February 6, 2012

Dear Family,

Well, life out here in Mexico is pretty great, I´m not going to lie. I have recovered from the little cold that I had. That is a bit of great news. Oh, and also I finally have my bed back. Let me tell you, the phrase "you don´t know what you’ve got till it´s gone" is so true. The best part about the whole sleeping on the floor experience, is the added measure of appreciation for my bed when it finally returned home to me! Ha ha I have not slept so good for a whole week!

Anyway, about the bed,... The reason for why the bed was at the church was for the activity that Elder Soto and I put together. Which went amazing!!!! It was really such a blessing to see that the Lord blessed us so greatly for the time and effort that we put into the show. It was really quite a fun experience.

There was more people up on stage than out in the audience, but I am not complaining. We were able to bring 7 investigators to the activity, and each one of them told us that it was really an eye opener that they could apply the scriptures to their lives. One of those who came was the Hna. Nancy. She really is such a great lady. She came, loved it, and then came to church the following Domingo. We have an appointment with her tomorrow. Also, one of the biggest miracles that we saw this weekend was with the Hna. Rosalva. She is one of our investigators who we had stopped visiting because we could never find her. We had a little bit of time this Saturday, and we were close by her house, so we just decided to drop on by and see how she was doing. Miracle #1 She was home. Miracle #2 We didn´t even get to enter into her house because she had visitors, but we invited her to the church the following day, and she told us that she would come. Miracle #3 She came! So yeah, Elder Soto and I were pretty excited about that.

There was a sad ending to the missionary activity on Friday though. Elder Soto felt the need to take a photo of everyone who had come and participated. So he put his camera up on a table that was on top of another table. (p.s. for future reference, this is not a good idea). You can guess what happened. Well, he lost his balance, and bumped the table, which resulted in the camera falling to the ground. Okay in this moment the camera was probably still okay. Then the table on top of the other table decided that it wanted to take a dive after the camera (who know, perhaps it wanted to catch it or something). The table ended up falling on top of the camera and completely destroying it. Elder Soto was pretty bummed out about that. But life goes on.

Well, I love you all. I love this gospel. I love the comfort and joy that it brings as we apply the principles and teachings into our daily lives.

Love Elder Johnson