But to start off the
week, we went to go teach some of our Ecuadorian friends and they were having a
birthday party, so they were all like come in come in! And they made us choose
a song to sing and share a scripture, and then we had something called. Yahuar
Locro. It was like a sopu made out of insides of an animal and some other
things, it wasn’t to shabby! It’s always a fun adventure eating something new!
And then we had some cake.
Then we had
District Class the next day and it was sweet. We talked about contacting people
in the street and did some fun practices.
And one day on like
Wednesday it rained it was weird, and then Thursday and on it was hot. So the
weather is weird. Last year at this time it was pouring rain so well see what
happens. But on Wednesday we walked up this huge hill in the richest part of
our sector. We figured that no one had gone up there before because it is hard
to get to and they are super rich so they aren’t to accepting sadly. But we
said hey! Let’s go for it! So we got denied by a couple of houses and then we
rang the doorbell and a guy walked out and we talked to him and shared the
Restoration pamphlet with him real quick and made a date to come back. So it
was cool. But then we went back and he wasn’t there like he said he would. So
go figure. But the houses up there are crazy huge! And they had like Audis.
This one guy was an architect and he made this like tower looking house it was
pretty funny looking.
Then on Thursday
morning we went and got into these Apartments that had a gate around them, and
we started knocking doors and a couple of people let us in. They were 2
families! But they were busy so we said a prayer real quick and left them with
a pamphlet to read. We are gonna go back this week and see how it goes!
And the rest of the
days were normal with some appointments here and there.
The lady from
Washington Jessica has been reading in the Book of Mormon. We stopped by last
night real quick to see how they were. They have been reading together! So that’s
super sweet! They are getting married June 2nd! So hopefully she’s ready to be
baptized by then!
And we have another
investigator Lucas who has a 4 year old son! He’s funny he’s always cracking
jokes. But we gave his little son a pass along card of Jesus Christ and said
you have to keep good care of it and can’t lose it! And we both have one and we
keep it safe. And the next day when we went over he lost it and tried to find
it but couldn’t. And then today at lunch he told his dad he wanted to call us
and I answered the phone and it was his son and he said... I found the card it’s
here! It was funny. He’s a little kid that just bounces off of the walls. But we
taught Lucas about prayer yesterday and he liked it and he said a prayer, and
felt really good. So that was great because right now he’s going through some
hard times.
Then Monday it was
great! Elder Duncan of the 70 came and talked to us. We first had a meeting
with all of the District Leaders and Zone Leaders. It was great he told us that
everyone that is under our Leadership is our investigator. So everyone that is
in your District or Zone is your investigator, and we need to study and pray
for them also. And talked about mini exchanges to and how we need to do them
when ever. It was great!
And then it was the
big conference! And 8 missionaries sang Abide with me tis Even Tide and the Spirit
just came into the room. And then Elder Duncan just started going! It was epic!
I filled up 4 pages of things that the Spirit told me. Elder Duncan put big emphasis
on how the Spirit will bring stuff to our mind that he may not even be saying.
But he talked about how we need to take care of the less actives and use them
to teach investigators. And talked about how when Bruce R. McKonkie came in
1976 to do conference, and during that conference Elder McKonkie said that one
day there will be 500 stakes in Chile! And Elder Duncan said that if a Prophet
says something by the Spirit it is scripture, so one day there will be 500
stakes in Chile. But right now there is 75 stakes. And he said that every stake
has about 7 wards. So if every ward turns into a stake we would have about 500
stakes! And he said we are here right now to help with that, and that all of a
sudden 500 stakes aren’t gonna pop out of nowhere. It was so sweet. And he
shared some stories from his mission about people he baptized that he lost
contact with and then 25 years later they call him and say they are going to
the temple to get married! So that’s what it’s about. Just doing what the Lord
asks you to do now, and in the end it will be all right. Sometimes we don’t understand
how the Lord works, but it always works out for the better! I’ve learned that
lesson more than once.
And he talked about
how the church should be the hippest place in town. And how we should always be
doing activities there, and to give it a good name. Because most people here
think we are crazy. But if we do those activities they’ll see that we are
normal and they will feel the Spirit when they go into the church! So I’m
excited to get things going here in our ward. We have a big ward but not a whole
lot goes on missionary work wise. So we gotta get the ward animated!
And this week we met
one of the Pioneers of the church here in Concepcion. Her name is Sister
Hernandez. She was baptized like 50 years ago. She served a mission in La
Serena Chile and worked in Genealogy at the Provo Temple for 10 years she is
way cool. She came up to me and said Hermanito you come from a blessed land and
she started crying. We are blessed because it is so easy to go to the temple or
church and the church is strong in the States. And things are getting stronger
down here. Elder Cook said when he came to talk to us that we are branch
builders. It’s true and I love it!
And today we had P
Day on Tuesday. So we played soccer for a couple hours then ate lunch at a member’s
house and then came to do internet!
So we are living it up here, Elder Arancibia and I! We got
some great things to do here in Universitario!
Have a great week
everyone I love you guys tons! Stay stoked!
Elder Johnson
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