Warm Water

Elder Kyle Johnson, Juana Garcia Chanchavac, and Elder Snell

Elder Snell, Juana Garcia Chanchavac at her baptism 5-29-2011

5-30-2011

Hey everybody, so not much happened this week I got really sick and lost about 7 pounds. Sunday morning we baptized again. With this baptism it makes 6 for this month. Other than that on Sunday we confirmed 7 people to the priesthood. Elder Snell was officially called as the 2nd counselor, oh and our baptisms name is Juana Garcia Chanchavac. So the only story I have is about this week is our baptism story. The cool part about the baptism is the fact we went to some natural hot springs about 30 min out side our area and had the baptism there. The water was super warm which was cool even though I didn't get to get in. To answer your question we had a mini conference in Xela last week and no I did not get your package.

P.S. I wrote your letter mom and it talks more about what happened in the conference we had so I know you will enjoy everything I wrote.

Love,

Elder Kyle Johnson

Proud to be a Eagle Scout

5-23-2011

Birthday party for Alecio at Pres Ordon's home

Elder Johnson

5-23-2011

Ok so a few things happened this week but I'm going to sum it up pretty short because I don't have much time today we have to go to Xela today. So here it goes.

1- We had a baptism that fell through on Saturday. It was the daughter of Juana the sister we baptized, what happened was the daughter, or Jessica is her name. She was interested in learning more about the church so we started teaching her, and we put a baptismal date with her for Saturday. Well everything was going good until the day before her baptism when we found out her Aunt had been talking bad about the church and discouraged Jessica the day of her baptism she backed out.

2- The scouts of Guatemala came to Quiche and Elder Snell and I got to show our Eagle scout cards and talk at their presentation.

3- Sunday was Alecio's birthday we had a cake and a little party at Pres. Ordon's house

Well that's all but I might get on Wednesday because they are cutting our p-day short.

Love,

Elder Johnson

A Knock on the Door

President Ordon his wife and the Castro Family Juna, Alecio, Milton, Jose This family was baptized May 15, 2011

Elder Snell, Castro family, Juana, Alecio, Milton, Jose, President Ordon, his wife & Elder Johnson

5-16-2011

Hey Everybody,

So this week was a little more eventful than the last because a few things actually happened. One being the baptism you can see we had from the pictures I sent you. The story goes like this... We had just entered the house Thursday night around 6:30 pm when we usually enter the house around 9:00 pm but we had not eaten all day and we thought it would be a good idea to take a break and eat some dinner then head back out afterwards. Well as we were eating President Ordon knocked on our door. He told us he had a family at his house at that moment that has been investigating the church and wanted to receive the lessons as fast as they could and then get baptized Sunday.......We thought he was pulling our leg because he saw we were in our house and it wasn't 9:00 pm yet, but he was dead serious. So we grabbed our stuff and ran over to his house where sure enough there they were waiting for us. So the story continues with us teaching them the lesson's Thursday, Friday, Saturday, then Sunday they came to church and we taught them the last lesson that night right before we had their baptism, Sunday May 15, 2011. There are 4 people in the family that we baptized so here's their names starting with the mom: Juana Castro, oldest son: Alecio Castro, middle son Milton Castro, and last but not least the little son Jose Castro. We would have baptized the dad too but he was killed last year so he wasn't around. So that's my news for the week. Oh and I was called as secretary on Sunday so hopefully I get to spend some more time here with Snell.

Love you guys and I'll talk to you all later.

Love Kyle Johnson

Mohawks and wild dogs

5-10-2011
Kyle and Elder Snell with their Mohawk hair cuts this style didn't last long only long enough for the picture

Elder Snell baiting a wild dog. The dogs keep breaking into their house and getting into their garbage.

Ok so I didn't get very many pictures from this week just the 1st one is Elder Snell and I after we cut our hair into Mohawks for some fun on Sunday night but don't worry we only had them long enough to take the pictures then we buzzed them off. The 2nd picture is of us baiting dogs in our house because we keep getting these little dogs breaking in and eating our garbage, so we took fish hooks and tried to snag it but the thing got away. Other than that it was great to talk to everyone and hear how your all doing. Well that's all I have for this week so love you guys and I'll have more to write next Monday.
Love, Elder Kyle Johnson

One year to go !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Baptisms and Blackberries
5-2-2011
My letter this week is short, because I will be calling home on Sunday for Mother's day. I can't believe it has been a year, 1 more year to go WHAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
Elder Johnson


This is Lorena she is 21 and has 2 children. She has been taking the discussions and wanted to be baptized so we finished the discussions on Friday April 29 2011 then she was baptized that same day.

One of my favorite things is on Sunday we hike up this mountain and pick wild blackberries. They are very sweet and I enjoy the relaxing time. The berries aren't ready if they are red they have to be black to pick.

This is one of my favorite pictures these are Pres. Ordon sons, we were doing service and they crashed.