He's more like a potential investigator actually. But I just thought it was funny that his name is Hitler. I think half the reason I would want to baptize him is just so I can say that I baptized Hitler. Haha, jk jk.
So yeah, it's bones party dankness all the way this week. Mother, to answer your question "Do you have any weird rashes on your behind or in your ear canal?" (I never asked this question.) My answer is "No, just funguses (fungi?) and tapeworms." But really, I don't need anything (That was my question). I can buy pretty much anything I need in Apia cause all the ZLs have to go to the office every p-day anyway so we just buy whatever we need in town.
But yeah brothers, keep snoggin it all,
Elder Johandsome
9-16-12
Sup there crazy bones,
Everything is double dank on the 1-2-1-2. This week has been a lot like a skunkgnar marathon with Dio Guierroga.
But yeah, this week was cool, I guess. I don't have a ton of time to write actually. Usually on p-days we have to do a bunch of sucky stuff like wash the car and do all the shopping for the zone and drop off numbers and reports at the mission office. Last week we had to watch this two hour video about safety--it was a lame fest. But also you caught me when I'm not in a letter writing mood. So that's a durn shame for you.
But yeah, this week was a dog gnar paradise pretty much. We didn't manage to teach Lisa. Every time we went over she was either busy or gone. But she came to church on Sunday and is way solid. The only thing is that we think she might want to wait til October to get baptized cause that's when her husband gets out of jail. Haha, but I guess we'll see. Also, I don't remember if I mentioned Pika and Nikolau. They're two investigators we've been working with lately. Pika is a boy, age 10, and Nikolau is a 20 year old boy. They're both scheduled for baptisms this Saturday, so that should be sweet. Also, another investigator I'm pretty sure I got their names mixed up last week cause I said we were working with Melanic, but his name is actually Teinisi. I'm not sure where I got Melanic from, but it's Teinisi. The work is scope gnar in this area. It's really good.
Also, I don't know if I've mentioned him before, but our ward mission leader is a way funny guy. He's this little part Asian dude. His name is Roy. Anyways, I had a picture of the Backstreet Boys up on the fridge that Katie gave me and I told him that it was a picture of me and my friends before the mission and he believed me. And then I pulled the "What are you wearing under there?" joke and he totally fell for it (cause he speaks good English.) I also did the "up dog" and the "snew." So I'm stoked on having some fresh meat to pull righteous pranks on. I am the prankster prince, after all.
Keep it bones,
Slapmaster Ice
Everything is double dank on the 1-2-1-2. This week has been a lot like a skunkgnar marathon with Dio Guierroga.
But yeah, this week was cool, I guess. I don't have a ton of time to write actually. Usually on p-days we have to do a bunch of sucky stuff like wash the car and do all the shopping for the zone and drop off numbers and reports at the mission office. Last week we had to watch this two hour video about safety--it was a lame fest. But also you caught me when I'm not in a letter writing mood. So that's a durn shame for you.
But yeah, this week was a dog gnar paradise pretty much. We didn't manage to teach Lisa. Every time we went over she was either busy or gone. But she came to church on Sunday and is way solid. The only thing is that we think she might want to wait til October to get baptized cause that's when her husband gets out of jail. Haha, but I guess we'll see. Also, I don't remember if I mentioned Pika and Nikolau. They're two investigators we've been working with lately. Pika is a boy, age 10, and Nikolau is a 20 year old boy. They're both scheduled for baptisms this Saturday, so that should be sweet. Also, another investigator I'm pretty sure I got their names mixed up last week cause I said we were working with Melanic, but his name is actually Teinisi. I'm not sure where I got Melanic from, but it's Teinisi. The work is scope gnar in this area. It's really good.
Also, I don't know if I've mentioned him before, but our ward mission leader is a way funny guy. He's this little part Asian dude. His name is Roy. Anyways, I had a picture of the Backstreet Boys up on the fridge that Katie gave me and I told him that it was a picture of me and my friends before the mission and he believed me. And then I pulled the "What are you wearing under there?" joke and he totally fell for it (cause he speaks good English.) I also did the "up dog" and the "snew." So I'm stoked on having some fresh meat to pull righteous pranks on. I am the prankster prince, after all.
Keep it bones,
Slapmaster Ice
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