July 21, 2014

Hey family, thanks mom for the email. It's good to hear Beau is still alive and is walking good. Jared sent me a picture of him and he looks super old now. That's pretty crazy the tree fell down! It's good to hear you were able to go boating with grandpa on the river!! This week has been good. It's been hotter than ever, we are almost getting to the hottest time of the year here.  Transfers were today, I'm staying here with my same companion Elder Algeria again.  I'm good with it. I don't know if my  body will be able to handle the heat but I get along good with my companion and we work good together.   We have a few people that are going to get baptized here soon. Yesterday we had a cool experience.   We were walking in the street at about 4 in the afternoon, it was so hot I thought I was going to get heatstroke.  I was just trying to stay alive until the sun went down hhaha ( just to let you know there isn't anyone in the street from about 11 until 4 other than missionaries and dogs haha) but a man came out of his house and yelled at us to go over to him and we went to his house and he started telling us about the trials he was going through and we taught him for about 10 minutes and he wanted to be baptized. I know that especially here in Mexicali if we work diligently the Lord will bless us abundantly. We also found a family yesterday that is super awesome that we are going to teach tonight. It's been going good here, Elder McCracken got changed to Tijuana and Elder Watts is coming in his spot, he was in my district in the MTC.  Anyways thanks for everything fam, hope you have a fantastic week!

Love Elder Jacob Johnson

July 14, 2014

Hey family, this week has been good! We were able to baptize Ramona!! We are witnessing miracles every week down here. The Lord is definitely looking over us and is involved in our lives every day. The baptism of Ramona was awesome, we had various investigators at the baptism too. We have various people preparing to be baptized. This last week we had a cool experience, we were walking and a little kid that is like 2 or 3 years old came walking  up to us when we were walking in the street and so his mom came over to pick him up so we started talking with her and she let us in the house of her family that she was visiting.  It turns out that her cousin that lives there is a member of the church from Sonora  but his daughter  isn't a member and we started teaching them and they went to the baptism and to church on Sunday. We also found a family that were just waiting to have the gospel in their lives, they went to the baptism too. I know the Lord is blessing us for our diligence, sometimes my body just can't keep going because of all the heat and walking but we are seeing the fruits of our labors. I hope you all are having a great summer. I can't believe you ran over beau mom.....poor guy. We met our new president this week, he came with everything. he is really powerful  and I am looking forward to serving with him. Anyways have a great week!!

Love Elder Jacob Johnson

July 7, 2014

 Elder McCracken interviewed Juan for baptism

Hey family!!  This week was good, sounds like you guys had lots of fun on the fourth of July!! Thanks for the pictures, they look great!! This week we were able to baptize Juan. It's been amazing to see the way the Lord has changed the life of this man. He has gone through so many trials and difficulties in these last few months. To be able to know that you have been an instrument in the hands of the Lord to bring a soul unto him is a feeling hard to describe. His baptism was awesome. Anyways we've just been fighting the heat every day. Yesterday it was 45 degrees Celsius. It just keeps getting hotter and hotter every week.  We're almost getting to the hottest weeks of the year!!  My body is taking a hit physically, I keep getting blisters and rashes but besides that I'm doing great down here.   I ate some sting ray tacos the other day for the first time, they weren't too bad haha the work is going good, my companion and I get along good.   We work good together.  Anyways thanks for everything family, have a fantastic week, and enjoy the summer!!!

Love Elder Jacob Johnson