March 15th

So tomorrow I am going out into the field!! I am really excited to go there and see what it is like and what the people are like. Also, I am excited to go and teach someone, I love being able to bring the spirit to someone´s home and help them. I don´t yet know where I am going, but I do know that I am not going to the Canary Islands, since the president met with those people today and I wasn´t one of them. It´s going to be weird leaving the MTC, I have been here for so long and know some of the people so well, that it will be a little dissapointing to leave them all and possibly never see them again. However, I also don´t feel like I am learning a lot while I am here, in fact I almost feel like my Spanish has decreased here, just because I am in the lower class, and becasue of the time spent in the park I am not learning much more Spanish.

So this week on Sunday we had a talk by the stake president that called up a talk that was given in the past about missionary work in Europe finally taking off. In it he stated that the work will begin in the Iberian Peninsula ( Spain and Portugal) and will then spread across Europe, and in the past four years the amount of baptisms has increased from an everage of about 200 a year to around 1000 a year. And the president said that he expects an increase to that rate with the missionaries heading out to the field. So, the time for Europe may finally be upon us, which will be really exciting.

Also, so today we got our residencies at a government building that I first mistook for a circus. The weather isn´t too bad here but it is rather hot, The other day I got red and tan just from sitting out in the sun for a hour playing soccer. It would be nice if they had a spring, but it seems like it turned strait to summer.

So I don´t know what much else to say... The park is pretty exciting and I do get to talk with quite a bit of people, and I can surprisingly understand them, after they start talking a little bit slower. But I still love the languages, actually at this moment I want to learn a lot of languages , so maybe when I get back I will study that, but we will see. My companion's name is Elder Laubaugh. Though it may be a little late now since tomorrow I should be getting a new companion. That´s awesome about Bremen (starting soccer and playing pokemon), it makes me laugh because I know that that is exactly what I did when I was younger, and I had a lot of fun doing it too.

 Oh and just to say it, Spainiards do not drive on the opposite side of the road. Their cars and roads are normal. But their cars do look a little funny

Well, I need to get to emailing Papa, I finally got his letter this week. And hopefully next week I will have some time to write letters to you guys.... Hopefully.

So until next week,

Elder Johnson.

*Note from mom - if you are going to send a letter this week, just send it through his email address until we get his new mailing address.  You could also send it to the mission office.