January 14, 2013

I know being from Arizona and everything is going to make this sound a little weird. But its 60 degrees here and I am dying in this heat haha. It´s nice and hot here in the summer of Ushuaia, and im glad to hear that everyone is enjoying a nice cool winter in Arizona. I honestly never thought I would be excited to see 60 degrees with a lot of sunshine but its nice to finallynot have to leaave the house ina sweatshirt to go to work. So the other day, we went to contact an old investigator who went on vacation. (Vacation here means youre gone for 1 to 2 months.) We went to their house to see if they were home yet, and in this part of the city you have to clap your hands, then the people come out. We clapped our hands and no one came out. Clapped again, and still no one. Then we clapped really loudly, (half out of anger other half in hopes someone was just deaf haha) Then as we do that, some one comes out of the neighbors house. She tellsus that her name was Micaela, we gave her a pamhlet about the restoration and she told us where she lives and said we could come by. She also told us that she has a friend who is a member of another ward in ushuaia. So we went by her hosue on saturday to invite her to church and she was asleep so we just left a not inviting her to church. The next day we show up to cjhurch, and no investigators. Our ward starts off with the classes then we go to sacrament meeting last. So then we get a call right before sacrament starts and it was our leader telling us that someone went to their church with a friend and said that we went by and left a note at their house. Thinking it was her, after church we passed by her house and started talking to her. She told us that she had never been, but we found out that her 10 year old sister has been a few times with their friend from the other ward. We talked a little bit about the book of Mormon, and at the end invited micaela to be baptized and she accepted. Sadly her little sister is a little bit of a cry baby and she came in crying and complaining to the mom and we had to leave with out even saying a closing prayer, but we{re going to pass by again today to talk to them and set up another appointment ot meet with them. It was really nice to finally have something happen after 5 weeks of hard work and a lot of walking, and I know that through sincere prayer and faith we found this family. They have a lot of problems within their family and I{m excited to see the changes that the gospel will bring in to their lives. Thank oyu everyone for all your prayers for me, I can really feel them and Im so grateful for all of your support. Hope you have a great week, dont forget to read and pray every day! Love you all! Love, Elder Johnson