Thursday, October 24, 2013

10-7-13

October 7, 2013

Dear the fams,
This week was good--not crazy eventful, however.  This will probably be my last letter I will send you.  By the time you get this, I will only be a week or so from coming home anyway.

We've again had some good success lately with some less active people.  We were able to commit two people to receive their endowment and then a bunch of our recent converts are all preparing to go to the temple for baptisms for the dead, which will be way sweet.  And we've also been helping these other less active dudes to quit smoking and stuff.  It has been pretty good.

The mission has gone by fast.  It's crazy.  I hit my two years mark a few days ago...it doesn't even feel like it has been that long.  It hasn't really hit me that I'm so close to finishing.  It probably won't until I'm on the plane, I guess.  It is going to be a sad thing to have to leave Samoa.  I've really grown to love these people a lot.

Yesterday I bore my last testimony in church.  It is really coming down to it.  I don't really know what to say this week.  It has been good though.

Our snake and crab are still doing good.  I've been wondering if it is worth it trying to sneak the crab in my suitcase.  We'll see what happens.

A crazy lady came to the house we were eating dinner at last night and then just sat down at the table and started eating with us uninvited.  Haha.  It was way funny.  There is this Samoan dish called lu'au that we were eating, but they didn't bring her a lu'au and she got all mad.  It was just an unusual experience.  And then she burped and left abruptly right after she finished eating.  Good stuff.

We're still working hard and seeing some good things happen.  I've only got a few weeks left so I want to give it my all.  We're hoping we can have some investigators ready for baptism before I leave, but I guess we'll see.

My mission has been the greatest experience so far and I will be supper bummed to leave.  But it's all good.

See you in a few weeks,
Elder Johansen

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