Week of 8-14 de Dec.
Wow! This was the greatest week yet, not sure where to start!
Monday had a great P-day where we played basketball and to be honest, a lot of stuff happened but I don't remember anything and didn't write Monday. haha. Oh wait! Got Mimi's and Papa's package with the P.J.'s and candy! Thanks so much for that! My comp is always telling me to say thanks for all of that! oh and CTR rings!? Genius Mimi and Papa!! ESO!!
Tues- such a fun hard-working day! Wanted to talk a little about our new investigor Gu**! He's 65, a smoker, lived in the same house for 30 years, never talked to missionaries, now reads the Book of Mormon like a novel, loves the church, trying super duper hard to quit smoking, although his wife is Catolica and doesn't really like us, he loves the message. He's been baptized in 2 different churches an is ready to be baptized by the proper authority, and man, this guy is a stud. Elder Woodland and I contacted him 2 weeks ago (speaking of which, we have the best District and District Leader in the world) But that night it was the daughter of our ward mission leader b-day. So we bought a Piñata and put all this weird stuff in it (semitas, cheese, doritos, etc) and the young women thought it was hilarious! Ha! I had to hold it up and they kept hitting me!
Wed. - Christmas! (Por Nosotros!) way fun activity where I got to see Elder Borge and we exchanged gifts and I bought a Santa head piñata (ok we really like piñata's ok?) and all the missionaries thought it was the best idea! We got to watch Frozen and it was actually super weird, I thought I was home for a while! Then went back to work!
Fri.- Had District meeting and I learned a lot and my district is THE BEST! Also, talked on the bus with this guy and he's totally going to get baptized one day.
Sat.!!! Ok, ok! So 1st we had another car wash, then we ate at our favorite Chinese restaurant and then I'm just going to fast forward to the Baptism of Ma**! Soooo spiritual. Not a lot of people came because there was an activity at the Stake but it was like the most spiritual one. Mr. Gu** sat with us for 2 hours! He is THE MAN! But I don't know if you guys know about Maria, but she was a Jehova's Witness when we first were teaching her and her son is a member here in La Vega, but they weren't super close because something happened in the past. I'm not sure. But one day Alex (the son) told us his mom lived there, so we went and the rest is history! All you guys have to do is share the Gospel with one person and look what could happen! But it was so amazing, the baptism by her son, really humbling. And Elder Garcia and I sang How Great Thou Art in Spanish, but I sang the chorus in English. Was pretty cool. But every one of our recent converts has this 'SHINE' in their eyes now! Like I cannot explain it! Every one of them is different! It's amazing (Matt. 5:14, 3 Nephi 13:22)
Ok but I just wanted to say some other things! Ok my companion. I have never been so grateful, been so happy, had this much fun, and worked this hard before. I can't explain or express my love and gratefulness for this man. It's like we've known each other for years. We have so much stinkin' fun and just serve these people. It's amazing. I've been learning so much from him. He is a perfect example of service. Like we had McDonalds today (1st time in 5 months) and he gave half his sandwich and his fries to this guy who was definitely on drugs but needed food. He does stuff like that all the time! I love it. He is filled with the pure love of Christ. Just like Christ focused on people and not numbers, so does he. Never met someone as humble as him. President Eyring talked about that in the Christmas Devotional. I love him like my brother and am so glad I am being humbled and learning how important REAL service is, because there's a difference between "service" and service - the PURE LOVE OF CHRIST. Also wanted to say I learned a lot from Elder Jake Sollis and took his challenge to show Christ like love OUTWARDLY no matter the circumstance and let me tell ya how different, just COMPLETELY DIFFERENT, my week was. So thanks my brother Elder Sollis for teaching me and changing my mission for me. :) I love my barrio and I really never wanna change areas or companions. But Im gonna enjoy it and I know this Church is true. I know it with all my heart. If one wants to be happy- repent, obey the commandments and SERVE! I promise you if you do that, you will be happy! Life will still be hard, things will be tough, you'll still have trials, but there will be a different way of looking at life and you'll always go to bed with a reason to be happy because you helped someone else and forgot about yourself. :)
This week I'm grateful for my companion, scrips, Christmas, music, comers, that our house is done being remodeled and so stinkin' beautiful, D&C 31, Gu**, F. Himenez-Reyez, menus actives that we found and they went to church!, The Santa Cerm. Love ya all!
-Elder Alec Johnson
p.s. I got the music ma! It works now! :) Also what's up with SVU and NBA? And my boys!? Go Herriman!
"YE ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD!"
Wow! This was the greatest week yet, not sure where to start!
Monday had a great P-day where we played basketball and to be honest, a lot of stuff happened but I don't remember anything and didn't write Monday. haha. Oh wait! Got Mimi's and Papa's package with the P.J.'s and candy! Thanks so much for that! My comp is always telling me to say thanks for all of that! oh and CTR rings!? Genius Mimi and Papa!! ESO!!
Tues- such a fun hard-working day! Wanted to talk a little about our new investigor Gu**! He's 65, a smoker, lived in the same house for 30 years, never talked to missionaries, now reads the Book of Mormon like a novel, loves the church, trying super duper hard to quit smoking, although his wife is Catolica and doesn't really like us, he loves the message. He's been baptized in 2 different churches an is ready to be baptized by the proper authority, and man, this guy is a stud. Elder Woodland and I contacted him 2 weeks ago (speaking of which, we have the best District and District Leader in the world) But that night it was the daughter of our ward mission leader b-day. So we bought a Piñata and put all this weird stuff in it (semitas, cheese, doritos, etc) and the young women thought it was hilarious! Ha! I had to hold it up and they kept hitting me!
Wed. - Christmas! (Por Nosotros!) way fun activity where I got to see Elder Borge and we exchanged gifts and I bought a Santa head piñata (ok we really like piñata's ok?) and all the missionaries thought it was the best idea! We got to watch Frozen and it was actually super weird, I thought I was home for a while! Then went back to work!
Fri.- Had District meeting and I learned a lot and my district is THE BEST! Also, talked on the bus with this guy and he's totally going to get baptized one day.
Sat.!!! Ok, ok! So 1st we had another car wash, then we ate at our favorite Chinese restaurant and then I'm just going to fast forward to the Baptism of Ma**! Soooo spiritual. Not a lot of people came because there was an activity at the Stake but it was like the most spiritual one. Mr. Gu** sat with us for 2 hours! He is THE MAN! But I don't know if you guys know about Maria, but she was a Jehova's Witness when we first were teaching her and her son is a member here in La Vega, but they weren't super close because something happened in the past. I'm not sure. But one day Alex (the son) told us his mom lived there, so we went and the rest is history! All you guys have to do is share the Gospel with one person and look what could happen! But it was so amazing, the baptism by her son, really humbling. And Elder Garcia and I sang How Great Thou Art in Spanish, but I sang the chorus in English. Was pretty cool. But every one of our recent converts has this 'SHINE' in their eyes now! Like I cannot explain it! Every one of them is different! It's amazing (Matt. 5:14, 3 Nephi 13:22)
Ok but I just wanted to say some other things! Ok my companion. I have never been so grateful, been so happy, had this much fun, and worked this hard before. I can't explain or express my love and gratefulness for this man. It's like we've known each other for years. We have so much stinkin' fun and just serve these people. It's amazing. I've been learning so much from him. He is a perfect example of service. Like we had McDonalds today (1st time in 5 months) and he gave half his sandwich and his fries to this guy who was definitely on drugs but needed food. He does stuff like that all the time! I love it. He is filled with the pure love of Christ. Just like Christ focused on people and not numbers, so does he. Never met someone as humble as him. President Eyring talked about that in the Christmas Devotional. I love him like my brother and am so glad I am being humbled and learning how important REAL service is, because there's a difference between "service" and service - the PURE LOVE OF CHRIST. Also wanted to say I learned a lot from Elder Jake Sollis and took his challenge to show Christ like love OUTWARDLY no matter the circumstance and let me tell ya how different, just COMPLETELY DIFFERENT, my week was. So thanks my brother Elder Sollis for teaching me and changing my mission for me. :) I love my barrio and I really never wanna change areas or companions. But Im gonna enjoy it and I know this Church is true. I know it with all my heart. If one wants to be happy- repent, obey the commandments and SERVE! I promise you if you do that, you will be happy! Life will still be hard, things will be tough, you'll still have trials, but there will be a different way of looking at life and you'll always go to bed with a reason to be happy because you helped someone else and forgot about yourself. :)
This week I'm grateful for my companion, scrips, Christmas, music, comers, that our house is done being remodeled and so stinkin' beautiful, D&C 31, Gu**, F. Himenez-Reyez, menus actives that we found and they went to church!, The Santa Cerm. Love ya all!
-Elder Alec Johnson
p.s. I got the music ma! It works now! :) Also what's up with SVU and NBA? And my boys!? Go Herriman!
"YE ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD!"
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