Hey everyone and Family! Well this week was an alright week for LPE, we didn´t receive many good references but we did complete with our goal of 140. Everywhere we did our LPE, the people wouldn't listen to us or they always said that they have their faith, so this week we are going to come up with a better plan on how we can locate the chosen. We were able to however bring two investigators to church, its been like a long time since that happened, but we were very excited to have had them with us. The first one we had with us was Marielos, I´ve already explained a little bit about her, but all we really have to do now is to get her married to Hno. Rodrigo Carmen, and yes he already is a member. Once we get them married she should be able to get baptized by the end of this month, we´re super excited and working hard to get that done. Our other investigator is really special, we contacted her doing LPE, we had already visited her once before about the restoration of the gospel, and she was a little uncertain about it because she has visited a bunch of didn´t churches and has been baptized in a few them. So we left her with the promise that if she would pray with a sincere heart to really know that what we have taught her is true, she would receive her answer. So the next time we went back and asked her if she had prayed to find out the truth, she told us yes but hasn´t received her answer. We followed the promptings of the spirit and asked her what was she expecting to receive and asked her how she felt after the prayer, and after that she told us that she felt peace and comfort. I thought of two scriptures, John 16:7-13, and Galatians 5:22-23, we talked about when Jesus Christ was resurrected and said that he would send the Holy Spirit to guide us, and then we talked about how the holy spirit works. After talking about those principals, she told us and said that she knows that she received her answer and that what we were telling her was true and that she would attend church. That´s just a testimony builder for me of why it is important to follow the promptings of the spirit. All in all we are working hard to find those who are chosen, we know there are some out here we just have to keep digging harder to find them. So I heard dad was sick, well yea I would get sick to if I ate almost 2 pounds of pure salt! Sounds good that Steven was able to skype you from Afghanistan. Tell him to write me if he has the chance, it doesn´t need to be a big letter, just a couple of words would be nice! I wrote him all the time when he would write back! Oh and tell him that he´s the Devil, just say it and he will understand. :D Oh I found out I might be here another three more months because my companion leaves for Mexico August 13th. President told me he might send me a miny missionary, a miny missionary is when someone from this country is getting ready to be a missionary and they have the opportunity to serve for a month and half with the Elders before they leave to go on their mission. So I will be training another greenie and it is not easy to train a greenie, more stress for me. Oh and mom just remember, I´m never going have the opportunity again to shower with warm water, at least until I get home. I can´t believe a lot of my friends will be coming home from their missions soon! I bet that´s something they are hating right now. Well I must be going, we have to go get the visa papers for Elder Vargas. You are all in my prayers and I love you. Send my love to Grandma and Grandpa (all of them). Till next week!

Love Elder Johnson

Dear Everyone,

How´s it going? This week we weren´t able to finish with our LPE goal, we thought about why, and sure enough it´s when we get to our Mondays, we always seem to fall short on Mondays, we end up always saying we will finish during the week then we procrastinated. It never works thinking that we could finish it another day and then before we know it, its Sunday. Yup we will not do that anymore, it doesn´t feel good not completing a goal! We talked about it for a long time, and decided to always do LPE even on Mondays. We always thought since it´s after six we didn´t need to talk anybody, but that never works, and that´s not who we are supposed to be. I was thinking about my calling, we are MTC, which means, we are missionaries all the time, including Mondays, so we´ve put that in practice and I'm sure it will help. We were able to get one of our investigators to come to church, she is progressing very well, all we need to do with her is get her married and then we can baptize her, she has talked to her boyfriend and he agrees that they should get married because baptism for her is really important. Hno Marciano and his family didn´t show up to church. We even passed by their house to bring them but they weren't there. Hno really wants to get baptized, but I told him if he really does and loves the Savior then he needs to show Him. We defiantly can´t do that for them, so I think I´m going to leave after we have one more visit with him. Everything else here is going great, we are striving to improve our weaknesses every day, still praying and trying to search for the chosen. We try to set goals that we know are possible to achieve. So I enjoyed the picture that you sent, I really enjoyed seeing my two Nephews, I can´t believe how fast they´ve grown, time defiantly flies by too fast. It will be weird getting home because they will have no idea who I am. So I heard Steven left, I never thought it would be that hard to hear that he left, but when I read the letter it was really hard. I know that God will protect him, maybe teach him something's he needs to learn out there. If we are both lucky we will come home at the same time and wouldn´t that be nice for mom. :) I speak spanish basically all the time dad, my companion is Latino after all and probably the only time I speak English is when I´m with the Zone Leaders who are Gringos. My spanish is not perfect, nor do I think it will be after my mission, there is still lots of times were people can´t understand me but it´s been way better than it ever was. I just need to fix the grammar up a bit! So we have interviews with President this week, interviews with president are so good, he´s defiantly an inspired man. He was called to be my mission president for lots of reasons and I´m thankful for him. Well that's all I have for the week, you are all in my prayers. Tell my grandparents that I love them. Till next week!

Love you all,

Elder Johnson

This week was a good week for LPE, oh and LPE is when we talk to people off the street or knock on their door and talk to them for 2 min. about the gospel. We were able to finish with 140, I can honestly say I see the blessings from it, it all makes sense to me now, if we don´t do our LPE, we won´t find people who are chosen and are willing to hear the lessons, so really our focus right now is to complete every single week with 140 LPE's. So this week we were able to get one of our investigators to church, her name is Hna Carmen, really all we need to do is get her married to her boyfriend who is a member, we talked about it with them Sunday and they agree that they need to get married because she really feels that she needs to get baptized. We have a family that we are working with right now, they have five in their family, one of them is a member already. They say they want to get baptized and learn more about the gospel but they didn´t show up to church on Sunday. We went by their house on Saturday and they told us they would like to come, we even told them that we would stop by to pick them up, so we did, and they weren´t home. So the next time we pass their house we are going to be stern with them, we can´t do everything for them and they need to make their own decisions! But I will still continue to pray for them. I learn something new every week, this week has been another learning experience for me. There are things I need to improve on, I know I´m not the best missionary and that I will never be perfect, but as long as I keep on trying to improve, I believe that God will help me. We have been a little more successful in getting our ward members active in our activities, they have helped with the missionary work and we had a little better attendance. It just goes to show that activities in the ward can really help with those who are less active. So that was my week. It was really good to hear about the dream Aaron had, it just goes to show that Heavenly Father is very aware of our thoughts and prayers and He works in mysterious ways. Gods work is mysterious, He even uses other people to answer ours prayers sometimes. I know that grandma is in a better place, and really we are not to far away from her, we just need to finish our purposes here on earth then we can be with her again. Ok about this allergy thing, I´ve already told you once at the beginning of the mission, but I know how there is a certain point in life where we start forgetting things and stuff with age. HAHAHAHA! I developed an allergic reaction in Provo, but the thing is they don´t know what causes it, it just shows up very randomly. We will figure it out after the mission, it´s not deadly or anything like that! We don´t have changes until Aug. 1st dad since you asked. Well tell everyone hello and that I love them. Thank you for all your prayers, I love you all.

Love Elder Johnson