Week 2

HEY!! Today is Tuesday which is our Pday in the MTC which i learned is actually called the CCM. So far I am loving the experience here. The spirit is everywhere. I love the fact that i am struggling with some things because it makes me work harder. I have never really struggled with learning but here there is so much to learn. Today we will also get to go to the Temple and try to get everything we need to get done in 2 hours. We will be wondering the streets right after emailing and hopefully we can find our way around and not get lost. Could you send a couple of pictures of the family if we have any. I know i have a couple on my camera but would like a few more that i could show to investigators to help get to know them. 

Im sorry if there is any spelling mistakes as emailing is very rushed and i am trying to thing of everything that i wanted to say. One of the thing we do for practicing teaching is we actually have investigators to teach. They are actually our teachers but they act like they are someone they actually taught on their missions. Anyways our first three lessons bombed. Like terrible. How are we supposed to teach when we cant even speak the language? It was really fun though. Then our fourth lesson we did really well. We taught him how to pray and asked him if he could pray for the truth in the things we read him in the Book of Mormon. 

I feel as if i am struggling with spanish a little and at times can get frustrated becomes one of the Elders in our District knows so much more spanish then the rest of us. I gotta keep reminding myself i have only been here for like 6 days and shouldnt expect to be fluent.

Ok so the the all the meals here have bread in them and the bread is really good. Breakfast consists of cereal not with milk but yogurt. It is weird i dont really like it that much. Then there is a ton of different sugary drinks and fruit and of course BREAD. Bread may be the DEATH of me.

The days can be really long. They start at 6:45 which is pretty late but we get to bed around 12. By the end of the day we are so tired and I sleep so well. I have only been here a week and i am excited togo out into the field and to bring thy truth to the people that are ready to here it. 

So there is a lady on the corner outside of the fence selling strawberrys and stuff so we will go outside on breaks and yell "Ay Senora!" then we buy a pack and they are gone like instantly. So good.

I learned a little more about my mission. There is going to be stray dogs everywhere. Like in packs. Apparently you can go onto Google Streetview and see dogs everywhere. So i wonder if i will ever get attacked by a pack of dogs :P haha probably not. 

There isnt going to be too many pictures as we are supposed to take pictures on Pday only.

I hope i dont remeber something else as i finish emailing that i wanted to tell you but i probably will. I miss you guys already and I hope all is going well and I love you all!

Love 

Elder Justin Johnson

Week 1

The flight was rather long but we finally made it hear! One of the Elders that we met in Atlanta had and issue going through customs because he had beef jerky and they thought it was raw for some reason. So we spent quite a while at the airport wondering what they where going to do to him because we cannot understand a thing the is going on. I found out that my mission will be out in the Ghetto of Santiago so I will be in the poverty part of the city. When we finally got out of the airport we just jumped in a taxi that was waiting for us and we got dropped of at this beautiful looking house. I thought we where going to the MTC. But it turns out we get to stay in this awesome house and take a bus to the MTC each day. Ill definitely take pictures of it for you all. I need you to look up if my camera is compatible with their voltages as I forgot to check. The camera is a Sony Cybershot DSC-WX80. It needs to be compatible with 220 watts or whatever the term is. Today we will not be doing much other then hang around the house and get everything in order. Also we are on of the smallest groups of Elders that they have had and the only set of only North American. So no one actually knows Spanish it is kinda awesome being clueless with four other Elders. Hopefully we can push each other to learn.

I miss you all very much even though it has only been a day. I am super excited to start learning.

Love,

Elder Justin Johnson