January 30, 2012

Hey!!!

How is everyone doing? Great? That is just fantastic. I am doing fine, thank you very much.

Well, I´ll cut to the chase, and tell you all what has been happening in my life over the course of the past week. I had a very tough week. I am not kidding. So if it was not one thing, then it was another. Don´t worry, all is well in Zion,... let me tell you all how it went.

Well, I have been down with a cold for the past week. It started to hit me this past Wednesday. That is never fun. I really struggled to keep up my excitement and attitude during these days. I also do not think that sleeping on the floor really has been helping. As it so happened, I leant out my bed to be used as a prop in our missionary activity. Elder Soto and I have rehearsed a great play, for our activity, about a teenager who struggles understanding the scriptures. It is really great, because he (one of the kids in the ward) is placed on the ground in front of the stage, and then all of the other kids are on the stage acting out what is happening inside his head. It gives a whole new meaning to the saying "our mind is like a stage". Then the boy’s father enters, and he helps him read the scriptures and understand what is going on. We are praying for miracles here, so that the whole act will come together in the end. We will have the performance this coming Friday at 7:00. So because of that, my bed has stayed there in the church, and I have been sleeping on the floor. Don´t worry it is not as bad as I make it out to be,... there aren’t any cockroaches in the winter!

Well, Elder Soto and I have been working really hard for this past week to help our investigators progress, and guess what? In place of move on, they have stopped progressing. It was really a trying week in this aspect. The Hna. Audelia who had a baptismal date for this past 28 of January has been hiding from us. The wonderful sisters Erika and Laura have not called us to come visit them for a week and a half. And all of the other people, we have not been able to find, or have gone out of town. We found this great family the past Saturday (the miracle of the week). It is a family that I had been teaching with Elder Romero like 9 months ago. The family is great, but the dad is atheist, or so he says. When asked who God is, his reply was "death, dreams and spirit". He then gave this really long, and frankly whimsical explanation for why that was. I should not be to harsh on the man, he was really drunk. But the mom and the daughter were really excited to return to the church. It really was a miracle. Kimberly the daughter came to the church all on her own, because her mom had some business to take care of in the home. If we can have a baptism in this coming week it will be quite miraculous.

Well, I love you all so much. I am super SUPER grateful for the opportunity that I have to be a missionary. Farewell. I love you

Love Elder Johnson

p.s. Jackie take good care of those pets, Tibbs and Curly and Zoey. And give mommy and daddy big hugs and kisses from me!

p.p.s. When does Elder (Benjamin) Johnson return?