This was a good week, we were able to finally complete with 140 LPE, it feels so good to complete a goal, I´ve never my entire mission completed this goal. I know it´s sad! It defiantly feels good that we did it, nothing is impossible if we can complete a goal like this. We weren´t able to bring our investigators to church, we tried calling them and even passed by their house, but it just didn´t seem like they wanted to go, so we are just going to look for those who are ready to listen and that are chosen. We are having problems getting members to lessons with us, it only seems like four members want to work with us, but a lot of their problem is that they have families to take care of and we can´t always take them out with us. I don´t know but we will be having a meeting with Bishop about it. We actually have a meeting with the Bishop and the Ward Mission leader today, we will have our plan Mission ready by the end of that day. We are striving to study hard every day on how we can better ourselves as missionaries and help serve our ward better. We were able to see Wilmer at Church today, that was awesome to see him, we talked to him and he told us that he talked to his boss about getting Sundays off, he works every other Sunday. It´s just so good to see that he is applying the commandments of God in his life and he is willing to change. Sounds like everyone is doing great. I´m having some problems with an allergic reaction again, the nurse says it might not even be an allergic reaction, I guess we will find out. So it is really Hot here, and it rains a lot, but other than it´s really going good. I love you all and you are all in my prayers.

Love Elder Johnson

Hi friends, please forgive my lack of posting! Ive been super busy. I added 3 of Gavin's past letters, starting with June 4th. That should catch us up. Enjoy!

Kristen :)

Hello everyone,

 

This week was a good week and a bad week for us, we were able to get Wilber baptized and it definitely was a neat experience for him.  He seemed so happy after the baptism, he told me before he was a little bit nervous because he didn´t know what to expect.  But right after, he told me he felt great and how happy he was, it´s just so awesome the way people want to change their lives, and they get to receive that change, it´s great how happy they feel after baptism. So we were so focused in figuring out how we were going to get our investigators to church, we missed out on  opportunities to teach others.  I have put a lot of thought into focusing on how we are going to find the chosen, we have a really good plan of how we are going to do that this week. We were able to have two investigator show up to church and they are two families, we are also going to focus on helping them. I also enjoyed the talk by Elder Maynes, I have thought a lot about what he said and it has helped me want to be a better missionary. Well I heard that mom got released from her calling!  Just remember mom, God will have a different calling for you, you will still have a different purpose to perform, Bishop will just have to figure out what that is. :)  The only thing I don´t like about my ward, I don´t like to say it but, they don´t like to work!  So having members bring investigators to church is almost impossible!  But we and the presidency of the ward have a plan of how we can help, we will try it out and find out how it will work. Oh I almost forgot to say Happy Fathers day to dad, and that´s fine that you took $700 out of my account, but it looks like it will be paid back to me when I return home! haha! Make sure you tell grandpa Williams and grandpa Johnson Happy Fathers Day also and that I love them!  I have been taking a lot of pictures, matter of fact, I actually bought a 16gb flash drive to store all of my pictures and I have filled a lot of it up, it should be full by the time I return home. Well I love you all, you are all in my prayers, keep strong and remember to have faith in God.  Till next week!

Love Elder Johnson

This week was a good week on lessons, we are improving little by little. And no we weren´t able to get Wilber baptized, he had to work a lot this last week, so there was no interview.  But next week we have everything planned, we will be able to get him interviewed and baptized. We are having so much difficulty getting our investigators to come to church!  I´ve seriously done almost everything I can do to get them to come, they always say that there going to, we even go by their house´s before church to bring them, but it never works.  I guess we will just keep trying till we get them there. We are still striving every day to focus on the needs of our investigators in our studies, also on how we can become better in meeting our goals every week. We were able to have counsel meeting with the ward and we have some pretty good goals in how we can be better missionaries and how the ward can help us in this work.  I´m hoping we will see some good progress. Oh about the girl JaKell that died, I really didn't know her too much, but it just goes to show that this life is fragile. We can never know what to expect, but God does!  That´s why we have His promise that if we are doing everything we´re supposed to do, we are promised eternal life, that´s why He says prepare now and don´t wait, because we don´t know when it will be our time to go home.  It can be a long life or a short one, but God does love us and wants us to be happy while we are here, we all have a purpose, we all have our callings to be fulfill, whether it be here or in the spirit world. Oh and about the marriage you told me about, Wow!  I don´t know why but that would be terrible if someone backed out of a temple marriage or didn't show up, I think that´s a hundred times worse than someone standing up there fiance at a normal wedding! I seriously can´t believe Jake and John are almost home, the time is going by way too fast!  I only have one more change until I have 1 year in the mission, and I keep hearing that it just gets faster and faster by the other missionaries, just when you don´t want it to. Our ward here in Arce is actually very small right now, we have a lot of less actives.  But we are working with the leaders in the ward to change all of that, we hope that these goals will work. Well I love you all, you are all in my prayers, keep strong in your faith of Christ.  And remember we never know when its are time to be called home so we should be preparing now!  Till next week,

Love Elder Johnson

Hey everyone!

 

How are you all doing? So this week was actually a really good week for us, we were able to get two investigators to church, one of them is Wilber, the investigator I told you about that we were working with, (I accidentally said that his name was William but its not), so we will hopefully get him baptized this week.  We will get him interviewed this week for sure.  I have seen him grow a lot since we started teaching him, he has opened up to us a lot more especially with questions about the gospel. All in all, this was a good week, we were also able to get Romeo at the church, he seemed to enjoy it very much. One thing I would like to say is that, being bold is super important, that's one thing I have learned!  He and his family are members of the Tabernaculos, and they have been attending that church for 12 years, he received a Book of Mormon and has actually read half of it, he believes it´s another Book of God.  But before they still thought their church was true and I didn´t take a stand to show them why our church is true, I told them to pray about it but they never took that step.  When Elder Harvey came on division in our area, he talked to them boldly but in a loving way, he pulled out scriptures of how we could know what a true church contains.  They listened and understood and came to church.  So I know that it is really important that we are bold in bearing our testimony, but in a loving way so we can help our brothers and sisters come unto Christ.  Every thing is going great here, we are working hard and still searching for people who are willing to listen to our message. It´s been raining a lot here, and been super humid, but what's new I´ve lived in the heat my whole life.  So we only have 2 weeks until we have changes and we don´t know anything yet, I will have to wait and see what happens!  My companion hasn´t left for Mexico yet, but anyways, that´s all I have for this week, I love you all, thanks for your prayers. Till next week,

Love Elder Johnson