Hola Hola!!  From under the Equator!!!

Elder Calle went to the jungle!!! To Pucallpa!!!  In my first area when I was there!!

And I have a new comp!!  His name is Elder Dustin Jack Divis, from Colville, Washington!!  I never thought that I would be with a gringo, but stranger things have happened!!!  He is great!!!  We are about the same height and he’s blond. 

He speaks pretty good Spanish for just leaving the CCM. It was funny when they told us that we would be together, because I have never heard of two gringos being together here, but it’s great, we talk in Spanish all of the time so that he can get better.

On Friday we had a lesson with the mom of a recent member named Vilma and Elder Divis invited her to be baptized and she accepted, but told us in December, and then we invited her to pray with us and ask if these things were true and when she did so the Spirit was in the room with us and we invited her to be baptized the 23 of October and she said that would be fine. It was great!!!

Also, Saturday Elder Divis baptized Amparo Utrilla!!!  On Saturday we had filled up the font and everything was ready, but the people to be baptized weren’t there and we were a little worried because it was a half hour late and Amparo hadn’t gotten there.  So we went upstairs in the church to pray, and when we came down from talking with God, He had done miracles, she was waiting for us in the chapel!!!  It went well and on Sunday she got confirmed!

This Sunday we will not be watching General Conference because there are elections here and we cant have meetings with any church or other group, we can’t even meet with anyone. :(

I know God lives and that he listens to his children. He loves us no matter what we do.

I love you all tons!!!

Love Elder Johnson!!!

Hola from under the equator!!!

Well there will be a few changes!!!

I am going to stay here in Wiesse, and Elder Calle is going to Pucallpa!!! In the same area where I was!!! Centenario-Primavera!!!

Also I am going to have another son!!! I am Training again! It is going to be great!!!

I will stay as District Leader and they are dividing the zone, so it will only be Wiesse zone and Wiesse district jajaja. It’s going to be a great change!

Also this week I baptized Bertha!!!  She has changed a ton. At first she told us that she wasn’t going to get baptized on Monday, and we talked and invited her to pray about what she should do, and when we passed again on Tuesday she was crying while reading in the Book of Mormon when we knocked on her door.  She told us that she would be baptized and that she was ready to change her life!!!

Also, well lots more has passed too, I am great, and I wish you all a great week!!!

I love you all and am learning the importance of reading the scriptures and following their counsel. READ the scriptures!!!  They will change your life!!!

I love you all tons!!!

Fidelidad Hasta el Fin!!!

Elder Joe Johnson

Hola from under the equator!!!

These two weeks have been really good and I have learned and progressed in many ways. On Sunday we had Stake Conference and two families went to the conference!!!!

It was great and they did it in two sessions because there are lots of members and the building is a little small, we got to assist both of the sessions and they were great, the Spirit was there with us. This week I have been working with many different comps, because my comp and some other Elders had a capacitation in the mission offices. It’s the same one that I had a little while ago about the 8 Simplified lessons. It is great, and uses a lot of Preach My Gospel and the scriptures.  Putting in practice the things we learned there has helped in the lessons that we teach, and more investigators are gaining better and stronger testimonies with the 8 things we learned.  

Also this Saturday Bertha is getting baptized!!!!!!!

I am really good and I love the work, and the Scriptures!!! I love you all!!!

Have an amazing weekend, I will write on Monday!!!

Elder Joe Johnson

Hola!

This week we had a baptism on Saturday that completed the Salgado Family, Elder Calle baptized Jesus Granda at 5:45 on Saturday and it went well!!!

I have felt the Spirit this week and I am soooo excited for tomorrow because we are going to the Temple!!!!!!!!!!!!

I like my area because lots of members assist church every week, and the ward mission leader is great and really animated.

Sunday we were in church and the Stake President taught the Gospel Principles class about faith. It rocked!!! He had some really good examples that he shared, and then at the end he invited me to the front and asked an investigator, that was there for his first time, if he saw something different in my eyes that he didn’t see in other youth of the street. He said “si” and then he explained that the more faith that we have and the more we follow the Savior, the more we look like him, it reminded me of the song, “Have you received His image in your countenance…”  and the Scripture Alma 5:14.  

Answers to a few questions:

How big is your area?  — It is big, about twenty blocks by forty! It is only half of the Weisse Ward.   

How many missionaries in your district? — 10;  Your Zone? — We were 18, but two got taken out so now we are 16.

How often do you have district meeting and zone conferences?  — District Meeting every Wednesday, and as a Zone once every month and a half.

I know the work is true!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Elder Johnson