7 October 2013

Hola,

So this past General Conference was really awesome. Unfortunately I only was able to see the Saturday morning session, the Priesthood session, and the Sunday Morning session. But the talks that I was able to see were really great. I was able to learn a lot of things from the talks that were given.

So our week was definitely better than last. We are finding more people, and it seems that we have more people that are ready to be prepared for baptism. It´s really cool. We still aren´t finding that many new people that we can teach, but we still have a few new investigators showing up here and there.

We found a man the other day from Angola (Africa) and we had a pretty good lesson with him in the church, and then a few days later we had another lesson with him and we invited a member who was also from Africa, and it went really, really well. The member was really excited to see our investigator (1. because they were friends a year ago, and 2. because I think that the member feels lonely sometimes being the only member from his country in his district.) So the member was so excited that he was talking about baptism a lot, and how our investigator was going to get baptized, and our investigator just said that he needed a little bit of more preparation to get baptized, but that when he was prepared, that we would get baptized. So we will probably have another baptism in a few more weeks.

So transfers are this Saturday, hold off on the paper letters, until we know what is going to happen.

The branch is starting to help us out more, it is really cool, because it is exactly how the mission work should take place. 

So being a trainer is a little bit harder than I thought, I think that the hardest thing about it is trying to be perfect, because in all honesty that is exactly how new missionaries think that their trainers are. It´s not bad and Elder Groves is a good missionary and a good person, so he makes it easier for me too. But I think that the best part of it will be seeing Elder Groves continue in the path that I am setting him in so that he can continue to work hard and grow, and learn.  In all honesty I think that I won´t even be here in the mission by the time that the best parts of training would be showing. I imagine that it would be a lot like having a child, that the best parts of it are seeing them grow older and make good decisions.

There are a lot of cruise ships that pass through here, and though we usually don´t contact the tourists, we do go out contacting. (We don´t plan to go contacting when the ships get in town though). Vigo doesn´t really get snow in the winter, but it is going to get a ton of rain. Pretty soon here it will start raining every single day until the summer comes back around.

So I think that is it for now, our work load here in Vigo is increasing, and the mission work worldwide is starting to grow. Pretty soon there are going to be huge miracles worldwide. I am really excited to see what is going to be happening in these next few years.

So I think that that is all for now, Thanks for everything... I need to take more pictures,

Until next week, 

Elder Johnson

 

Well, I´m afraid that I don´t really have any cool pictures this time, so this is one of my companion when we went to a park two weeks ago.