9-30-13

September 30, 2013

This week was transfers.  I'm staying in Lotofaga.  It's for sure now that I'm going to finish here.  By the time I leave, that will make nine months here.  But it's sweet cause I love the area.

My new comp is Elder Save'u, from here in Upolu.  He is a good dude and real obedient, so it's good.  I'll miss Gasio though.  We were companions for a solid 5 months.  He left and took all his food and his candy though, so we're trying to figure out what we're going to eat now.  Luckily we have this big pig leg in the freezer we can cook up at any time, so maybe we'll do something with that.

This week has been a few early mornings.  We got up before 5 on transfer day cause we had to go pick up a bunch of people.  And then we had a temple trip with one of our wards and had to get up at 3:30 and get ready so we could be at the temple in time for baptisms for the dead at 6:00.

The temple trip was way awesome.  First was the baptisms for the dead with the youth, and then after we went to the endowment and then sealings.  The endowment was for this woman we have been working with for a few months now to prepare for the temple.  She was sealed to her husband and her kids right after.  It was a cool experience.  The woman's name is Malia and her husband is Usoalii.  Usoalii is actually our ward mission leader and even served a mission.  But for whatever reason, he never wanted to get sealed to his wife.  Malia told us that tons of missionaries have tried to get them in the temple, but Gasio and I were the first ones that could finally convince him to do it.  So that was a way dope experience.

Our snake is doing good.  She is a trooper.  And all our crabs are dead but one, Sipologo.  Sipologo is the man and is the king of the bathroom.

I've got exactly one month left from today.  That's pretty nuts.  I think next week will be my last letter.  Otherwise, I would just be writing letters to myself if I were to write any after that. It has been the best.  We're hoping to take it up this month and rip up the work in this area.  

Elder Johansen