hey everyone its your favorite elder again. this week was very interesting. first off transfers are tomorrow and so elder jones my trainer and my companion for about 4 months now will finally leave me. im getting a companion by the name of elder stori and apparently hes a thug but a gentle giant. he sounds super cool and i think he'll fit right into midwood. so a lot of time this last week was put towards preparing for elder jones leaving. not only that but elder jones has been sick so our schedule has been a little different to accomidate for that. im glad he actually recognizes that he needs to rest cause other elders (and sisters) dont see that they need to stop so they keep going and eventually it all comes crashing down on them. when i was in the mission home for the first day here there was a sister there who was resting cause she did that exact same thing. sister moreno diez in our district as well was almost sedated cause she refused to not go out and work.
this week for church a lot of people came that usually didnt. edward came and is still proparing to be baptized but his baptisimal date will probably be pushed back because the bishop is really concerned about his mental state. as far as the zone leaders saw he understands all the docterines and principles about the gospel but we are all having second thoughts. we all noticced that there just is somthing that isnt right about him. dont get me wrong he is super nice and understands the gospel to its fullest but he may be interested in the gospel for one wrong reason or another.
another haitian investigator also came and his nam ei s deu duguy. we have been meeting with him for about 3 weeks now and im glad that finally someone came to church. we couldnt meet with our other haitian investigator alex prophet because of the holidays so hopefully we can get in this next week. good news too we FINALLY got into this one building that we have been trying to contact a referral and we were finally let in and we left our number with lamartine's room mate and he called us!!! so now we have an appointment this next week with him yay!!
hopefully elder stori will have some patience with the creole program cause i know it will rock his world to be in a lesson where you understand nothing. its ok though cuase the language of the spirit is still present and that is all that we need to be there. so today we took a little detour to manhattan to see the statue of liberty. usually we are not allowed to go to manhattan but we are allowed to see the statue. so we took a ferry that went by it but the line to go on the island was SUPER long so we will go another time.
thanks for the pictures mom, your quilts look awesome. all the elders that see the one you made me are jealous that thier blanket doenst glow in the dark haha. also sophie and emma look just like new yorkers with those ridiculous hats on and i hope they keep you warm :).
well so yeah besides that ill put some pictures of manhattan on this email and a REAL new york pizza that we had at our new years eve party with the very generous sister terry ann williams.
every one have a great week and try to stay warm (i bet its like 60 there... google just confirmed its 50 there.... not as warm as the balming 30 degrees it was this morning, dont worry though im plentty warm)
-elder johnson-
p.s. they say the snow is comming :(
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