Happy Easter

4-25-2011

Hey everybody happy Easter or Holy week which ever you feel like celebrating.....down here it was the holy week...... Anyways just to start the letter Edwin's baptism did not to through because it turns out he was a member already but the branch President down here is extremely lazy fellow and doesn't fill out all the data on the computer so according to Salt Lake Edwin wasn't a member till we found his papers and got everything fixed.

Oh to answer your question if the rainy season started YES it did and it hit hard when it came because it has been raining since Thursday and hasn't stopped. Our house has tons of leaks and I had to move my bed and put buckets everywhere its crazy. Oh and since the rainy season hit our water is brown it is gross..... our shower water is brown, our sink water also....but it's OK we'll live....

So story of the week, so we had an interesting experience with our investigator family we have the Ramos Lux Family.... What happened was we were planning on going out to there house to talk to them about coming to church on Sunday so we started off to there house and well we found them on the trail and lets just say the mom and dad were not the soberest at the time so we helped the dad Estevan who was passed out faced first in the dirt get to his feet and then we carried him on our backs because there was a huge storm coming and we didn't want him to get soaking wet. So the story is we get the guy back to his house and in bed and talk to his dad who is a member and the dad told us a story about how he was converted......It turns out the dad was a drunk and 2 missionaries carried him back to his house about 1 year ago exactly, and it changed his life and he was baptised with his wife, so hopefully something will happen with this family from our good example we set for them. Other than that there is not much else that happened because it rained so badly this week we really couldn't leave the house, and if me and Snell are here for another change we are going to be set apart as 2nd counselor and secretary. Well love you family and I'll send pictures later.

Love Elder Kyle Johnson

Building the gospel by building a fence

4-17-2011

Kyle and Elder Snell putting information into the computer this is there calling as 2nd counselor and branch secretary. They switch off every other week..

Kyle's new Hammock which he bought in Chichicastenango

This is a road we walk down to the investigators house.

We thought we saw someone hang them self but it was just a scarecrow

Kyle and Elder Snell doing service for President Ordon

Small child in tree (Pres Ordon Son)

Elder Snell building a barb wire fence

President Ordon and Elder Snell

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This week was a little better. I guess you could say as far as the work goes and all that good stuff because 1st off we received a reference from one of the members to go and contact his daughters family. It turns out there are 9 people in the family and we are now teaching them so we were pretty happy about that.

We also put a baptismal date for tomorrow with this kid so we'll be having another baptism his name is Edwin Hernandez. Other than that we helped the district Pres do some service putting up barbwire fencing around his land, and then later that night he went with us to contact his reference and we taught her the restoration and she came to church Sunday.

Well I'll send you the other pictures I have right now in a different email so this is good bye.

Love you all

Love Elder Kyle Johnson

Off to Xela for a seminary

4-11-2011 So my week was interesting to say the least. 1- We went down to Xela for 3 days to have a seminary so we could learn to teach better and be better missionaries, it was really cool because I learned a lot and we stayed in a hotel for 2 nights because our area's are so far away. 2- Well as far as work goes not much happened because we were gone all week long and we are going to be going back to Xela all this week for a special North American Conference. 3-Me and Elder Snell found out that we are the 2nd counselor and Branch Secretary this past week so all Sunday long we were in the office filling out records that the Branch President hasn't been doing and a ton of stuff like that.... Just so you all know I'm fine and the work is going good we have about 3 families we are working with and we hope at least 1 family if not all 3 gets baptized. I want to send pictures but there is no USB jack on my computer so I'll send some later today and I'll write more then to. Question that were asked; Q- What do you eat? A lot of soup and bread. What ever we buy we have to carry in our back packs and we have to walk long distances. Q- What food do you miss the most? Momma I miss your cooking Q- Who is 2nd counselor and who is Branch President? We switch off every other week. Q- How is the temple coming along will it open in July? No they say it will now open 2012 they are behind on the building. Q- How did you like conference? I loved it. Love all of you I hope all goes well. Love Elder Johnson

Short and to the point

4-4-2011
OK so don't be upset when i don't write much this week because honestly i don't have much to write about.General conference was cool and i enjoyed the talks, we have a lot of references to work with and we have plenty of investigators. This email is kinda short and to the point but I'm tired of writing the same thing every week. I'll let you guys know if we get people to accept baptismal challenges or if i have any cool stories but i have about a year, and telling you i taught lesson 1,2, or 3 for the hundredth time gets kinda boring. I love you guys tons and I'm starting to miss you all more and more but i promise to stick it out and make it home in about a year.

Love Kyle