End of Manggahan and a record....4 and a half months out :)

So this week was the last night of manggahan and it was a crazy week. My companion Elder Farnsworth ate 7 kilos of Mango..which is equal to 15.5 lbs of mango....yes he loves his mango lol. And he set a record which was is going to be hard to beat. It was crazy to watch him eat that. In 3 minutes he ate 6 mangoes and you have to peel them so that was crazy...then he just went and went lol. Then we just continued teaching as normal and one of our golden people we showed him the restoration video and he really enjoyed and hes been reading the BOM and finding tht there are no contradcitions...no surprise there lol so that was cool. Then we're just continuing to teach and ive been learning a ton here about everything..and so thats crazy and all my aprtment buddies are awesome. Last night Manggahan ended and so there was a fireworks display which was awesome :) Also the language is coming along much better for me too lol so thats nice...um right now things are kinda stagnit because we're just getting more people to teach and so its kinda slow but were meeting cool people so thats nice :) 

The works going and moving along :) 

Hope all is well with all of you

Elder Johnson :)       

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MANGGAHAN!!!!!!!!

The festival of Mangoes. This week is Manggahan and its crazy here. Everyone is going to the Manggahan. They have many cool activities like mango shakes that are litterally a taste if heaven...here Guimaras is known for its amazing Mangoes. So these shakes are the best...i hope i can make it when i get home lol but they're just amazing. Also they have an all you can eat mago contest...except here is mango all you can eat and then they have like a farris wheel and a live band every night and they have souvenior shops that you can get your name engraved in cool things make out of coconut...so thats way cool :) its way exciting. 

 The work here is progressing big time we have a father and son that on the second visit excepted baptism and so thats way cool they really are just eating up this gospel its awesome to see. one of em said he wanted to join this church and his father said the BOM had to be true because it was translated form egyptian to english form a man who had no education. Then another lady said we are the only missionaries she lets in her house because we're the only ones that teach the correct docrtine from the bible. So thats way cool. and there are som really interested peope here in Guimaras. So yah the works going good and things are progressing and the language is coming pretty good too :) Its also very beautiful here and im getting  good taste of the culture here too...much more than preiviously lol so its exciting and things are going good. I hope all is well with you all in America. Oh yah i met a guy who is inactive but used to work on a cruise who said he wanted to be an American like he was really passionate about. He wants to live in Miami he loved going there and has a bunch of souveniers before he retired. He loves America...so that was interesting. Anyway the church is true and the work is rolling. 

Elder Johnson     

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Nagsaylo ako (i transfered), confrence guid

I have been transfered this transfer. It was very unexpected!! But now
im in Guimaras. A little island below iloilo...i had to take a boat
ride to get here so that was interesting and it was right during the
day of holy week where Christ was crucified...so it was a popular day.
Um my new companion is Elder Farnsworth...who actually trained someone
from my batch. But yah and so im officially not a greenie anymore
because im in my second area :) so thats pretty crazy. The aprtment is
way nice. Theres nice tile in everyroom and the shower has the option
of hot water...which i wont really use too much...just maybe to make
the water slightly warmer then freezing cold lol. Um but yah so
transferes were way unexpected for me. But im here and its not too
bad. Um sorry about the way short post from last week.
Last week was pretty much a few parties and good byes and then a fun
exchange with a flood and being drenched form head to foot literally.
And a lot of pictures :)
This week we watched general confrence and it was cool to see the
messages the living apostles and prophet had for us. They had some
awesome messages that were way cool and definaltely built up my
testimony of this church even more. Like the story of a man who was in
Haiti when the earthquake hit and he and his wife were out working and
their kids were in the apaprtment building with a babysitter. So he
and his wife rushed to thier home to find it completly demolished and
thier little children werent out. So the man says a prayer that at
least one of his children would be spared if its Gods will and with
tears in his eyes still. He begins looking and as the search party
looks they hear some crying and he recognizes it as his baby. Then a
little while later they hear some singing and find his son who was
singing his favorite song...i am a child of God..They find all three
of the mans children alive and well. Although the mans sons has to
lose his arm. To me that story was truly a testimony that God answers
prayers and that He still does miracles today. This is truly an
amazing story of faith. That was one of my favorite stories.
Hope you all had a an awesome Easter this sunday :)
This work is true :) The joys of a mission.
Elder Johnson

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my mom and me at the temple

some types of travel in Phillipines

Baptism :)

This week was awesome!!
Or weekend i should say  i had my first baptism and he's a way sweet guy who really deserved it :) It was this saturday at 4 and it was definatey a cool experience too. So, first of all the font. The font looked normal and was pretty normal except for a big yellow spot that came from the faucet...um and so when they turned it on it got all smeared around and i was like//holy cow..that'll go away right? cause it was really gross...it did though but the water here doesnt have chlorine here and well it was really gross. The water was like a yellowish brown and you could kind of see the bottom of the font. I didnt want to go in there let alone totally immerse someone in there...but when the time came around and we got in the water... it all went away and i really didnt care. Wearing that cool white clothes was awesome too :). What was even more interesting was we didnt get the water high enough and even though we checked many times...it still was too low...so bishop had us kneel..yah kneel in that dirty water...but it still  worked out anyway. Then on sunday we got to see him where the white shirt and tie i gave him...and it was cool to see :) 4 of us 5 elders gave him a tie...so that was cool. Then he got to be officially become a member of the church and received the Holy Ghost :) Then later he received the Priesthood and that was really cool to see just because ive had friends that ive dreamed of this for and none of them have come this close and it was just like a dream come true just to finally see someone i care so much about, who was my friend, take those steps. Later he mentioned how happy he felt and just kept repeating it :) i was like thats the Holy Ghost :) Youre gonna feel like that all the time :) and so that was it :)...he was really shy on sunday but it was still just cool to see him take those important steps in the gospel :)
Thats it for now...the work is moving :)
Elder Johnson    

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3 months :)

So ive been out 3 months now and its been awesome. This week had espeacially been awesome...we cut down trees with machettes, climbed some mountains, swung on vines, squeezed through really small holes and walked through dense forest. We also walked on a really  narrow path on a cliff...it was awesome :) We went to pilar today which is about an hour from my area and went in the caves...we had a tour guide too. So those were way cool. Just cause the caves are way different form amaerican caves. Oh yah we had bats fly around us too :) Um, so we walked through the caves with the sisters :)  and we treaded through some awesome mud too...so it was aweome. The caves had been very obviously corroded by water...like they were so beautiful to see. Just awesome. I flet like i was in a movie the whole time just simply because we were in those kind of places that only you see on movies...like with the vines and with the jungle and the mud that could suck your shoe in...an in one spot i was sure they had filmed the Princess Bride ROUS's scene there...it was crazy :) The jungle was just awesome. Someone climbed a tree and got some coconuts for us and they showed us how to eat the meat inside and drink the juice..it has a cool taste it tastes like watered down sprite literally. So that was really cool :) And the meat wasnt that bad either. Um so we got way dirty and had a ton of fun....the caves were gorgeous and it was just awesome. The on Friday we went to some member in another ward to cut some trees for an investigator of some other Elders...and i was thinking oh well we'll just go in their backyard with a few axes and cut down some trees...well we cut down trees but we had to climb a mountain and go to the top to do it...then they used these really cool machettes made from the spring of a car and chopped the trees like axes...then they tied them together with vines...like actual vines :) Then we carried them down on our shoulders an easier path thankfully  and then they gave us some food and i got to try papaya...but unfortunateley it tastes a little like sour milk...but thats probably because i have american taste buds...like things that are sweet here arent so sweet to me because everything in America is really sweet. But yah its still way cool to like try all this stuff and its been a really awesome week :)
Elder Johnson
Still loving it :) 

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