Shark Boy In El Salvador

  Wazzap. Normally on pday I feel super low on time and like I have too much to write and I just speed through it, but today I just feel chill. Kinda don´t know what to write about. So here I am just rambling about nothing. (Yikes, sorry if this email ends up being super long and unorganized, thats not normal of my emails) Just imagine this is like a tired Elder Johnson slouched on the couch rambling about his week as he slowly fades into sleep. hmmmmmmmmmmmmm It rained really hard yesterday. It started dumping right as we were getting ready to leave the house. I take that back, it started HAILING right before we left. No idea how that works when its hot outside. But when the hailing stopped we headed into the dumping rain and thunder and walked 2 miles up a dirt path that was now a dirt river. Turns out waterproof shoes don´t really work when you´re standing in water. It kinda reminded me of swimming enough to make me want to yet not really enough like swimming to satisfy my ...

  HI yep once again I don´t have as much time as i´d like to write to you wonderful people but imma share a few stories as speedy as possible.  FIRST BAPTISM KELVIN GOT BAPTISED WHICH WAS REALLY REALLY AWESOME BECAUSE BAPTISM IS REALLY IMPORTANT AND ALSO BECAUSE I GOT TO BE HERE FROM DAY ONE WHEN WE FOUND HIM UNTIL NOW WHEN HE KNOWS ALL THE LESSONS AND WANTS TO MAKE THIS COVENANT WITH GOD AND I GOT TO BAPTISE HIM WHICH WAS REALY REALLY COOL BECAUSE I ALSO GOT TO DO IT IN SPANISH. TURNS OUT GOD SPEAKS ALL THE LANGUAGES BECAUSE HIS POWER WORKS IN SPANISH TOO. THAT WAS DOPE Savages We´ve been visiting a guy whos an english teacher here, and he speaks in english with us to practice. Once day we came by his house to use his bathroom real quick, and he let us cuz hes cool like that. And in the end when we were leaving and we were thanking him he was like Of course, no problem. That was very savage of you to ask to use the bathroom¨ Turns out he was trying to say that was very b...

  Hey guys I'm not dead but the room in the church with the computer has been stuck closed for like two weeks so I can't write on a computer so you're about to get some big stories very condensed: - Don't shake hands with a drunk dude. He might missinterprete your intentions and try and kiss your hand. Also probably don't touch a drunk dude at all he probably hasn't showered or washed his hands in a while. - Me and my comp visited some newlyweds and gave them a 3liter bottle of coke as a wedding present, and they gave us wedding cake. - A family tried to offer us their daughters as wives but I didn't understand what he said and all I saw was that the dad brought his kids into the room so I shared a scripture and bore my testimony. Sometimes the gift of tongues bleeps out stuff to accomplish it's purpose. - God helped me miraculously easily do way more pushups then I possibly couldve done on my own for the sake of a lesson. Note to self: 9 people times 10...

  An account of the wars and contentions among the Elders and Maggots of land of the house of Trébol And it came to pass in the commencement of the twenty and second day of the reign of the Elders in the house of Tr ébol, I did arise at the sound of our alarm, even 6:20AM to go and workout, when to my terror I did behold that which did cause my soul to grieve exceedingly. For behold, in our kitchen, upon our floor, in a dark puddle of grossness whose filthiness was far beyond any filth I had hitherto seen in all of my days, a great and terrible army of Maggots was gathered together against us. For unbeknownst to us, some previous Elders had left a bag of rotting somethings that dripped into this puddle of filth, that did allow a place for this army to gather against us. And not only in this puddle had they gathered, but in the nighttime they had spread, even to the greater part of all the land of our house, even to the kitchen, and to the laundry room, and to the living room, ...

WAZZAP GUYS THANKS FOR READING Im gunna be honest I have 0 time right now so imma just write all I can and send it when it's time to go  ♫Hold to the Rod♫ Or you´ll fall out of the bus and get run over This title is because one day we got on a bus that was so full that after walking up two steps of the entrance to the bus, I was now squished against the people in front of me. Then the bus door closed behind me, cutting off a dude that wanted to get on, and almost shutting on my backpack. Then we started driving down the highway. I wasn't sure how sturdy those doors were behind me so I just held tight to the iron bars next to me in the bus. Then I started laughing and poked my companion and sang the line from a hymn "hold to the roooood the iron roddd" I am very grateful for my years of training in holding on for dear life on tubes at the lake. Angelic Motorcycle Dude One morning as we were walking down the street a church member zoomed by us on his motorcycle singing ...

  HOLA! Rapidito Update (ha, I’m reading this now and it’s not rapidito) The mission is going pretty dang good. It feels like Missouri summer humid warm here every day, which I actually like a lot after being in provo for a month. I love the sun and living trees.  The dogs all think we´re food so I whack them with the Book of Mormon when they try and eat me and my companion, and I now carry a rock in my backpack for them too. I don't have to throw it I just pretend I´m about to and it usually helps. Last night one tried to come into our house while I opened the door for the delivery dude, so I pulled out a garden hoe to keep him out, so he growled at me, peed on our door and left. I´ll give him points for creative revenge. We visited a member the other day and this guy lived out away from the city in the jungle, and he just has a bunch of fruit trees. He picked a tamarindo fruit and handed it to me and it was DELICIOUS. He also gave us some massive lemons and I made lemon...

  MTC is over and I am now in El Salvador. The last week of MTC was really good. We spoke only spanish Mon-Sat (the SYL Challenge) which was hard to do and easy to forget, but we all decided to keep going through it and now I'm very grateful for that because turns out all this stuff our teachers asked us to do was actually to prepare us for what we were going to be doing the field. Because I got here and turns out everybody speaks SPAYNEESH and thats all I get to do now.  Makes me think about how sometimes God does the same thing and asks you to do hard stuff because its actually about to prepare you for something coming in the future. And if thats true with spanish teachers, how much more true is that  when God´s the guy asking you to do hard stuff?? I promise that in the end you´ll always be grateful you did the hard stuff God asked you to do. I´ve already seen that to be true in my life, and HOW MUCH AWESOMER IS THAT GUNNA FEEL WHEN WE GET BACK TO OUR HEAVENLY FATHER...