Wednesday, June 6, 2012

June 4, 2012 - Holes in the Rain Pants, but a week of progress!


Hey how about it! Here we are again! Time flies! We had a great week this week!
 Monday was a great day. We found a couple of sweet investigators at the end of the night! So that was a great start to the week!
Wednesday morning was District Class. It was great. We all introduced ourselves, so that was cool. Then I gave the Class. It was great! We talked about the importance of teaching the investigator and not the lesson. And the importance of asking questions to figure out what really is the problem they are having. So it was cool. Everybody gave comments and we did some great practices! And it was a nice day out. On Wednesday we were contacting and we found a sweet older lady. Her name is Silvia and she has trouble seeing. She was great we talked about the Restoration for a bit and about the Atonement, and baptism.  She was way cool, we could really feel the spirit with her. We also taught Alvano and Nilvia with Igor one of the members in our ward. It was a great lesson. We talked to Alvano the whole time because his girlfriend was in the other room with their little baby. But it was a great lesson. We talked about baptism and the importance of it in this life. And Alvano accepted a baptismal date. And the member that came with us is a returned missionary that served in New Jersey. He is sweet. He talked about the importance of the Law of Chastity and the blessings they can could receive by being married and keeping that commandment. It was great! Alvano liked it, and it made him think a lot.  So that was great.
   Thursday was also really cool! We were walking down the street in the morning and we always pass by this apartment complex. But this time the gate was opened so we James Bonded it into the complex, and we were like...hey where should we go contact. And we walked to this building and we touched the doorbell, and a lady walked  out and we started talking and she invited us in. And we started talking, and she said that we came at just the right time. Because she lives with her boyfriend. They have been together for 7 years, they are an older couple. But she said that the son of her boyfriend started living with them, and he is a drug addict and him being there started to mess up things in the house, but finally the son left. And she was telling us that she thinks like it was her fault. But we testified of the Atonement, the Restoration and the Plan Heavenly father has made for families. And then invited her to be baptized like Jesus Christ. And she accepted. The Spirit was real strong there, I could feel it testifying to her that these things are true. The only problem that we would have with her is getting her married. Because you can’t be living together without being married. That seems to be one of the bigger problems here in Chile....no one is married. But we find all of these great people, and that’s the only thing that impedes them from entering the waters of baptism.
But Friday was crazy. We had weekly planning, and then it started raining. So I put on my new rain pants I bought last Monday. And we walked from appointment to appointment the whole day. We taught 3 lessons, and walked the whole time in rain, it rained for 6 hours straight! But my pants kept me dry, but at the end of the night when I took them off I looked at them and to my surprise there was a giant hole in the butt! So I guess from just walking or something they got destroyed. So that was pretty funny, walking around with a whole in my butt the whole day! But we had a sweet lesson with Alvano and Nilvia! We read The Family A Proclamation to the World and we talked about Eternal Families and the plan Heavenly father ha for them. And they really like the sound of Eternal Families and Alvano really wants to be baptized, but they said that it isn’t something that is to urgent for them. So we have some work to do with them still. But they loved church when they went and everything. So pray for them!
   Saturday was a great day. We taught a couple of lessons. One was with a family that is part less active and part not married, but the parents are sweet members. So we shared a lesson with them about the Atonement, and it was good, the parents gave a lot of great complements. We teach the daughter of the parents who is less active. The parents live in another sector, in the other mission actually. And the daughter’s husband is not a member. But it was great. We just need to get the daughter going more to church. I know that if she starts going more her husband will see that and want to go. So we’ll see how it turns out.
   Sunday was great. We had Alvano Nilvia and Lucas all committed to come and at the end of it when we called them they said they had to go to a birthday party. So that was lame. But church was great. And we had a good day. We found some people and set some sweet lessons up. We ended the night at a Family Night with a new convert. It was cool there was a couple of families from the ward there. We ate some crepes with Manjar. Amnjar is like thick caramel! It’s so good. I’ll have to send some home one day!
  But that was our week! Pretty sweet we are excited for this one to see what’s in store!
I love you guys a bunch, thanks for all of the prayers and love!
Have a great week!
    les quiero,
                     Elder Johnson

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