How about it! Another week has come and gone! But it was a great one that’s for sure! It was jam packed with the Spirit, and awesome learning experiences!
Tuesday we had District Class which went great! I shared about how we have been set apart for 2 years and how we need to take advantage of every opportunity to share the Gospel! We all left animated. Then Wednesday Elder Glazier from the office came and worked with us. Because Elder Luco had to go to Santiago to get his knee checked on. So with Elder Glazier we taught one lesson then we had to go to the office to prepare the materials for all of the Zones. So it took a while, and we had to drop the van off with the Clawsons, the Senior couple. And after we walked home. It was a little sketchy because it was 1 at night walking through the streets of Concepcion. You always hear a lot of stories, but we arrived at the house without a scratch. So we finally got to bed at 1:30ish, then we had to wake up early to get the chapel ready for the conference. Because the chapel we use for conference is the chapel we go to. So we set up chairs had to go on a treasure hunt to find the microphone, and DVDs. It was quite the adventure putting all of that together. We missed the beginning of the conference but we got a good part of it.
Conference was great though! The traveling assistants talked about how we need to bring the Spirit into the lesson and how we need to invite the person to baptism when the Spirit is strongest! It was sweet. And the other assistants talked about how we need to show love for our investigators by making good plans for them. So it was great. And then President Humphrey talked about how we need to make more sacrifices for our investigators, and put more work into them. It was a great talk. And then the Area Mission doctors came. Elder Welch talked about health in the mission, and Sister Memet talked about how we can take care of stress and use it to our advantage it was cool. And we also got a flu shot!
Then after that I went on a mini combio with Elder Glazier. Elder Robinette worked with Elder Fullmer one of the traveling assistants. So Elder Glazier and I we went to the office to do some paper work stuff, then we went and taught Franklin an Ecuadorian. We put a baptismal date with him and talked about baptism with him. It was a great lesson. Elder Glazier is a funny dude. He’s from Northern California, and he’s a big dude. He’s super funny! He always has some funny comment or thing to say, he’s a great missionary. Then we went back to the office to finish things up, then we went home. Then we had to wake up at 6:00 to go pick up Elder Arroyo and Elder Luco from the terminal. So we got a little bit of sleep. Then we went back to the apartment and slept for a couple minutes then woke up again and took a shower then we went to the office and did some studies, and we did a practice lesson for one of their investigators. So it was a great mini combio. We have some great missionaries in our District.
Elder Arroyo the other office Elder reminds me of Julius Aiono, because he’s a big guy who likes to have fun and really animated, but he’s Mexican not Samoan haha.
Then on Friday we went on another mini combio with the Zone Leaders because they had to interview Luis for his baptism! So I went to Laguna Redonda with Elder Brule. And we worked there. We taught a couple of lessons, and did some contacts. We taught this one lesson to one of their investigators who has been battling between us and the Jehovah Witness. So we went over there and showed some scriptures about how contention is not of God and helped her realize that they are saying bad things about our church, and we helped her realize how the good things come from God with the scriptures, and she accepted to be baptized after that! It was so intense! You could have cut the Spirit in that lesson with a butter knife! And then she got baptized the next day! Her name is Marta and she is like 70ish, so that was a great experience.
Then Saturday we went to their chapel to get the baptismal font going, and then we switched back. But we also had to prep our baptismal font, for the baptism of Luis! And then we had to prepare for our Ward talent night! So it was a cool day. The baptism started an hour late but he got baptized! It was great Luis is 18 and he’s from Ecuador but here working. He is really humble, and was ready to be baptized. A week ago we asked him to pray to ask when he should be baptized, then we called him the next day and he said, well I’m ready to be baptized this week! So that was way cool!
Then after the baptism was the Talent Show. We did 2 skits the first one was sweet.
This is what happened. We had a couple in the ward help us, and so the skit was that the husband was a really jealous guy, and he told his wife to not let anyone in the house. And he went to work. And then Elder Arroyo was a lawyer and he knocked on the door and offered his services as a lawyer, and she said no no don’t come in my husband is really jealous, and then there was a knock at the door and she told him to hide, then Elder Glazier shows up selling knives and said that these are the best knives ever! And she said no I can’t my husband is really jealous, and then there was another knock at the door. And she said hide! And it was Elder Robinette and I and we were missionaries and we said we had the truth and we are here to share it! But then there was another knock at the door and she told us to hide and her husband came to the door. And he sat down and started to sniff and he would sniff his shirt then the air and he said that isn’t my perfume! Who is in here! You are cheating on me I want a divorce, and then elder Arroyo pops out and says I’m the best Lawyer there is! And the husband gets mad and say where’s a knife! I want to cut him! And Elder Galzier pops out and says I sell the best knives there is! And the husband freaks out even more! And says Ï want to know the truth and we pop out and say we have the truth! And that was the end of it. The whole ward was cracking up so that was good.
Then our other skit was the one where one person is the head and the arms are another person. And Elder Robinette and I were the heads and Elder Glazier was the arms of Elder Robinette and Elder Arroyo was the arms of me. And we acted out a typical missionary morning. We lifted weights, shaved ate, brushed our teeth, cleaned our ears, it was funny by the end there was shaving cream all over our faces, and we ate completos so Elder Arroyo jammed it into my face so it was great everyone was laughing so that was good.
And then the Ecuadorians did an act where the played pan flutes!" It was so sweet! It was like Indian music. They had like Eagle Sounds and bird sounds and they were jamming on their pan flutes they had big ones and little ones! It was way cool I took a video.
But that was our week! Jam packed of everything! And it started to rain today, so the rainy season is closing in!
Have a good week everyone!
les quiero,
Elder Johnson
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