September 30, 2013

Family, This week was a nice week in our area, and in our district. We divided palermo and things started going super fast. We saw so many miracles this week and blessings of the Lord in our work. One that surprised us a lot, was a lesson we had with our recent convert Teresa. When we got to her house we invited her husband to church on sunday. He´s always said that he had work and that he would some day but didnñt know when. This time was different, he told us that he had been talking to one of his co workers to be able to take his shift during church so that he could go and see what its like. So we commited him to do that and get it all settled before sunday. Then comes sunday morning and he was in church. He doesn´t want to accept a baptismal date still, but he´s starting to participate a lot more. The second one was when we were walking down the street, and we hear someone yell, Elders! So we turn around and see a girl that neither of us recognized. She lead us to her mom and her mom told us that she was a less active member of more than 20 years and wanted her daughters to get to know the church. We taught them, they accepted baptismal invitations, but due to some other things they had commited too they didn´t go to church on sunday... but we are going to keep going with them and help them prepare for their baptisms. So a couple of months ago we had zone conferences, and our mission president bought mcdonalds for every zone. then the day that we had our conference, something happened and we didn´t get mcdonalds. Him and his wife felt bad for me, because I had been helping with something in all the other conferences and so I knew that they were getting mcdonalds. So they promised me that one day they would take my companion and I to McDonalds... So today I received a call from president, and he said "hey, we´re going to your zone today to eat at a wendys... you´re invited and your entire zone too!" So because he is filthy rich he took us all to wendys. then, we broke the record of the mission in the month of september, and so he decided that he is going to take the entire mission to the zoo! The zoo is 100 pesos per person. There are 239 missionaries in the mission... so you that would be 24,000 pesos, Im pretty sure he´s paying for the majority of it....it´s insane. So the other thing that happened today, I was in the offices, and I met Elder and Sister Lines. I asked where they were from, and he said safford, arizona... Then it clicked! This is the family grandpa was telling me about! haha. So I met the lines family today :) It´s been a pretty fun week. I hope everything is going well at home. Time is passing by so quick here. I dont like it. haha, its gotta happent hough. I hope everything is going well with reading and praying. Try especially hard to do it this week so that you can be prepared to listen to the prophet and apostles and receive personal revelation :). I love you lots. Elder Johnson