August 15, 2011

Dear Family,

Well, it was so good to hear from you this past week. It sounds like there is a lot going on at home. That is great that people have decided to move into the other house. At least it will get a little use, and not just sit empty. Is Jackie just soooo excited to be starting the 6th grade. She is now one of the BIG kids of the school. Good Luck.

Well, as for me, the weeks fly by. I cannot believe how fast the time goes, I still feel so green out here in the field, and I realized that I have like 5 months here in Mexico.

Well, you want some details about my life? It is great here in San Jose 2b. My companion Elder Rovaldi is really a great guy. He always has a smile and a joke to tell. It really helps to lift the mood. There is a lot of heat here and the sun is really strong, but we have something special here in the Baja that is not in Sinaloa. A breeze! So the heat is not so bad. The church is about three kilometers away from where we live. It is the area of the other Elders. The house is fine. We do not have a million cucarachas, but if we leave the windows open to take down the heat, a cat enters and eats all of our good food! It leaves all of the granola, and only eats the cereal. So yeah, when we return to the house in the night it is like walking into a oven.

Well, the big news for this week is an investigator who we found. Her name is Myra Mesa. She is twenty and has been living here in the baja alone for about 4 months. She has a four year old daughter who lives back in Mexico with her mom. She moved here to get away from her boyfriend. He manipulated her, and was not true to her. So she really felt alone and really sad. We were walking down the street, not really contacting, just looking. Then we decided to try this one house. When we showed up at her door, Myra answered and she told us to come right on in. We taught her, and the lesson was AWESOME! She came to church, and her experience with that was a miracle in itself. She was walking around lost, and had no idea how to get there. Then by coincidence some other missionaries of the other ward found her, and helped her to the church. It was great. We taught her after church yesterday to resolve some of her doubts, and she confided in us that two days before she met us she had prayed that she could alleviate from the pain that she felt. She told us that when she saw us, she was just filled with happiness. And in the church she felt so good that she did not want it to end. My testimony has grown so much this past week while working with Myra. I know that there are people who are being prepared by our Father in Heaven, and if we are obedient, and follow the Spirit, we will be able to find them. There were too many "coincidences" with Myra that it is impossible to think that we were just that lucky. Our Father in Heaven was providing a way for Myra to hear this gospel. She accepted a baptismal date for the 27 of August. We will see how that goes.

Well, other than that, I think that life has not changed much. I just want you to know that I love you all so very much, and I pray for you always. I know that our Father in Heaven cares about our family.

Love,

Elder Johnson