Hey

Hey whats up everyone :) 

 I hope everything is good down there in Washington this week was pretty good we had 6 less actives at church which was awesome because thats been our goal and some that havent been to church in three months were finally there it was truly miraculous :) and just awesome to see them all there. So that was pretty much the highlight of the week sorry theres not much but were just doing a lot of the same stuff this week and were hoping to get more to come. I just want you all to know how thankful i am for all you who have influenced me so much in my life and how you all read this it shows me that you all support me :) and its awesome :) thanks you i know the lord will bless you always because of it. And also thank you to those of you who have been so kind to my mom while i am away and served her and continue to serve her :) thank you so much. The Lord is blessing her through you and it really helps me to not have to worry :) So thank you all for your support in Salmon Creek ward and in the new Nehalem ward :) 

The works going good and im learning a lot...also this is THE LONGEST year of my life...i swear the Lord like purposley slowed it down to work His purposes but oh well thats good because i know that there will come a time when it will just fly by and ill want it to go slow again. Sometimes the Lord slows time down just so He can see what we'll do with that time He gives us i guess. Or to just prepare for a time when time will fly by. 

Anyway loving it here. 

Elder Johnson 

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Hey

Hey everyone!
Sorry i havent written in while. Ive just been busy with other things dont mean to leave you all hanging lol. Anyway so these past few weeks have been interesting. I got a new companion who name is Elder Lowry and im still in Guimaras :). Cause of course i still have lots of work to do lol. Um also we have a british investigator whos very interesting. Hes Athiest and somewhat saracastic. lol Hes also got the really strong British accent..like wif instead of with. So thats awesome. But um hes remarkably very interested in the BOM for its historical infromation about the migration to America that makes more sense to him then the world history view so thats awesome!! Hes a truth seeker but hes very interesting to figure out. But its fun and i have no doubt that the BOM and the Spirit will do their job because they already have and it surprises me greatly...its awesome. So yah. This transfer is very interesting its 9 weeks instead of 6 weeks so it ends the day before my birthday lol :) so thats exciting. Also HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY AMERICA!!!!! also Philippines cause apparently theirs is on the same day lol. I hope you all are doing good and being taken care of. I have been learnign a lot about families and thier importance to God and as to why they are important also. I know that families are central to Gods plan and very important to HIm and that is exactly the reason He gave us prophets so that we could learn how to be happy in families and through prophets giving us guidance for that as the world changes. They are so very important and the Gospel of Jesus Christ, even if they are a single parent or have both, will help them balance their lives and their families. Because they are each entitled to their own personal revelation directly from a living God for their families. Also ive learned that the Priesthood really is the actual power of God given to His children for their benefit and anyone who holds it should not be lazy with it and always be worthy. The missions been fun as well as really tiring and exhausting but even more rewarding...its been good. Loving it.
Hope you all are well and thanks for reading.
Your friend,
Elder Daniel Johnson  
   

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News :)

Hey Guys,
  To all the Fathers out there i say HAPPY FATHERS DAY!!! :) i hope its good for you all :). This week was was kind of rough just cause like nothing was really happening but on sunday i received some relief and so that was nice. A blessing of going to church :) Cause a lot of cool things happened like people came who i didnt expect and so that was awesome. It was great and i was very thankful for it :) I want you all to know how very grateful i am to you for doing your best to always be apart of your families and i hope you always try because that is what the Lord expects...always be good righteous Priesthood holders, lately a lot of talks in conference has been for the men and what they need to do as Priesthood holders. Study that and apply it. It is important and it seems to be a trend. Also thank you for your prayers in my behalf and all the missionaries :) they are greatly appreciated and needed. I am learning a lot out here especially about cooking and being a smart financial planner which is going to be very helpful. Thanks for always reading this and emailing me when you can :) Thank you all for being good fathers and good examples to me..Ive gained a testimony of family and really how important they are to God and how important it is for them to work together under the principles of the gospel. Anyway thanks for all of you who read this :) and hope all is well with you in your lives. Stay strong in the gospel..it truly is awesome :)
Thats all i guess.
Elder Johnson :)      

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hey

This week has been alright. Right now though its been raining a lot and so we have no water...so we've showering with the buckets that are filled with water and so thats fun lol but very cold and the weather is already cold lol. So its medyo (somewhat) trying...but thats ok lang( alright) cause its a learning expereince :) and its normal to shower in shorts outside here too :)....Um Guimaras is way cool still although its very wet and so you have to have fans dry your clothes cause its too cold for anything to dry lol. But its still fun :) and loving this cooler weather...two nights in a row now i havent needed a fan cause its been like perfect sleeping weather lol so thats been nice. The missions going good, still learning a lot and the language is coming along great :) and on June 11 ill have been here 6 months so im at my 1/4 mark already lol...crazy. I hope things are well with you all and i hope your lives are going well. Thank you for all your reading :) So turns out the Philippines has two independence days June 12 and July 4 ironically lol so its pretty exciting...there are so many holidays here its crazy lol. Oh and i got to experience my first funeral March...there was a dead guy that had passed away and was being driven and so it was no big deal..the big deal was the numberless concourses of people behind him...like trikes...jeepneys...people walking, people riding on motorcycles in the POURING RAIN...for miles and i mean miles like we waited for like 15, 20 mins before we were able to move again in the van it was crazy...so many people...so yah that was interesting...i mean i thought Micheal Jackson died again because there were so many people all following this dead guy in the car that carries dead people. It was so weird..just when you think you know the Philippines...something like that happens..and you realize...no i dont lol. But anyway yah that was mainly it. Just doing work for the Lord and ive really been growing :)
Its fun. Loving it :)
Hope all is well with you all and Washington's not too cold lol..it feels somewhat like Washington here...with the no sun and the rain lol.
Elder Johnson
      

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Almost 8 months out....CRAZY!!!

I cant believe ive reached past the 1/4th mark already...crazy. It blows my mind 8 months i cant beleive how fast the time has flown by. It just hit me this week after trying to figure out after someone asking me questions that ive been out almost 8 months!!! i cant believe it! But oh well thats the facts of life. But anyway..this week has been insightful and ive learned A TON!!! like a whole bunch. We just had the mission tour yesterday and Elder Nielson spoke to us form the 70 and he really like trained us...it was awesome!! I wasnt even hungry for lunch because i had learned so much and im really applying it to my work now and i just continue to learn its crazy. My mind has been enlightened so much by the purpose of questions and what they are for and how to receive revalation through them. Like in 1 Nephi 11..Nephi does this "Revelatory Process" and its awesome.
First is "what desirest thou?" ASK. God can only give us answers if we ask for them.
Second is "What believest thou?" NEED FAITH. God wants to know what we believe in or He'll test our faith to see if we believe we'll receive. 
Third is  "Look!", Look for what God is trying to show you.
Fourth is "What beholdest thou?" We need to to understand what it is we are searching for and our answer. Try to recognize it.
Fifth is "What desirest thou?" Once you have that understanding, ask for more clarification about what you have just received.
I ask all of you at home to read that chapter and really ponder and really try and figure out this revelatory that Nephi shows to us in chapter 11. Cause it works to receive revelation. Just read it and apply it to your life...i promise your mind will be enlightened and you'll understand the importance of questions according to revelation. If you say a prayer before for what you want...you will be enlightened.
"Ask and you shall receive, knock and it shall be opened unto you" If you dont ASK, God cant answer...even if He wants to, He wont give us something that we dont literally ask for. Pretty cool huh?
Anyway so ive been learning about that and its really an answer to my prayers. :) It was cool to shake a general authority's hand also :) There are some way cool experiences here that are just awesome :)  Its crazy how much we can learn when we really are led by the Spirit :)
I love the mission :) Love the people!! Love you all and i hope all is well with you. Remember the Windows of Heaven are open to all. To all  who are willing to ask, God will not withhold. :)
I guess thats about it. Still loving Guimaras and still learning lots. Although i feel as if ive been 19 forever...my birthday is taking forever to get here lol...its just funny. :) The language is also starting to make sense and im really starting to soar in that. There are many people who have been like wow...youre way good now at ilonggo lol so good things are happening :)
Elder Daniel Johnson   
 

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its been interesting

So Elder Farnsworth is puli na...hes been home for about a week
almost and so my new companion is Elder Paune. He's from
Macati...which apparently is the finacial center of the Philippines,
its in Manilla. He's been out for a year and 2 and a half months :) so
thats interesting. But im not the newset Elder Anymore lol ive met
plenty of new elders who have been out for like 3 weeks and its crazy
lol so thats nice although im still pretty new lol :).The language
here is coming along pretty good too...like since im working a lot
more for it now. One of the Youth here said he was really surprised
because everyday i get like a lot better at the language and so i was
way happy to hear that :) Um last monday i got to talk to my family
for mothers day :) and btw Happpy Mothers Day to all you Mothers out
there...sorry its a week late but i was medjo (somewhat) busy last
week lol. I hope you all had a good Mothers Day cause you all deserve
it. Ive been learning even more how much God values righteous woman.
There is a way awesome woman in our branch. She a mom of a less active
family. She is the only people who goes to church in her family
despite them all being members she has 6 kids too most under the age
of 10...and you can really tell just the difference with her :) But
she was telling us that she was sad one day and medjo burdened
because of how hard shes trying with her family to get them to churh
and that we really made her day by coming and they're a way cool
family too :) When i saw her there all alone at church, i really felt
the Lord reaching out to her and just telling her to hang on and how
much He loves her. It was truly awesome. The Lord truly does love
righteous woman..espeacially mothers. So i want all you Mothers out
there to know how much the Lord appreciates your efforts to raise your
children and everything you sacrifice so willingly for Him and for
your children. And all you husbands...listen to your wives and help
them to raise your children in righteousness and teach them to listen
to thier mother and respect her. That is what the lord expects of
children. The Family truly is ordained of God and very speacial to
Him. They work together :) That is just a little bit of went on this
week. Happy belated Mothers Day
Miraces are happening.
Elder Johnson :)


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God is good :)

So ini nga week (this week) i want to tell you all about this really cool family. So this family is a part member family and they all attend church and so they have a son who is an investigator who couldnt be baptized because he wouldnt quit smoking. So 3 weeks ago mayara accident siya ( he had an accident) with a trike where he fractued his face in four places and needed surgey which would cost up to 50,000 pesos which is impossible to come by for most Filippinos but espeacially this family so they got a blessing for the branch president of comfort since he was the only who could go...just because it was a long ways away and just we wit for three weeks with many prayers and three weeks later he comes back. So his family tells us his story. So he had a fracture on his nose and under his eyes then on his forehead and his face was like swollen pretty bad so thats why he needed the surgery. So after the blessing it comes time for the surgery and the doctor takes a second xray and is baffled by the results. His xray not only shows that all four fractures healed in 3 weeks but his face looks as if it never happened. Like it baffled the doctor so much he asked...where is it? So after this 19 year old kid saw that he declares im gonna be baptized and im going on a mission...this boys heart was changed while he was in the hospital and he was able to quit smoking also. This part member family had their prayers answered through the Power of God. This boy didnt need surgery and so they didnt have to pay the fee and now the rest of their family can be baptized. We wanted the brothers to be baptized together :) So that was way cool. God truly does answer prayers and He truly does watch out for His children here on earth when they humbly ask Him for help. He also still works many miracles according to our faith and to help our faith. He truly is so kind.
That was really the highlight of the week :)
Hope this brings comfort to some of you...He is aware of and He loves us very much :)
Elder Johnson :)        

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