4-8-13

Wazzup in the hood familypants!  Sup Z????

It's all good.  This week has been a lot like the duck who walked into the pharmacy to buy some ointment for his beak.  "Please good sir," he said walking up to the counter.  "I would like to buy some ointment for my beak.  It is very chapped."  Acknowledging the duck, the pharmacist then replied cooly, "We have nothing for ducks here."

That was a lot what this week was like.  So definitely a good one.  The mission president recently approved all songs from the band, "Binky", so you know we've been playing all the biggest hits.  The only bummer thing is that they're all just holograms--what a bunch of phoneys.

But nah, it's good.  This week my comp finished his mission.  I was really sad to see him go.  We were comps for like 5 months.  I learned a lot from that dude.  So now I'm splitting with some elders in the zone in Malaela.  It's alright.  I always hate going for prolonged splits though.  It's like you have to start getting used to everybody all over again.  Plus, I'm anxious to get back to my area cause there's good stuff going on in Lotofaga.  But is has been good, nothing crazy exciting.

I still don't know who my new companion is going to be.  I'll let you know.  The APs were saying the transfer is probably next Wednesday, so I don't know if that is Mom's "next" which means in like 2 days or if that actually is next week.  We'll see, I guess.

This past weekend was conference.  It was the sickest ever like always.  You always feel the spirit way strong and learn lots of new stuff.  They had it in English so we split up and all the English speakers got to watch conference on the comfy chairs in the air conditioned high council room.  So it was nice.  I was stoked that they had it in English too cause the Samoan translation is always super bad and has like long gaps where there's no words.  We had to get up super early to watch it cause our stake was having it on live which was sweet cause I watched it the same time you guys did--so that was sweet.  

Also this week I hit my 6 months left mark.  That's nutso butso man.  It's going by really fast.  Mom is probably stoked.  (Mom says--you got that right, honeyboy!!!  Woot!  Woot!)  I''m just trying to make the best of it--trying to do as much good as I can before I have to leave.  But that's still pretty far away so I'm not too worried.  

However, despite my awesome prank on April 1st, I'm going to be finishing in October, so go ahead and sign me up for Snow.  I was thinking BYU, but it's way too expensive.  I'm pretty sure I have college credit from my AP Psych class in 11th grade, but I'm not sure where it floated off to cause I haven't been to school yet.  

Things are good though.  I'm loving the mission.  It's the best thing ever.  There's a lot of good things happening in Samoa and I'm glad to be a part of it.  

Lovingly and longingly (with girlishly drawn hearts dotting the "i"s),

Elder Johansen

PS:  I was pleasantly surprised to see Andrew Howden's handsome face smiling out at me from the TV screen when I was watching conference...just wondering it it's just me that noticed?

PPS:  And yes, we do have water now.  It was only for like three weeks we were without water so don't worry.  And never call the mission office--I would be highly embarrassed in front of all my cool friends.  Really though, everything is good--don't worry.