Thursday, February 18, 2010

Pics from E Johnson's Mom:)

I know this is terrible... but I now have to get pictures from Hyrum's mission thru his companions mom! Ya! Not sure but the longer he is out, the less time he has please his mom... :(
So here is a copy of Hyrum's comps email and pics! Thanks....

The first three pics are of the family we baptized on Saturday the 6th, Raquel's family. From oldest to youngest: Rodrigo, Rogerio, e Ana.
The second picture is of the big group that was at the baptism, including three others that another dupla baptized, and Thalia the young girl we worked with. Jo達o who has been a member for 10 months baptized her, which was really cool since he's a good member friend of ours. The third foto is me with all the siblings from the baptism in their wooden house. The baby is Raquel's little girl, who is a pretty good friend of mine.

In the fourth foto was the other group of siblings that we worked with: Robert, Ingrid, e Randy.
And in the fifth is their whole family; we are currently working with the parents towards baptism.

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

More Baptisms and the Manaus Temple











Loving the mission!

how was your week? mine was pretty good. there is a crazy holiday here called carnival so there is just lots of parties and drunks lately but other then that its good. haha. the other night there was a huge party in front of our house haha. i loved it. haha NOT. but ya, the road was closed and there was a big stage and music and lots of drunks like literaly in front of our house. its a good thing im so dang tired at night i was out like a dead boy haha. the music didnt even keep me up!!! so we got some good investigators. were teaching a less active and helping her marry the guy she lives with, she is also pregnant. so we got all the wedding plans done. her husband isnt to interested in the gospel yet, but you can bet by the time were done with him he will be. well with lots of the Lords help of course. after all we are just tools in his hands!!! some of the other converts we had. Raquel and Rodrigo and Rogerio and Ana. well a little more info about there family. Raquel is 17, annies age and has a little baby, prob 6-9 months and she wasnt living at her house cause she didnt get along with her step dad but she lived with less active members. but since we have been teaching her and her family and helping her stepdad stop drinking there house has been a total movement! like its just a tiny little wooden house but they have hung like sheets up to make the walls look prettier and we gave them pics for the enisigns and stuff and raquel even moved back into there house. its amazing to see how huge of a differance there house and family is now. it makes me sooo happy to see them like this. we marked a family night with them and raquel with give the lesson!!! we are also teaching a man with about 30 years prob and he stopped us in the road asking for a card so he could call and get a free DVD. we were like well just give us your addy and we will be happy to pass by and so he did. well long story short we went and for a couple of weeks he was hard to find but this last week we have found him lots more and his wife left him about 5 months ago and she only lets him see there daughter on weekends and so he was like way depressed the other day and got drunk we we just remarked with him and went back and he was just way sad the next day so we taught the 3rd and focused on repentance and baptism and he accepted to prepare to be baptised. we talked about enos´s prayer to be forgive for his sins and marked it for him to read then we left. the next day went back and he was just way happier said he read and prayed and he is just progressing great. i pray that he continues with desejo and that he is baptised. the gospel can really help his life!!! yesterday we did a serive project and painted a school. well we didnt finish, we will go back friday to paint more. but i got totally trunky painting. it reminded me or our remodle on our house haha. i was like man i would totally be waiting for a 10 pack from fiesta ole right about now but instead i got a fried egg with rice haha. it was good to i guess. haha. but ya that is about my week. all is going good. this morning i got to play some more soccer alos got a letter from jatauna and tyler bates!!! i got a christmas package form wayde and mellissa, it was funny, inside they joked and said sorry its late, it will prob be a V-Day package and they put hearts on it. well come to find out i get it two days after V-Day.
i have loved the mission. its soo amazing. like so amazing in a weird way. its way hard on the body and the mind. like see and deal with soo much messed up stuff but its all good for a growing expeirience!!! it is by far the hardest thing ive ever done but also the best time. its just hard to explain but im loving it.
well love you!!

About the email from your comps mom?.....

So I got an email from your comps mom telling me you are DL....

sorry i dont brag about my mission callings. i have to work on being humble. its a hard thing to have christlike atribute for me. but the district has 4 missionary groups in it. (8 elders in total) 2 are the ZL´s. the district is really yound. im the oldest in the district. one elder has like 2 weeks less then me. the other has like a month less then me, after that its young. a 11 month elder, a 7 month elder, two 9 month elders and my comp who will have 4 months soon and me with a year 1/2

Email from E. Johnson Mom

Maryann,
I just wanted to send you a brief note - congratulations on your son being made a district leader. I know that Philip was very relieved that they remained companions with this transfere. I guess he had spent a day with another companion, and while he wasn't complaining, I could tell that he feels much more comfortable with your son. He was talking about getting soccer jerseys, which I guess is a big deal in terms of which team you support. When he talked about the team your son suppports, he was saying that since your son was his father, maybe he should pick that team too. Anyway, it was very sweet (my son whould hate to see me use that word!) to read what he has to say when he talks about his companion. You already know this, but I just wanted to let you know what a good companion you son is being to my son! Hope you are having a good day. We have finally dug out from our record breaking storm and I am definetely ready for the boys to go back to school!
Jill Johnson

Another Busy Week Transfers

hello there how goes it. but let me tell ya a LITTLE about my week. it was a crazy week. haha. me and my comp laugh daily about this week. well one thing at a time. first of all can you tell chloe happy bday for me. oh so get this, sunday the baptismal font wasnt locked(my fault :S) haha. but there wsa a little girl in there swimiing haha. she said she wanted to be baptised haha. it was crazy funny haha. but we got her out and then locked it up. one of my ZL´s finsihed his mission so a couple of nights before we had a little sleep over at there house and had some food and sang songs and bore testimonies and stuff it was way cool and fun. this week we were also WAY blessed by the lord. we had 7 baptisms!!! it was amazing. we are still teaching the parents of some of them and im really hopping they find interest in the lessens. they are likeing them somewhat so that is good!!! transfers were this week also but me and elder johnson just stayed together!!! which im way glad cause he is a hard worker and we have a good friendship going on so its totally good.!!! also this week our ward mission leader disapeared so he had the activity in the ward wed night didnt show up so me and my comp made something up off the top of our minds, which the Lord must have helped alot cause it turned out pretty good i must say. also he didnt show up to our coralation meeting or churh or the baptisms and the bishop couldnt get ahold of him or anything so it was kinda stressfull. but ya well just hope he shows up soon. haha my comp has a hacky sack and he was kicking it and i was like wow you are bad, i can do so much better then that so i went to try and i kicked it once and it went to the other side of the room, e. johnson almost died from laughing so hard haha. it was pretty embarrisng. and the last but not least is that i got a tape from my cousin chris this week. i love that guy. haha. he is soo funny and makes some good old laughs. but ya that is about all for this week i think. i hope im not forgeting anything.