August 29, 2011

Dear Family,

Thank you so much. I really enjoyed hearing about how things are going back at home. The truth is, even if I don´t want it to, life is passing by for everyone, not just me. Haha Sometimes my remarkable wisdom even surprises me.

Anyways as for me, life has been pretty tough this last week. Well to start off with, we had two baptisms planned for this past Saturday. They both fell. It is not that bad though. Noe Torres really just did not have the time to be able to be baptized and so he will definitely be being baptized for this coming Saturday! As for Myra Mesa, that is a whole different story all together. So we were doing divisions with the other missionaries in our area this past Wednesday, and so I was working in our area with Elder Tingey (really cool guy who is from Las Vegas). We were teaching Myra Mesa, and we had a super powerful spiritual lesson with her. Then right after wed left, those Testigos de Jehova showed up. (More commonly known as T-Jays or in other words Jehovah’s Witnesses) This is a common occurrence here in Mexico. Almost all of them go out and do "missionary" work. Their "preaching" to Myra consisted of saying a whole bunch of nasty things about us, and saying that we were from the devil, and that she was a bad person for even giving the time to listen to us. It wouldn´t be so bad, but they planted doubts in her mind, and now she questions everything. She was very confused. We had a good lesson with her after, and I really hope that she understood what we were getting at. We stressed greatly on the importance of prayer, and how if she wants to know the truth, she needs to ask someone who knows. Obviously we are humans, and so is everyone else. This means that we could be lying to her. But if she would put forth the effort and ask God, she would know for herself the truth of ALL things. We are going to have a Noche de Hogar (Family Home Evening) with her tonight in the house of the Hno. Alfaro with some other members who are really cool. I hope that everything goes well with her, and that she will be able to exercise her faith and be baptized. We will see.

Other than that, we have been doing pretty good. The food is great! Mexico is great! The weather is super hot! (well sometimes,... this week we had mostly clouds, so we didn´t get much sun, but it was still really humid) My companion is super! This area is magnificent! My Mission President is the best in the whole world hands down! We really have seen miracles in this transfer. There are two weeks left, and then Elder Rovaldi goes off for home. It really is crazy how fast these past few weeks have flown by.

Well, I must be going now. I love you all so much, and I pray for you all often.

Love,

Elder Johnson