Fam -
First off..... You'll have to send things Sunday night because we are going to use the internet earlier now on Monday!
Hales. . don't think that you are going to stress me out with a letter. . . if worst comes to worst I can take a picture!
I hope all is well! First week here went great. . . stinkin awesome companion. Heidi. . . happy b day comin up! .. . I didn't get a letter off in time : ( But I think you should get some kind of message from me : ) we'll see. Love you all!
Ps. Would it be more convenient for you to come get me at the end of my mission? . . let me! know!
To all-
Well, we (me as the guide with four new missionaries) caught our bus at 9:30 tuesday night and started the 8 hour jouney that I took 1 year ago to start my mission . . only a few changes. . . now i was the one that knew where I was going and I can now speak the language. I also wasnt the one starting my mission but now returning to my first zone! We got here at 7 and after showering, were ready to head out.
They call it Zion here. . . love the Interior. It is a whole different world in Barbalha... google it haha. Here are some pictures the show a little bit about it. Dirt/sand roads, small houses, and animals everywhere. We are currently focusing on getting a strong priesthood base to get this branch here set-up for success in th future. We live in a house of six missionaries and we also make lunch because there are not enough members to do it. My comp an I made Panquecas this week . . it is like a crepe but with meet and food and not sugar-y stuff . . it was delicious.
My companion is the man, Elder Ingersoll from SLC - Cottonwood HS who just spent 8 months as Exc. Secretary. He has a year and 7 months on the mission and is also planning on marrying his girlfriend who has waited for him. . . I am invited to the wedding already ; ). Our Zone here is stacked with 6 elders that used to be ZL's and are now training here . . which also means that we have 6 new missionaries in the zone! There are certainly challenges but with 100% harmony in the companionship and the same goal to be successful and obedient, we know the Lord will help us here.
A drunk guy told us this week that the devil showed up at his house and said he was taking us down with him . . . Elder Ingersoll kept provoking him asking "really??....He came to your house?..... appeared to you?" . . I was at his side dying of laughter. . . it was so bad my legs went jello and I had to prop myself on a wall. . . I love laughing, always in the appropriate place and times right? I am sure (if he even saw me) the drunk man will not remember me laughing at him.
I killed a spider this week the size of the palm of my hand... the WHOLE palm of my hand. I saw it on a guys back and said to myself "He HAS to know it is there, it is so big he must feel it. . . it is probably his pet" . . long story short, I told him it was there and he got nervous haha, grabbed the brush out of his hand and knocked off of him . . and he lived . . whew!
Seeing as how I spent the first 6 months here at the beginning of my mission, the people I baptized found out that I was coming back to the Interior. . . when we got here at 7am on Wednesday there were some people waiting at the bus station to greet me. A family that we baptized and a young man as well. I got a little choked up in seeing that they were all doing well and that almost everyone we baptized is doing well and most are leaders in the branch now. One more moment of true joy in my life. . . how awesome it was to have that reunion as 'brothers in the Lord.' We are already planning to eat lunch at their house and spend a pday together. I have to run. Love you all! Until next week! -Elder Johnson
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