March 23, 2015

Hey family, this week was good. Just working hard down here with my trainee, everything is going great.  We were able to find a few people this week and bring many of them to church on Sunday so that was cool. Yesterday the stake president came to our ward to give a talk and he asked me to translate for him, so I got up to the pulpit with him and translated into English what he was saying, it was pretty neat.  We had a zone conference this week with president, it was good.  Yesterday after church we ate with a family called the family Marchan, they lived in Utah and got baptized there but then he got deported and they are living down here now.   But it was cool because the sister knows a family that we baptized their kids when they lived in Mexicali when I first got to the mission.  Besides that everything is normal.  The time is flying by.  We found a cool family this week of 5 and  they all went to church on Sunday except for the dad!  Anyways everything is good!  Thanks for everything family, have a great week!!

Love Elder Johnson

March 9, 2015

Hey family, everything is going good here in Rosarito.  This week was good, we did have the baptism of Sandra. She got married with Luis on Wednesday in the morning and got baptized on Wednesday night, I'll send some pictures.   Besides that it's just been a normal week, some cool experiences mom is that we are teaching an American guy that we found, his name is DJ, he's really cool, and he has gone a few times now to the church.  The other day I was humbled when a member less active asked us to go to their house to give a blessing to her little sister, she is about 5 years old and she has down syndrome.  She wanted me to bless her so she will be able to learn to talk, it's a family of about 8 and they live in an old little camper trailer.  It was a humbling experience to see the living conditions of the people and to see the trials that they are experiencing.   These people will receive their reward some day. We had kind of a funny experience this week.  We were walking down the street and we saw a lady digging a hole so we offered to help her, and I started digging the hole and asked her why she was digging a hole and she said to bury her dog haha so we helped her bury her dog and contacted her.  Anyways we've been working hard to contact 10 people every day and we are seeing some results from that.  My trainee is doing better I think, I don't think he wants to go home anymore, I hope not...  anyways thanks for everything fam, have a great week.

 

Love Elder Jacob

 

 

February 23, 2014

Hey family, everything is going great! I'm still here in Rosarito.  I just got a new companion, his name is Elder Torres and he is from Aguas Calientes.  I'm training him, it's his first days here in the mission.  I never realized how hard it is to train haha but everything is going good.   I think I have bed bugs or something cause something is biting my legs all over.  Yesterday it started to rain pretty hard at night and we had a long way to walk back to the house haha it was a good welcome to the mission for my comp haha.  Anyways we had some cool experiences this week with some investigators and some new people we found.  I have come to see that the Lord is preparing the hearts of the people before we meet them!  Anyways hope everything is going good at home!!  Have a great week!!

 

Love Elder Johnson

February 2, 2015

Hey mom, my ankle is fine, it doesn't hurt me at all anymore, it only hurt me for a couple days.

Nothing too crazy happened this week, I'll send you some pics of the beach haha.  This week we visited a man that had just gotten shot a few times in the face and in the back in Tijuana a week ago but he's alright, it's a miracle that he's still alive.

He just got in a taxi and some guy came up to the window and just started firing, the taxi driver died. And I don't think you want to know all the things they call us haha but everyone calls me guero too, it means like blondie. The ward is good but none of the members live in our sector, there are about 110 active members, ya they support us good. and no we are just walking all the time, and we do laundry at a laundromat and ya we bought gas this week!

Alright thanks for everything mom, have a great week! love you all.

Elder Jacob Johnson

January 26, 2015

Hey family, everything is going good here in Rosarito, this week went by pretty quick.  On Monday we went and played soccer but I hurt my ankle pretty bad and by the time we got back to the house I could barely walk and I couldn't sleep until a friend came by and gave me some pain pills. The next day we ate with a member that is a chiropractor and he adjusted my foot and my back too, and after that I was fine.  Then Wednesday we helped a guy prepare and pour a foundation for a little bit!  Other than that we've just been working, we knocked a few doors this week down by the ocean, it was pretty cool, I'll send y'all some pictures.  This week we ran out of gas so I have been heating up water over the stove to shower with, we should probably buy some gas...anyways everything is going fine down here, thanks for the update, have a great week!!

Love Elder Jacob Johnson

January 19, 2015

Hey family, this week was good!  This week we had a few conferences, we had a zone conference with president and then a zone meeting too. Everything is going good here in Rosarito, the weeks just seem to fly by now.  And to answer your question mom the worst time this week was probably when I went on exchanges with the other elder in the other sector, the elder had forgotten to turn off the gas to the stove and so when we got home the house was full of propane.  haha So we had to plan outside and wait outside for a bit so the house would air out.  It was kinda funny.  We have had a hard time finding new investigators but the president just told us today that from now on we can knock doors, so that will be cool!  We'll see how it goes!  We have one investigator that is progressing good that is going to get married on the 14th of   February to be able to get baptized!  I hope everything is going fine at home!  Thanks for all the support and prayers! Have a great week!!!

January 12, 2015

 

Hey family, this week has been alright.  It's pretty cool being here by the ocean, its actually a lot warmer here than in Mexicali.  We barely need to wear a sweatshirt at night, no mom we don't live with anyone else, we actually live in some apartments behind the house of a less active member. It's a pretty nice apartment compared to the others I've had. This week I've just been getting to know the members here and the people, we really don't have very many members at all in our sector. This week I have had a cold and then I think I got an infection in my stomach again but not too bad.  Anyways sounds like everything is going good at home. We have an investigator that is going to get married on the `14 of February so she can get baptized so that should be pretty cool.  We'll see how it turns out.  It was raining pretty good the last couple days and everything just turned to mud here.  Yesterday we got stuck up in a sector in the hills because the bus wasn't passing due to the mud I would think. On the way up there, the bus was sliding all over the place, I felt like I was at home again off roading haha.  Thanks for everything have a great week!

Love Elder Jacob Johnson