Chu-Chuh Eewa there my good friends!
Not
much went down this week really. We had a bunch of meetings and stuff.
It was all just the same ol same ol. We had our ZL meeting, which is
always like literally all day. They talk about the same stuff every
month, but it goes from like 9:00 am to 2:00 or 3:00 in the afternoon.
The only reason it is cool is that we get sloppy joes after and then I
chill with all the bros from my mtc. Everyone from my mtc group are ZLs
now, so it's cool to see those guys every once in a while.
The work is still pretty slow. Both our wards are
way weak. There's hardly anyone that has the priesthood. We pretty
much bless the sacrament all the time cause no one shows up. They say
the sacrament prayer like they're giving a speech. It has all these
crazy fluctuations of the voice like at the beginning, "Oh God, the
Eternal Father..." you're like shouting and then when you get to "...we
ask Thee in the name of thy Son..." it is like a quiet whisper. I'm
still getting the hang of it. They incorporate the cultural stuf like
that into like everything in the church. Sometimes it's good and then
sometimes it's not. The Samoan cultural stuff is pretty strong in some
villages. It makes the work hard sometimes. I guess it's sort of hard
to explain. It's a whole different world out here.
This week we went on a split with elders in our
zone. My comp stayed in Lepale and I went with one of the missionaries
in Lemoli. I was way stoked on it the whole time. The work in their
area is the best. We picked up like two new investigators and taught a
bunch of lessons and got a ton of referrals in just a few short hours.
It's basically cause the members are strong and willing to help out the
missionaries. Our area is just working with inactives all day. It's
cool though.
This week was sort of crazy too cause we've been
getting a ton of reports about two missionaries in our zone. We've been
meeting with their bishops and speaking to the missionaries to try and
help them, but it hasn't done much. And then we found out that they had
been drinking Ava Samoa with their ward mission leader and one of the
families in the ward. Ava Samoa is against the Word of Wisdom, so it's
bad news. Anyways, the mission president is dealing with their case,
but most likely they'll get sent home cause a ton of other stuff has
happened too. It's a bummer. You sort of just wish that missionaries
would just be righteous and stuff like that.
But it's all good. For zone meeting we played the
Water in the Face game. Everyone was stoked on it. When it was my turn
to go up, I made my topic, "Who is the most annoying missionary in the
mission?" And then Elder Massey, the brand new white kid, guessed Elder
Faitau, my companion. Haha, and then I splashed him in the face. Our
zone is tight. I'm stoked on it. My comp was all surly when he found
it was him I was thinking of. Haha, my comp is cool. I'm way stoked on
him.
Let's see...Uhhh...Our power is out again. The
power barely turned on at our house in Leauva'a, but then the next day
we moved back to Lepale where there is no power and running water. And
we forgot to buy candles, so once it gets dark, we just go to bed. So
we've been going to bed super early lately and then just doing our
planning in the morning.
Not much happened this week. We're just trying to
find new people to teach. It's tough bones, but it's all good. I'll
leave you with an old Samoan proverb I learned this week: "E le tau
masina ma tamali'i," which means "With gentlemen, one does not argue
about the moon."
Stay cool,
Elder Johansen
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