Hola!

This week was amazing!  I am settling back in Lima.  It is cooler than the selva (jungle), and I feel soooo goood!!!!  I am getting used to it again.  I am serving now in the Los Pinos Ward, and Independencia Stake, as a Zone Leader.  My new companion is Elder Erick Abraham Gerónimo Ajanel, from Guatemala, Antigua.  The members here are amazing!

This week we have had some cool experiences.  We contacted a family in the street on Tuesday, and we taught them on Saturday.  They accepted to be baptized, but they need to be married first, so they put the goal of getting married on May 14^th.  They attended church on Sunday!!!!  We had another family attend that will be married on May 14^th also.  All four of them will be getting baptized on the same day!  Awesome investigators.  We also had a baptism on Saturday that went well, and everything is just great!!!!   

I know that Jesus lives.  I know it!  I hope you had a Happy Easter!

Love Joe

HOLA !!!! From under the Equator and in the Jungle!!!!! Well, not for long, this week will be  changes and I am going to Lima. But it’s all good, it doesn’t matter where I’m at, I am still the Lord’s servant, and will keep on working hard. They told us yesterday that Elder Blas is staying here and that I’m going to Lima.  But now the changes are a little different, they just tell us what side of the mission we are in, so I am in for a surprise!!!!! jajaja Well that’s ok! It will make life interesting.

This week has been really good. We started off the week with 8 lessons on Tuesday, which was awesome and that kind of continued all week long, it has been a great week!!!!  Francisca got baptized and confirmed and that went really well.  Her son is the Ward mission leader and he got to baptize her.  They were way happy.

We also taught an atheist and invited him to pray and ask if God exists, and he agreed to do it.  We found out that one of our investigators that is 87 got hit by lightning a year ago and she lived through it, she is awesome.

The work is GREAT!!!!! It is progressing like the Lord wants it to!!!!!  We get lots of member referrals, and had a lot more than usual this week!  Also, we tract almost every day.

We get some fresh fruit and I love MANGOES!!!!! They are really, really good!!!!

Christ does live, I love what it talks about in the Liahona this month!!!!!! Live the Scriptures!!!!!!  (that was an error, I meant ‘love’ but ‘live’ is cool too!)

I love the work, I live the work, I dream the work, IT IS MY PASSION.

Well, Happy Easter Too !!!!!!!!

Love Elder Joe

Wow!!!! HOLA FROM UNDER THE EQUATOR!!!!!!!

Things with the family sound good, and I am grateful for the opportunity to serve here in Perù. This week has passed really good. On Monday we went again to Quistacocha. I didn’t eat suri again, but a couple of others did.  It was funny to see the many ways that people try to eat a suri, and help it pass by your throat!  We also had service painting our old room on Tuesday, Friday and Saturday.  Things went well. We have seen that Fransisca is really determined to be baptized.  She said that she knows that God wants her to be baptized, but that Satan is trying to stop her.

Fransisca’s son, Luigi, had a Priesthood blessing and it is all good now. We were in their house yesterday and he came toddling up and shook my hand. :) He’s a cool little guy!

Well, we didn’t have church this week because there were elections here again.  So we have fast and testimony meeting this week, woo hoooo!!!!  Also, Fransisca will be baptized on Saturday, so we are pretty happy.  Our p-day plans today are for a BARBEQUE at the Stake Center!!!!

My study of the gospel this week has been great.  I love the scriptures, they are sooo true, JESUS LIVES!!!!!  Thanks for all of your love and everything, YOU are all amazing!!

Love Elder Johnson!!!!!

Hola!  It’s been a great week in Peru.  The two photo’s from last week, showing a park were taken from our old apartment.  Now we live in another place that is closer to the church.  We moved this last week and have been cleaning and painting our old apartment.

We had scheduled a baptism, but Francisca’s little boy is in the hospital.  He had an attack, so they went to the emergency.  He is getting better, but they still aren’t sure what it was.  We went to visit him and it was after hours, so they didn’t let us in.  But we are praying.

Our investigators are good.  We have found a few new investigators, but the move has taken up some time.

We got to hear ALL of General Conference!!!  We saw it through satellite, so it was the same as what you all saw.  Also, we watched it in the Stake President’s office with AC and it was awesome!!!  Conference was wonderful.  The music, council given, and the feelings of the Spirit were soooo amazing!!!  Does it get better every time???  Because from what I have seen it does!!!

I received the packages from Valentine’s and St. Patty’s Day.  Thank you!!!

Kia Kaha!  Fidelidad Hasta El Fin!

Love,

Elder Joe Johnson