July 25, 2011

Dear Family,

How was your week? (¿Comò les fue esta semana?) I hope that all went well. (Espero que todo bien) My week went great. I had the opportunity to do divisions with those other missionaries in our district. We do divisions about once a week now. This is a change that the President has been initiating. It helps all of us to be more informed, and have more unity as a mission. (¡Mio estuvo fantástico! Tenia la oportunidad a hacer divisiones con los otros misioneros in nuestro distrito. Lo hacemos casi cada semana. Eso es un cambio que Presidente ha sido iniciando. Realmente nos ayuda a ser mas informado, y tener mas unidad en la misión. Yeah, my Spanish is lacking a lot, but all I can do is try my best, pray, and leave the rest up to the Lord.

Well, the big news of the past two days is that I'm BLIND!!!!!! Yeah, well, almost.... Yesterday in the church I was just sitting there, (minding my own business), when all of a sudden my eye really started to hurt. So we bought some eye drops, but they did do anything. When I woke up this morning it felt like I had sandpaper under my eye lid. Every time I moved my eye to look at things it hurt.... A LOT! So yeah, we went to the eye doctor, and they told me that I have an infection, and they gave my "special" eye drops. Yeah I don`t know if they'll do anything different, but we'll see in two weeks. All I can do is cry. Literally. My eye is leaking water, and everyone thinks that I am crying. It is kind of weird, because I have never met anyone who cries from one eye, have you? But the best part about this whole experience is that I get to Preach the Gospel in style now! I get to use sunglasses for ten days. I guess this is the best option. I guess the whole world won't ask me to give them my eyes for the next few days. I'm not joking, I have promised like four people to sackar my eyes with a spoon and trade them. I guess this is what I get for being soooo handsome.... I know, you’re all thinking (where is the humility?).

Anyways, yeah, other than this nothing much has been happening. I have been working hard with my companion, and I have learned a lot. This is a mission of Love and Service. I really was having trouble loving my companion, and I knew that this was affecting our ability to work (however little of it we did). So I was looking for ways that I could help this, and I was reading in the Gospels, and something that stood out to me was that Jesus was always serving others, and he had more love than anyone. I started to apply this in my companionship, and I really found out that when you serve someone with an open heart, you cannot help to love them. Another thing that really has been helping me, is that I need to stop looking for the bad. Because the truth is that I will always find it. I t is when I look past the bad that I really can start to be able to help him and me grow.

I'm glad that you had the opportunity to go to both of the farewells. I'm sure that they really are ready for this great work. And, of course Kyle would go Sky-Diving the week before his mission. I was going to wait till after mine... And about the letters, I have replied to everyone who has written me. The problem is here, in Los Cabos, it takes a whole extra week for the letters to arrive because it first goes to Mexico and then to the USA.

Well, I love you all so much, and I hope you have a great week.

Con mucho amor,
·Elder Johnson