Elder Johnson: 18 January 2011

Hello family and friends,

This week I decided to bring my camera. So, I can upload some more photos. This weekend was really busy, and a lot of things happened. Let's start with the good stuff. We had two baptisms on Sunday. Max and Steven Martinez. They are awesome kids, and were a member referral. Jorge Benitez was the person who gave us the referral, and he did an awesome job fellowshipping these two boys. We are still teaching their mom and older brother. The kids were so ready to be baptized. When the mom said ok, they jumped for joy; and now they are telling their mother that they want to be missionaries in the future. So cool! Also Jacob and Niko were able to be confirmed today, so that was big news. I was really happy for them.

Time for the crazy story. We went outside on Saturday morning to get into our car, and we couldn't find it. We looked around for a little bit, and we then realized that our car was towed. DANG! We went to the office and the lady wasn't very nice. She just gave us a paper with the car photo and the phone number of the tow place. So, then we had to spend the day with Elder Rodgers to get the car back. We had to notarize a paper, and that took a couple of hours out of the day. When we got it all ready to take the car out, the lady told us the license plate was wrong. We told her to write the cars plate number down, and she gave it to us and it was the same plate number. Then she tells us we filled the paper out wrong, because we couldn't give ourselves permission to take out our own car. So, we couldn't get the car out the first day.

The next day we filled it out, and she finally let us get the car. Man all in all it cost about $259.63 what a rip! Well, this is how it got towed. When Elder Richards was here he got in a small accident, and so the mission took the car to fix the little bump in the upper right corner of the car. So, we didn't know our complex had parking permits; so we didn't take the stickers off the car, and put it into the Toyota that we got to drive around for a bit. Three weeks later we get towed. Horrible!

Back to the good news, we planned out a cool zone activity, and I will bring pictures next week. It is like the one my trainer and I planned out, but better. Well, you all have a great day!

-Elder Johnson

Elder Johnson in his apartment