Hey

Hey! 

So this week was conference and it was awesome!!! there were awesome talks. And thats way exciting about Pres. Monson's announcement of the new missionary ages. 18 for men and 19 for woman...like thats crazy!!! that is truly some new revelation that will change the work of the Lord...truly crazy. So when i heard that i thought "how close is the end?" and Elder Holland wasnt kidding when he said "In the next upcoming months to years we need 10s of 1000s of missionaries" The Lord truly does need missionaries...President Monson affirmed how important that is. The end really is near and the harvest is great, but there truly are so few. Some thing i really liked was what Elder Cook said. He said his dad stated that "God will hold a man accountable for every tear he causes to his wife"  This i have learned and know to be true. There was so many new things that were awesome and i was very enlightened by many things. So that was nice. This week was transfers and it came and went and it was actually much easier than the last and for some reason less stressful...but i have really been using my new choosing options and its way nice.  Not much has been happening here just that its been a pretty big blur and everything like just melts together here in the office. But we've given a baptism date and so thats exciting and way cool and we're excited for that :) Um i got my first package in the mission field which is awesome too :) Um sorry but not much has really happened, just normal normal stuff, but my new companion is Elder Christian who has about 9 months left. Hes my 8th companion here in the field...idk why but for reason God has given like more companions than most missionaries...including the MTC ive had 11...thats more than most missionaries in this mission. Most of the time by the time they're dont they have abut 10 -12...so its pretty weird but oh well..im not complaining im grateful for it because....im really benefiting from it :) So im just continuing to learn new things and progress in this language and also this batch of missionaries that left like made me really me really sad because i got pretty close to some of em and jsut knew many of them more than any other batch and so thats been kinda hard because it makes me think like how much little time i actually might have left here in the mission...i have 13 months left...but 11 months has already gone by this fast...like who knows...and i can still remember everything so vividly...but it just made me think when they left...like my batch, or the missionaries that came in to the field with me, is one of the oldest now in the mission which is crazy because we're supposed to be young still. So its way weird....but yah. So im sorry if its not more specific for you all back home but not much changes here to much in the Philippines. It either sunny and hot or rainy and hot..sometimes its cold when it rains...or sometimes its overcast and really hot...so it doesnt change too much. But im also getting to know my area a lot better and really being able to find my way around because thats like way hard in this area because its like being in a labyrinth just full of houses and narrow roads...but im getting it figured out. My confidence has also gone up a lot since ive been here in the office and so its nice too because i just feel like ive been changing so much and i just hope it continues :) 

I hope all is well with you and i do really miss the cold and the US sometimes. So be grateful for all your carpet, nice leather couches, nice clean streets and tables, and the never ending supply of food. Its way nice. Like ive gotten so used to having resturants say that they dont have a certain order of a food...like its crazy or like they ask you for change because they dont have any...it truly is a different world. But its good because im becoming who God wants me to be. So its all good...its just funny how used to it ive gotten. 

Elder Johnson