October 1, 2012

Good Morning Family, How has your week been coming along? Mine has been quite interesting. Let me tell you a little about it. Well right now, we have some very promising investigators. My companion and I are just super excited!!! I´ll tell you first about Hna. Yahira. She is a super awesome lady who we have been teaching for the past three weeks. She has a son named Diego, and is separated from her husband. She is going to be baptized tomrrow at 7:00. Yayyyy! Her mother is a recent convert of about 3 months. Their story really is a special one. She (Yahira) came to know the gospel thanks to her brother (Alan Jones). He has been a member for about 3 years, and is currently serving as a missionary in the eastern states of America. He gave his sister a book of Gospel Principles to read like a year ago, when she lived in San Lucas. She read it, and when she moved here to Mazatlan she began to listen to the missionaries and take the lessons. I love thinking about the story of this family, because it really makes me feel the spirit, and understand the importance of families. Alan left to serve a mission 5 months ago. (oh, and a little bit of background information, I met Alan Jones when I was in Mazatlan for the first time... small world) When he departed, he was the only member in his family. 2 months after he entered into the MTC in Utah, his mother got baptized, and now his sister is going to follow her example. They have the goal to be sealed for eternity once Alan returns home from his mission. I can only imagine how he must feel. It must be such a joy to know that you have the hope to be sealed together with your family returning from the mission. It is a blessing that often times I have taken for granted. I believe that they should write down their conversion story. Yesterday in church they talked about keeping records (Journals) of the things that happen in our lives. I am now beginning to understand the importance of this. In 50 years in would be wonderful for the future generations of this family to look back and see how their family came to know the Gospel. I really love this work. I love these people. There is nothing that gives me more joy and happiness than helping these blessed people here to realize and appreciate the sacrifice the Christ did for us. Oh, and so here is an exciting event that has occurred in this past week. I did divisions with Elder Livingston from my generation. He is here in Mazatlan as our Zone Leader, and we got to do divisions. I had not seen him for a good 6 months. No we have 4 months left, and it was very special to see how we both had changed since we were in the MTC so long ago. That has been quite the experience. Anyways, I love you all. I must be going, because there are many things to do. Be Happy! Love, Elder Johnson