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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Re: Hey

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Daniel Johnson <johnsond@myldsmail.net> wrote:

 Lord in your lives cause i know they are there. Just remember that The Atonement of Christ is not only for our sins, or sadness, dissapointments, let downs and unfairness. It can also provide us strength and courage to face the things we have to everyday. Which i think is something that we look over a little too much :) So i guess thats it.

Elder Johnson 

sorry about the splits blog,,,but the computer sent it when i wasnt done..sorry lol  

      

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Hey

Hey everyone! I hope things are going good up there in Washington. Things are going pretty good here...ive been learning a lot about how to effectively study and effectively learn and listen. My teaching skills are getting better too because ive had to lead the are like 2 times now and ill have to lead it two more times. So yah this is somewhat crazy....um we are kind of at a stop now because we've been finding new people who arent really doing much so this kinda sucks but hopefully this week things will pick up. But we keep finding new people who also are pretty golden which is nice i just hope that the next visits they are still as golden and we hope tp get three baptisms in this month which will be awesome :) And so far things seems way good for those three...the lord really does work in mysterious ways. He's blessing me in many ways that i know are awesome and that i still dont fully understand. I went like 3 weeks without an answer to a prayer and now im getting it big time so yah things are going good. Guimaras is turning out to be a crazy cool experience where im learning a ton of new things. So its way cool. I hope in all your lives you will pray to see the tender mercies of the L  

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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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