Buena Fe Semana 7

Buenooooos Diasss, 

Como le va?

This week was transfers! None of my roommates left, buuut there were big changes in our zone! They closed a sector in Valencia and called some new liderezas! Time is ticking away for my comp. Shes got 6 weeks left in the mission! She leaves the day after mothers day! So she can choose to skype her fam.. the day before shell see them.. But she keeps saying she doesnt want to  hahah 

The womans conference was this saturday! We broadcasted it from the church and invited two wards to it and only 12 people came! (4 of us being missionaries) But i loved the conference. Talked alot about service and becoming "Gods hands here on earth"

We went to the temple for a zone conference and i learned a toooon from prez Riggins.

 me and my dying companion

 guayaquil

We had an easter devotional yesterday and it was planned in one day. :)  Guys, like, im getting pretty skilled at planning last minute activities. #RepresentBuenaFE It was really goood and everyone left totes edified

Alexis isnt progressing so we had to DTR...  We had a frank convo with him and he was like "woah, i gotta go to church" And then sunday, it rained, so he didnt go. We're gonna drop him until he pays his debts, cause until then hes planning to work erry sunday.

Doris Diaz, is a gem. She is such a funny person, and is living with her boyfriend and 5 kids. 4 of her kids are members, and she has huge desires to be more united with her fam, and her boyfriend wants to change as well. Soooo we'll see if they progress. they have to get married before obviously. 

Well, hope you all have a great semana :) Pray for me that they dont give me as much rice as last week, okay? Thankssss:)

Chaaao.

Keep Rockin it

Hermana Johnson

ya got me trippinn ohh stumblin

Holaaaaaa

so me and my roomate have been going running most mornings and since most the roads are dirt, there are lot of rock (heeey like hiking:)) annnnd we were running and i tripped and sprained my ankle. That was last thursday, and its stillllll swollen. Buuuut i called the mission nurse andd you know what she saidd :):) nothing. Cause she wont answer our calls. so ive just been limping aroud our sector for the past four days :)

My roommate thinks its torn cause she was the previous mission nurse, buuuut who knows.. The swelling is going down but it still hurts. Bueno.

Theres a part of our sector called the Nogales, and its super dangerous, and there are lots of stories about evil spirits over there so we usually only go in the day time, buuut our recent converts just moved over there and they can only meet with us after 6. Their baby girl loves to say hola, and they live in the middle of the jungle. So we have to take a super long dirt road with thick forestry to get to their house, (THEY DONT HAVE ANY NEIGHBORS) and we taught a lesson and they went to walk us to the road, and my companion swears she saw a dark blur outside their house, and as we walked to the road, the little girl says "Hola!" in her cute little voice, and i swear i hear in a raspy, deep voice "Holaaa" in reply. WE WERE WITH A WOMAN AND HER BABY

So scaryyyy. So scary.  I prayed my guts out.

We also were visiting a less active family and she was locked out of her house with four of her grandchildren and noone was inside, so we decided to share a scripture with her outside her house and exactly when we asked "Is it alright if we share something with you" The radio inside her house started blasting, superrr loud, And right when we stopped, it stopped. The radio, was visible from the window.. and noone was inside. Freaking bad spirits in Buena Fe.

We had our stake conference, and president riggins came to talk to our Stake, and it was sooo powerful. Hes the bomb. 

Other than the ankle, and weird spirits, this week was good.

The guy with us with the cake is an english teacher, and always tries to speak english with me. It was his birthday. Hes alright, pretty receptive, very intellegent buuuut He always says hes gonna leave his wife and move to the USA with his daughter so he can get baptised. (Because she wont marry him and they have to be married to get baptized) The struggle.Were here to seal families!... not to convice people to leave their spouse and migrate to Utah. ayyy, We're working with her. Patienceee :)

Hope all is well back home, and that everyone elsees spring break was better than my families' hahahah. 

Luh yuh allz

Keep Chuggin,

Hermana Johnson Baby

True Homieeee

 The scríptures. Artsy photo, i know. 

 The exact seat where i ate chicken heart.

 E C U A D O R 

Hola Hola, camreon con cola. 

So, we've been planning a talent show for the last month, and we put the name "Chocotalentazo" for it. We asked all the organizations to prepare a talent for it a month ago... (YM YW ,Primary, Bishopric, relief society, elders Quorum...) and as of wednesday, not a single organization had practiced... I getting pretty stressed  out with how casual, and lazy they were being... cause we had handed out over a hundred invitations to people all over buena fe..

 I may have had a panic attack because of all the stress of investigators that arent progressing,  the lack of support from our ward and all the challenges piling up for this area... But... I prayed bunches and bunches and put all my trust in god, and we reached almost all our goals for this week, and out of nowhere the  organizations put little skits together and the Talent show was a Hugeee success, We had more people attend than any other activity or reunion for the church in years. :) We were super happy with how it turned out.

I dont know guys, im just really grateful for my Heavenly Father and all the help hes given me this week. True homie. 

This scripture is the bomb and helped me lots. Ive been reading about the 2000 strippling warriors this week, and i pulled sooo much strength out of these chapters...

Alma 58

 10 Therefore we did pour out our souls in prayer to God, that he would strengthen us and deliver us out of the hands of our enemies, yea, and also give us strength that we might retain our cities, and our lands, and our possessions, for the support of our people.

 11 Yea, and it came to pass that the Lord our God did visit us with assurances that he would deliver us; yea, insomuch that he did speak peace to our souls, and did grant unto us great faith, and did cause us that we should hope for our deliverance in him.

 12 And we did take courage with our small force which we had received, and were fixed with a determination to conquer our enemies, and to maintain our lands, and our possessions, and our wives, and our children, and the cause of our liberty.

 40 But behold, they have received many wounds; nevertheless they stand fast in that liberty wherewith God has made them free; and they are strict to remember the Lord their God from day to day; yea, they do observe to keep his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments continually; and their faith is strong in the prophecies concerning that which is to come.

We visited River Bahana today! This is part of my sector, And its a little jungley town, and i love it, cause they gave us pineapple smoothies, and I was just oober happy :)

Alexis is having alot more random challenges come up to stop him from getting married. There is just sooo much opposition.. But were gonna figure it out cause We got god on our side! He forgot to pay some debts in a different city and left them there for years and now his name doesnt have credibility to sign important documents? idk I dont understand ecuador.

Miracles are happening! Random people who just want to know about the church have been showing up in sacrament meeting and miracles like that make me realize how important it is to be obedient so god can bless us in such incredible ways. 

Thats alll i got 

Chaoooo

Keep Kickin

Hermana Johnson

 My Bolivian comp thats going to die in 7 weeks. 

(aka shes going  home)

Rio Bahaña

Bomberos and Ballerinas

Mah frenz 

Hello! Still killin it in buena fe. and seeing things get killed too. We had a lesson with a less active kid named Mauro. Hes a ballerina and doesnt go to church cause he has dance practice.. interesting kid. but his mom grabbed chicken after chiken, right in front of us, anddd *slashing noise* killed like 6 chickens. put them in funnels and cut off their heads. no biggie we´re just over here talking about how to be truly converted to the *slash* gospel *slash of jesus christ *slash* 

sorry if thats a little too much imagery. Im imune to like everything now.. doesnt even affect me.

We had a baptism and we bought a cake and did all the preparations.. and the water stopped working while it was filling up the font! *shoot, hermana Johnson, What did you do? I HAVE TO KNOW* im getting there, patience. 

Well, we called the firefighters! In spanish theyre called the Bomberos, and i like that name more cause it sounds cooler. But the bomberos came and filled up the font for us, and they were super great, and way funny. So, we invited them to church :) They didnt come.... but its the thought that counts?

It rained allllllll day wednesday and thursday. Seriously. SO MUCH RAIN. Its killin me. cause we dont wanna carry our jackets so we just walk and walk and walk. I may have tripped in the mud 17 times.... but thats just an estimate. its not like im counting or anything.. hahh *awkward laugh*

What ammm i missing... 

The members are working with us a little more, so thats nice :)

Alexis and Joanna are stoked about getting married. They bought their rings and everything. 

We met a guy on the street, and he happened to be the old young mens president in our ward! But he went inactive cause he moved in with a girl.. So we went and visited them (Angel, y Natalie) and we were talking, (if i wouldve guessed their ages before, id say that she was around 21 and he was about 28) (which is normal for here) buuuuuut when we got talking, we fount out that shes 7 months prego, and she has a 10 month old living in the house too. andddd she told us that she is 15........ 15!!!!! and shes about to have her second kid! and Angel, told us that he is 35... 20 years difference. But i totes controlled my face and didnt show how freaking surprised i was... Well we also found out that people under the age of 18 cant get married here in buena fe, so we are looking in all the surrounding towns to see if theres a place they can get married at. The Ecuadorian struggle, ya feel?

I am good. Im used to eating rice erry day. Im used to the spanish, the random rain storms, the mud, and the sweating.  LIfe is good :)

Hope youre guyses lives are great as well!

Keep Kickin.

Hermana Johnson Baby <- i really think thatll stick my whole mission. Everyone calls me thatt.