Nov. 28, 2011

well im not going to lie but i want to rip my stomach out of me. two weeks ago i got a pain in my chest every time i ate and i called the mission nurse who said she cant do anything about it unless the pain lasts for more than a week. well here i am two weeks later and it has started up again and its starting to affect my sleep now. this time around its been hurting for 5 days now and we suspect that its anything from a stomach ulcer to heartburn to indegestion. ive been taking ibeprophan and pepto bismal but then switched to pepto and tylonol. now would be the time to laugh at my rancid spelling hhahaha. but yeah thats the main thing that we have been dealing with cause its killing me to eat and it happened RIGHT after thanskgiving so i think it could be linked to that.... w/e it will end this week

ANYWAY....... the work is....slow. we have been in a rebuilding stage ever since i was companions with elder jones (again) and so last week we gave our investigators one last try but once again none showed up to church even though Marie Nicholas said she was coming and so we have made the unfortunate decision to drop everyone and start anew.

last week we met with the senior couple with the name of the Rhoners and we found out that there is a TON of less active work to do so im glad for the people that we are able to meet with in the ward and help them stay active and for the less actives that actually let us in thier homes. one family in particular is super awesome. the dad is named clark and the mom is evan and they are working on coming back and we are having fhe with them today. they came for the past two weeks and i think they are making it a good habit.

we are keeping one investigator who is named jean mosiahs and we met with him yesterday and he is progressing and coming to church with his brother. we are hoping that his brother remains a positive influence on him cause he has mixed himself up with the wrong crowd it seems like. this "crowd" was over there last night and they were absolutely stunned that a white boy could speak Creole. i asked them "havent you ever seen a white haitian" and they were like no...... ahahah this week i was called "hatian" by one the members named Fre Dolci who i met the first day here and he is super cool and loves it when i speak creole with him.

thanksgiving was great. first we went with some other elders from staton island to play football by prospect park and it was super fun!! after that we realized that we were really sore and that we would be hurting the next day haha and it did...really bad. but that only effected us for like 1 day which was really funny durring our weekly planning. after football we went to sister clarks house who is the primary president and ate...a ton... which i found out later probably triggered this nasty pain that i have in my chest... but it was some really good cookin thats for sure.

a lot of people that were at the dinner were haitian but they didnt speak any creole at all!! that was wierd and also the fact that some one pointed out that i was the only white guy there but i was more haitian than others lol. there also were some interesting black jokes that definately suprised me but im not going to go into that.....hehe...

anyway not much else has happened with elder jones and i. we are trying really hard to find some one to teach but the people we talk to arent very interested. we are branching out this week and trying some new things and goals. ill tell you how they go next week. but yeah the only people we are REALLY working with are jean mosiahs, a lady named nicole thomas who we see like once a week, and clark and evans family.

i hope that everyone enjoys my pictures and i send my card home so there should be tons more coming. thanks a lot and have a great week everyone :) 

-Elder Johnson-