Well i finally got here. NYC is totally weird. weird as in ive never experienced anything like it before.
to start the story off where i last left you guys the last week at the mtc was pretty different considering that i would be soon approaching a time that i had long been waiting for. we did our normal routine but with a few extra classes and in field orientation. they were all really inspiring but nothing compared to what ive felt so far. finally it was monday and 4 am and we headed to the air port. we got on ok BUT one of my suitcases was over by one pound!! but the lady who checked my bags served in NY South too so she let it slide. first perk for being an elder of the Lord haha.
on the plane ride i sat next to an older guy and a guy in his 30s. the young guy was coming back from a fishing trip and was jewish by descent but not by religion. so the way he explained it he pretty much gave up on God and was not going back. So after talking with the atheist i talked to the other guy. he explained that he doesn't believe in anything he cant explain with numbers or cant see. so i figured he believed in Scientology because he was from italy and explained that alot of people believed that from where he was from.
so after no success i just shot the breeze with them and got off the plane. first thing i noticed about new york is that there are crazy drivers here. like REALLY crazy drivers. they somehow drive defensively and extremely aggressively at the same time. my companion likes to just walk out in the street and try to cross where he is. I swear that he will get hit one day but he is convinced that he will be save. i tried to explain what kayla explained to me that God still lets us use our agency so he will still let us do something stupid. SO bottom line is im not playing in traffic.
the first night we stayed at the mission home that had no power from the hurricane so that was interesting to use flash lights and candles. the first day we went out and contacted people. it was then that i realized that everyone and anyone lives in new york. you have every color of the rainbow on the street and it seems like no one speaks english either cause everyone is always talking in a different language and alot of things are written in a different language.
the next day we went to the transfer meeting. the night before and on the plane ride i found out that there were two other missionaries from haiti that would be going to new york as well. at the transfer meeting i found out that i would be serving with a native haitian elder jean, and with elder jones our trainer who is from Kentucky. after the transfer meeting i found out that we didnt have a car.... and me and elder jean had about 3 pieces of luggage to carry all the way to brooklyn from queens. it was about a 40 min walk WITH a train ride so we were more than ready to get to our PAD (missionary term for residence). so we finally get to our pad and elder jones doesn't seem all that excited while we are walking there. i realized once we got there that the place is old... and no one has lived in it for a while. not only that but over the course of the next week the most white people i saw in one day was 6. so yeah i live in the ghetto in a ghetto house and i pretty much love it.
its so much better than anything i could get at the mtc and it has AC (we got a new one two days ago and it has a remote!!!! exciting i know) and it has a shower so i really have nothing to complain about. yesterday we went over to the ASL and english missionaries pad and theirs is a thousand times nicer. i was kinda jealous but i knew that what we have is more than enough for us to sufficiently live.
the first day we were there we realized we didnt have any food either. so we kinda went like 12 hours with out food cause we didnt have time the night we got there to go out so yeah that was very interesting... the people im teaching mostly speak english. the ones we teach in creole elder jean usually teaches most of it cause i can barely understand what everyone is saying and because of their crazy accent. it was the same case with sunday school. the sister that taught talked SO FAST. anyway elder jean teaches me for an hour straight each day and we talk constantly everyday.
we have 4 investigators and no baptismal dates but we are working on that. well thats all for this week but ill try to write some individual letters today as well. thanks so much for all the mail and emails. if you are going to send me a letter send it to the mission office address which is
85-69 60 drive
Elmhurst NY 11373
they will forward it to my pad so just send everything there and not worry about when i have transfers or what not. SEND ME SOME LETTERS PLZ!!!! :)
have a great week everyone!!!!!
Elder Johnson
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