Sup Dumbledorks,
This week was all the bones. We moved to Leauva’a this week. We’ll spend next week here too and then move
back to Lepale for two weeks. We have to
do it like this cause the two wards are really far apart and it’s just easier
this way. So Leauva’a is good.
Our new house is tight.
We’re living with the bishop’s family and not this other family that I
thought we would be living with. The
bishop is a way cool guy. He’s like in
his early 30’s. The place where we live
has a bunch of little houses all close together, but the same family. We live in a little house with a tin roof and
no walls--probably about the size of my bedroom downstairs. This old man lives here with us. He’s crazy and pretty funny.
And then randomly, this 18 year old kid is living with us
too. The first night we got here, the
bishop was like, “Oh yeah, this kid is going to live with you and go everywhere
with you.” So it’s us four living here,
the gang. It’s tight though. The kid that lived with us, Siopi, is cool—he’s
like our sidekick. And he makes food in
the morning, so he’s like our sidekick/maid.
My comp and I aren’t familiar with the area so he’s been showing us
around and going proselyting with us every day.
This kid is the man though. One
day we had a bunch of baptismal interviews to do in another zone, so he just
went out with a couple of dudes from the ward and did visits anyway. Stud.
The old man picks on me.
I’m going to have to prank him one of these days. But it’s okay. I’m used to being the “bum” of the
jokes.
Also, there is a secret person that lives at our house
too. We all sleep in the same room, only
the old man sleeps on a bed. The secret
person always comes in super late after we go to bed and then he works really
early in the morning and leaves before we get up. I always hear his alarm go off at 5:30 and
the old man is like “Get up!! You have
to go to work!!!” I’ll probably meet
this secret person eventually. He is
secretive and sneaky. It’s okay
though. I’m used to having unknown men
sleep in my room at times. Samoa is
tight. The people are chill.
With our investigators, we’ve been teaching
Gau and
Malia, that’s about it. Me and my comp
are brand new to Leauva’a and the investigator pool is like nothing—just
Gau. She’s only like 45, I found out. She’s just got a cool
“grandmother-style”
haircut. She’s tight though. She was supposed to be baptized on
Saturday. When we got to the baptism,
absolutely no one was there but me, my comp and Gau. And it was like
time to start the
baptism. Not only that, but someone had turned
off the font and there was only like half a foot of water in there,
which mad
me mad cause we got up at like a quarter to six to walk over to the
church and
turn on the water. The sucky thing in
Leauva’a is that the water only turns on for a few hours in the
morning. The rest of the day they shut off the pipe to
conserve water. So we couldn’t do the
baptism on Saturday. We planned for
Sunday after church, but there was no water then either so Gau’s baptism
is scheduled
for next week. I was pretty bummed that
it didn’t go through, but Gau’s pretty solid, so hopefully we’ll be good
for
next week.
And then Malia is good.
It’s just her dude she lives with that’s tough. I’m pretty sure I already mentioned
Malia. She’s like 17 and her man is like
30 something. We’re still trying to get
them married. Malia comes to church
though. We just have to get her married
so she can be baptized.
All is easy bones.
As my favorite band, Smash Mouth, once said, “It was all a dream. I
used to read Word Up Magazine. Salt n pepa and Heavy D up in a
limousine…”
Keep it safe,
Elder Boot Scoot ‘n Buggy Johansen
