This was a week to remember!!

Why you may ask?  Well because we had a total of 4 lessons. Two were with our investigator Hector, and the other 2 were with our other investigators Marcela and her son Diego. I am not complaining, we just had nothing this week.

Monday we had our last Zone get together before changes. I loved those guys and it's going to be hard to not have them here anymore. But tonight I find out who my new distric is! Hopfully they're pretty good!

Tuesday is when we were at changes in Chalco which is about an hour away. The whole misión was there and I think its because we had 12 missionaries leaving for home! It was cool to hear their testimonies! Later that night we had one of our lessons with Hector and after him we had one with Marcela and Diego, and that ended our day.

Wednesday we had nothing. We went to all our appointments and then some, but nothing. Luckily it wasn't to hot or I might have killed someone in the Street. I will also add that Ozumba is getting ready for a ginormous christmas party from the 8th to the 12th this month. We find out today what days we have to go in early so we don't get shanked.

Thursday, Happy Thanksgiving! We had tacos. What I want to know is, why every country doesn't have a day where they can just eat themselves silly, pass out for 5 hours, then wake up and spend some time with the fam and watch football! It really is just a beautiful holiday! We also went to every one of our appontments today and nothing. I dont know whats going on...

Friday we had Hector in the morning! It was his pre interview for his baptism!!! He's ret to go! He also told us again that he knows this is true! I'm pretty pumped for him!!!  Later in the day we had a lesson with Marcela and Diego! The spirit was very strong and Marcela cried. She told us after that she hadn't cried like that for a long time!!!

Saturday we did service for a family that is very funny! We painted their walls and are going to finish up next week!!!  We also set up an appointment to help a guy in our ward who sells carnitas kill a pig next Monday!   BOOYAH!!! And another day with out lessons.

Sunday Ii gave a 10 minute talk in church!!! It was awesome and I loved it! It was on obedience and after I got a lot of congrats on my Spanish! Slowly getting better! We had divisions too! I went with a youth and he was pretty cool. But once again we had nothing... It was funny because we walked for about 2 1/2 hours straight and after he was dying. I just sat there and laughed as he tried catching his breath!

Once again, I dont know why we didnt have a lot of lessons. It wasnt a bad week, just not great! Thank you all for your prayers!

Stay Classy

Elder Johns

A Great Week!

Alright! Sit down and listen up! It's Email time!!!

Great week full of awesomeness!!! I would like to start off with a little spiritual thought that happened to me this week. So, I know God is there without a doubt. But I just felt like he wasn't showing much love for me and I couldn't figure out why. Then, we had a zone activity the other day and I was thinking about how much I love these guys and how lucky I am to be in this zone. Then it hit me. Most of them speak only Spanish... but we still have a great relationship and can totally understand each other. I then realized, that was God who gave me the ability to communicate with these amazing people!!! So if you ever want to see our Heavenly Father in your life, just open your eyes. He is right there.

So we have just under 2 weeks until Hector is baptized!!! And we had two more people early in the week commit to baptism! They are amazing and we have had great lessons with them and have not had even one doubt with them! And later that day, I got bit by a Saint Bernard! It was huge! But it was a members dog and luckily my skin is iron, so it couldn't break through.

Wednesday, I had my patience and humility tested. It started of normal, but then we went on splits with a member and his son. I went with the father and then we started our night. Little did I know that I was going to get hounded on for the next 2 1/2 hours... he's a returned missionary, so that means he knows "everything". I guess he wanted to show me the ropes or something, but all I wanted to do was go home after the first 15 minutes. When we got back with the other two I talked in English so they couldn't understand me and told Elder Cowdin we needed to go home. So we did.  Good times...

We had to drop another girl Thursday, but the spirit talked through me for 5 minutes and I told my comp that I had no idea what I said after the lesson. It was NUTS!

Friday we broke our record of lessons in one day! We had 7 and the max we are able is 8 or 9 depending! I also found a tic on my hand that morning. So we burned it and called the doctor. After Elder Cowdin got off the phone he told me, "shut the windows... this is about to get intense". We had to check each others bodies for more. Not quite down to the birthday suit, but pretty close. We got pretty tight that day in our companionship.

Sunday was the best! We had all our investigators come to church! ALL of them!!! And the night was even better. We had changes last night, but I wanted nothing else but to stay here. So we waited from 9 to 9:30 in silence for the call.  We finally get it, and WE DIDN'T HAVE CHANGES!!! This has only happened one other time in Chalco history where the trainer and trainee stay together after training!!! We both get to see our great investigators get baptized!!! So pretty stoked right now!

So that's what I got this week.

Stay Classy

Elder Johns

Well, I can check "getting attacked by a cow" off the bucket list!

There we were, minding our own business when I heard something coming our way. I turned my head and about 30 yards away was a cow running right for us. I then told my comp, "get ready, we are about to be in a knockdown, drag out fight with a cow". He saw the cow and we got behind a tree. Then it just stared at us. Elder Cowdin said, "Elder, I will punch that cow right in the face! I don’t even care!!!" But the Lords hand was with us because as we slowly walked away, it didn’t move. But that’s how my week started.

The next couple days were long and nothing good happened. We are finding a lot of new people but no one is or wants to progress. Some just want to listen.  And we also have new rules so if they don’t progress we drop them pretty fast. So, with that, we are we are losing people as fast as we are gaining them. I'm not a big fan of it.

Also this week, we just flat out worked hard. So I’ve been pretty tired for the past couple days. But life goes on and you just have to deal with what you’ve been dealt. It was also pretty sad when we didn't see our best investigator at church. It really just makes you want to cry. It makes you wonder why you are here, but then you remember the good outnumber the bad. But there is no médium emotion. You are either really happy or pretty sad. Or tired.

But Last night was really good. Me and Elder Cowdin went to another missionaries house with 2 other guys as well and slept there for our tournament today! It was cool just to hang out. As for today, we didn't win, but it was a lot of fun and we have another one in 6 months- BooYah!!!

I want to thank you all for your prayers. I will keep you in mine.

Stay Classy
Elder Johns

Popocatépetl is Gonna Blow!

First things first. The volcano in our área is due to explode pretty soon. So its been pretty easy to sleep and not think about getting engulfed in lava. But luckily it's aimed the other direction so at least we wont die first!

Tuesday

Went pretty good! My favorite part of the day however was the food! its was amazing and, we had FLOUR TORTILLAS!!!! BOOM!!! WHOOP THERE IT IS!!!!!I haven't seen or heard of them for what seems like forever!! So you best believe I chowed down on those! Everything I ate, I made into a soft taco!!! Also that night, we were street contacting and a guy told me I had no American accent! #blessed And we had two great lessons on top of all that!

Wednesday

One lesson with a guy named Miguel Angel and he accepted baptism! It was a really good lesson and he has a strong spirit!

Thursday

We had nada thursday...

Friday

We went on discussions and I was with my district leader Elder Martinez! He's a Mexican but he's from Texas and speaks both English and Spanish. We contacted this lady in the Street and we wanted to find her house for the lesson later with her. It didn't exist... Elder Martinez proceeded to say, "Freaking Mexicans! why you gotta lie. just tell me 'No, i don't want to hear what you have to say' instead of giving me a fake address and making me look dumb!" It was so funny!!!

Saturday

We had a BAPTISM!!! Awesome right?  Usually, yeah, but we found out later that Rebecca's uncle, who baptized her, is inactive and because of that the baptism was invalid. So, Elder Cowdin told me I would be doing the batism next week. That's a Little crazy to think about!!!

Last, we finally got rid of Craig.  It only took 7 tries.  We took him on the bus with us, and drove him to another city, and dropped him off.  It was either that or kill him.  I feel like we made a good choice!!

Thank you for all your prayers and everything else! As always

Stay Classy

Elder Johns

CRAIG