Sorry, I didn't realize I didn't send this letter last week!
Happy Fathers Day!
So Vigo has been great so far,
it´s a beautiful city even though it rains quite a bit. This past week
was actually dry for almost my entire time there, but yesterday it
started raining again. But anyway, Vigo is right on the coast in a bay,
with the mountains right behind the coast. IT´s absolutely gorgeous, we
have an investigator that said that he is going to take some pictures
for us, so when those come in I´ll send them to you so that you can see.
I am also learning a little bit of Galician. It´s one of the oldest
Latin based languages (older than Spanish and maybe Portuguese too) that
exists. It´s pretty similar to Portuguese. So maybe when I come back I
can be fluent in three languages. All the people understand Spanish
though, so there isn´t the huge need to learn it, so we´ll see.
So the Work is going good. I
haven´t really seen the difference between the north and Madrid yet,
other than the smaller amount of people that there are in the street. We
are teaching a lot of great people right now, I think that in a few
short week they should be able to get baptized . They are really great,
and I am really excited to be able to help them all.
So the email you got is from a
man named Lino, he is an investigator of the Elders in the district
where I was at in B1. He is a really great guy and is extremely
observant and is really sensitive. Feel free to respond to his letter,
he just asked me for your email to be able to write to you.
Elder Miner is awesome, he is a
missionary that is in the same group as I am, I actually first met him
in the MTC here in Spain. He is really great, and I am happy to be able
to work with him. He is from Wyoming, and is the oldest of two, his
family is inactive, but recently they have started to look back in to
the church.
So it is pretty humid here in
Vigo, it´s right on the coast. (I actually heard that the best beach in
the world is here in Vigo, but I don´t have anyone to confirm that with,
so I really don´t know.
I haven´t met the branch yet,
we had our district conference this past Sunday, so I only know a few
members, though the majority seem to be Spaniards, Venezuelans, and
Uruguayans.
The change was somewhat
unexpected, in all honesty Elder Berthon and I suspected that one of us
was going to leave, but we didn´t know where or who was going to go. I
was actually half starting to think that I was going to stay in Madrid
for my entire mission, so it was a surprise when I saw that I was going
to be leaving Madrid, and going north. It was a long trip, 7 hours in a
train and I traveled by myself because no one else was going up to the
same area on that day. There were a few others that took a different
train because they went to a different part of the north. I didn´t quite
get caught up in my journal because after the first hour the train ride
got rather bumpy, but I wrote down most of the things that I wanted to
write down at the time.
So that´s about it for this week, things are going great,
until next week,
Elder Johnson
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