So, this week was pretty awesome! Ive got only a short amount of time so I must make it quick. Yesterday I got to church without a voice because I have been sick for the last little while and I havenet been able to talk. It gets to be about 30 minutes before sacrememt meeting and the bishop comes up to me and asks if I would be able to give a 12 minute talk at last moment. I did it easily! I now know how to do public speaking! Yeah. Cool right! Transfers are next week so hopefully I get to stay here! We will see though!
I love you all!
Johnson, Jeffrey Todd
February 16, 2010
February 9, 2010
Jeff's Email-- 08 February 2010
Dearest family and friends,
What a good week that I had this last week! We had another baptism and found 2-5 more before the end of this month! The work here is going crazily awesome and I absolutely love this area! It’s very sad to think that on the twenty third of this month I could be leaving but hopefully I get to stay for at least a little longer.
Last week Elder Beck, the Young Men’s General President came to our mission to give a training and to talk with us. The day before the training, he spent the day with the Young Men of the stake I am currently in. The next day when the missionaries were in a meeting with him he talked about it a little bit. He said…”yesterday I had the chance to interview a young man named Bruno.” My heart began to beat like crazy because I was pretty sure that he was talking about the Bruno that I baptized. He then said…”who are the elders that baptized Bruno?” President Pickett from the back of the room yelled out, “Johnson and Grange!” President Beck then went on to talk about how special Bruno was and how he liked the interview so much that he filmed it with his camera and was preparing to show it to the Prophet and such next week in a meeting about the YM program. How cool is that? The Prophet and the leaders of the church will all see a young man that I baptized. He also may be put in one of the Liahonas or Ensigns in the near future! Yeah, I have to say, getting recognition from a general authority is pretty awesome! Especially when it is in-front of the entire mission!
I did get the package from the family this week and I have been having a lot of fun with recording some cool things on that recorder. It will probably make you laugh instead of cry, but laughing is way more fun!
Well I sure do love you all!
Elder Johnson
What a good week that I had this last week! We had another baptism and found 2-5 more before the end of this month! The work here is going crazily awesome and I absolutely love this area! It’s very sad to think that on the twenty third of this month I could be leaving but hopefully I get to stay for at least a little longer.
Last week Elder Beck, the Young Men’s General President came to our mission to give a training and to talk with us. The day before the training, he spent the day with the Young Men of the stake I am currently in. The next day when the missionaries were in a meeting with him he talked about it a little bit. He said…”yesterday I had the chance to interview a young man named Bruno.” My heart began to beat like crazy because I was pretty sure that he was talking about the Bruno that I baptized. He then said…”who are the elders that baptized Bruno?” President Pickett from the back of the room yelled out, “Johnson and Grange!” President Beck then went on to talk about how special Bruno was and how he liked the interview so much that he filmed it with his camera and was preparing to show it to the Prophet and such next week in a meeting about the YM program. How cool is that? The Prophet and the leaders of the church will all see a young man that I baptized. He also may be put in one of the Liahonas or Ensigns in the near future! Yeah, I have to say, getting recognition from a general authority is pretty awesome! Especially when it is in-front of the entire mission!
I did get the package from the family this week and I have been having a lot of fun with recording some cool things on that recorder. It will probably make you laugh instead of cry, but laughing is way more fun!
Well I sure do love you all!
Elder Johnson
January 22, 2010
January 18, 2010
Jeff's Email-- 18 January 2010
Hello my friends!
Well today we had the great opportunity to go up to a catholic monastery up on the top of a hill in my district! Aside from the over whelming feeling of apostasy as I watched people pray to some statue of Mary or some lady that funded that place, it was cool because I got some cool pictures and saw some cool monkeys!
This week we got two new roommates and they both happen to be Americans. Our house is only Americans! Weird huh? well they are awesome and our area is catching on fire with the success that we are having these days with finding people to teach and such! This Saturday we will have one baptism and maybe another if everything goes as planned! I'm super excited to be out here right now ! We are having tons of success and with that it makes it a million times easier to have a good attitude about everything!
Well I hope all had a good MLK day!
Elder Johnson
Sorry it's short!
Well today we had the great opportunity to go up to a catholic monastery up on the top of a hill in my district! Aside from the over whelming feeling of apostasy as I watched people pray to some statue of Mary or some lady that funded that place, it was cool because I got some cool pictures and saw some cool monkeys!
This week we got two new roommates and they both happen to be Americans. Our house is only Americans! Weird huh? well they are awesome and our area is catching on fire with the success that we are having these days with finding people to teach and such! This Saturday we will have one baptism and maybe another if everything goes as planned! I'm super excited to be out here right now ! We are having tons of success and with that it makes it a million times easier to have a good attitude about everything!
Well I hope all had a good MLK day!
Elder Johnson
Sorry it's short!
January 17, 2010
Jeff's email 1/11/2010
Dear those that care,
Quite the week this last one that has passed. The most recent thing that has happened to is that transfer calls just came and the two other elders that are in our area are both being transferred.
Last week we re-divided the area and we gained a lot of new ground to cover as well as new members to ask for help from. Due to the transfer of both of the other elders they gave us their investigators because we know their investigators already and we will be better to teach them. The cool thing is we just marked baptism dates with two of them for day 23 of this month! COOL RIGHT!!! They are two young men and they really like Elder G and I so it will go good for us!
On Saturday as we were going to another city on the bus we were involved in a minor bus accident. It was quite the experience. We were sitting in the bus when all of the sudden there was a really loud noise. It sounded like the bus had ran over a motor cycle or something. Because I have already seen like 7 dead mangled bodies on my mission I didn’t look back to see what it was. The bus stopped and everyone ran of. I thought they were running off because it was on fire but in the end I saw that they were just running off because they wanted to get on the next bus. As I got off I saw that all that had happened is that a little car had for some reason hit the wheel on the back of the bus and the bus basically passed over the hood of the car. NO DEAD BODIES WHERE THERE! I was pretty exited about that. Because everyone ran to get another bus we were the last to get off when the bus driver asked us to be witnesses to the accident. I said I didn’t see it and he explained what happened and asked me to witness. I said sure but then I thought….isn’t a witness supposed to see it and not just say what the driver says what happens. Oh well. Let’s just hope that they don’t call. I could just use the gringo factor and I’m sure that they will leave me alone.
Well good second week of the year to everyone and a happy transfer week to all!
Elder Johnson
Quite the week this last one that has passed. The most recent thing that has happened to is that transfer calls just came and the two other elders that are in our area are both being transferred.
Last week we re-divided the area and we gained a lot of new ground to cover as well as new members to ask for help from. Due to the transfer of both of the other elders they gave us their investigators because we know their investigators already and we will be better to teach them. The cool thing is we just marked baptism dates with two of them for day 23 of this month! COOL RIGHT!!! They are two young men and they really like Elder G and I so it will go good for us!
On Saturday as we were going to another city on the bus we were involved in a minor bus accident. It was quite the experience. We were sitting in the bus when all of the sudden there was a really loud noise. It sounded like the bus had ran over a motor cycle or something. Because I have already seen like 7 dead mangled bodies on my mission I didn’t look back to see what it was. The bus stopped and everyone ran of. I thought they were running off because it was on fire but in the end I saw that they were just running off because they wanted to get on the next bus. As I got off I saw that all that had happened is that a little car had for some reason hit the wheel on the back of the bus and the bus basically passed over the hood of the car. NO DEAD BODIES WHERE THERE! I was pretty exited about that. Because everyone ran to get another bus we were the last to get off when the bus driver asked us to be witnesses to the accident. I said I didn’t see it and he explained what happened and asked me to witness. I said sure but then I thought….isn’t a witness supposed to see it and not just say what the driver says what happens. Oh well. Let’s just hope that they don’t call. I could just use the gringo factor and I’m sure that they will leave me alone.
Well good second week of the year to everyone and a happy transfer week to all!
Elder Johnson
January 10, 2010
Emma 2010
The doctor unwrapped the top half of Emma's splint so I hurried and took a picture so you can see the difference between the size of the broken elbow and the one not. Good news is, as of this point, no pin needed!!! Hope it stays that way!
Emma's new haircut.January 8, 2010
Jeff's email 1/4/2010
Happy 2010!
So If you haven’t heard yet it is now 2010! And we all know what that means. It means that in exactly 10 months from today I will be back on Yankee soil! Weird thought right?
So this last week we have spent most of our time trying to find new investigators and the only method of finding new that seems to be working is through knocking, well, clapping doors. We seem to be able to teach a few people but it is usually a little difficult to get them to go to church being that it is a fairly long way to the church from our area. President Pickett gave us some good instructions about how to re-divide the area so that we can have more space to work and also more members to help us out.
On Saturday we had the opportunity to go over to the house of Patricia who was one of our two baptisms a few weeks back. She lives basically up in the jungle so it was pretty fun. The other elders in the ward went up there with us and we had a little family night type thing. We spent most of the time boulder jumping with them and taking some really awesome pictures that look like we are in the middle of the sky. As they were giving us the grand tour they showed us a vine that had grown. Yes a real Tarzan vine and I had the privilege to take a few swings on it. I was probably like 15 or so feet in the air after taking a running jump. I was terrified that it would break but surprisingly it was very strong. I spent some time trying to catch some chickens and in the end I ended up getting one and I was able to hypnotize it by putting it on the ground and drawing a straight line in front of its face. There are also enormous lizards up there that are about the size of Lex the dog but way longer and would probably devour him.
Well, happy new years to all of you and I hope that it brings many great things to all…(aside from me being in your presence again.) ;)
Love,
Elder Johnson
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