I love going to the temple, because I feel peace when I am there. My companion and I are  having a great time and we are working way hard. I am having some of the best experiences of my life!!!!  I’m learning lots, trying to progress and become what God wants me to be.

In Lima we went to the catacombs (Museo San Francisco - Monastery and Museum), and saw everything. Afterwards we ate McDonald’s - so good jaja (wasn’t 2 years ago but now!).

On Saturday two couples got married, and next Saturday they will be getting baptized!!!!!! We all were there in the Town Hall park, basically, and they had to get there early at 8 am because they had to do some papers and they close the doors at 11 am.  Well, we were there waiting and we were soooo nervous because they got there at 10:50 and 10:55 am.  We were so stressed, but they got there!!!  Answers to our prayers!!!  Also they went to stake conference yesterday, and they are really changing a lot!!!  Stake Conference was great!

This week we have had a lot of cool experiences, we found some guy that had found a Book of Mormon in the street and had read part of it and he knew about Jose Smith.  So we have an appointment to explain to him all about the Book of Mormon on Sunday.  We also have found a lot of families that are awesome. We have 9 people with baptism dates and two of them are the families that got married on Saturday. The work is going forward!!!!!

We have had some cool contacts with families, and we found a family in 2 contacts. First we found the wife, she told her husband that we were going to pass by on Tuesday. Then, yesterday we contacted the husband, he told us that he will also wait for us on Tuesday. It was cool because he told us that his wife had talked about us, and that she wanted him to listen too. 

I love the gospel and I am thankful for all your prayers!

I love you all sooo much!!!!!

Hurrah for Israel!

Elder Joe

Well, things are great! I already told you all about my week in the phone call on Sunday, so I’m not too worried about telling you too much.  But I think that I could share my testimony. I am so thankful for our Savior, to think that God sent his own Son, one of His own to break the chains of the Fall, and to rescue us all, is something so big. Today I asked a contact what he thought of what Christ had done, and if he would do the same and he just looked at me like “I don’t know if I could.”  But God did know that He could do it, and that He was the only one.

Today I was also thinking about the Creation and how it came about, God actually created it all!!!!! He is The CREATOR!!!!  And this world is awesome. We also got to go to the temple today and it was an awesome experience and I learned a lot there, and felt the Spirit  soooo strong! I love the temple!!! Well, I love the gospel and am thankful for the opportunity that I have to teach it. I love it so much. I also love all you FAMILIA JOHNSON!!!!!

FIDELIDAD HASTA EL FIN!!!!

Love Elder JOE

I will answer questions on Sunday. I love you all sooo much. We are teaching some families and one of the Dad’s told us that he has received an answer to his prayers. The other has felt the Spirit in church and he shared his testimony on Sunday.

Love you all,

Joe

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