Zone Conference- Vila Velha & Vitoria
Pres Beck & Vila VelhaHe is really easy to pick out in both pictures as he is the tallest in both!
February 28, 2010
February 22, 2010
Jeff's email 2/22/2010
THE ANTICIPATION
So we are quietly awaiting the transfer call to reach us. It should be getting to us here shortly so as of this point we have no clue if we will be staying together or not. This week was quite amazing. We have this family that wants to be baptized but the parents of the family aren't married. We went there on Thursday night and I gave a lesson about the 10 virgins and how them not being married is like them not having oil in their lamp. We marked a date of marriage with them and then baptism the day after that! The date is April 16 so I am pretty excited for me or whoever will be in this area on that date! We also had quite the bad expierence yesterday. There was this young lady at church that expressed desires to be baptized, so of course we marked to go to her house that day and teach and mark a baptism date with her. We get there and we discover that her older sister is the biggest snake I have ever seen in my entire life! Biggest because of size and because of how snakey she is. She was totally trying to get us to date her and everything and we pushed off those lousy attempts. She then had to go and get ready for work. Here in Brazil they have this custom to kiss people on the cheek when they are saying good bye. As missionaries we don't do that because of rules and such. She comes out and plants a big wet one on rGranges cheek as I try to take cover and she moves in close and plants a nasty wet one on my cheek as I was doing a face a lot like this one.... I was disgusted and left from that house afterwords spitting about every 2 steps because of my disgustedness. I never again will go into that house if that nasty lady is there ever again! This I promise!
Hope all is well back home and everyone had a good week!
Jeffrey
So we are quietly awaiting the transfer call to reach us. It should be getting to us here shortly so as of this point we have no clue if we will be staying together or not. This week was quite amazing. We have this family that wants to be baptized but the parents of the family aren't married. We went there on Thursday night and I gave a lesson about the 10 virgins and how them not being married is like them not having oil in their lamp. We marked a date of marriage with them and then baptism the day after that! The date is April 16 so I am pretty excited for me or whoever will be in this area on that date! We also had quite the bad expierence yesterday. There was this young lady at church that expressed desires to be baptized, so of course we marked to go to her house that day and teach and mark a baptism date with her. We get there and we discover that her older sister is the biggest snake I have ever seen in my entire life! Biggest because of size and because of how snakey she is. She was totally trying to get us to date her and everything and we pushed off those lousy attempts. She then had to go and get ready for work. Here in Brazil they have this custom to kiss people on the cheek when they are saying good bye. As missionaries we don't do that because of rules and such. She comes out and plants a big wet one on rGranges cheek as I try to take cover and she moves in close and plants a nasty wet one on my cheek as I was doing a face a lot like this one.... I was disgusted and left from that house afterwords spitting about every 2 steps because of my disgustedness. I never again will go into that house if that nasty lady is there ever again! This I promise!
Hope all is well back home and everyone had a good week!
Jeffrey
February 16, 2010
Jeff's Email-- 15 February 2010
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
I love you all!
Johnson, Jeffrey Todd
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
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