Hola!!!!!

This week was really good. I had some awesome experiences.  Friday we ate lunch with the Uribe Aviles Family and while we were eating, their son put on the movie  ¨On the Lords Errand¨ about President Monson and his life. I felt the spirit during the movie and now have a stronger testimony that he is called of God.

Right after, the dad of the family asked for a blessing and I sealed it. I was blessed to be guided by the spirit and feel the power of the priesthood. I KNOW that the Power and Authority of God is on the earth and that this is the only true and living church on the face of the earth, and that we are guided by a living prophet today.

We also had a baptism Saturday that was awesome, his name is Charles Valles and he has 18 years and he has such a strong testimony of the gospel. Before his baptism he started attending seminary for two weeks, he rocks!!!

We are also going to have a marriage and a baptism this Saturday, it will be awesome!!!!

I’m doing good, feeling the help of God and seeing how the Book of Mormon changes lives. I know that the church of Jesus Christ is restored on the earth and that we can receive all the blessings of our Heavenly Father through this gospel. I Know It’s True!!!!

Thanks for the prayers!!!! Your in mine!!!!

Love you tons!!!!

Elder Johnson

Wow, This week was good!!!!!

We had a talent show on Friday and it went well, lots of investigators came.  My act was “magic”.  It was all a big joke, and they were laughing pretty hard afterward. We also are having about 3 or 4 baptisms this week!! It will be cool!!!! 

Our “Parrillada” or barbecue went good, I had thin cuts of beef and put Limón and chicken bullion on mine, it was really good, we also had pineapple and that was really good. For the parrillada they put a grate over coals on the ground, it was fun, I messed around with my ZL Elder Piorczynski (from Canada) in the jungle, and we talked about how cool it would be too see the Lamanites and Nephites fighting... I think that I could fight too, but only with the help and strength of God, no wonder the people that feared God always won.

I’m trying to be an instrument in the Hands that paid the price for my sins, so that others can know of the love He has for them. I’m trying to do what it says in Mark 12 “the first commandment is to love God, and the second is like unto it, love your neighbor as yourself.” I love this work, time passes so fast and I’m trying to work with all my “heart, might, mind, and strength”, thanks for the prayers, THEY HELP A TON!!!!

Tell Jared Happy Birthday! and that I will celebrate by working hard all day and eating an Ice Cream for him. :) jajajaja

Tell Josh congrats on the job offer.

Tell all the ward hi, and that I love them all. (I was so blessed to grow up in the 1st ward of North Ogden!!!)

Have a great week!!!!

I know it’s true, My Savior Lives, and His church is on the earth Restored!!!! Joseph Smith was and is a prophet of the most high God!!!!!

Love, Elder Joe Johnson

Hey!!! I’m good, I didn’t feel a thing (earthquake), and if it did affect Pucallpa, I was sleeping when it hit... :)   This week has been good, we had a baptism Saturday, named Maria, she reminds me of Suzy because she is single too.  She works in the Ice Cream shop in front of our apartment, and bore her testimony at her baptism that this is the true church. It was cool!! We also watched one of our baptisms bless the sacrament yesterday, Paul blessed the sacrament and it was cool to see how he has changed.

I am good, I think the half hour of exercise every morning is helping me keep my weight down, but by no means am I the Hulk or Superman... Super-Elder!!!!!!!! jajaja

There is a new Elder in my Zone named Elder Evans, from... Soda Springs Idaho! We talked about the nasty water there and laughed. jaja I remember Janeen when she drank about half a cup and spit it all out... jajajajaja :)

He’s a cool Elder from the same group as Elder Wood.

I have something to ask from you all, to pray that the hearts of the people in this Mission(Lima Norte), Zone(Pucallpa), and Area(Las Alamedas) will be touched that they will be prepared and really receptive to the gospel. Thanks!!!!!

Your prayers are appreciated!!!!

Well I love you all, I am now going to enter the Jungle... Really we are going to have a ¨Parrillada¨ or barbecue in the jungle for P-day, wooo-hoooo!!! 

Thanks, especially for the letters.

Love you all tons!!!!!!

Te Amo!!! MAS!!!!!!!!

Elder Joe Johnson

Hola!!!!!!

Well this week was good. We had a baptism of Francisca, she is 56 and ¨lo maximo¨, she wants us to baptize her whole family. :) It went really good, and we also had a wedding of a couple, where the mom is a member and the dad isn’t, but we will teach him this week.  It was a good week and last night we taught a less active teen, Jumico. He wasn’t preparing to serve a mission, but we talked to him, and he prayed and now he is!!!!!

We aren’t going to change this time, we are going to be together for another change!!!! Rocks!!! We are going to teach a lot of people and help them receive the gospel in this change.

Hope you have a great week!!!!!

Thanks for the photos, they are awesome!!!

Love you tons, Joe!

Hola!

We had a baptism yesterday, and are hoping to have one or two more this week. I will be with Elder Yañez for one more week, and then CHANGES!!!  This change has gone by really fast, really fast. This ward rocks, and I hope I don’t have to leave... But it’s all good, it’s where the Lord needs me.

Love you all!! chow!!!

Elder Johnson

Church News about Peru Missions and New President February 13 2010

New Peru Lima North Mission President July 2010

Lawrence Paul Blunck, 53, and Karen Janeece Hawman Blunck, four children, Peru Lima North Mission; Canby 2nd Ward, Oregon City Oregon Stake. Brother Blunck is ward Young Men president and a former counselor in a stake presidency, bishop, high councilor, counselor in a ward Young Men presidency and missionary in the Peru Lima Mission. Partner, Blunck & Walhood LLC. Born in Hood River, Ore., to Alfred Carl and Beverly Kay Garrett Blunck.Sister Blunck serves as a counselor in a stake Relief Society presidency and is a former counselor in ward Young Women and Relief Society presidencies, seminary teacher and gospel doctrine teacher. Born in Sacramento, Calif., to Phillip Arthur and Grace Ardele Hawman.
New Missions for Peru July 2010
To better align resources and adjust to the ever changing needs of the Church, 10 new missions will be organized in July, while 14 other missions will be combined with neighboring missions. The resulting number of missions will be 340.

To see a map of new Peru Mission see this link.

http://www.ldschurchnews.com/articles/58775/New-missions-10-announced-in-seven-areas.html

Creating the Peru Cusco and Peru Lima West missions from a realignment of the Peru Arequipa, Peru Lima Central, Peru Lima East, Peru Lima North and Peru Lima South missions.

WOWOWOWOWOWOW!!!!!! 

Sorry that all email didn’t get sent last week!!!! The computer died and I didn’t get to send!!!!

THANK YOU!!!!! I GOT FOUR PACKAGES LAST WEEK!!!!! We had interviews with President Pérez and I got Thanksgiving and Christmas all in one!!! It was a really good day!!! I’m actually eating the gobstoppers right now. :)!!  We had a baptism last Saturday. Jair has 15 years and he was taught almost a year ago by other missionaries. He told us the first day that we taught him that he wanted to be baptized. But he had some doubts in his interview. So we prayed with him, and he felt the Spirit and told us it was the right thing to do. I baptized him and it was really good.

This week we got rained on a lot!!! We walked for two minutes in the rain and my pants and shoes and everything was soaked!!! It was crazy!! We also had three baptisms this week!!!!! Two of them, were Paul and Viviana, siblings - Paul has 18 years, and Viviana has 11. They are really cool and we are working on their mom and dad, their cousins are LDS and live in Utah!! We also baptized Sally, she has 13 years and her brother is a recent convert. They rock. We are also working on her mom and dad. :) 

We also found two families yesterday!! In one of them, the dad assisted the church for two years in Lima and wasn’t baptized, and in the other she told us that she was looking for the true church and was reading the bible!  These were answers to my prayers, to find families ready for the gospel.  :)

Well I’m good, I can’t wait to find more families!!!! Families are the best !!!! I love my family, when I think about them I feel love for everyone of them/you.  When we teach about temples and families, I love to testify that families can be forever, because they can.

I love this gospel, that through it we can live with our families forever in God´s presence. I KNOW that Joseph Smith was a prophet and that through him Jesus Christ organized His church. I testify and promise along with every prophet and apostle and member of this church that if you pray with FAITH you can know it is true too.

Happy Valentines Day!!!!!  I hope you have a great one!!!!!!!  But, don’t forget that “God so LOVED the world that he gave His only begotten Son..”  That through Him we might be saved.  I love my Savior, and I love you, (whoever you are) Happy Valentines Day!!

HapPy VaLenTinEs dAy!!!

Thank you so much to everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The packages were the best!!!!

Love you tons!!!

HEY,

How are things going with you?

I’m good, my comp. is good, we have had a lot of rain.  Well, I felt the earthquake, but don’t be worried it was tiny and Elder Yañez didn’t even feel it.

Thanks for everything, the packages, and letters and everything, 

the picture of Jesus. Have a great week.

Love, Elder Joe

At the Mission Home:

Baptisms while serving in Huaral: