tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25143091632664054182024-03-14T09:03:32.724-06:00Elder Tanner Johnson Maceió Brazil MissionMy experiences serving a two year mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Maceió Brazil until December 2014. Rekehl Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02282357033828435163noreply@blogger.comBlogger118125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514309163266405418.post-88293485992400218852015-06-24T22:02:00.001-06:002015-06-24T22:10:51.275-06:00December 17, 2014 . . . Welcome Home Son<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">"His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful </span><span style="font-size: large;">over a few things, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of the lord." </span><i>- Mathew 25:21</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">Welcome Home Son...we love you so very much.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">"A Mission is a voluntary act of service to God and humankind."</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;">- Elder Russell M. Nelson</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">"You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove</span></i><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i> instead</i><i> to be the greatest investment that you will ever make." </i></span><br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;">- President Gordon B. Hinckley</span></i><br />
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<br />Rekehl Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02282357033828435163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514309163266405418.post-46592277330912540002014-12-09T09:00:00.000-07:002014-12-09T09:01:23.421-07:00The End<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Well here we
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Hey
everybody! How's it going!? Things here in beautiful Aracaju are
just dandy as usual. This week my companion had to go to a meeting and
sadly enough I wasn't invited. So what was it that I did? One of
the ward kids was my companion for the day. It was pretty sick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We studied and worked together. I
taught him a lot about missionary work and he taught me a lot about how to
fight Muay Thai!!! We had a good division and it was just a splendid ol'
time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">So I've got
some exciting news to tell you all. You won't even believe what I'm about
to tell you. I hope you're all ready because here it comes...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">I can do a pull
up!!!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">You heard it
here first everyone!!!! Elder Tanner Johnson has accomplished an
impossible task, lift himself up with just the strength in his arms. I'm
very thrilled that I've accomplished this goal. After a transfer of
practice and a great professional trainer (Elder Eddington) I have done
wonders.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Side Note:
It sounds like I'm in the middle of Vietnam being raided by the Viet
Cong. Today is "Nossa Senhora da Conceição," a very popular
holiday for Catholics/Macumbeiros, and I just happen to be sending this email
in a Lan House just right outside the Cathedral of Aracaju. Side-Side Note: a firework just blew up on the ground 15 feet from me. Apparently this
holiday is celebrated with many explosions of bombs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">There was an
advantage to having this holiday though. Because of the holiday, the zoo
was open on a Monday and we got to go again! We also got to climb up on
top of the largest hill in all of Aracaju and we got to see everything.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">I must testify
that God loves his children. This week we were going to have to walk from
"A Barra Dos Coqueiros" to the center of the city. For those of
you who don't know how long that is. Look at this:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">And it was like
7:00 at night. We were about to cross the bridge when this bus stops,
which was going to exactly where we needed to go and here's the miracle, it
opened it's back doors for us to get in. When a bus stops you normally
have to enter through the front doors where you pay. In our case, they
let us go in through the back doors for free. THAT NEVER HAPPENS.
Just goes to show you that good people do exist. Here's the thing though,
that was the second time that happened to us. God truly does love his
children.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Well here I
am. I would have to say that I have very mixed feelings about writing
this letter. I got to go back and visit Soledade today and see a lot of
the members. It was super weird because I went to say goodbye to everyone
and they all thanked me for my work. It's a very weird feeling being here
writing my last email. I never thought that I'd actually get to the
end. When the missionaries bare their farewell testimonies at zone
conferences they'd always say, "Man you think you're never going to get to
this point, but time goes by quickly." I normally responded that
with a sarcastic "pffffffffff!!!!! Yeah right!!!! That's easy
for you say!"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">And now I'm
here...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Man it passes by
so quickly....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">I will be
completely honest, I'm going to miss this place so much. It's been an
amazing two years. It's very gratifying to look back and think about all
that I've been able to accomplish. My main feeling is of gratitude.
I'm so thankful for this time I've had. I'm so thankful for the people
I've met and helped. Mostly I'm thankful for what the Lord has done for me.
Coming out on the mission, I thought that I'd be able to repay the Lord back
for all that he'd done for me. I quickly learned that even when I try to
repay it back, He blesses me more than I deserve. It's been an amazing
ride. I know for sure that this gospel is true and everything that goes
along with this great and wonderful church is 100% true. To say otherwise
would make me a liar!!! Thank you all who've helped me and supported me
during these two years.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">I know a lot of
my emails home have been filled with many jokes, sarcasm, frivolity, and all
manner of lightheartedness. I feel like that's just how my personality
is. I firmly believe that we have the choice to be happy and find humor
in all. This life was meant to be enjoyed, so let's have some fun while
we're at it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">I guess that's
it for now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">The church is
true, without a doubt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Joseph Smith was
a prophet of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">God lives and
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Jesus Christ is
the savior.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Simple truths
worth knowing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I had no idea pomegranates grew here in Brazil and we have a tree full of them in our backyard.</td></tr>
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Rekehl Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02282357033828435163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514309163266405418.post-88402452351965316662014-12-02T12:43:00.004-07:002014-12-02T12:43:52.506-07:00It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Actually,
that's a dirty lie. It looks absolutely nothing like Christmas around here.
Some people have taken to hanging up Christmas lights and putting up a tree
here and there, but it's not fooling me. I don't know, I feel as if the
whole "Christmas Scene" is ruined by the palm trees and burning heat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">We've had to
buy some mosquito coils for our house. We burn them to keep the
mosquitoes away at night. The smell of the coil smells a lot like
camping! We've come to put it in our room and room has a very outdoorsy
smell to it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">So this week
was Thanksgiving. Since this year I'm passing Thanksgiving with an
American, we celebrated Thanksgiving like all good patriots. We made some
food and ate our feast at the chapel. We even hunted our own turkey (a rotisserie
chicken at the store) and cooked it ourselves (reheated it in the oven) and had
a wonderful supper!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Me and my
companion have been on the search for Tereré (a Brazilian drink). It's
very hard to find here in northeastern Brazil, but it's not impossible.
We found a store that sold it last week, but alas they were out and only had Chimarrão
so we bought that instead. This week we became very serious Chimarrão
addicts. We've just been going nonstop all week.</span></div>
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baptism this week! We baptized a man named Venício. He's a security
guard that teaches Kung Fu and knows Ninjitsu. He gave us some Ninjitsu
lessons the other day. He taught me the death punch so that's pretty neat,
right? It was really cool to baptize him. He lives a little bit
outside of the city where there really aren't any members, but he's really
wanting to get his family active in the church and is super excited to spread
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">So the church
has launched their new ad campaign "He is the Gift" or as they say in
Portuguese "Ele é o Presente". We've received instructions to spread
the campaign everywhere. We should be getting some fancy new "Ele é
o Presente" materials this week and we have to keep track of how many
people were found and baptized through the campaign. So here you go!!! <a href="http://www.mormon.org/christmas">http://www.mormon.org/christmas</a>.
Doing my part. #Sharethegift<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">As to my
comment about other people being trunkier for me than I am for myself.
Well I guess that means I'm just still pretty focused. To me I'm just
doing the same as I've always done. I'm not the one to be really counting
the days and just sit around thinking about how excited I am to go home.
Don't get me wrong, it'll cool and fun and all, it's just I've still got a few
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Rekehl Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02282357033828435163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514309163266405418.post-12504192623768872472014-11-25T16:43:00.002-07:002014-11-25T16:43:32.282-07:00It's Great To Be In Aracaju<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/maps/?lang=eng#ll=-10.878253,-36.978467&z=12&m=google.hybrid&q=santos">I forgot how much I love this place.</a> I'm so happy to be ending my mission here.
My companion is awesome, the members are sick, and the work is going
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">It's nice being down here in Aracaju again. I've seen quite a bit of people from my past areas down here. One of my baptisms even called me the other day when he found out I was down here. I do believe that everyone else is far trunkier for me than I am for myself. There are a few members of the ward who like to countdown the days for me. Every time I see them they always yell the number of days that are left at me.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">The only thing
that is a little discouraging is our house. It seems to have a problem
with being invaded by insects. I have a ton of mosquito bites. We
got invaded by these weird flying ants the other night. We were just
minding our own business, making tapioca, when we noticed a rather numerous
swarm of giant winged insects flying around our house. We got to battle
stations and we slayed many bugs. Heaps upon heaps have we slain with our
sandals. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Other than that
our house is super convenient. We can literally see the church from our
house and every Saturday they have the Feira right out front so we can get a
ton of fresh food for cheap!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">So one of the
cultural things about the church down here that is different from the USA is
"Chá Missionarias," which means "Missionary Shower."
A few days before someone leaves on a mission all of their family and
friends get together to throw a party for them. They have a message, a
few people give speeches, and people give presents to the soon-to-be
missionary. It's kind of like a baby shower, but instead of there being
bottles and baby clothing, people give shoes, ties, and what not. We went
to the Chá Missionaria of a member of the ward who was soon to be leaving on a
mission. We gave him a tie. It was really weird though, here was
this guy who was just about to start his mission and there I was at the very
end of my mission. It brought back memories of my last few days
home. Super weird.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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having a baptism this next week. The man we're going to baptize is a
security guard who was once a soldier. He teaches Kung Fu and is a master
of some other type of martial arts. He was trying to explain to me what
this unknown fighting style was. Apparently it's designed to control the
assaulter and not physically maim the person. He demonstrated it on my
companion. He started twisting his arm willy-nilly and demonstrated a
nice diaphragm gulp (no he didn't punch my companion, he just showed him
how to do it.) Pretty cool I guess. We'll be baptizing a man whom
I'm pretty sure can kill me in less than six seconds. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> #sick<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Well here we
are. I have officially entered my last transfer of my mission and I'm
going to end it where I began in Aracaju!!!! I'm currently in the Santos
Dumont 1st Ward. The Area is humongous! It takes up a good chunk of
the city and little bit of another city. The Ward here is awesome!
The members always ask to go and do splits with us so I can't really complain
can't I? They even mark baptisms for us! I'm really not joking, we
had an investigator come to church this week and the members convinced him to
be baptized. The members have given me a nickname however. Everyone
here has started calling me Sheldon, from the TV show “The Big Bang Theory”.
Apparently I look a lot like him. My companion is Elder Eddington, from
the far and wild land of Payson, Utah. He's super cool, he was actually
trained by Elder Rutledge and I was companion with his trainee, Elder
Schmidt. We get along great and have some pretty sick conversations.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">So there's this part in our area called Barra dos Coqueiros, which is a neighborhood on the other side of the Sergipe River. There's this enormous bridge you have to cross to get over, which is about a little bit more than a mile and half. We walked it yesterday. We weren't looking forward to walking it because we thought it was going to just murder us with exhaustion. It actually was pretty cool, had a nice view, and was a very therapeutic walk. There were a bunch of guys fishing on top of the bridge; I don't know how they did it because it's at least 100 feet from the river to the bridge.</span><br />
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On my last day In Jacintinho I saw the most ridiculous house in the
world. This guy had built his house out of fragments of plywood about the
size of a small bathroom and put it up on stilts about 6 feet off of the
ground. The house was literally smaller than any bed I've ever
seen. It probably wouldn't have looked so silly if he hadn't hung up
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got to help a lady move. We moved her from her house into an apartment
building, up three flights of stairs, with no elevator. How did we do it
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this week who is 73 years old, has <u>at least</u> 25 kids (all from different
mothers), and currently has three girlfriends. How this man attains such
a feat I have no idea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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out of our house the other day. We forgot the keys in the house just as
we shut the door. It was all very disheartening. We tried
everything to get in: we tried to jump a wall into our backyard, we tried
to break the lock with a hammer, but alas, all had failed. I eventually
got in because we found a way for me to slip through the bars. I guess
all of the weight I’ve lost really helps.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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teaching this guy this week. We had to end the lesson early because he
said he had to go visit his friend in the hospital. Apparently his friend
had stolen R$150,000 from a bank in Bahia and then fled to Sergipe, got mixed
up with the wrong set of people, and got shot twice in the head. I'd have
to say, that man sure is a trooper! Still alive and kick'n 'til this day!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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lunch was very interesting. We had churrasco, (Brazilian barbecue), which
was absolutely amazing. Then I tried something called mocotó which is cow
foot. It had a really strong and different taste. I also tried
grilled chicken hearts. The lady that was making them shove a very large
toothpick full of the into my hand and ordered me to eat. In all honesty,
it was pretty good. Don't knock chicken hearts until you've tried
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">All right, I
wrote a lot this week. Everything is going well in Aracaju. Oh how
I've missed this place. This area is probably one of my favorites so
far. Love you all, have a great week!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rekehl Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02282357033828435163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514309163266405418.post-78735656560282272412014-11-10T09:45:00.002-07:002014-11-10T22:30:09.146-07:00I'm A Boy Scout<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Well I got the
call last night. Looks like my companion and I were transferred. To
where I was transferred, I know not. I guess my last transfer on the
mission will be in a different ward. This next transfer is short
too. It's only 5 weeks instead of 6.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we had a baptism this week! We baptized Felipe, who is a member’s
nephew. We had his uncle baptism him and we were able to have a ton of
people at the baptism. Probably because we did a combined baptism with
the other ward, but it was all really cool. Yay Felipe!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the good old, "Hey the person who was supposed to give a talk didn't show
up. Can you give a talk?" order from the ward secretary 2 minutes
before church started. It's all cool though. It appears that after
6 years of Boy Scouts I managed to learn something (Be Prepared) so it was no
problem at all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this week we got evangelized. By whom you may ask? By some people
who belong to some church from South Korea. Apparently their prophet had
a very similar experience to that of Joseph Smith. We went over to this
lady's house because she asked us to stop by because she wanted to hear our
message. We stopped by the other day and what started as us responding to
her questions turned to her teaching us a 2 1/2 hour lesson about the teachings
of her church. She told us that their prophet, who died, will return in
2020, but before his return there will be a great catastrophe. She told
me it was important for me to know this because when I go to the spirit world
I'll remember what she taught. I think she might have predicted my
death. I guess I'm in good hands however because she told me that their
prophet said that what the Mormons teach is true. She was pretty
cool. I learned some things about other religions I didn't know before.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Yeah I guess
this email will be kind of short this week. I'll send a lot of
pictures. You can now all play the "Where in the world is Elder
Johnson" game until next week. Until next time! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Based on the shirts my parents send me, I'd say they are far more trunky than I am.</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Bonjour!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">So it has come
to pass that the sickness that I had came and passed. Last Monday I was
starting to feel better, that was, until Wednesday when the sickness came back
guns a blazin'. Apparently my ailment wasn't too thrilled about the idea
of being EXTERMINATED!!! So it decided to give itself one last try to defeat me.
But alas, I came off conqueror and vanquished said sickness. All I had to
do was go to the hospital one more time and I was all chip chop chip ready to
go! They gave me the weirdest shot that I've ever gotten in my
life. They had this huge syringe attached to a little hose that they
poked into my arm and they let a hefty amount of medicine enter my arm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Sicknesses
aside, this week was pretty great. We were able to get a lot done and we
should be having a baptism this upcoming week. The area is super cool and
I'm enjoying my time here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">There was a
challenge that I had the other day. I tried to order pizza by
telephone. This was the conversation I had with the lady on the other
end:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I'd like to order a ham and cheese pizza.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sorry sir, but we don't have that kind of pizza. We do however have a
cheese and ham pizza if you'd like.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Yeah I think that'd be just fine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Elder Johnson. Patience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">This morning I
got to play basketball. For some missionaries this isn't that big of an
event, but it's something pretty rare to be doing down here. We played
with some people at the church and then we played with a bunch of
firemen. The firemen were pretty good.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">So we had Ward
Council Meeting yesterday. We were discussing the upcoming baptisms and
how to plan for future baptisms. The Relief Society President told me how
she had attended a baptism about a year ago and how it was really well
done. How the missionaries had made invites, programs, and that the
meeting went over very well. *-Begin of GH Moment- Guess who those missionaries
were? It was me and Elder Araujo in Viçosa. I knew when I got here
in the ward I recognized this lady. Turns out she's the aunt of Maciel
one of our converts in Viçosa and was there at the baptism. After she
said that I told her it was me and my companion who did that baptism. I
walked out of the meeting feeling very smug about myself. -End of GH Moment-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">So one thing I
learned this week is the importance of preparing to use the priesthood. I
was inspired by the fact that Ephraim Hanks would wash his hands before every
blessing he gave and did some other things to prepare. I thought it would
be a wonderful idea to really prepare to perform a gospel ordinance. This
week I was invited to perform a baptism for the sisters in my district.
Their investigator had asked me to perform the baptism. So I got to
thinking that I should try some things to really prepare for the ordinance.
Turns out it made all of the difference. I was able to perform the
baptism and the spirit was so strong. The girl that I baptized got super
emotional before and after and didn't stop crying for quite a bit of
time. When I got out of the changing room one of the sisters turned to me
and said, "What did you do to her?" That comment scared me a little
bit because I thought I had did something wrong, but it turns out she was just
joking and that the girl was just really happy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">One of the
members of my district received a revelation for me this week. They said
they had a dream I was sitting at a desk and a bunch of women were standing in
line to marry me. They were just taking turns signing marriage
forms. As interesting as that dream is I don't find it to be a very probable
thing to happen. I think the whole polygamy thing is a no go for the
church.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">So that's about
it for now. My week was pretty great. I'm doing great. Mom, I
will not tell you how much I weigh, how much weight I've lost, or anything of
that matter. You're going to see me here in a few weeks and yell,
"Tanner! What did they do to you!?" Missionaries gotta do what
missionaries gotta do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">P.S. *Brazilian Missionary Lingo explanation. GH = Gloria dos Homens = Glory of
Men. To say that a mission is "GH" (pronounced G agá) is to say
that the missionary thinks a lot of himself and is super prideful and whatnot.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rekehl Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02282357033828435163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514309163266405418.post-64093582340053454162014-10-28T12:12:00.001-06:002014-10-28T12:12:16.253-06:00I Am Not A Happy Camper<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Well actually,
now that I'm thinking about it, the title should be called "I WASN’T A
Happy Camper FOR 4 DAYS OF THE WEEK" but alas, it seems a bit long for a
title. We will get to the reasons why this camper wasn't too thrilled
this week in a bit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">So this week I
got my Visa renewed YEEEAAAHHHH!!!!!!! Yep, finally got that out of the
way. When did my Visa expire you ask? It expired in March.
Why wasn't it renewed? Because my Visa sat in an office in Brasília for
about 7 months. So that means that I've been here illegally in the
country for 7 months and that they finally decided to renew my Visa when I have
less than 2 months left here. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>#Beauracracy <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Mother, you
probably wont like this next part too much, but I'm going to write it
anyways. You've been warned.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">So it was
really great that I renewed my Visa on Tuesday because Wednesday night my
companion and I were afflicted with a plague. When I woke up the next day
moral plummeted as I started to feel really sick. Fever, body aches, and abdominal
pain. We held down the fort until we needed to get to the Sister's area
to do a baptismal interview. We did the interview and came back and we
got back and I died. I just layed down in bed and tried to sleep, but
alas sleep was fleeting and the pain was intense. I didn't sleep the
whole night and I couldn't keep down anything I drank or ate. The next
morning I went to one of the hospitals and they told me I had a good old
fashioned case of food poisoning. They hooked my up to the IV and
hydrated me right up! Gave me a prescription and I was on my way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Well all was
well for a while until I started feeling worse so later that night I went to a
different hospital and they were able to hook me up with some sweet meds.
From then on I got better, slowly, but now I'm all good. It sure wasn't
the most pleasant experience in the world. This camper wasn't the
cheeriest fellow in this outdoor extravaganza, but it's all over now. It
allowed for some good time to think and reflect and ponder the deep questions of
life. So I was able to learn some things through my sickness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Well that's it
for now. Nothing really happened because I was inside the whole week
basically because it was rather difficult for me to move. Whatever.
I'm over it now. Let's be optimistic!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rekehl Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02282357033828435163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514309163266405418.post-35192284705883586792014-10-20T16:39:00.000-06:002014-11-12T07:56:24.116-07:00WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO ME!!!!!!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Yeah today is a
pretty normal day I guess. Nothing too noteworthy happened today or this
week <i>(except it is his 21st Birthday today!!!)</i> Nothing really to pay attention to or remember...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">And Dad, to
respond you to your comment about my age and the ability to buy booze.
Since I got here I could have bought whatever liquor I want! I've seen
little 11 year old kids buy beer at corner stores, so nothing too new or
exciting for me. (No, I don't buy or consume alcoholic beverages).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">So lets get
down to business.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">I think it's
really this week that I've realized how much I've changed over the past two
years. I found that I can't remember the lyrics to songs I used to
know. One thing that really really surprised me was that the other Elders
in my house asked me for exercise advice. No I did not make a
grammatical error and yes, what I wrote was intentional and a fact. The
other Elders in my house asked me for exercise advice. Mom, what has
happened to your son? I was pretty shocked too. WHAT HAS HAPPENED
TO ME!!!!!!!!! I blame Elder Rutledge.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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asked to explain baseball this week, since nobody here has ever played or even
knows how to play for a matter of fact. I was really shocked to find out
that I know quite a bit about the rules of baseball. Since when have I
ever been someone to explain sports. WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO ME!!!!!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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on a division to the Pajuçara Ward. Why is that so significant you
ask? Two Reasons:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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area, super nice and cool.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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house is one of two houses on the mission that has air conditioning. For
The first time in a year and nine months I slept in an air condition roomed.
#MiraclesHappen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a lot on the division too. I learned how to be a better leader and be
hard on people every now and then.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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teaching a new family this week. The family we teach belongs to some
church founded in Korea. Apparently their doctrine is a lot like ours,
except their prophet is Korean. They were super cool. I hope they
progress.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">So our recent
convert that we baptized last month has decided that he wants to serve a
mission! Yeah missions!!!!! He goes to the weekly mission prep
classes at the stake center so that made me super happy to see.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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pretty much it for now. I think I'll be celebrating my birthday next
p-day because today didn't work out because we had to do some other stuff
today. Thanks to everyone who wished me a happy birthday. Anyways, love
you all. Até Mais!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rekehl Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02282357033828435163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514309163266405418.post-63409313361753517382014-10-13T18:25:00.001-06:002014-10-13T18:25:04.866-06:00Burning People<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">So last Pday I
got to meet up with my long lost bestcompanionfriendever Elder
Rutledge!!! We got to walk around the center and look for souvenir stuff
because I need to buy stuff for people back home. We walked around a bit
and got some Açaí, it was good times.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">So this week we
had our District Meeting. When I prepared the training I decided to do it
on repentance and being honest with your investigators. We sat down and
practiced calling people out on their sins and the other things they need to do
better. It's not so much as being rude to people, as it is with showing
them the truth. For example, in the practice we did, we taught a woman
(one of the missionaries) who needed to get married or leave her boyfriend’s
house. We showed her the truth and told her that it was wrong to break
the law of chastity. Straight up told it to her face. This super
sad feeling filled the room after we finished. We talked about the power
of repentance and how we need to sincerely help people, which at times, means
you need to lose the smile and tell them exactly what the problem is. The
meeting was super spiritual.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">So this week I
got to go on divisions with the Elders in the Beira Mar Ward. The Beira
Mar Ward is really interesting because it's one neighborhood in Maceió and then
half of the whole state of Alagoas. The ward is on the edge of the city
and grabs a ton of smaller cities on the coast all the way up to Pernambuco.
When we went on the division we got to go to a small town called Ipioca, which
is right on the beach. There aren't any members in that town but there
will be!!! It's a cute little town and we got a lot done.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">I made my
companion pay for my bus fare in 10 cent coins. I know it was kind of a tool
move, but it was absolutely hilarious. The lady's face when my companion
dumped R$ 5.00 in coins was absolutely priceless.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">So walking home
the other night we were just struttin' down the street when this bus nails this
taxi and rips the front off of it. The bus destroyed this taxi right in
front of my eyes, IT WAS NUTS!!!!! Nobody was hurt, but I don't think the
taxi man was too thrilled about his damaged car.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">To answer you
question mom, no I haven't seen any police chases this week. I have, however,
seen the police raid the grota once and search some of the street hooligans for
weaponry. That's pretty neat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rekehl Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02282357033828435163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514309163266405418.post-78794819713673931932014-10-06T19:20:00.003-06:002014-10-06T19:20:50.011-06:00Tuesday, Bloody Tuesday, Part 2: Electric Boogaloo<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">So it seems to
be that Tuesdays are going to be problematic around here. The other day,
we were studying when we hear the sound of a helicopter flying around.
Sounds of police helicopters are normal, but this one was hovering over our
area for quite some time. When we went to lunch people started telling us
that a bunch of hooligans decided to climb up out of the grota and ransack a
few local business. They broke a ton of things and then they fled back
down the grota. The police followed them and there they did battle.
They battled for a bit and then all was calm. It sure freaked everyone
out though. Naturally, we avoided that part of our area for that day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">I am now the
owner of original art work. The other pday we were walking along the sidewalk
on the beach when I saw this guy who fingerpaints landscapes on pieces of
tile. They were really pretty and I asked him how much it was. He
said that two of the were for 10 reais. 2 FOR 10!!!!! What a
bargain!!!!! I bought two of them and I plan on returning to buy more.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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raining quite a bit the past few days. It rained so hard it broke my
umbrella. The breaking of my umbrella was a rather traumatic experience
because I happened to be under it when it broke and I was getting pelted by
large bullets of water falling from the sky. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">We went to go
teach this guy this week, but it didn't really go over to well. Why you
may ask? Because he had just finished downing more than a gallon of
beer. A GALLON OF BEER PEOPLE!!! And the guy wasn't the least bit
tipsy. In fact he was trying to fix an electric grill and was doing a
rather good job. It's just hard to have a spiritual lesson when one has
downed so much booze.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Another guy
told me this week that he doesn't need to go to church or read the Bible.
He told me he doesn't need to do such spiritual activities because he learns
everything spiritual through movies. He was trying to convince me for
quite some time that Spiderman 1 & 2 has a lot of spiritual wisdom.
While they may be great entertainment, and maybe they have pretty good
messages, (e.g. with great power comes great responsibility), I don't think
they're able to substitute the Holy Scriptures.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">So this week
was General Conference. Conference is sick!!! I felt that the
messages were really heavy this conference. I especially liked the one by
Elder Neil L. Anderson about Joseph Smith, very prophetic. It was also
cool to watch Elder Carlos A. Godoy give his talk in Portuguese! I like
the new way they do conference. We did have some technical difficulties
during one session of conference. The satellite signal fell so while we
tried to get conference through the Internet one of the members took his cell
phone and put it next to the microphone so everyone could listen while we
overcame our technical difficulties. Also, a wild beast invaded our
church (a loose dog). Everyone tried to shepherd the dog away, but no one
was having success. To be completely honest, the poor thing was pretty
frightened. At last a 5 year old girl was able to lead the dog out.
A 5 year old girl did what 10 missionaries couldn't do. #Humility<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">So this sister in my district offered to make me my last mission planner for the upcoming transfer.<br /> My companion told her to make it super trunky. I feel like they did a good job.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Probably the funniest mission planner I've ever used.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">The Hotel California is actually located in Maceió Brazil.<br /></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Sorry tudo
mundo. This email is going to be kind of scattered this time
around. I apologize if my ranting doesn't make any sense.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">This week was
pretty great. Elder Ortiz and I are on fire. Our lessons have
become super spiritual and we're working really hard. I sure am enjoying
my time here in Jacintinho. Right now we're trying to convince our recent
convert that he wants to serve a mission. He says he doesn't know and
that he'll have to ask God. I can accept that answer, because I already
know what he's going to say in reply.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">So now we enter
into a whole new world or randomness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">So there's this
one guy in our area who makes the best churros on the face of the planet.
He fills them with doce de leite and I just about die from a mixture of pure
joy and an overly excessive amount sugar. He sells them for R$ 1, which
is a bargain. Elder Ortiz and I did the math and man does that guy make a
ton of money off of selling churros. The guy is famous and everyone buys
from him. I guess if life in the states doesn't work out, I could come
down here and sell churros, apparently there is a ton of money to be made out
of it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">There's this
one street in our area where I'm convinced that all the crazy people are forced
to live there. Like this other day we were teaching a lesson on the road
and this guy came up to us and started teaching along with us. He seemed
like a very spiritual guy so we asked him about the importance of prayer.
He then gave us an example about how all of our fingers are different and
somehow that means prayer is only prayer if 4 people are praying at the same
time. He then grabbed our hands and started to pray. We were later
informed by him that he had seen the second coming and he saw a bunch of blood
evaporate into the sky. People.....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">This week I
took the time to study the priesthood in depth. It was a pretty great
experience. I feel like I understand all of the organizational aspects of
the priesthood melhor <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(better). </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">We taught this
really cool guy at a restaurant the other day. We ordered our food and
then he started asking us a bunch of really good questions. The guy was
really smart, he studied Greek and Hebrew so he could read the bible in the way
it was written. He asked a bunch of questions and wasn't judgmental at
all. Way cool guy!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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problem with calling everyone "Mo Fio" I really need to stop.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Because my area
has some parts that really reminds me of India, I witness some pretty
interesting things. The other day for example. We were walking down
the road and it is very common for there to be huge traffic jams on the main
road of the neighborhood. To be completely fair, the road is a tad bit
small for all the cars to pass through. However, that is no excuse for
when everyone gets stuck in the road to hold a horn honking competition, to see
who can honk their horn: the most, the loudest, and the most obnoxious way
possible. I always know when there's a traffic jam in the morning.
I live like a kilometer away from that road but I can still hear all of hubbub.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">I had a dream
the other day. I dreamed Elder Ortiz and I were contacting people on the
beach and then this one guy on a motorcycle drove up to me and wanted to steal
my camera. I wasn't quite ready to make that sacrifice so I ran.
Unfortunately for me, Elder Ortiz stayed behind and decided to chat it up with
said hooligan and give him the address to our house. Needless to say I
wasn't the happiest fellow on the beach. The next thing I know, I'm in my
house and I see that guy pull up and he tries to break down the door. I
run down the stairs to secure the door in place when the guy opens the door and
stabs me about half an inch into my diaphragm with a butter knife.
Naturally I was rather peeved at him and I shooed him away into the night.
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violence, Tuesday was a very violent day. I heard a series of gunshots on
three occasions. When we were walking home we came upon a multitude of
people surrounding a few police cars. The police cars then took off down
the road. We asked onlookers what had happened and apparently the police
went to go take some guy who just got shot in the face to the hospital.
The guy got shot in the face and he was still kickin!! What a trooper!!!
#OnlyInJacintinho<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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situation is getting ridiculous. I'm so tired of the sound cars driving
around the neighborhood blasting advertisements. There was this one guy
who was advertising in the middle of the street. He was on top of his
truck yelling at people why he should get elected. He said a lot of
things like:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">"I will
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">"So what
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">"I
graduated from college with a degree in architecture and marketing!!! I'm
educated!!! So please everyone!!! Stop calling me a clown!!"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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down into the grota the other day during the middle of a power outage.
Sketchiest. Thing. Ever. Apparently to do so is not a very wise idea, but
we had a lesson to teach! We almost fell down the stairs, but in the end
we survived and our investigators came to church.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">All
right. I'm out of stuff for this week. Sorry it was super
long. I'm going to go walk along the beach, hoping that my companion
doesn't give our address to would be no-good-doers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Well the transfer has come and it
looks like I'll be staying here for another transfer with Elder Ortiz.
This is my second to last transfer now. Weird....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">This week was pretty cool. We
had Zone Conference with President Gomes. They talked a lot about how to
work with members and how we should work with less actives and recent
converts. I got to see Elder Oliveira, my second companion here in
Brazil, bare his final testimony. I feel like everyone I once new on the
mission has since gone home and I don't know any of the missionaries
anymore. Next Zone Conference I'll be baring my farewell testimony.
Weird....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Speaking of conference, I'm
super excited for General Conference. Ever since I went on my mission I
have gained a new found love for General Conference. Conference gets me
amped.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">The other day while we were inside
studying we heard a ruckus. When we looked out to see what the said
ruckus was, we saw this huge parade going down the road. The local Catholic
Church had put on a procession for Mary and there were a ton of people walking
down the road with all sorts of instruments, flags, and other stuff. They
had this huge bloco, (bloco is this truck that's like 15 ft high, made entirely
out of speakers, and have people partying on top.) Blocos are usually
used for parties or small concerts but they were using it to play hymns.
You don't see that everyday in Utah.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">So this week we had a baptism for
our friend Mike. It went over pretty well. We had a lot of the
youth at the baptism and he was really excited for it. He was really big
so I was put in charge of baptizing him. I wasn't quite sure that I would
be able to baptize him because he is significantly taller than me. It all
worked out well in the end and the baptism went over well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Nothing too out of the ordinary happened this week. Anyways, love you
all. Have a great week!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rekehl Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02282357033828435163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514309163266405418.post-35841125249706729832014-09-15T18:35:00.001-06:002014-09-15T18:35:01.163-06:00I Am Elder Johnson, Mixer of Cement<br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">This week was
pretty interesting. I was a "Pedreiro" which means "Brick
Layer." For those of you who don't know, all the houses down here
are constructed using red bricks. My life is filled with red bricks, all
I see everyday is red bricks. So there is this member who asked us last Sunday
if we could help him with a construction project at his house. He said
we'd "Bater um Laje." What in the world does that mean you
might ask? That means we were going to help the guy install his
brick/cement ceiling. Everyone told me that this task was something
really heavy and really exhausting and last Wednesday I figured out just how
heavy and just how tiring it really is. I got to mix a bunch of cement in
the road with a hoe and I also got to take all the cement I made and carry it
up to the second floor of this guy's house. Cement is heavy! Really
heavy! I swear, (figure of speech, missionaries don't swear), I must have
carried two tons of cement that day. Needless to say I was very dead for
the rest of the day. It was a good experience though.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Oh, it turns
out that one of our investigators is likely to be schizophrenic. Which
makes progression kind of a challenge.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">I also talked
with a lady this week who said she grew up in the "Sertão Brabo."
The "Sertão Brabo" means in the middle of the desert. She
told me where she grew up, they didn't have water or electricity and that they
had to go to another town to wash their clothes. She told me that the
town she grew up in is governed by a local Indian tribe and that they have
conflicts with some of the farmers who try and take their land. She said
that they'd have little wars and that the Indians would attack the farmers with
spears, bows and arrows. Mind you this was like ten years ago and people
still wage wars with spears. I thought it was worth noting. You
don't hear stories like that everyday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">ME: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> No, I'm from The USA.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">SOME GUY:
So what's it like in Italy?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">ME: I
told you, I’m not from Italy, I'm from the US.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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So did you leave your family behind in Italy?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">ME: No, I
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">SOME GUY: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> .....So how long was the flight
from Italy to Brazil?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">ME: (face
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">There's
literally no way of winning these kinds of discussions and they happen rather
frequently.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Well this next
week we should be having a baptism. Praying that everything goes well.
Love you all!!! Have a great week!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Só Batiza e
Edifica!!!!!! <i>(Only Baptize and Build!!!!)</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Hey
everybody!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">This week was
really great. We had our "Mission Tour" with Elder Marcos A.
Aidukaitis of the First Quorum of the Seventy. "Mission Tour"
is something that happens once a year where a member of the Seventy comes and
holds a meeting with all of the missionaries. He will talk about what we
need to do better and how to improve and what not. Mission Tour was pretty
cool. Elder Aidukaitis is super funny and was just cracking jokes the
whole time. He did call us to repent of our sins and disobedient behavior
and stuff. It was pretty cool. I learned a whole lot and we put
into practice the stuff he had taught and it sure helped out a lot.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">So we had a
miracle yesterday. Somebody came to church, alone, in the rain. Ladies
and Gentlemen this right here is a true miracle!!! I've never seen that
happen before in 20 months of serving a mission. Miracles are real
people!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">There's this
one member here. He's either absolutely crazy, or he might be a genius.
I'm not quite sure yet....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Last P Day we
got permission to leave our area and walk on the road that runs along the
beach. It was pretty cool. The beach here is absolutely beautiful.
Apparently the beaches here in the state of Alagoas were voted to be the
most beautiful beaches in all of Brazil. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">It's a shame I'll never get to
actually go to the beach or touch the sand, as a matter of fact. Anywho,
it was all really cool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We walked
for a bit, took some pictures, drank coconut water out of the coconut, and just
enjoyed life.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">So here's a
pretty interesting experience. This week we were called to give a
blessing to a woman not of our faith who was very sick. We went to go
give her a blessing and oh boy was she sick. Here is a list of her
ailments:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Swollen Heart<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">And at least
another four that she mentioned but I just can't recall right now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Obviously not
the healthiest person in the world. I'm pretty sure a combination of all
of this stuff is almost lethal. She said, however, that the worst problem
of all was that she was a little over weight. When she told us that she
just started sobbing. She told us about how she wants to be thinner and
look better. We gave her a blessing and afterwards she went outside the
house and started to talk to her mom and she just started crying again saying
how much she doesn't like herself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Imagine that.
She had so many health problems and the worst thing was, was that she
couldn't love herself. Talk about damage to the soul.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">I also talked
with a member down here who has some pretty severe social problems. He
has problems interacting with people and getting along with others. When
I spoke with him he just told me how everything was his fault and how nobody
loves him. I felt bad for those two people. I mean it's one thing
to be sick or have something else bad happen to you, but if you can't love
yourself or have other psychological problems, that must be real pain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">There's this
one Mormon message I really like called <a href="http://www.mormonchannel.org/video/mormon-messages/topics/adversity?v=2176618422001">"Mountains to Climb"</a> which
was based on a talk by Henry B. Eyring. He talks about our afflictions and how
the atonement heals us. That through the atonement we may become
acquainted with "A man of sorrows" (Isaiah 53:3). Life is rough,
but with the Savior it is possible as He said in DC 61:36:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“And now, verily I say unto you, and what I say unto one I
say unto all, be of good cheer, little children; for I am in your midst, and I have not forsaken you;”</i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Truly the Lord has not forsaken us so
be of good cheer!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Well that's it for now. I love
you all. Hope everything is well back home. Until next week!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rekehl Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02282357033828435163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514309163266405418.post-85796749072237601002014-09-02T16:03:00.003-06:002014-09-09T12:22:12.648-06:00Iápois<br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Hey
everyone!!!! How is it going!!!!! So mother, to respond to your
questions:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">I'm pretty
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Yea, I'm liking
my new area.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">I am keeping up
on the exercises.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">And yes, going
up and down stairs all day is a pretty great work out.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Things here in
the Jacintinho Ward (Jah-seen-cheen-nyo) are pretty great. I'll start off
with a pretty inspirational story.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">So this week we
were walking down the road. We had been having a hard time with finding
people who really wanted to hear the gospel. We were just struttin' down
the street, minding our own business, when we heard someone behind us say,
"Vocês são os Mormon né?" Why yes! We are the Mormons.
Turns out it was this lady who just moved to Maceió from Rio de Janeiro.
She had previously been investigating the church there until she moved
here. She had thought that the church didn't exist here in Maceió but lo
and behold it does. She started talking to us about how she wants to
become a member and how she wants to become a missionary. We taught her
about the Book of Mormon and we told her to pray about it and that we'd come
back the next day. We came back the next day and she had a dream.
I've never met someone who had a dream as an answer to a prayer, let
alone just after saying one prayer. So we've marked her baptism and my
companion and I are elated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">So there's this
one recent convert here in the ward, she's really cool. She's a
theater/art teacher at a local school and is also a professional actress.
She’s only been a member for like four months in the church and she's
already the Young Women's president. She has quite a few tattoos and is super
spiritual and smart. With our lessons with her, we just have super
philosophical and profoundly spiritual discussions. Elect people exist!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in the bottom of the Grota this week leaving a lesson with a less active when
we rounded the corner and found this party. It was a pretty big party,
but I feel that Nephi has the best description of how it was:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Some people take soccer way too
seriously. There's this one family we are teaching and the six-year-old
son is a fanatic for the Brazilian soccer team. He especially loves Davi
Luis and has his hair done as such. They were telling me that during the
game where Brazil lost 7-1 against Germany, Davi Luis got on the ground and
just started to cry. Apparently this was way too much for this little kid's eyes to witness and he
started freaking out. He freaked out so much that he started slamming his
head against a wooden table with so much strength that they had to take him to
the hospital so the doctors could reduce the swelling this poor kid had caused
to himself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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for now. Things are going well for now. I love you all and have a
great week!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">I didn't choose
the thug life, the thug life chose me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Well things are
pretty great here in the Hood. We had a pretty great week. It was a
lot of work with few results, but it's all good, there's always next week.
The ward wanted us to hunt down some less actives so they can clean out
the ward directory so we can know if these people really live there or not.
We didn't find a ton of people. We did however, manage to find one
less active!!! (This list had about 20 names on it). She was an old lady
and said she'd never heard of the church and that she's always been Catholic
and has never left the Catholic Church. We repeated the name on the list
back to her and we were confirmed that it really was her, which means:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">A. She
doesn't remember.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">B. She's
lying...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">I'm pretty sure
option B is the most likely.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">The stake held
a talent show this week. They did a pretty good job. We spent a lot
of time this week inviting people to come to the talent show but alas, no one
showed up. #ImNotCrying<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">There was
something pretty interesting that happened to us this week. We were
walking down the stairs into the Grota when about 15 soldiers from the National
Guard came running up the stairs. They all had M16's and seemed to be in
quite a hurry. One of the soldiers was running up the stairs when he saw
this guy just standing there. The soldier pointed his gun at the man and
told him to put his hands on his head. He insisted that he was cool and
that everything was chill, but the soldier wasn't going to believe any of that.
He ordered him again to put his hands on his head and then one of the
other soldiers, who happened to be a woman, pushed the guy against a wall and
he got a pat down. The guy seemed to have nothing on him so everyone just
decided to leave. I thought it was pretty cool. Apparently the
police were looking for someone. I love my area.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">So on a more
spiritual note, I was reading a talk from <a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2014/04/bear-up-their-burdens-with-ease?lang=eng">Elder David A. Bednar</a> this week that
I really liked that he gave last general conference. He said the following:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“There is no
physical pain, no spiritual wound, no anguish of soul or heartache, no
infirmity or weakness you or I ever confront in mortality that the Savior did
not experience first. In a moment
of weakness we may cry out, “No one knows what it is like. No one understands.” But the Son of God perfectly knows and
understands, for He has felt and borne our individual burdens. And because of His infinite and eternal
sacrifice (see Alma 34:14), He has perfect empathy and can extend to us His arm of
mercy. He can reach out, touch,
succor, heal, and strengthen us to be more than we could ever be and help us to
do that which we could never do relying only upon our own power. Indeed, His yoke is easy and His burden
is light.”</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Just goes to
show you that our Savior really went through everything that we went through.
He knows us perfectly and understands us better then we understand
ourselves. A lot of people just think that God wants to take away all of
our suffering and just put an end to everything. When really that was
never His intention, but that <i>He would
walk the path with us, and feel as we feel. </i> We can become better and
stronger because of our trials and become the person that God intends for us to
be. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Christ promised to share the
load with us, and not to just take it all away and make our lives easy and
comfortable.</i> It was never easy and comfortable for Him, why would it
be so different for us?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Well that's it
for now. I'll try to send pictures, but the computers here are being
dumb. Anyways, love you all and have a great week!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">I didn't choose
the mission life, the mission life chose me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">I really like
this video called "The Hope of God's Light."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rekehl Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02282357033828435163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514309163266405418.post-67899919762059934542014-08-20T15:07:00.003-06:002014-08-20T15:34:40.166-06:00Holy Ridiculous Amount of Grotas Batman!!!!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Well, here I am.
I've been officially transferred to the Jacintinho Ward in the Maceió
Pajuçara Stake. It's pretty cool here. Of all the areas that I've
passed through, this one is the one that makes me feel like I'm in a completely
different world. It's not the richest area in the world and everything
goes really quickly. There's lots of traffic, people in the streets, and
random people selling things on the side of the road.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Like this last
week. We were walking down the road and I was trying to pass by this
fruit stand on the side of the road. This was rather difficult because there
was a semi-truck going down a street, that was way to small for it, driving on
the wrong side of the road. So I was like sandwiched between a fruit
stand and this semi-truck just hauling down the road, there was only like two
inches of space between the truck, the fruit stand, and I, and it just squeezed
right on by like it was something completely normal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">There are also
a ton of Grotas here too. Our area is basically like a mountain. We live
on top of the mountain on the slopes going down to the valleys or the ocean is
just a ton of houses that people have just built there. There are a ton
of stairs going hither and thither, tight alleyways, ridiculously steep hills,
tons of music, partying, and very obscure entrances to houses. I've had a
Grota in one of my past areas, but that one was tiny, these ones are HUGE!!!!
I'm loving every minute of it. You feel like you're entering a
different world when you go in. You walk over a bunch of poorly made
bridges, and if you don't watch your step going down the stairs, you'd fall off
a cliff. Pretty neat if I do say so myself!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">My area is also
super close to the beach. If I get up on top of a house or something, I
can see the ocean. So just to let you know, this transfer will probably
have a lot of pictures of the beach and Grotas. My district is pretty
small too; it's just my companion and I, and one companionship of sisters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">My companion is
Elder Ortiz, from Lima Peru. He's trilingual, he can speak, Spanish,
Portuguese, and English all pretty well. He's super funny and super
excited. He also is pretty new on the mission; his other three companions
didn't train him so I'm going through the training with him rather quickly.
I like my companion, he's pretty cool.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Also, on my
last day with good ole' Elder Rutledge, we had a good time making pizza, we've
gotten rather good at it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">So yeah, I'm
liking the new area a lot. We're working with a lot of less actives and
recent converts to help them out with staying firm in the church.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">So I heard a
pretty ridiculous rumor the other day. Someone told us that they heard
that our church likes to take pictures of Jesus and stab it with knives.
I have to admit, that one was getting kind of ridiculous, I have no idea
where people are coming up with this kind of stuff.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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now, I'll try to send some pictures. I love you all and have a great
week. I'll be trying not to fall to death or get ran over by cars this
week. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> #OneStepAtATime <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>#PegaoRut<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rekehl Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02282357033828435163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514309163266405418.post-11050178414885597962014-08-11T19:34:00.002-06:002014-08-11T19:34:24.791-06:00O Capeta<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Hello there
family, friends, and strangers I've never met. How are you all? I'm
doing pretty great. I just got the news that I'm getting transferred.
I thought it was super weird that I was already getting transferred.
I've only been in this area for a transfer and they're already pulling me
out. Oh well, whatever the Lord wants right?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">So there were
some rather interesting things that I saw this week; the first one being a
singing garbage man. Here whenever the garbage is collected there are
like four guys running behind the garbage truck hurling bags of trash inside
the truck. One of the guys running behind the truck liked his job a
little too much and was singing opera music rather loudly. I don't know
whether to find it a rather odd sight, or to be impressed because he was actually
pretty good.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">The second interesting
thing happened during a lesson. We were teaching this lady inside her
house and I was sitting on a chair in front of the front door, looking out into
the street. The lesson was pretty normal until this lady, who was walking
down the middle of the street, stopped and looked at us. That lady was
creepy! She just stared at us for a good four minutes. I felt like
I was in a horror movie, she just looked irate and was distracting me from my
lesson. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>#oCapeta<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">So we're
helping this guy Daniel come back to church, his wife and four kids aren't
members, so we can reactivate him and baptize everybody in the family. We
brought Daniel to the church twice to play soccer with the other men, so he
could get integrated in the ward and make a few friends. While we were there,
a few of the neighborhood children came to visit the church. They just
waltzed right in and started playing around and talking with us. They
were all between the ages of 8-10 and they gave us some very good insight as to
what people think about us. Here's a rough outline of what they told us:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">"My cousin
says you guys are a cult!"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">"I heard
guys worship O Capeta°"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">"This one
soap opera that I watched said that cults plan on killing people."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">°Portuguese
side note: The phrase, "O Capeta" means "The Devil"
it's just kind of a super ghetto way of saying it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">But we did
manage to change their opinions though, luckily for us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">One thing I did
learn that day is that there might be some differences between Brazil and the USA.
Even in the church there are a few differences here and there, but there
is one thing that doesn't change.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Church ball.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Church ball may
be played as soccer down here, but the result is the same: profanity,
yelling, and much weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth. People get
freaking ticked with church sports and it doesn't matter where you're at in the
world. Even the referee was getting irate at everyone else too.
Some things just don't change.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">So this week
was my last division with Elder Rutledge. We got quite a few
investigators together, it seems that I always have the most success whenever
I'm working with him. After a long day of work, we were walking by this church
when we decided to enter and talk with the pastor. This church had just
finished building a replica of Solomon's Temple in São Paulo and we wanted to
know what it was all about. The pastor turned out to be pretty chill.
We talked with him for quite some time about religion and northeast
Brazil. He gave us some souvenirs and we ended up teaching him about The
Book of Mormon, so now I can say that I've taught a pastor on my mission.
He was really cool and offered to help us out with anything we needed.
He even wanted to take us to go visit other parts of Alagoas with him,
sadly though we had to decline.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Well I think
that's about it. You all now get to play the "Where in the world is
Elder Tanner Johnson" game. Whoever guesses which ward I'm going to
gets 10 Reais.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Feliz dia dos pais. Father's day is on a different date down here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rekehl Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02282357033828435163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514309163266405418.post-27286197447387360682014-08-05T12:42:00.003-06:002014-08-05T12:43:22.526-06:00Tis Blasphemy!!!!<br />
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Well, where to
start?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">This week was a
pretty normal week in most respects. It was just another seven days in Tabuleiro,
there were however, a few interesting things that did happen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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rather irritating fellow that I met the other day. We knocked on this
door and this guy came out. Let's just say he wasn't the most impressive
fellow in the world, starting off with the fact that he left half of his lunch
on his beard, probably trying to save it for later. We tried to contact
the guy, but he wasn't going to have any of that. He tried to convince us
that the name of god was Adonnai. He then told us that Mary's name wasn't
in fact Mary, but Madelena. He then denied the Christ right before my eyes and
told me that Jesus wasn't a savior and that he basically didn't do anything for
our salvation. Pretty rough words against the Savior if I do say so
myself. Such blasphemous speech will not be tolerated in these parts.
He really wasn't interested so we went on our way.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">This sister in
the ward gave us sandwiches for lunch the other day, which is a very blasphemous
thing to do down here. Here, it's beans and rice everyday, not because they
have no other choice, but because they absolutely love it. Don't get me
wrong, I love a nice plate of beans and rice, but after a while you need a
break. She decided that since half of us were Americans, she'd give us sandwich
making material. She dropped liked 75 Reais, and gave us a ton of food,
it was glorious and patriotic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">So one of our
investigators got his hands on an Anti-Mormon magazine the other day that some
church published. It was actually really pathetic. They said we didn't
believe in Christ as our Savior, that we worship other gods, and of course, my
personal favorite: that we believe that Jesus was a polygamist and that he
married both Martha and Mary, and really wanted to get married to Mary
Magdalene but that it didn't really work out. It also said that we hate
black people. Our investigator knew that it was just trash because he
lives right across the street from the bishop, who just happens to be black.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Fast and
Testimony meeting was intense this week; and in case if you were all wondering,
fast and testimony meeting can indeed, be intense. One of the young men
in our ward has yet to be baptized because his mom is kind of against the
church, she just happened to come to church today, and he bore testimony on how
the church has helped him and about the importance of family. She has
since changed her mind about the whole baptismal issue. There's this one
guy who has been coming to church for about a year and he brought his parents
with him. He got up front and started talking about the importance of
family and forgiveness. It was all very touching and he made his parents
cry. I was very pleased with the results of this Sunday.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">So it just goes
to show you that you never know what the power of a testimony can do.
Your own personal testimony can change the lives of people.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">I feel that
since I've gone on the mission, I'm starting to see the world different. I
don't really know how to explain it. It seems that just my priorities
have changed in life and I'm starting to see what's really important and what
it really means to live a successful life. I'm grateful for this
opportunity and I'm loving every minute of my time down here. Love you
all and have a great week.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elder Johnson's old companion Elder Coon came to drop off some of Tanner's things. <br />We couldn't resist having him take a photo with Flat Tanner, which he hates. :-)</td></tr>
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has come and gone in good ol' Maceió Brazil. Things are pretty much the
same as ever. Lots of walking around in the hot winter sun, crazy people
talking with me on the streets, and all sorts of good times.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">So we had a
lady come to church yesterday. She lives in a town called Coqueiro Seco,
which is about an hour outside of the city. We've been teaching her at her work
in our area and she came to church this week! She went an hour out of her
way to come to church and we didn't even think she'd come, so that's pretty
cool.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">This ward here
is great. It is definitely the most organized ward I've ever passed
through. People here are willing to help us and the bishop is awesome.
His focus is to get knew baptisms in the ward so I really can't complain
about it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">One thing that
is absolutely awful is when it rains. When it rains, everyone uses that
as an excuse to not come to church or do anything. Rain = Excuses.
It could rain just a few drops and people would say that they couldn't
come to church because of the rain. People could live across the street from
the church and they wouldn't come because of the rain. People could have
a car! and they still wouldn't come because of the rain. (That last
example was a bit of an exaggeration. I just wanted to let you know how
soul killing it is whenever it rains).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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bimonthly integration activity this last week. The members brought a few
people for us and Elder Rutledge and I gave a message on the atonement and then
we got to the games. I love playing the integration activity games just
because everyone gets super competitive. We did Pictionary this week and
it was a huge success. Next time's activity: Duck, Duck, Goose.
#BichoVaiPegar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Well it's
election time again. Well actually not, that's a lie, elections won't
start until October, but apparently that's no excuse for everyone to start
promoting themselves. Elections here are different.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone is required to vote, like,
it's against the law and everything. Also, the primary way of getting
your name out there is not by television ads, or other forms of media, it is
indeed, the good ol' fashioned Carro de Som. A "Carro de Som"
is a car that drives up and down the roads with a huge speaker on top of it. They
usually are used to advertise local stores and what not, but when election time
comes around, they double in number and they never stop. During election
time, they drive around playing a catchy little song, usually based on a
popular song that has been twisted to advertise the candidate. They drive
up and down the road all day, and if I have to deal with this until the end of
October I'm going to shoot myself in the foot. One's capability of
fulfilling public office is not based on past experience and work ethic, but is
indeed based upon who has the most Carros de Som and whoever has the catchiest
song.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">So we were
walking down the road the other day after leaving an appointment when we heard
a ruckus. It sounded like a very violent and loud ruckus so we went to go
check it out. Turns out it wasn't any acts of violence, but it still was
really loud, it turned out to be one of the popular local church chains having
a meeting, so we thought we stand outside for a bit and watch. Churches
down here are different than they are in the states. Here, churches that
aren't Catholic churches, are usually made out of a house that someone had
reformed to be a church. Anyone can basically grab a microphone, a bible,
open up the garage and call themselves a pastor. The church that we were
observing had lots of yelling and talking in strange tongues. They were actually
very nice to us though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They told
us we were welcome to come back anytime we wanted and that we could be counted
as one of their own. Very considerate if I do say so myself. They
did scream very loudly at us though telling us we needed to believe in Jesus
Christ. At least they were concerned for my own spiritual well being.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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basketball at the church the other day. That normally wouldn't be that
big of a missionary update, but is here in Brazil. I didn't do to bad if
I do say so myself. I scored a few points, which is pretty great for me
and my handicap for any kind of physical activity, so Go Elder Johnson!!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Anyways, that's
enough for now, hope you all are happy and reading you scriptures. All is
well in Tabuleiro and I'm loving my time down here. Love you all and have
a great week!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rekehl Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02282357033828435163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514309163266405418.post-15570808208918819532014-07-30T12:45:00.002-06:002014-07-30T12:45:41.915-06:00The Adventures of Ben and Dave<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">So this week I got to go on a
division with good ol Elder Rutledge! We went way to hard in the paint on
the division. We were able to find a new family to teach. It's this
guy who's been less active for quite some time and now he's decided it's time
for him to come back to church. He has 4 kids and a wife who aren't
members so we'll see what we can do with them. It's good to get the dream
team back together every once in a while.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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been working pretty hard this past week. It's been quite a bit of
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">So there's this one scripture that
every quotes down here which says. "Jesus disse: Faça sua
parte e eu te ajudarei." Which translates to, "Jesus
said: Do your part and I will help you." It's a pretty good
scripture, except for the fact that it doesn't exist. I have searched the
bible and I can assure you that said quoted scripture is none existent.
Nobody seems to have told that to a lot of the people down here. Many
people are thuroughly conviced that this is real scripture. Sadly enough
it's not.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Ever since we started a house
dinner/breakfast calender I've learned how to make some food under the
tuteladge of Elder Gross. He knows how to cook really well and he's
shared his secrets with me. As of now, I have learned how to make pizza
dough and coffee cake and they both turned out pretty well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">So yeah, I promise you that there
were other things that happened this week but unfortunately I forgot my paper
where I had everything written down, so everything will probably have to wait
for next week. Sorry about that. I promise I'll write you a big
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">For those of you who didn't know this past week was the last week of the soccer World Cup and let's just say it didn't end too well for the people down here. It's a rule that we can't be out on the streets during the game so all six of us were chilling in the house. The neighbors were blasting the Brazil vs. Germany game on their televisions so we could hear the whole thing. Brazil lost 7-1 to Germany and boy did we hear it. Every time Germany made a goal there were many cries of rage to be heard in the streets. Apparently losing the game 7-1 qualified to be "The Most Humiliating Loss in The History of Brazilian Soccer." People were outraged at Brazil's humiliating loss, that was all we heard about for the rest of the week. All of the comments on the road were such:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Needless to say, no one was very happy with the whole ordeal. After the game there was much weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth. There was also a severe lack of fireworks going off that night. I wasn't the most excited person for work the next day because everyone thinks we're German. It also doesn't help that my companion is basically half German and roots for Germany. We were protected though; nobody accused us of being German so all was well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">There were other things that happened this week besides the World Cup. We were able to work rather well this week with what little time we did have. It was a whole lot of contacting because we don't have a lot of members that live in our half of the ward. We did find a few people to teach and we ended each day exhausted. There were, however, some very interesting people we spoke with, so lets talk about them!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">We knocked on this one door looking for a recent convert that supposedly lived in the house. We knocked on the door and someone told us that this guy didn't live there because in this house, only women live there. There's just one thing though, this "woman" who answered the door, obviously wasn't a woman, but a man dressed up as woman. It would've been a little more convincing, if s(he) didn't have a little beard, a fake high voice, and the overall masculine appearance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">There was also this guy walking his dog we talked with this week on the road. We said hi to him as we were passing buy, when he said, "Who was Joseph Smith?" That obviously, was not a very good indicator of how the conversation would go down. He then told us that we were on the wrong path because Joseph Smith's name isn't in the bible, that we added to the bible, and the usual nonsense that people hear from the pastors. We told him that he had been wrongly informed that we had answers to his questions, but he really didn't want answers to his questions, he just wanted to be a tool. I told him that God personally showed me that this was the right path through divine revelation. He told me to tell him of a spiritual experience and I told him that Jesus taught us to not cast pearls of great price to swine and that I wouldn't tell him anything that was sacred to me. (Yeah I know it was a bit rough, but I was kind of ticked at him because he was being so ornery and mean.) In the end we told him we'd see him at the second coming and that was that. Ornery guy on the street 0, Mormon missionaries 1.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">This lady walks down the road selling Sururu (tiny mussels like oysters). She carries it on her head<br /> and strangely yells "oooOOOOOOoohhhh SURURU!!!" It's a very big distraction during study time.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Protected 24 hours by God</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">This lady said we were going to Jesus for lunch and I didn't understand what that was, lo and behold<br /> it was Guaraná Jesus, the famous soda from the Brazilian state of Maranhão. You can really only<br /> get it there and it tastes nothing like Guaraná, but more like bubblegum. It was good <br />though and probably the only time in my life that I'd be able to try it, so I was happy. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">We drank Jesus.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">The power went out so I took a picture of our candle.</td></tr>
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Rekehl Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02282357033828435163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514309163266405418.post-30494280271164275042014-07-07T18:33:00.003-06:002014-07-07T18:33:41.894-06:00Born In The USA<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">American nap.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Well it was
another week in paradise. Unfortunately my time with Elder Rutledge came
to an end this week. There was an emergency transfer and they had to move
some things around, so sadly Rutledge and I had to part ways and we got new
companions. It was all really sad, filled with much shedding of tears,
and sobbing. It's all good though.
He just moved over another house and down the stairs, so we basically
still live together, so it's all cool still. My new companion is Elder
Schmidt and no he isn't American. My companion is from Porto Alegre, a
city in the south of Brazil, and his dad is German. He's really cool and
we get along really well. So now there are 6 missionaries living together
and it's all just a great time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">So we
celebrated the 4th of July this week. Rutledge and I decided to celebrate
it by making a full on Brazilian lunch. We made, beans, rice, the whole
shebang! It actually turned out pretty good for two Americans who have no
idea how to cook like a Brazilian. I was pretty proud of our efforts.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">We then had to drive down to the bus station to pick up my companion, and
once we got him, we went over to the mission office to wait until Rutledge's companion
arrives. Mind you this was during the Brazil vs. Colombia game and Brazil
happened to make a goal while we were there. We were up on the fifth
story of this office building and we could hear the festivities taking place on
below. We could see the fireworks going off and everyone celebrated this
small victory that Brazil had won.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">We then headed
back to our area and it was all super weird. There was absolutely no one
on the streets. What normally would've taken almost an hour of traveling
only lasted about 15 minutes because we were basically the only car on the
whole road. The only people outside were gas station attendants.
They had propped a TV on a gas pump and they were watching the game too!
And they were getting rather into it too. When we got back home we
all ate hamburgers and had a very patriotic time. #Murica.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">The rest of the
week consisted of me getting lost in my area because I still don't know it all
yet. Things are going pretty well though down here. I'm pretty sure
that I saw a church other than ours this week that had a really big painting of
Joseph Smith on the inside, but I'm not quite sure though. If it is so,
then we just need to show up there and we will baptize like 40 people very
easily.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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car that went flying down the road this week and nailed this speed bump.
That was pretty interesting. Other than that it was pretty much just a
normal week, nothing too interesting happened. Hopefully things should be
going better this next week. All is well down here in Tabuleiro. Hope
you all enjoyed the 4th of July. You guys don't know how blessed you are
to be an American.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have a great
week. Tchau!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Rekehl Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02282357033828435163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514309163266405418.post-82445481340504835342014-06-30T16:23:00.000-06:002014-07-07T20:40:38.877-06:00The Greatest Transfer In The World<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Another
transfer has come and gone. I have now killed three companions and I'm on
to my fifth area, which is back in Maceió. I'm currently serving in a
ward called <a href="https://www.lds.org/maps/?lang=eng#ll=-9.610759,-35.753628&z=13&m=google.hybrid&q=tabuleiro%20Maceio%20alagoas%20brazil&find=ward:175978">Tabuleiro</a> and it's pretty cool up here. We're whitewashing
into the area, which is no real surprise to me because I've whitewashed into
every area that I've gone into. It is currently only my companion and I
in the ward. They usually have two companionships in this ward, but it's just us
for now. That does make it kind of difficult to open though because it's
like working in two areas at the same time. The house we live in is very
interesting though. It's actually four houses built right next to each
other that the mission has rented and all are used for the missionaries.
This means that basically, in what would be considered one house, there
can be up to eight missionaries living there. As of right now it's just
four missionaries in the house, us and the missionaries in another ward. </span></span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt;">The ward is
really cool though, the members are pretty chill and they want the ward to
grow. People here are really excited, like really excited. Here's
an example. So yesterday at church we were at Gospel Principles class and one
of our investigators didn't show up. The class went into a panic and everyone
said they'd come after church to visit our investigator with us. So after
church we walked with a band of about 8 members, who were making contacts for
us on the road, and we had a member present the lesson with about 8 members and 1
investigator. It was absolutely nuts! But I loved it though.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">We have
officially got a new mission presidency, Presidente and Sister Gomes. We
called Sister Gomes last night to welcome them to the mission, but other than
that we haven't really met them yet. We'll be having a meeting this next
week where we'll be meeting them. Judging off of our phone call, they
seem pretty cool.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">So there's this
guy our ward called Joel. He's a member and yet not at the same time, if
that makes any sense. He's been going to church for about 7 months now,
gives a ton of referrals, goes to every activity, is known by all the members,
calls himself a voluntary missionary, but until now hasn't had the desire to
be baptized. He tried explaining to us the reasons this last week, but it
didn't make any sense. We still love him and teach him though. The
guy has a ton of referrals and he likes taking us to go teach people. He
looks a lot like Grandpa Johnson. The guy says some pretty interesting
things though, so I think I'll start a segment in my emails called "Things
Joel said this week."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">1. This
church here is really tasty.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">2. I like
this church, here you can speak your mind and people will let you. In
other churches, when I try to speak my mind, they try to chop my head off.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">At least we're
a very accepting church.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">This week also
marked the end of Festas Juninas. It ended with the last saint dedicated
holiday, São Pedro, and it was filled with a lot of random street fires and
fireworks.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">This week was
also the Brazil vs. Chile World Cup game and man people got really into it. It's a
rule here that we can't leave the house during the game because it would be way too dangerous for us to go outside. So we sat inside and waited out the game.</span></span><br />
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Making pizza during the Brazil World Cup game.</div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt;">We definitely knew when Brazil scored a goal though. The world
would fall into absolute chaos and start throwing fireworks and screaming.
The game went into over time and everyone just got super tense, but when
Brazil won... wow.... I didn't know humanity was capable of such a party.
Everyone went nuts! Absolutely bonkers. I took a video of the party
they were having in the road afterwards and all you can hear is explosions and
sirens. People started dancing in the streets with music and a load of
alcohol soon followed behind. People saw us up on our balcony and
beckoned for us to come down and party with them. It was a tempting
offer, but I don't think a Brazilian after party would have been the best
environment to teach the gospel. The celebration continued through out
the whole day, so nevertheless, nothing really got done because of it.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The view outside our house.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">This week I
will have my sister missionary day, that's the day my mission would've ended if
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about it for now. We've got some big plans this week and things should be
interesting. Oh and my new companion. Let's just say he's my
favorite companion until now, I'll send a picture.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>
<w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>
<w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/>
<w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>
<w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent>
<w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>
<w:Compatibility>
<w:BreakWrappedTables/>
<w:DontGrowAutofit/>
<w:DontAutofitConstrainedTables/>
<w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/>
</w:Compatibility>
</w:WordDocument>
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="276">
</w:LatentStyles>
</xml><![endif]-->
<!--[if gte mso 10]>
<style>
/* Style Definitions */
table.MsoNormalTable
{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";
mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;
mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;
mso-style-noshow:yes;
mso-style-parent:"";
mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;
mso-para-margin:0in;
mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;}
</style>
<![endif]-->
<!--StartFragment-->
<!--EndFragment--><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
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