April 29, 2013

Hello again, This past week was pretty fun. We started helping the father of a member build his house. We have been helping a little with that every day, and I havge been learning quite a bit of carpentry skills. I´m pretty much a craftsman now. It was also a really good week cuz we had a conference with out mission president and I got to go back to Ushuaia for the conference. I stayed in my apartment from my last area, it was really weird to have to sleep on the ground and not in the bed that I once slept in, but it was still really fun. I felt like I was back where I belonged. We also learned something that hit me really hard. He talked about how everything we do in life should be looked at like this... What is the Vision we have for the subject. What is the goal we want to set. What is the plan to reach that goal. and what is the action we must do to fulfill the plan. for example, If you have the vision to make a delicious chocolate cake, your goal would be to make the perfect batter, the plan to do that would be to get all the best ingredients, and following that the action would be buying them and mixing them together. No idea if that makes any sense like that., That was the best example that came into my head super quickly, it makes a lot of sesne to me when I think of it with my investigators haha. Anyway, it was a super good way to plan things in our lives and the apostles and prophets said if we plan things like this, and also using chapter 8 of preach my gospel, we´ll never have problems acheiving our goals in our lives. Thomas S. Monson also said something like this once. " Discipline is the bridge between goals and acheivments." So as we set these goals and are determined to really acheive them, we really will be able to see the success in our lives. I think an Apostle said, "Imagine the nicest care you want, if you follow these simple steps and this chapter of preach my gospel in everything you do in your life, you will be able to buy that car at some time in your life time." So just a heads up, at some time in my life I WILL be driving a corvette :). Anyway, 2 weeks from now I´ll be calling home. So prepare some questions and I´ll be ready to answer! I hope you all have a great week, don´t forget to read and pray every day! I have come to grow a great love for the Book of Mormon in these past couple of weeks! I plan on finishing both the English and Spanish Book of Mormon within the next two months. It´s so great to see that we have the way prepared for us and all the things we need to know inside a book with 532 pages! All we have to do is sincerely read it with a pray always in our heart! God does answer prayers! I love you all so much! Until next week! Rohacha chû! I don´t know if I spelled it right, but that is see you again in the language Guaraní! LOVE YOU!!! Elder Johnson