I dont like Chicken anymore

Another week, in the promised land.

Jk, this is the land of sin. 

Jk jk, but these people really could be making alot better decisions. They know better.

A recient convert that weve been teaching, who wanted to go on a mission... RAN AWAY, with the bishops nephew. and now theyre living together in a city called La Tronkal and the sad part is that her mom isnt even worried. They got as note. Just a note. She didnt say goodbye or anything! And her mom is super calm. relieved, even that she doesnt have to feed another mouth. 

A preganant girl named Carla came to church, Shes adorable, and super sweet. shes less active, annnnnnnd shes 15 years old and when we went to visit her house we found out that shes been living with a 20 yearold... for 2 YEARS. She was 13 when they moved in together. Freakinnnngggg. Children having children. 

Alot of people call us Elderes... because theyre used to having Elders in Buena fe, so i guess anyone with a plaque they call Elders. Cool. It happens way too often.

I am distraught, and scarred  for life, Our lunch on friday was the worst lunch ive had here, I didnt know what it was... so i just ate it. and asked after,,, I ate chicken heart, let me repeat, I  ATE CHICKEN HEART. and this soup didnt only have a whoe heart in it, it also had the feet, i had to eat a freaking chicken foot. and i almost cried doing so.

At 6:30 pm, theres a street, and every single day hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of bats fly down this street. I thought it was the end of the world. I thought they were about to just turn into vampires and start attacking everybody. well, everybody but us, cause gods got our back.

People here drive really old trucks and cars, but to make them seem cooler they put in sticker letters the names of fancy cars on their windows, so here you always see cars with the word "Lamborghini" or "Ferrari" on super old cars. it makes me laugh. hahah

Its not as hot here as it is in Babahoyo so thats really good, In the morning you could even describe the air as "fresco" But thats only in the morning. and it makes showering in freezing cold water every morning a chore. I dread showering. But i do it every day. but i hate it, The struggle.

Other than that, nothing much happened. Things are good here. People are very uneducated and sometimes that can be hard, cause they dont think about their actions. But were here to help inform them, right? That theres a peerfect plan that Gods got for them. And how this plan is gonna change their whole life, and perspective on life. Here to help, 

Anyways, :) Keep Chuggin.

Hermana Johnson Baby. (como el shampoo)

Buena Fe Week 2

Buena Fe is Adorable. 

Already in love with it. Its this cute little jungly town

The ward is so different. In my last area, there were about 400 members and 200 were active. here there are 600 members and 90 of them are active. ITS SO SAD. all of the leaders, like the relief society, and elders quorum presidency are single. cause there are like 3 familes where there parents are sealed. But the members help alot!

My comp is trunky hahah. but that just makes it so i have to keep us in line. 

People are so weird here hahah. They have so many stories about elves. YES I SAID ELVES. Theyre are lots of elf sightings, and stories where elves have kidnapped children and everytime they tell a story, i cant help but laughing cause they say these little men run around in green outfits causing mischeif. and they say it with the utmost sicerity. hahhah i cant take them seriously. Its a struggle.

Theres this family that were helping get married! The woman is inactive cause she has a restraunt and always works on sundays. but theyre deciding to close down their restraunt! Woooot! And Alexis, the husband is gettin baptised. The reason theyre changing everything after working with the missionaries for so long is because theyre 8 year old daughter, who was preparring to get baptised, got electrecuted and died about three weeks ago. 

Sadly, there are aloooot of cases like this. This town has really sketchy electricity and there are wires hanging down, and this little girl was walking one day and stepped on one of thesse wires and got electrecuted. Super scary stuff. So dont worry, cause im being careful.

IT RAINS SO HARD. freak rainstorms. everyday. They just come out of nowhere. and the problem is that all the roofs are tin and when we want to teach a really awesome lesson, it always rains and we cant hear the people were teaching cause the rain slams against the roofs so hard.  The struggle

Thats the jist of buena fe. 

Keep Chuggin,

Hermana Johnson Baby (como el shampoo) They call me that here as well... *sigh*

Ayyeeee Buena Fe!

Listo. Funny story time.

MONDAY 

I forgot the keys in the apartment on monday. And the other hemanas went to a conference in guayaquil so we went to the family that owns the building and asked him if he had a spare key. Hno Sandoya was like "Why? You didnt get locked out did you??" And we were like yeaaaah we did, and he takes his son by the arm and drags him up stairs and we sat on the stairs for a while, wondering what he was doing.. and when we went all the way up to the roof we saw him and his 14 year old son. and his son had a homemade harness around his waist with an old sketchy rope hahha WELL he ended up dangling of the side of the fourth story, bawling. hahha we couldnt stop laughing. cause thats something my dad would do. 

FRIDAY

 CARNIVAL. is horrible. 16 and 17 yearolds walk around the streets in gangs of five or six. and they dont care if were wearing a dress or not. soooooo one of the times there was a group on the top floor and they saw us coming so  they came down and got on a motorcycle with a huge tub of water, and lots of water balloos and we started running as fast as we could but they caught up with us grabbed us and soaked us, up and down completely drenched. 

another time we got cornered by four teenagers and they didnt have waterballoons.... They had EGGS. And yes. they cracked them on our heads. It was like a nightmare. Running from little kids, running down alleyways, hiding behind cars.. Looking for ANYWHERE to hide.... Welll they also got us with blue foam guns and that stained my shirt,, bueno. Freaking weird holiday.

SATURDAY NIGHT

I found out i was getting transferred... SO SAD. And i had to pack super fast. 

Sunday

Sat by stefania and she held my hand the whole sacrament meeting and just bawled... she was so saddddd. I bore my testimonio and Erick cried. and it was just super oober hard to say goodby to my cute ward. Theyre the best. 

 

Well im in buena fe right now! My comps from bolivia. her name is Hna. Alacama. Poor girl. haha that means  "to the bed" in spanish. Shes 22. shes been a member for three years. and she is going to finish her mission in may. We call it dieing...and the comp thats with them when the die is the one that kills them... So I HAVE TO KILL MY COMP IN MAY. 

Sad huh. really hope she doesnt go super trunky on me.

Pictures: 

One of our cute members.

 Saying chao to a dog that ive loved cause it looks like my pup at home

Part of Babahoyo (RIP)

Keep Chuggin!

Con Amor, Hermana Johnson