My new area in Valle Hermoso is right by the ocean I can see it from my window! It’s pretty cool. We can hear the fog horn going off at night, because there is a port right next to our city where they do all of the big cargo ships. We live in a little two story house. We study and sleep on the top floor, and we have a little kitchen and bathroom. The ceilings are low and I’ve already hit my head a couple of times haha. I thought I was short! My companion Elder Wixom is from Salt Lake. He has a little bit more time than me in the mission, so we are both pretty new at this thing. It’s good though because we will learn a lot. We taught a lot of lessons this last week, and we found a lot of new people. So we are real excited. Elder Wixom likes to work hard, and he tries to get into every house, so that’s pretty good. We have 2 baptisms set up for this Saturday, so I guess I came at the right time! We had 4 investigators that came to church so that was real cool, it was a big change from my last sector. O and I had to give a talk in Sacrament meeting. I chose to talk about prayer. It went pretty good. I shared a scripture about the people of Alma and how they were being taken advantage of by King Laman, and how they prayed, and the Lord lifted their burdens, and I applied it to our lives. It’s in Mosiah 24. Sometimes I think that we forget the significance of prayer and what a great blessing it is. When we pray we are growing closer to God and the plan that he has made for us. We get on the same page, you could say. I’m thankful for prayer in my life, and it has helped me in times when I have needed it the most.
So after my 5 hour bus ride, I got to Concepcion, and we took another little bus out to our sector. We dropped my bags off and we went and got our lunch that she put in a box for us. After we went straight to work. It was raining off and on. We taught a couple of lessons, it was pretty good. The rest of the week it was the same way. I guess it always rains down here near Concepcion. So I found these huge rain boots that I wear and these rain pants that are too big for me, but they work good! I stayed dry! We taught a bunch of lessons, and found 13 new investigators. The sector that I’m in is all hills. So there’s is just a bunch of houses crammed on to the hills. And it’s pretty muddy.
On Saturday when we went out to work we went and tracked this housing track right on the edge of the beach, and the sun came out, and I tracked in just a shirt and tie for the first time in a while! It was pretty cool.
I’m hoping that I pass the summer here because I have heard that it is a lot cooler since we are by the ocean. So that will be cool if that happens.
In our ward here we have a lot of help from the members. There is this one guy named Nestor that recently got off his mission in Ecuador. He has gone out with us a lot, so that’s pretty cool, because if you have an investigator with you there is a bigger chance for the investigator to progress. And there is a couple sisters that come with us. One just got baptized 2 months ago, and she was really Catholic. So she helps out in lessons when people are Catholic, because she can tell her story about her conversion process.
And when we go to District class, we take a bus for about a half an hour to a city called Tome. And that is where we have district class. I heard that when there was the big earth quake here, that the tsunami came in, and there was a bunch of water on the floor of the church, but it didn’t fall over! My district leader is Elder McNeil, he’s really cool, he gave us cookies after class! haha And our Zone Leaders are Elder King, and Elder Parks. So there is a lot of work to be done here in the Zone of Penco, and I look forward to it!
So it has been a pretty stellar first week! I hope we can keep up the good work here in Valle Hermoso, there is a lot of potential, and I’m excited to find those people and help them enter the waters of baptism!
Choa for now, thanks for everything all of you guys!
les quiero,
Elder Johnson
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