11 April 2012

I was able to witness my first baptism in
this area. It was for an investigator of the hermanas in my ward, but
it was still really great. The man, Fabricio, is a really great man
and hopefully we can get him to help out a lot, because though I don't
know him very well, the other missionaries think that he would be a
great ward missionary.

Also, we were able to get another baptismal
date (though unfortunately for the other elders in the ward right
next to us). This person is a miracle and a pure golden investigator
(in Europe!?). Yesterday we received his number, and had an
appointment with him (the first with him because we didn´t know what
ward he was in). And he really wants to get baptized, his wife is a
nonmember, but when he was talking to us and we gave him a baptismal
date he was so excited that he was legitimately crying. Unfortunately
I can´t put how excited I as in this letter, but this is possible a
once in a lifetime opportunity and an amazing one at that.
So also, this past week was the semana santa, therefore, we were not
able to get many meetings with people because they were all on
vacations. (Spain has a ridiculous amount of vacations, so if you
don´t like to work a lot, come to Spain). And, since it was also
raining there wasn´t a whole lot of people to contact on the street,
therefore we spent about a day and a half in the area book finding
possible people that we could help.
So unfortunately I haven´t been able to continue the letters for you
guys that I started, unfortunately we are always busy with
appointments and cleaning every week, so I wouldn´t exactly be
expecting them soon.

So today I gave myself a haircut, it isn´t terrible, but it is rather
bland and standard. I didn´t do a bad job at it either, I only
missed a spot on the back of my head (even though I cut that part a
few times) and I almost forgot my bangs.

Also, for cooking, I haven´t exactly made that much, we don´t have a
ton of time in the day to cook, so its basically cereal, eggs,
microwavable pasta and tomato sauce, and sandwiches. We cleaned a
small foreman grill today though ( it was absolutely vile) so maybe I
can cook some other small things soon.

For Easter, there was only the semana santa, that I know of. Though
every week we have a family home evening with a Romanian familia, and
in Romania they take the colored eggs and hit the tops and then the
bottoms together, and whichever doesn´t crack is the winner. MY egg
destroyed all the others ( by the way, they were hard boiled) except
for 3 which were already destroyed (though one of the Armenians gave
me the egg, so it wan´t exactly me choosing it). It was pretty fun
until it fell out of the fridge and cracked ( the winner is also
supposed to save the egg for the next year to see if it will win).


So mothers day is right around the corner and I will be able to skype
you guys, but I will be doing it about 8 here, so about 2 your
time. Just so you know and can be ready, because I don´t know if I can
get another chance if you aren´t there. Also, mothers day I will have
about 4 months in the mission, which is really close to 6 months. The
time is going so fast here, in no time I will be coming home which is
rather exciting and disappointing at the same time.

Well I need to go to our lesson,

So until next week,

Love,
Elder Johnson