Rah-rah-roo family bones!
So this week was absolutely NUTS. It was nutsobutso, man. A lot of stuff happened this week, but I don't really have time to explain everything. For sure you know by now, but on Thursday, December 13th, which would be your Wednesday December 12th, we all got spanked with tropical cyclone "Evan," which, in my opinion, is a wimpy name to give a tropical cyclone. It should be like "Tropical Cyclone Buck" or "Hurricane Doug Davis."
This week was by far one of the craziest of my life though. It was like a gnar party trippin B's in 1996. Everyone had their blades strapped on and were ready to sesh the quarter pipe.
So it started out just normal. Elder Faitau and I had lessons and stuff on Tuesday. We even picked up a new investigator and hot her to agree to be baptized the following week. Totally dope. Edler Ofisa (my last comp) and I baptized her grandpa, two brothers, and her little sister back in August, but she was off at school at the time. We still don't know if her baptism will go down on the scheduled date or not just cause of the storm and everything. But if things go as according to plan, she should get dunked this week. So I'm stoked on that.
And then on Wednesday we did a split with some elders in the zone. My comp went to the other area with the one guy and then I stayed in Lepale with this big Samoan dude named Elder Sua. I was honestly not really looking forward to the split, but then it ended up being really good. On Wednesday we went out and made some visits. It totally poured on us and we got super soaked.
On Thursday morning we got a call from the APs telling us not to go anywhere and to stay at the house cause a cyclone was gonna hit. And then around noon or so on Thursday was when it hit us pretty hard. It ws pretty crazy. Trees were getting blown over everywhere. It was pretty tight. I was juswt taking pictures and videos the whole time. I was stoked on it. Pretty much the whole day on Thursday it was really strong. We stayed in for most of the morning, but then got ancy and decided to go out and see if anyone needed any help. Walking around in the storm was wild. The wind was super crazy strong. It ws like pushing me over part of the time. Some of the houses we passed had been flipped or completely topped down. Luckily all of these houses had been evacuated earlier that morning. A lot of the houses we passed were already empty and the people had gone to safer places to stay.
A lot of power lines had gone down too. A few were just hanging close to the ground and some laying across the road. It was sketchy bones for sure.
We pretty much spent most of Thursday checking if any of the families needed any help and then driving families back and forth to the church building to stay. And then on Friday it was pretty much over for the most part--just normal rain and storms. That morning I woke up and realized that I had been sleeping with one of those big poisonous centipedes. It came slithering out of my sheets after I woke up. Luckily it didn't eat me. That would have made things miserable.
Friday night was like one of the craziest nights of my life. I don't have time to tell the story, but it was crazy. Basically we got asked to go give a blessing at like 10:00 at night. We get there and the girl is in super bad condition--unconcious and hardly breathing. So we gave her the blessing and then haul her into the van and drive her to the hospital. I was honestly flying down those roads and there were like downed trees in the road, telephone wires hanging in the road, and it was like sotrming and raining too. But I was going like 80,90, 100 kph, which is probably like freeway speeds. We were crazy super lucky not to have gotten in a wreck or anything. There were a few times where I think in normal circumstances we would have for sure destroyed the car, but we were protected. The Lord was watching out for us that night. I was just really worried the whole time that the girl was going to die in the car or something--she was in real bad shape. Anyways, tons of crazy stuff happened. I don't have time to write the whole story--it filled up like 10 pages of my journal. But is was NUTS. Eventually after a ton of crazy stuff going down, we got her into the hospital and she got the treatment she needed and was okay.
This week has been the craziest though. We also went bat hunting as well cause there's tons of bats around. This big dude killed tow of them within 5 minutes just by chucking big rocks. All the fruit trees are all blown down. So all the bats are out looking for something to eat.
There's tons of nutsobutso stories and cool stuff that happened, but we're out of time friends.
"Cowboy up"
Elder Johansen
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