11 July 2012

dear family,

So it turns out that Elder Wilson and I will be staying together for another transfer! It was actually a surprise because we were rather sure that one of us was going to leave. But the only people that left were an Elder in the ward adjacent to ours and one of the hermanas in our ward that had been here for 13 months. It is a little different now that they are gone, and the new Elder is one from Argentina with about 20 months on his mission.

I haven´t yet met the new president, I have only heard some things about him, but he appears pretty good so far.

I don´t know if my package is here yet, I haven´t received it yet, but it could be sitting in the office.

The heat luckily hasn´t been overbearing, Luckily the people all sleep for about two hours in the afternoon, so our meal hours are combined into two hours in the afternoon in order to eat and do things in the apartment. So we avoid the hottest part of the day with that. However, it hasn´t yet hit august, and July has just started, so I expect the worse is still to come. Luckily we do have ac, for 2 of the rooms at least. Unfortunately our study room doesn´t have one, so its a little like an oven in there at times.

So this past week we set two baptismal dates. One with Martha, who I mentioned earlier and one with someone named Liz. Who rather like the church, but she doesn´t quite know that it is baptism that she wants. Also, we are teaching and Iranian man, whose family are members ( his wife and kids). He basically knows that the church is good and that it is true, he just is a little scared of making decisions, especially since he won´t ever be able to visit his family in Iran if he gets baptized. But he is a really god person, and he really wants to know if it is true, he just is going to have some trouble to make a final decision I think.

So also, that family we have baptized has helped us out a ton. It is rally awesome, though I almost feel bad because we teach people at their house about 4 times a week. They lives almost in the Valle de Oro, so all the investigators that we have there we have started to bring to their house. It is really awesome and I hope that they can continue to be a good example for the rest of our ward, even after we are gone.

So something slightly comical that happened this week is that one of our members has taken an interest in our investigator Martha. He walked her home after church and he also invited himself to our lesson with her. So it appears that she might get a good support for coming to church, hopefully. We got kind of scared for a little bit because she was going to go out of town for a few weeks, and vacations are the way that we lose a lot of good investigators. Bu tin the end, she isn´t going to go, so we are grateful for that blessing.

If there is anything that I can do to help, just let me know and i´ll try to get it done. Though it will probably have to be in letter form.

So also, in a city called Toledo they sell swords, and my companion said that there is a person there that is Mormon or is familiar with Mormons and sells a sword of Laban with the Spain mission logo. So one of these weeks I am going to see if I could get that and send it home. So in the future you could probably expect that arriving there. just FYI

Well, that´s all the time I have for today,

I´ll talk to you guys next week,

love,

Elder Johnson