9 December 2013

Hello,

 (Eating at M's house)

So thanks for the happy birthday wishes. C is in fact getting baptized on the fourteenth, and it is super exciting to be able to be here helping him. He has been really prepared by the Lord and he is super receptive of the Gospel.

 

(To the temple!)

 

So M´s story is actually really cool. It was a Saturday, and every Saturday we teach English classes at 12:00. When the Hermanas were leaving their piso that morning they prayed to have an opportunity to do service that day. On their way to the Chapel, they met a Venezuelan couple in the street that was visiting for the day, that were also members. The members were leaving to Madrid in a few hours, but the Hermanas left them the address to the church just in case. It turns out that as the couple tried to purchase the tickets to go to Madrid, that the ATM ate their card. Which left them stuck in Vigo without money. So they then went to the chapel where we had just finished English classes. When they got there Elder Miner and I talked to them and we then called the branch president to see if there was someone nearby that could help them out. The branch president gave us the number of the hostel of M. After they had spoken we went to the hostel and contacted M while we were there. M was baptized one month later...

So I would love to room with Elder Wilson! Do you know if he ever got the email that I sent him?

So C is from Ghana, and he is doing very well right now. He is good friends with another member from Ghana in the branch. He doesn´t speak Spanish very well, so I translate for him every week at the Sunday meetings. We found him in the streets (*Note from Mom - meaning contacted him on the street, not that he was a homeless person in the street) about five weeks ago, and he has been awesome ever since.

Well, we have an exciting week ahead of us, we are hoping to find at least one family this week as well as other people that are ready for the truth. The mission has been exploding lately we have had about 60 baptisms in the last few months. Which actually broke the mission record from before. The mission is really starting to grow and change. It has been awesome to be able to see all of that happen.

Well, I think that is it for now, I still have to write to Papa and I only have ten more minutes.

Thanks for everything, until next week,

Elder Johnson