Dear family,
Things are going pretty good out here. Carnival has started so we basicaly stay in our house studying the entire day because there are only drunks and bad things happening on the streets at all times. Every morning when we go out there is like a foot of garbage everywhere from carnival. It ends next Thursday, I think, so I think Im going to get the entire Book of Mormon done in that time.
We finally have a baptism marked! But let me tell you about this guy. On Sunday all the members went out and did contacts before church with us inviting everyone to come to the branch for Sunday meetings. There was one man that came. He came in saying that he was overcome by evil spirits and couldn’t go on until he had them removed. The man is an x- spiritist, which is a religion where they look for demons and that kind of stuff all the time. The branch president gave him a blessing and he said he was ok. We then gave him part of the first lesson. Half way through the lesson he told us about a dream he had had a few days earlier. He had a dream that a lady had come up to him on the street and had an important message to tell him and the lady in his dream was the lady that actually talked to him on the street that day. The man is full of stories like that. So we went to his house yesterday to teach him and when we walked in we noticed that he had painted the words JESUS on everything that he owned. As soon as we walked in he said that when he moved in the house was infested with demons so he said the only way to get them out was by doing that. He then told us that if you tape a New Testament to the windows that demons can't enter into your house. I then noticed that there were New Testaments taped to his windows. The man is crazy but he is going to be baptized on March first, Sunday after church! I'm way excited. We're trying to teach him that if he looks for demons he will find them because they are out there. But if he looks for the light of Christ those things won't bother him because the light of Christ and evil cannot abide in the same place.
Well dad, happy birthday! Hope today goes good for you and you get everything that your heart desires.!!
Hope everything is going good for all of you! And have a good week!
I love you all!
-Jeffrey Todd Johnson
Things are going pretty good out here. Carnival has started so we basicaly stay in our house studying the entire day because there are only drunks and bad things happening on the streets at all times. Every morning when we go out there is like a foot of garbage everywhere from carnival. It ends next Thursday, I think, so I think Im going to get the entire Book of Mormon done in that time.
We finally have a baptism marked! But let me tell you about this guy. On Sunday all the members went out and did contacts before church with us inviting everyone to come to the branch for Sunday meetings. There was one man that came. He came in saying that he was overcome by evil spirits and couldn’t go on until he had them removed. The man is an x- spiritist, which is a religion where they look for demons and that kind of stuff all the time. The branch president gave him a blessing and he said he was ok. We then gave him part of the first lesson. Half way through the lesson he told us about a dream he had had a few days earlier. He had a dream that a lady had come up to him on the street and had an important message to tell him and the lady in his dream was the lady that actually talked to him on the street that day. The man is full of stories like that. So we went to his house yesterday to teach him and when we walked in we noticed that he had painted the words JESUS on everything that he owned. As soon as we walked in he said that when he moved in the house was infested with demons so he said the only way to get them out was by doing that. He then told us that if you tape a New Testament to the windows that demons can't enter into your house. I then noticed that there were New Testaments taped to his windows. The man is crazy but he is going to be baptized on March first, Sunday after church! I'm way excited. We're trying to teach him that if he looks for demons he will find them because they are out there. But if he looks for the light of Christ those things won't bother him because the light of Christ and evil cannot abide in the same place.
Well dad, happy birthday! Hope today goes good for you and you get everything that your heart desires.!!
Hope everything is going good for all of you! And have a good week!
I love you all!
-Jeffrey Todd Johnson
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