January 7, 2013 - Solcito in San Carlitos!

Hey family and friends! Well here it is! Things are going good here. This week was supposed to be the biggest week of my mission. So we worked super hard. It was blazing hot all week. Just sweating bullets. We were set out to find a family that would get baptized this month. So we had our sights set on that. We did all kinds of contacts we passed by members to ask for references... everything possible. But it didn’t come at the end of it all. We had fasted and prayed for it. So we are hoping to see some fruits of it this week that’s coming up. 

But we still have Carmen that is getting ready to be baptized this 20th of January. So we are teaching her and keeping things going with that. She’s great, she loves the church and reading the Book of Mormon. So she is special. Her house is sweet. She paints like random bottles and pans and metal things with flowers and birds so her house looks like a jungle thing! I’ll take a picture and send it! haha you’ll like it.

 Today for P Day we went and played some soccer with the Zone so that was cool we had a good time. 

Saturday it was burning hot and the sun got the best of me so I got a little sick but I’m better now. My face was beet red in church yesterday. 

Yesterday a brother from the ward passed away. So they did his funeral. His wife, son and daughter live here with them. He had been in and out of the hospital a lot lately. But now he’s resting and things are good for him. It’s good to know that Heavenly Father has a plan for us. The family is very strong. We were asked to sing a special number. We sang Come Come Ye Saints and Elder Monsalve played the recorder flute on a couple parts so it was nice.

 But things are going good.  This week we have interviews with President. So that will be cool and next week we have Mission Conference in Talca.
 But thanks for your prayers and love! I love you guys have a great week!

  Elder Johnson