11-4-12

Sup Dudes,

I got a call from the office yesterday.  Apparently you bros sent me those SD cards?  You should check around the house, cause I'm pretty sure they didn't come in the package.  Perhaps I lost them without realizing it.  If that's the case, no worries.  I'll continue to look around, but I don't think they're here.  I assume you backed up all the pics on the computer.  If not, shame on you.  But it's no big deal, just look around and then get back to me cause I didn't see them in the package when it came.

Yeah, but this week, not a ton went down.  We went to Fran's twice this week.  Both times she wasn't there.  And then we had planned a family night for Sunday night, but she and her husband left somewhere so we had to cancel.  So I don't really know.  It seems like she's kind of avoiding us.  So we'll continue to pray for her and hope we can get ahold of her again.  She would be solid, she just needs to pray.  Something is holding her back.  We'll try and catch her this week.  Let's hope it goes down.

This week we've also been splitting with an elder in the zone, Elder Puipui.  His comp finished his mission, so he's been splitting with us until transfers which is in like two days.  We get the news tonight.  I'll probably stay.  My companion might get transferred though.  He's been in this area forever.  But I'll let you know next week what the bones are on transfers.  

Splitting with Piupui has been fun cause Puipui is the guy in the zone that I like to pick on.  When we were sitting at a visit, I pulled the awesomest prank on him.  I got him to look the other way by cleverly distracting him.  I was like, "look, that big tree over there!" and when he turned, I slipped a rubber cockroach into his cup of koko that he was holding.  Haha, he was like, "There's a cockroach in my tea!"  It was funny.  I totally pranked the HECK out of him.  By the way, thanks for the fake cockroaches.  I've been putting them to good use.  It actually works out cause there's tons of cockroaches in Samoa so it makes it more believeable.

Also, this past week I had a dentist appointment.  No cavities baby.  That means you owe me $25 bones.  A deal is a deal, friend.  I'm going to hold you to that contract until I'm an old man.

This past Saturday and Sunday was our stake conference.  Paulo Matofai, the guy I used to live with in Savaii gave a talk on behalf of the mission president cause he's the 1st counselor to the mish prez.  His talk was mega good.  I was stoked on it. Plus he gave me a "shout out", so you know I was stoked on his talk.  I think that's always my biggest hope when someone I know gives a talk, is somehow getting mentioned therein.  His wife and his kids were there too, so I sat and talked with them for like 20 minutes after the conference.  Those guys are seriously way cool.  I miss living with that family.  But yeah, dudes, there's nothing else to report on this week.

Oh yeah, Father, I tried to send you a coconut, but it didn't work.  I wasted like fifteen bucks in stamps on it too.  So the postal service in Pago Pago will totally send it (stamps stuck to the outside of the coconut), but the skunk-dunkers at the office in Apia thought it was like a joke and just threw it away.  So I was totally "T.O.'d"  But it's all good.  I'll try again but just give it to one of my boys in American Samoa and have them send it.  

Also in this letter I will include my Christmas wish demands.

Elder Eric "Squid Spunk" Johansen

DEMANDS:

2% milk, ice cream, pizza, watermelon, that one Manheim Steamroller CD that we listen to every year (not the lame one, the good one.  Get Ketpet to burn me a copy or something.  I think it's like "Manheim Steamroller Extraordinaire" or something like that), other good Christmas tunes (not Motab/not sucky ones), Christmas lights (just junky little ones to hang up in our house), Axe hair styling stuff--comes in a can like this (he drew a picture), a cheap wrist watch (less than ten bucks) just to slap on and tell time with (my last one broke and my 2 pocket watches got swiped), something that exudes the smell of potpourri (my brain associates it as the "Christmas smell"), a flash drive (4 gb) to steal all the good church songs off the laptop of my family in Savaii (I'm getting tired of Motab), Old Spice--the good kind

(At this point I'm really trying to think of something good cause I know I can milk mom for a lot on this one.  I'm the favorite child, the honey boy.  Plus I'm on a mission, so that even enhances it more.  I could pretty much get anything I wanted.  All the other siblings are just lame and not as well liked as the "bloatlo" child.)

MORE DEMANDS:

A poster sized photo of me and Theo to hang up in my house (the one with me holding Theo in my arms and giving a cute smile (Eric drew a picture of this photo), pens, teeth whitening stuff, some Richard Simmons video cassettes, ugly DI ties, a new shrunken head (Greg got stolen), Tres Leches cake mix, Nutella, good candy (Tropical Starburst, Milky Ways, Redvines, Swedish Fish, etc.)

Yeah, I can't think of anything else.  Really I don't need any of this stuff.  Just get whatever you want.  Don't go overboard.  I always feel bad when I ask for a bunch of stuff and then you actually get it.  There's nothing I really need or want specifically.  It's all good here.  If you get the chance, though, maybe spank some cash aside for my college.  That would be nice.  I'm planning to try and get a job right when I get home and work until the spring semester, but even then I'm not sure if I'll have enough cash.  But if money is tight, no worries too.  Like the common Samoan proverb says, "If you don't keep your bones polished and clean, you may lose them amongst the willows."

The Fresh Prince of Samoa