December 3rd

Family,

 

I hate to break it to you, but this week was really rough, and I don´t really know much to say. It was a really long and HOT and HUMID week. I would give anything to be in 120 degree weather right now. Just please get rid of this humidity. Then we hear it every single day. "Just wait til january and february, it gets even worse..." The other bad thing is that we don´t always get time to wash clothes. before it wasnt that much of a problem cuz there wasnt much sweating, but now its super hard to wear a shirt more than once with out being repulsed by your own stench let alone making others smell it.

 

Enough of that though. Just some things that happened through out the week... Early on in the week, we had a lesson with a recent convert, he´s super weird but super funny. He lives with his 84 year old mom and takes care of her. He{´s like 55 or something. We asked if we could say a prayer, and we said it, and when we finished he had both his arms extended high into the air. Then we asked him wahat he was doing and he said, "Oh I saw it on an evangelist tv station, so I wanted to try it." Then his mom, also a member, proceeded to do a cross over her body with her fingers, and she said we´re the religion that does that right? Then we told her no, and she apologized and started rambling on about how her neighbor is catholic and always yells at her for being mormon or something like that. Then its really funny too, because when he says prayers, after everything he says he says, "in the name of Jesus Christ" So we have to listen very carefully to make sure we hear him say Amen when he ends the prayer its really funny, and in his prayer he also asked for a blessing on his mom so that they could find someone to give her a hair cut so that she doesn´t look like a crazy witch when she wakes up in the mornings. Its quite the visit every week.

 

Then apart from that, not really a good thing, but something I just6 remembered. We were doing service on saturday, and this time we were making a floor out of cement. I was smoothing the cement, and i flinged some in my eye. It hurt a ton obviously, and I got up and started toward the water, when I fell in a hole and scrapped up my leg really bad and got my shoe all wet. Then I washed my eye for about 40 minutes and it wouldnt come out then we got q tips and toilet paper and attempted with that, didnt work. So eye figured I would just wait til we got home so i could use the shower and get a solid flow of water in my eye. Then the member calls me over and tells me that when I fell in the hole, I broke his water pipe... So my companion is trying to help him while I still have cement in my eye, when our branch president shows up. He tells me to wash it some more (2 hours later) I told him I had been for forever, and he says give me some toilet paper. Then tr

ies again. Then he tells me again, wash your eye. So I washed and washed and washed for another 30 minutes or so, then it finally came out. For the rest of the day though, I had a swolen eye, and I woke up the next day with it glued shut. Luckily it is better now, but it was very very painful. Also in the middle of the week I was playing soccer with some kids and I fell on some glass and sliced my hand open. Its been quite a rough week.

 

The missionary side of it, we have been finding some new investigators. Which is really good for this area. We´ve been working with a lot of les actives who say they will be at church, then they dont go... its hard but hopefully what we do now will change their minds in the future. Also, we met a lady, who seems pretty solid, she wanted to know why there are so many churches in the world, so we told her :) She seemed to except it, then we asked her if she really sincerely wanted to know what church is true, and she told us yes. So we gave her a part of the book of mormon to read, and told her that if she reads it and prays sincerely and asks God, she can know for her self that his is the true church. We have a lesson later in the week with her, and hopefully everything turns out good with her!

 

It's so weird for it to be so hot, and be christmas time, we´ve started singing christmas hyms, and transfers are this next week. once I find out who my comp is for sure we´re going to go by a little christmas tree. I hope you all have a good week, and hope your weather stays cool. Just remember im suffering over here while youre enjoying a nice cool breeze. Love you lots! Til next week!

 

Elder Johnson