Dear FAM.
So how are things going? This week has been a good week for me, we are working really hard over here. Well it looks like I will be here in the city Arce for 3 more months, because the Lord and President Glazier feel that I should train one of the new missionaries coming in to El Salvador. They promise me that it will be a learning and growing experience, and so far I believe that to be true, because of the many things I have already learned and how the Lord really does bless lives. I´m super excited and can´t wait for this experience, as it starts to dawn on me, my training went by so fast, I believe this training will go by even faster, as I´ve been told. After this training I will almost have a year, Wow!! Only when the time starts quickly moving is when you don´t want it to. This mission is seriously passing too fast, but man I have seen the blessings that have come with it. Well all is well here in my area, we are working with 3 families right now, one of them we are actually still working on marriage papers. I actually thought we were done, this paper thing will never end! Another family we´re working on, we just talked to them yesterday about families being sealed in the temple, and they really loved the idea of that. One of them is already a member, but the husband is not, we are starting to prepare him for baptism. The last family we´re working on is a super great family. They have so much faith, especially after the trail that they have had in their lives. Right before the wife was baptized she had a baby, along with that, the husband almost lost his finger, the baby that they have gets sick a lot, but they still want to be baptized when everything settles down. What a blessing it is to see the great faith that they have. That´s really good to hear that everything going great over there, sounds like Bishop Ellsworth and his wife are excited to leave on their mission. Well I love you all, I have a lot to do and a lot ahead of me. Remember to say your prayers and read the scriptures. I will see the new missionary Wednesday, I will make sure that he feels welcome in the mission, hahhahaa! Seriously though, please keep me in your prayers, because really I have never ever trained anyone in my life, well except at Nielsen's, but that´s different! :)

Love Elder Johnson

Hello everyone, what´s happening? So everything is going great here, we are working with a few families. With one of the families we are just getting all of the paper work done for a divorce and then to get them married, that has been super hard to accomplish. That kind of paper work takes forever to get because there is always something that seems to go wrong, but in the end it is all worth it. We are also working with another family, they are all members of the church except the father, he seems really interested, his wife is an active member of the church, so that will help us out a lot with him and his need to understand the church. The cookies I received were super good, they were actually still fresh to my surprise, and they weren´t even smashed or nothing. It sounds like everyone is doing super good. It has been super hot here, but I guess I´m already used to it in a way. The only problem is here A/C doesn´t exist, when it´s hot everyone is killing to have even the smallest fan, oh well I will be fine I guess. So I don´t know if it´s true yet, but president Glazier wants me to train this next change, my companion told me, but it doesn´t mean that it will come true, I´m excited and nervous at the same time. I´ve never led an area or train any one so it will be a neat experience and also a growing experience for me. I can´t believe conference is almost here, it really just seemed like it wasn´t to long ago, but I´m super excited for it! I always love hearing what the talks are about, you always will learn something new and the best thing is actually applying those things we hear to our life. We always see the promised blessings if we do so. So I can´t believe mom seems to want to watch over me, it does seem kind of creepy! :) I´ve been out on my mission for almost 8 months mother, how can you still be worrying about me? I hope that when I get home you don´t kill me with your hugs and kisses! hahaha. So this week we have the privilege of hearing a talk by Elder Amado, one of the Seventy's, we will be getting pictures and get to greet him personally, so that will be a cool experience. I can´t wait to hear what he has to say. Well you are all in my prayers. Pray always and read the scriptures, always seek to receive revelations to help you endure to the end. I love you all.

Love Elder Johnson

Hey!!!! I'm glad to here everything is going good. I HAVE RECEIVED THE PACKAGE, You may send the ACTIVATION CODE!!!!! Yea I really did enjoy all of the food you sent. Me and my companion have already eaten all of the cookies, they were super good, my companion really loved them, he couldn´t stop eating them. So everything here is going super great, not much has really happened this past week because we are dealing with people trying to get divorce papers, and trying to get marriage papers, so we´ve been practically all over El Salvador. I'm still climbing hills all over the place! There getting much easier for me, everyone that I'm with seems to have a hard time with the hills, thanks to all of those hikes I did in Young men's. :) So for the past couple of days I've had an infection in my stomach, its because of the food I had at a members house! That's the only unfortunate thing about being here in El Salvador, you never know if you are eating bad food! Yet its strange, I can say it´s one of the best things I have ever eaten in my entire life! That stinks that Arizona is getting hot again, but that´s not news to me. Here in El Salvador it´s been the same, hot all of the time, but yet sometimes it can be nice. I haven´t seen rain in a real long time, maybe that will change. My Spanish is going alright, I really need to fix my grammar, it is super bad, but some say it takes a long time for that to come. Well I love you all, nothing has really happened this week. Tell Grandma Johnson that I love her and I pray that she will get better. Tell Grandpa J. and Grandma and Grandpa W. that I love them, and that they are in my prayers also. Till next week,

Love Elder Johnson