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
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