Elder Joseph Johnson

  Hey what's up everyone, i don't have a ton of time (basically becoming the usual) but anyway this week was great, I had a lot of great experiences.  On Wednesday our mission president and his wife tested positive for covid and they are super sick right now, I really hope that they will be okay. The new mission president is supposed to come in this week I think, and that's gonna be a big change. We were supposed to have a baptism this week but they canceled because they were sick. I feel like something always bad happens on those days to be honest. We rescheduled for wednesday this week, which my companion is super excited for.  We had tons of people cancel this week because of rain, the people hate rain here, it's really interesting. When it rains it either comes down really hard for like an hour, or it's a steady sprinkle the whole day. And humidity kinda sucks, when it's hot you go inside and you're still hot, and when it's cold it's...

  Hey what's up everyone, this week was crazy awesome! Let's get straight into it.  Transfer news: So we got the transfer news and I'm super excited because I get to stay here in franco! Franco is super awesome and I just really love the people. They are so kind and I love talking with them it's super fun. I'm also out of training technically, i'm finally starting to get the hang of it in this place and I'm loving the work it is so much fun! Drunk guy: we come across drunk people all the time but this guy in particular wouldn't let go of my companion and kept saying that he was his brother in christ it was kinda funny but i felt bad for the guy. he also said that he knew english but when he spoke it was just gibberish and random sounds it was wacky. When he was done telling us that he loved us, We told him that Jesus loved him and that we had things to do but he still wouldn't let us go. We eventually just started walking away, and after a couple ste...

  Hola everyone! I made it safe to Paraguay, this place is crazy awesome and i'm just loving this work. This place is crazy different! The roads are different, the people, church buildings, just everything.  I had to walk for so long and its the kind of climate where when you go outside, you start sweating and you sweat the whole day. its so hot here but it's pretty cool at the same time. The food is completely different as well. There is a lot of rice and beans and weirdly enough there is a lot of noodles too. Its all covered in grease for some reason but maybe they only give that to us because we are american XD. Everyone offers you water when you go to their house, and you can't drink the tap water because if you do you might get shivivi. oh that reminds me i'm learning tons of Spanish, and guarani. Guarani sounds like a mix between Spanish and Japanese. we greet people in guarani and then talk to them in Spanish its a bit funky but i'm starting to enjoy it. ...

  Joseph decided that he wanted to go to Wasabi for his last supper and then real life happened and we had to shift plans and have grub hub deliver five guys to the house.  It turned out really fun though because after we ate, we played maki in the backyard and then everyone piled on the trampoline to bounce off some of those calories.  Just so you know, maki means lemur in Malagasy.  We usually play horse or pig, but instead we used the word maki to play "horse", because it's just so much cooler and fun that way!   Joseph is the fun in our house and we are really going to miss that dynamic when he is gone!  We also went mini golfing a few days later and it was fun to just spend time together.  We didn't keep score and we just decided to goof off and have fun.  Lucy played several holes in front of us the entire time and Joseph helped her get a hole in one on the last hole.  He's always so giving and kind to everyone!

The time has come and Joseph is ready to blast off!  We made the living room the staging ground for packing so Elder Johnson's bags were sprawled out on the floor for a few days.  Elder Johnson tried to pack Lucy, but I guess it's against mission rules to bring your little sister on your mission.  She wasn't super excited about being zipped up in a suit case anyway, so it worked out.  We will miss our Joey!                                                     She fits! It's happening!  Packing has commenced.   Why are there rubber bands around that BOM?  When Joseph arrives in Paraguay he will need $160 in cash, but not just any cash, perfect cash.  So we went to the bank and sifted through a lot of money to find the best money we could find.  There was a slight creasing in the three 20 dollar bills, so we came...