Dear Mom & the Magician,
This
week was good. We just spunked around with these navy dudes every day.
From Tuesday to Friday we just went to other villages with the navy
doctors and translated for them as all the people came in to get
checked. It was really good, and there was like only one word I
couldn't really convey--ultrasound, which I don't think there is a
Samoan word anyway so it's good. The doctors seemed appreciative that
we were able to help them. Plus we just got to hang out and eat food
and translate all week, so it was definitely a good one.
As for the work, this week was a little slow. We
did have a good lesson with Babi, and hopefully, she will be baptized
this month. We also had a bomb lesson with our investigator, Siafausa.
This dude is totally ready. He was set to be baptized this upcoming
Saturday, but since he is only available on the weekends, teaching has
been slow. So we were just afraid they would get everything ready for
the baptism but he has some unknown Word of Wisdom or chastity problem
or something. But then we talked to him on Sunday night and he's good.
We baked them a cake and they are stoked (Thanx Chin & Scott). So
Siafausa will be down for baptism next week.
We also picked up a new investigator named Genesa.
She's like 10 or so. Her aunt is the primary president in the ward and
their family is way cool. We talked to her for a little bit, and she
had good questions about the the plan of salvation and eternal families,
so I'm stoked on her. We're going to teach her and, hopefully, her
little sister as well at the primary president's house this week, so
that should be way good.
Also we contacted this new family this week who have
all been baptized but haven't been back to church for several years.
We talked to them and then invited them to church and they totally
came! I was stoked as a bumbling bean. The man's name is Tipusa, and
his wife is Moevanu. They have like 4 or 5 kids, so we're definitely
going to help try to bring them back into activity, which is sweet.
That's just as rewarding to me as baptizing a person. THe only thing
is that the parents aren't married, so we're hoping to get that done as
well. They said they're cool to get married, but we just have to wait
for our stake president to come back from New Zealand.
So I guess this week wasn't that slow really. It's
just that we didn't get that much proselyting work in because of our
translation work. But what missionary work we did get in was dopeage
and totally sick. So mean bones, my friends.
No much also to really report on for this week though. All is good.
Elder Johansen
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