Semana 32

 ¡Hola a todos!


Week one in the new area! I'm now serving in the capital city of the Formosa Province, and it's been a blast so far! 

Highlights:
  • Parted ways with Elder Yetter on Tuesday morning at 2:00 am after getting stranded in Posadas without a place to stay for about the 9th time
  • After surviving the night on the streets of Posadas I headed to Resistencia to pick up my new companion, Elder Smith! He's from St. George, Utah. He's picking up Spanish pretty quickly which is great, as I have 0 desire to speak English
  • Formosa kind of reminds me a little of Las Vegas; it's a big, desert city with a giant road down the middle that takes much longer to walk than you might think. But where Las Vegas has The Strip, our giant road is called "La Gutnisky"
  • I have flooded the new apartment twice
  • In Formosa there's about 5 different Bakery chains that all claim to have "El Buen Pan" which essentially means "THE good bread". The goal is to find out which one really has El Buen Pan by the time I leave
  • Opening a new area is super fun, the only issue is that we don't have many people to teach. So this week we worked a ton scouring the list of 1,300 members in the ward to visit every person we could find
  • Had a lesson this week with a dude named Nicolino, and at the end of the lesson he said "come with me so I can show you my eel collection". Naturally we followed him into his house and sure enough he pulled out a bowl full of eels
  • Had an awesome lesson in Elder's Quorum on Sunday where the teacher gave a lesson on how receiving Personal Revelation is like building an Ender Portal in Minecraft
Shoutout to everyone who sent me an email this week! Make sure to let me know how you're doing! Thanks as always!

Cuernos Abajo,

Elder Johnson

1. Bienvenidos a Formosa
2. The Local Elders feat. Elder Smith
3. City sunset
4. Formosa is like Superflat mode in Minecraft which is a nice change from the constant hills in Misiones
5. City part.2
6. Casapan (Seguro que si tiene un buen pan)
7. Eel Collection🙃






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