Conference Weekend

**Small snippets from his short email to his mom.  No big email again this week.  NO TIME!
Mostly answers to questions.

This weekend with conference, me and 3 other gringos got a TV from the bishops office and turned it to conference in English! We just go to lds.org and change the language!  We just watched it in another room of the church! We ate with members both Saturday and Sunday! It’s all good! They don’t really watch it in their houses here. I have pictures, but I’ll send them all next week! I loved the way President Uchtdorf started conference off Saturday morning!!! It was my favorite of the whole thing!!! This conference I only had one question and I only got a half answer so I need to do some praying! Gosh dang it haha! I did get the package and I did make it to the tailor! My pants are all patched up!

It was a pretty normal week. Our dates fell, but we found a great person on Sunday!!! I’m super excited to talk to her again! Her name is Jessica if you want to send a prayer her way!  As Always!!

Stay Classy,
Elder Johns

Chalco Highlights

Well I’m in paradise!!! I’m loving it here in Chalco, aka "the hood"!! I’m pretty much one of the natives here now so I blend in pretty good! There’s not a whole lot of time today, so let me just get to some of the highlights!

We have several investigators progressing right now, but the best one is named Adriana! She is doing great and knows the church is true! She just needs 3 more Sundays and she will be dunked!! Hoorah!!!

We had a lovely visit with a recent convert that is less active. "Elder Johns! How could someone be a recent covert and a less active at the same time?" I’ll tell you how! The chumps of missionaries before us baptized this guy and left us to clean up the mess! He is an Ex Jehovah witness so our conversation was a little nutty! He obviously didn’t have a testimony so we had to set him straight. We answered his questions and saw that he just wasn’t getting it. So I decided to be a nut, you got to be a nut! The following is more or less what I said to him:

"Brother, you do not have a testimony. You wanted to get baptized for all the right reasons, but you just don’t have a solid testimony. When I sometimes doubt my testimony I take it seriously. So you could try asking yourself the same question I do to myself. If someone kidnapped you and then put a gun up to your head (I make my hand into a gun and put it up to my head so he can really feel it) and told you if you don’t deny your faith they were going to pull the trigger... (pause to let the scenario sink in) what would you do?"

I told him I didn’t want an answer but I wanted him to think on it. He had a somewhat shocked face after all that, but hey! He showed up a half hour early for church for the first time in 2 months. So it totally worked!!!

And Saturday we helped an old member in our ward kill rabbits! He held it up to me by its back legs and then said “hit its neck as hard as you can!” That was so sweet! I went all karate kid on those bunnies!!! I’m going to see if I can get a rabbit pelt next time!!!

That’s all I got for this week! Thank you all for your prays! As Always!!!

Stay Classy,

Elder Johns

Farewell Cuaulta

Walt Disney once said, "When you wish upon a star, makes no difference who you are. Anything your heart desires will come to you." Well Walt, I've been wishing and my heart has been desiring for one thing for almost nine months! And just like you said, my wish has come true! I’M GOING TO CHALCO BABY!!! That's right people!!! I’m going down into the hood!!! This area has been great, and I'm sad to leave. But I also want to be straight thuggin' over there in Chalco. So it’s a bitter sweet.

Not too too much time today, but I’d like to point out some highlights of the week!!

1- WE FOUND JULI!!! She’s working at her store after 2 weeks of problems and being out of town!!! She looked so sad when we arrived. She had just finished crying and it was super sad to see. Her problems are with her brother so if you could send a prayer her way just for peace and comfort that’d be so awesome!!! Also she went to church Sunday and looked so much happier being there!!! Her whole aura changed and you could literally see the difference.

2- Friday was pretty funny. We were at the church around 8 for a meeting we had and when we got out there was a stake dance going on! Now because of what follows I know that I’ve been in the mission for a while. Me and my comp passed by, heard some pretty cool music and when I looked at him we both said the same thing, "that looks like so much fun!!" We were probably more excited than half the kids there haha and we didn’t even participate!!! Good times.

3- Like I said I’m going to Chalco. It’s going to be super sad to leave this area because I’m pretty sure it’s my favorite up until now!! Maybe I’ll get permission to go see Juli’s baptism. But I’m super stoked as well to be on edge at all times because you don’t know who has a shiv!!! That’s what I like to call living like Larry!!!

4- The Patriots Won yesterday! Nuff Said!

Good things happening here!!! Thank you for all the prayers! They help unexplainably!!! As Always!!!

Stay Classy,
Elder Johns

Juli

Arturo

Andres

Victoria and Vivian