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
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