Hello There Neighbor,
This
week was like blades and pizza--they go together and they're always
nice. I, again, have little time to write. We're bizzy as a bone here
hittin' the Lotofaga kush.
Firstly, Mum and Pum, thanx for the package. It was
the dankest. It was full of candy and now, one week later, it is all
gone. I guess if it's there, I can't help but sit there and eat it.
Also, we gave out a lot to little kids and stuff so it was good. Also,
the tooth was grody (a gift from Katie put in the last package?) and
the picture of Matt is taped up in front of my desk. However, he is
making the "Kevin" look and makes me wonder whether it is actually just
Kevin with a beard. The lame aeropostale shirt is a telling sign.
But this week was mean--meaner than Mrs. Kestner
(his 3rd grade teacher.) We contacted this inactive family who haven't
been back to church in like 4 years and invited them to church and they
all came! They have a son who isn't baptized and is 10 years old so
we're going to plan for that for the 29th of June.
Also our other previously inactive family came to
church as well. This family is freaking tight. The mom's name is
Moevanu and the Dad is Sipara. It's been two weeks now that they've
come back to church. And they're stoked on it. THey're not married.
So we're trying to make that happen this Saturday (June 22nd) so then
Moevanu can receive a calling because she really wants one. Sipara
smokes, but says he wants us to help him quit. They're way cool. We've
been visiting them quite a bit. It's been way cool to help them. One
day we went over there to visit and Moevanu asked us if we could give
her 4 month old baby a blessing because he was sick. So then we did and
the next time we came, the baby had been healed. So they were mega
stoked and Moevanu asked us if she could name her baby after my
companion and I. Haha, so we were stoked. Also, we're trying to get
them to the temple eventually. That would be way cool.
Also, we've been teaching our investigator,
Siafausa. He is good and is definitely ready to be baptized this
weekend. He will be baptized together with our investigator, Sita, who
is 11. Siafausa lives with a member family in our vavau, and his wife
is a member as well. Sita is funny and way stoked on primary and
church. I'll let you know next week how the baptisms went.
Also, we taught our new investigator, Epenesa.
She's 18. She has a lot of good questions. Her aunt and uncle are
members so we did the lesson at their house. The member guy was being
way distracting and saying random irrelevant stuff the whole time.
Haha. Sometimes members suck. Nah, it's good though. We'll probably
just have to go over the lesson first with the family before we're
actually with Epenesa. She seems good though. We'll see what happens
with her.
We have big plans for this upcoming week. So hopefully we can see some great miracles coming up shortly.
Things
are really good though. The area is really picking up right now. We
have quite a few investigators who could potentially be baptized this
month.
The mission is going by crazy fast. I'm just trying
to kill it and destroy it and shred the gnar before I have to leave.
It's so sick though. I love it. It sort of hit me how short of time I
have left. I just want to make the best of it and do tons of good
before I'm gone. I guess I have been inadvertently living my mission by
mom's (shopping) rule "In, out, quick, quick, quick!!!" at least that's
how it feels anyway. It's good though.
I'm looking at the picture of the giant turtle I pasted to the wall and I'm wondering what it's thinking.
I'll leave you with a quote: "There is no end to badboys, there is no end to blades."--Daunte from Boyz N Blades
Love,
Elder Eric "The Squire of Samoa" Johansen
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