Hello all,
So you want to know about the mission mission.
How do I like my mission?
Well to tell you the truth, I love it. Sometimes it is hard when you kind of do the same thing every day. But a cool scripture I like is in Alma 5:7; it talks about when you have a change of heart it is like waking up from a deep sleep and waking up unto God. That is kind of like how a mission is. You don't really remember the pre-mission life very well and you kind of feel like you woke up from a sleep. I think that is because my heart has been changing a lot out here.
The longer I am out here the more I realize that the most important thing we can do is be obedient and to show our love to our father in heaven. And we show our love to him through obeying the commandments. So I am loving the mission. BYU changed me a lot but the Mission is changing me even more. I like learning a new language, and serving in the ghetto. You kind of get the feel of a new culture. You learn to care for people and you learn that true happiness comes from the gospel.
What is happening so far?
Well this transfer, we have baptized all of our main teaching pool (Benjamin, Brayan, Maria, and Victoria). So, right now, we are working on finding. That means talking with everyone. This is sometimes hard, because you talk with someone, and set up a time with them and they are not even there. For example, on Saturday we talked with someone and he invited us over for a lesson for Sunday. We told them we would bring him a piece of cake, because I made a cake and he was like alright. So, Sunday comes around, we bring him the piece of cake and he takes it. Then he tells us, oh I am watching the kids so I don't have anytime to talk with you see ya, and closed the door. So as you can see I got robbed of a piece of cake :(
Also my companion is getting transferred, so I will be getting a new companion and taking over the area. This will be interesting because we don't have any real solid progressing investigators. So, what is the plan to fix that? Rely on the Lord, fast, pray, and talk with everyone. Also be diligent. So, we will see how that goes.
Our ward is very funny; at the start of sacrament meeting there are probably 40 people there and then after the sacrament has been passed and the doors open, a giant stampede comes in and then all of the sudden there are 145 people sitting in the seats. It is pretty nuts. Last Sunday, we had 2 confirmations and everything is going really great.
I think almost all of my pants has some kind of rip in them and a few socks have holes in them, but I guess that is the mission life huh.
O yeah we have the coolest mission president ever. I think that this guy is going to be a general authority or something crazy. He is so awesome. I had the annual transfer interview with him on Wednesday, and he told me about grandma and stuff. It was good she finally passed away because every time I visited her she would say take me home Joe. Well, anyway I got another angel on my side so that is pretty good. Other than that things are going great. People to teach; people to baptize
-Elder Johnson
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