November 12, 2012 - BBQ´n it up, San Carlos Style!

Hey well here we are the exchange has already come to an end! And I’m staying here! Elder Benitez got transferred to Talca. My new comp is from Uruguay, his name is Elder Bueno! So we will see what we can get done here! I’m stoked!

We had a good week. It was tough. We are still on the lookout for some new investigators, trying to prepare for December to baptize somebody! So that is keeping us busy. We have had a couple of things go against us with some investigators and we’ve also found some good ones.

We started teaching the grandma of Jose who got baptized last week. She loved the baptismal service and felt really good, and she wants to get baptized. And she loves to read the Book of Mormon. Her name is Demoria. The only bad thing is that she lives in the farmland area, so it might be hard sometimes for her to come to church. But everything with God is possible! And we worked in a little housing tract outside of the normal sector and we found a bunch of people. A couple are really good, we found a mom and a daughter that are great! But the dad is against them. We get a lot of that. People have closed hearts and say that they already have a church when they don’t even go to it or do anything about it. So we just show them some love and soften the heart and sometimes they loosen up. So hopefully we can see something good happen with them here soon.

I did a mini exchange with Elder Turner on Saturday. We taught some great lessons to some of their key investigators. We just did our best to put baptismal dates with them and help them feel the spirit and get them stoked to prepare for baptism. So it was cool Elder Turner got way stoked. It was crazy because we left the house in the afternoon and it was sunny and everything, and then like 3 hours later a crazy lightning thunder storm rolled in and we got showered on. We were just in our white shirts. But right as it started we contacted a house and this guy came out with his shirt off and he seemed a little grumpy and I was like aww great he’s gonna yell at us to leave, but he’s like hey come in after a second of staring at us and we got in and he and his wife whipped out a baptismal picture of them 2! They had been baptized like 5 years ago. And he got way happy and we shared a scripture and he showed us some books and he said whenever you want come over and well do a family night and my neighbor wants to listen to you! So that was cool and he gave us some jackets and we walked outside and it was raining like crazy! And we taught some more lessons. The last lesson we taught was great. We taught the restoration to a girl they are teaching and the Spirit was super strong. It was great she accepted a baptismal date and everything.

On Friday Elder Benitez and I taught some good lessons, and then at 8:30 we played a soccer game with some investigators. It had rained a little bit that day so we were like aww man it’s gonna stink but as we were walking over it stopped. And the court was a little wet, but we started playing and after a half hour and some good slips and falls it dried out and it was game on. We said if we won they all had to come to church, and we won of course! haha and we showed them the church and they all liked it, but Sunday came around and they didn’t show up. But it was good maybe next time.

But we had a good week we are looking forward to this week that is coming up, we gotta get some people to church and get them progressing so we can have a ¨WHITE¨ Christmas! So pray for us that we can get this ward pumping and help our investigators feeling the Spirit! This exchange that is coming up is only 5 weeks they cut it short one so that the missionaries can be home for Christmas. So that’s gonna be crazy and then the last exchange is gonna be 7 weeks. So I’m excited, it’s gonna be great! I hope you all have a great week and thanks for the prayers and the love!

les quiero,

Elder Johnson