Elder Alec Johnson: It's SO STINKIN HOT HERE! March 14 2016

This week is what I like to call was a Sagreirdazy Week. (Jake should know what that means right? sounds German.) Sad, great, weird, and crazy. Actually to be honest, craziest week of the miss! But before anything I just have to establish what I am gonna eat when I come home. We will be eating breakfast burritos with ketchup (real ketchup) and franks sauce, every single type of soda that has caffeine in it (and all types of gatorade), and homeade desserts. Done. Complete. Check that off the list.

OKEY DOKEY. First off. Challenge of the week. In our mission we recieve money every 15 days. And the average amount of money we can spend to have a budget is 6 dollars a day. (not including water and power) Food, transportation, laundry stuff... everything. 6 bucks. The challenge is for you to do it one day this week.. IF you can! If you have a family and stuff totally understand but if you´re all alone and not dating.. Go for it! #topramen

Ok now being serious haha so we´ll start with tuesday and wednesday! OH MY GOODNESS. IVE NEVER BEEN SO TIRED EVER. Taking missionaries to the airport and picking them up for 2 days is crazy. And being the last ones to say goodbye to missionaries is pretty baggy not gonna lie. That was just a story of its own. Oh I forgot monday!

SO monday Fam. Osorto threw me a bday party! It was just the sweetest thing ever! They werent gonna be in town Friday so they made sandwiches and brought a cake from Choluteca and it was just the greatest! I love that fam! He is so getting baptized...

Then thursday.. not sure what happened.

Friday... oh Friday.. I felt like it was gonna be a great bday because instead of the alarm I got woken up to 3 men screaming happy bday haha and thennn the office missionaries bought doughnuts and we did that in the office and it was just a great day. And then things kinda got sad... we got a call from Jeancarlo´s aunt saying the mom didnt give him permission to get baptized and she told us how he was balling because he wanted to so bad and we were like.. "dang it" but we were ok because we knew with time she´d give him permission. Then no joke, an hour later we get a call from Emelina crying telling us that 2 guys followed her sister Evelyn to the house and to work and tried beating her up and apparently they have them mistaken with other girls that used to live in the apartment they live in and so it was being watched and so they couldnt live there. So she told us how they were gonna grab all their stuff the next day with their uncle and move away and that was like blow to the stomach.. Because Evelyn accepted a date for baptism the 26 and It was so sad because all these trials came to them all at once when we started teaching them. But we have been calling them and sending them messages and they are so grateful for the Book of Mormon and have been reading it and Emelina said she still wants to come to the church and is gonna find a way to do it. So we will see what happens..:( pray for them please! And so then we were kinda in sad spirits but we had an interview with Jose David for his baptism and he passed! Listo. And as soon as we were leaving their house we get a call and guess what..! The mom gave Jeancarlo permission! YEAYYYYY! So his baptism will be next week because the mom wanted to be there. YES! But it was definitely an unforgetable bday!

Then Saturday.. oh Saturday haha. Good day to start. Good Pday me and elder Burnham went to Mayoreo to get some stuff and look around, went back and then we get a call and Pres asked us if we could go pick up an Elder that is sick and take him to the house and if something happened to take him to the hospital.. We do that and the Elder is way sick. Something with his lungs and his muscles contracting on them so he cant breathe. We take him to the house all is good, go fill up the font, come back, are about to leave again and his comp starts talking in a loud voice for me to come and I go and theres the elder not breathing at all! And his comp tells me to help him and he started giving him a type of CPR but it was different and then like after a minute he starts breathing again and then like after a minute he stops breaathing and this happened for like 10 minutes! And his comp told us this has been happeneing the last 2 nights and so he kinda knew what was happening but still! And during this time we´re screaming at the elders to call Pres and then Elder Bingham and Elder De la Rosa get the truck ready and when I tried to pick him up my back sorta made a noise and it hurts really bad but tomorrow I'm going to the Chiro but then we took him to the car and they took him to the hospital and a got a policeman to lead the way and got him there and the doctors dont know what it is. Pres just gave the confirmation that he has to go home:( really sad. But hes doing a little better.. Pray for him pleaseee! Then Elder Burnham and I went to the baptism and Jose David almost was lost and they couldnt find him (remember he's deaf) but then he showed up and it was so funny because he was like pointing at his wrist where a watch would be saying he didnt realize what time it was. BUT THAT BAPTISM WAS SO SPIRITUAL! ONE OF THE COOLEST I'VE BEEN A PART OF! The ward has a goal to learn sign language by the end of the year. And then Sunday was good and we found positive investigators.:) Crazy week. Sorry not too spiritual but cool thing is we said a prayer when we got to the church because of the Elder and for the fact that Jose David wasn´t found and all worked out after we said that prayer. Love the Gospel. Love repentance. Love it all.

THis week I am thankful for my fam. for prayers, for ibuprofen, for hard times and good times, for my comp. for laughter, for ICE CREAM I LOVE ICE CREAM, for the power of the fast, for great friends and family members who email me what I need to read always, for forgiveness and for forgiving yourself, for my Heavenly Father, for toothpaste, for dove soap, for the fact that it's so hot I like cold showers now, and for my Savior and Redeemer... For Him who lives.

Keep on keepin on!!

-Elder Alec Johnson

the church is true.