18 July 2012

Hola,

so this week we have had quite a few English lessons. we are teaching a filipina who knows English better than Spanish and also we are teaching two Ecuadorians, and the father prefers to have us talk in English to them. its pretty different to have English lessons and i think that i sound a little bit like a Spanish person speaking English now. I think that i have lost a little bit of my accent.

also the space bar is broken, but i am.also.in.a.little.bit.of.a.hurry.so.sorry.if.you.cant. read it all really well.

So i don´t know if i said it last time, but the family that we baptized is doing awesome. We are teaching 2 investigators at their house every week and we are going to try to bring in a family too. At times I think that i it is a little overwhelming, but also, its really great that they can help us here soo much.

So also we are in the time of vacations, so there are a lot of people that we are finding that are leaving for vacations, so we can´t exactly help them very much. Unfortunately iam starting to despise vacations (this space bar is drivingmecrazy, sorry, but what i say isn´t going to be quite as flowery). thepèople leaveonvacations andthenwhenthey come back we can´t get in contact with them, so then we can´t help them and we lose them. It also makes me worried fortheinvestigators that we havebecause ifthey go on vacations, we mightnot be able to findthem again, sothen they getlost andthen it´s rather depressing.

So we aredefinately not staying very cool here,the heat hasonly gone up,so now whenicome home my shirt feels like a wet towel, it´s rather disgusting. iam notevengetting avery good tan with the sun either, i am getting a special missionary tan, but hardly anything. I am not very tan at all, unlike south American people who get tan in about 5minutes of sun...

Well, hopefully all those letters that are written will get sent to me here. the only reason that i think that they might now, is ifthey don´t have my information there still.  It should be, so hopefully i can be expecting those sometimein the near future.

So something that is cool is that we are teaching some Hondurans. almost all of them are on vacations right now,but there are eight of them in one piso.(i really don't want to add any more spaces anymore, and imight do it, but i think that you will have a real difficulty with reading what i am saying). Hopefully we can getincontactwiththem after their vacations though. They are evangelist too, so it will probably be a little difficult for them to come to our church and change faiths.

so i think that i have pretty much given up on the hope of sendinga package,at least for now. Idont have a whole lotoftime to get everything ready to do it.maybe one week though i can get something off to you guys.

so, idont really know what else to say,and i really don't want to type at all, this keyboard is driving me crazy too so i really don't want totype anything else. ormaybeiwilljust type without trying to add anymore spaces,but good luck reading it.

so one lastthingis that i have seen is that when people do all of the things that they need to do,read the scriptures, pray, go to church,there is a big difference, and it is verynoticable. when we do what the lord tells us to do, we are blessed, and we change, for every thing that we do. also, something else thatihave realized is that thebestway to work is to have the members prepare the people and thenthemissionaries teach them. Because in this way the people are already prepared and have a desire to listen, and we don't have to make them realize that listening is what they really want. so be a good example like ammon, and maybe someday lamoni will get interested and then maybe you can be the example that baptized a nation.

Also, Feliz Cupleaños Breanna, Ellie, and Bremen!!

Ihaven´t yet got my package, unfortunately i think that with the new president and his wife that they may not yet know that they need to brink it to me. I am not getting skinny, in fact we finally passed around a calendar to eat with the missionaries that worked, so now we are actually getting a little too much food nowadays.

our transfers are every six weeks, so the next ones will be halfway through august. and i do not know if the mission has a blog, they send us a"billboard" every week, but that´s it.

here are some more pictures too, unfortunately my camera is starting to get full, so i am going to need to start deleting the pictures that i send you. did i bring and extra memory card?

well, now i need to write to papa, so hasta luego.

ciou,

Elder Johnson.