Home coming

hey everyone ill see you all in exactly 2 days....if you want to visit me at the airport...ill be in America on Wednesday morning at 830 AM.!!!!!! love you all...see you all soon. 

Elder Johnson 

9 days na lang!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey Everyone. 

Just writing because this is most likely the last time ill write to you guys before i see some of you in person again. I have 9 days left before i come home...but next wednesday i will be in the wonderfully cold promised land of America.!!!!!! i cant believe it, but at 830 AM on october 23rd...i will be at the Portland airport. Its a crazy feeling!! Im on my last of everything, tomorrow is my last district meeting and i just finished my last weekly planning i mean its crazy and sunday is most likely my last day proselyting. I cant even believe it...like America serioulsy just feels like a dream to me...like the fact that im leaving here just really seems weird...like i feel as if ive lived here my whole life...i just dont have any parents or anything....its the weirdest feeling. Like that im like RETURNING to AMERICA. It really just doesnt feel like that. I cant exactly describe it...but just like everything about America is forgotten...but just not the little privillages. that i seriously took for granted.  Like dishwashers, and carpet, washers and dryers. I am excited to see you all again and i will see you again. 

well, this is probably the last time ill write...last officail pday in the mission. See you all soon. 

Elder Daniel Forrest Johnson      

Hey Everyone

    I now have my official electronic ticket and flight plans, which means i officially have only a short time of my mission left. I honestly never thought this time would come..even though i knew it would..i almost didnt think it would. Like it was something i would talk about, but it almost feels like a dream, living in America. Like i feel like this is now my home and ive always lived here so its really wierd to think that ill be leaving for my actual home in like 37 days. Its crazy. But, im still doing my best to work hard and change for the best, i truly believe that no matter how little time you have left on your mission you can still change.  .

    I wish i could share with you all the things ive learned from my mission, but of course that would make a few novels. But, a few weeks i wasnt sure if i could really say a mission was the best two years of my life, because there havent been too many super fun times but now, i can say that this has been the best two years. In the words of a good friend. Its been the best two years, for the trials, problems, memories, and the fun times, and the spiritual growth as well as emotional and mental. "Its not only been the best two years of my life, but the best two years for my life." That is so true. I cant express how much my testimony has grown or in what ways ive grown and continue to grow, but i feel ive grown and changed so much. The Lord has really kept me humble and changed my desires for the better. I am so happy i made this choice and im thankful for all the prayers and the support i felt from all of that gave the strength to carry on when sometimes i really didnt think i had the strength. 

Love you all, and i hope all is well, 

Elder Daniel Johnson     

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Hey

    Im so sorry i havent written in a LONG TIME, but i felt liek writing today. Um, the other day i met this lady who  was taught in their church that there is no eternal life. You die, remain as spirit and dont remember anything that happened to you in this life. No family, friends or anything. I was deeply saddened by this doctrine. Eternal life has no purpose for me unless my family and friends are with me and to forget everything that I have learned here in this mortal life proves no point to coming here in the first place.The Lord taught me a great lesson that day about the glorious Plan of Happiness of God revealed in its wonderful fullness through Joseph Smith. I am so thankful that I know where i came from, why i am here and where i will go and what will happen to me after i die. This woman, 58 years old, was happy with the belief that she will never see her  family, or friends or have any memory of the life and moments she had while alive after she dies.It was so sad. That just goes against the nature of God to me. From that lesson i learned to appreciate and am very grateful for that experience.Just wanted to share that with all of you. 

     I know that we will all be resurrected the same as Christ after we die and wil have perfect flawless bodies, and have all the memories of this life we lived down here and all that we did and if we live good righteous lives, we can be with our earthy family and friends as well as our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ for eternity :)   

Im so thnankful for the fullness of the Restored Gospel brought back in its fullness through a Prophet of God and that we have living Prophet who leads this church by revelation form God Himself. 

Thanks for reading. 

Elder Johnson     

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hey

Hey Everyone,

Im just letting you all the recent changes that have happened. I am now a zone leader in Kalibo, and im in charge of 36 missionaries. This is my 6th area and my 12th companion. So, its way crazy because i never thought i would come here its my first non ilonggo speaking place but surprisingly they can understand it. But, its fun here already, the members are way excited for missionary work and are full of energy and its great lol. So, that way exciting and ive already met some way sweet investigators :) so its way exciting and the apartment is sweet too :) Flushing real toliet and a real shower head too :) and working faucet :) its awesome :) So, so far things are way nice and pretty relaxing too :) The weather has been way cool too, its been raining a lot and so thats nice too :) So things right now are going good. Loving it. A lot more meetings but thats ok lang :)

Ive got 12 weeks left.

Thanks for reading :)

Love,

Elder Johnson   

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Hey

Hey everyone...sorry its been a while since i wrote but ive been getting so many emails its been hard to write. But things are going well here....im still in Estancia but my companion is finally a poly...hes Elder Tafiti from New Zealand but he speaks Samoan and english....he grew up speaking english. So, yah. We also have had a new mission president now for about a month now. President Aquino. President Pagaduans time is up and so its definitely different and itll take some adjusting, but its doable. Also my best friend was just baptized yesterday :) its way cool after all that shes been through in her journey to just entering the gate to salvation, shes finally entered it and i cant wait to see the rest of it and i get to be there too :) Also, my family had a great week last week with going to the family reunion and see all the love of the family members there :) So it was way awesome to recieve such good news...also, i want to thank all the family and the individuals that helped my mom to get back home and just for all the love you showed her. She really needed it and still does.So dont stop. Thanks a ton.

Also, i am very grateful for this wonderful gospel and the pure message of truth that it has. I have taught many, many, many, many people through out the course of my mission and the ones that accept this message ive seen the way it changes them and in turn changes me. This wonderful work requires us to be non hypocritical, always repentant, humble,submissive, teachable, inspired and dependent on the spirit, slow to anger, full of patience and love, stretch ourselves and our faith and have the eternal perspective. And this wonderful gospel in its true restored form shows us how to do that :) With the standard works and the living prophets and apostles, continue to guide us and with the Preisthood authority of God,or the license to do this work, we can change and understand it faster than anywhere else.

the church really is so true and has all the answers to our questions :)

Elder Johnson            

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cool story

  I wanted to share a story with you all this week. So, theres this family we teach and the two boys 12 and newly turned 14 are our investigators. Edgin and Matt, so things were going really good with them in their house and their progression but then the grandma came and starting to really not like us. So one day she was like really fighting with us and so i just straight up told her that we arent here to fight. Her husband wants the boys to listen, and so do they, so if you dont want to, thats fine. But we're sharing to them. And then she became quiet. So, then the Branch President talked with her, because he was working with us, and as he talked, she was still kind of bitter, but then she actually just started to talk with him and, eventually, we were gonna start and we told him, and he asked her to sit down. And she did and she listened too! I was shocked.
  Then the next visit we went, because we were prompted to speak to the husband personally, and addressed the issue of her husbands drinking. And she opened up some more, and then the last visit we spoke on Repentance and the whole house was very sad because the husband has been drinking and so the wife was upset and being very condemning. So, i said a prayer in my heart that we could show them how repentance can help them and make them happy. Then we started to share and i was amazed, by the end of it, they had hope somewhat restored and the whole house was laughing and making jokes and everyone was happy again. It was so cool. I was so shocked. Then we told the husband we would drop by every day and ask him how his drinking is.
 So, last night we dropped by and the tatay (husband or polite term for older man) said he hadnt drank yet and it had been three days :) and the nanay ( same as tatay but for a woman) popped up from washing with a huge smile on her face and said " i wish youd been here last night because he still hasnt drunk" and it was sweet to see how happy this woman was. Just like a straight miracle that shed even let us continue to come in and now how happy she was to actually see us!.  Then we reminded him..."Tay ano ihambal mo so mga friends mo?"  (what will you say to your friends, (when they want you to drink with them)?) and so he said again "kamo lang anay" (you guys only) it was awesome! and we just cheered him on and pointed out to him how happy his wife was too. It was awesome..and the true works of repentance. It was a testimony builder to me of what happens when we follow the spirit and teach people, not lessons :)   Just wanted to share that with you.
God is a God of miracles STILL.

The missions awesome.

Elder Johnson

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