January 2, 2012 - McDonalds Mondays!

Happy New Year!

Hey family and friends how’s it going!

 So all the fun has passed. Christmas and New Year’s! haha But I’m sure it will continue, none of you guys have a problem with keeping it fun!

 Well our New Years was cool. We had a dinner with a member at like 8 and we taught a lesson after, then we went to a family’s house to wish them a Happy New Year. Then we went home and watched some fireworks off in the distance. It was fun, but hey there’s not much you can do as a missionary right! haha

 But we had a good week. It was a little hard getting people to church with New Years on Sunday and all. But we did our best. We usually have about 60 members in church but on Sunday there were only 28. It was almost impossible to teach lessons on Sunday as everyone was still partying and drinking. So we just talked to a lot of people.

  But we are planning on baptizing Hangysan and Miguel this Sunday. So pray that their parents will let them be baptized!

  We found a couple new investigators this week.

Ringing in the New Year!

 One of them that we found was an answer to her prayer. She said about 30 minutes earlier she was praying for someone to come and help her. She had been drinking a little bit but she seemed honest. So we shared the Restoration.  And right before we yelled ( in Chile everyone has a fence so you have to yell "ah loooow!) at their door, the kid who was helping us said "let’s go get an ice cream!" but we had work to do. And we found them. So I know without a doubt that the Lord is leading this work.

  It continues to be hot here. At night it’s like 93 when we leave a house after teaching and we go outside, it is still hot. But it’s nice. I like the heat more than the cold!

  Elder Bustamante is doing great he is a spiritual stud. He continues to teach me. He’s getting better at English. He is starting to read in the Spanish and English Book of Mormon.

   Today for P Day we played soccer with some Elders from the zone for about 2 hours. We started earlier because it gets hot early it was fun. Then after of course we celebrated it with a Big Mac!

  But we are doing good the work here is moving on. We are praying for 2 miracles this next Sunday.

  I hope you guys all had a good Christmas Break and that New Years was fun!

  I hope everyone has a great 2012 and that you can achieve your goals that you have set for this year!

    Les quiero,

                    Elder Johnson