Yoyoyoyoyo brothers,
Not
much time this week. Happy Mother's Day Mom! I think I again forgot
to mention it when we talked last last week. But it's cool. This week
was dope pants. We had a lot of success and picked up some promising
investigators and stuff.
One man name Pule that we have been teaching had a
cool experience this week. After we taught him and committed him to
pray whether the Church was true, he said he prayed that evening and
that night he had a dream where he met Joseph Smith and the Angel Moroni
and they told him he needs to quit smoking and to join the Church. It
was crazy when he was explaining it. I was way stoked. Pule is
preparing to be baptized this upcoming week. We also gave him a
blessing so he can overcome his smoking, but he said he rarely smoked
anymore so it won't be too hard for him to quit. This man has been way
prepared. He's been going to church forever but was never baptized
cause he said he was baptized in another church and didn't see the need
to be re-baptized. But now he's totally down, so I'm stoked to the
days.
Also, we picked up a few new investigators who we
committed to be married and baptized the first week of June. So,
hopefully, that goes down. So the work is excellent. I'm really hoping
I get to stay in the area. The transfer is next week. However, I
still have 2 companions, so something is for sure to change. I think I
may get transferred, actually. But I'll let you know next week.
Also this week we went and talked to the
Pulenu'u in Matatufu, a village in our area. The Pulenu'u is kind of
like a mayor, I guess, or the guy who oversees the village, like on of
the important chiefs in the village. He's not a member and isn't super
happy with the church either. We went to talk to him cause like a month
ago the village put a fine on all the people who have converted to the
Mormon Church and banned them from the Church. So we went to go talk to
him about changing the rule or trying to work something out. Honestly,
I was pretty 'skeered' cause when you talk to an important chief, there
is like a whole different language that you use, with different words
than people use just talking colloquially. Even my comp, Elder Levave,
doesn't know any of the chief language and he's from Samoa.
So we get to the house and the guy was sitting there
looking all angry-like. And then he asks us, very rudely, what we were
doing there and what our purpose was. But then we "soothed his soul"
and he let us in the house. We ended up talking for like two hours and
he really softened up to us. I had to do most of the talking cause my
comps aren't super confident with talking to people yet, especially not
orators and high chiefs and stuff.
We didn't really get a definite answer about
changing the rule, but the man ended up feeding us and asking us to come
back, so I take that as a victory. Perhaps someday the village will be
open to the church and then our investigator family can come back to
the church and be baptized.
But it's cool. I just thought that was sweet and it
was sort of fulfilling the scripture in the D&C -- "The fulness of
my gospel might be proclaimed by the weak and simple unto the ends of
the world, and before kings and rulers."
The mission is dope.
Keep spunkin' around the dunk bunk,
Elder Eric "Angelo from Boyz n' Bladez" Johansen
PS Thanks for the package!!! The speaker is way
nice and I am loving the jalapenos. It's been like 1 1/2 years since
I've eaten spicy food. Also my comp thought the leaf fossil was way
cool. Slapmaster Ice
No comments:
Post a Comment