May 31, 2015
Transfers still haven't
been conformed but from what I heard it looks like I will be leaving Tarawa. If
everything stays the same I’m probably going on an adventure to get to my new
area. I’ve taken a lot of pictures this week There was a cultural night for the stake and our Branch won all of the dances
and took first overall.
May 24, 2015
So,
funny story of the week; a lot of people ask what Utah looks like. The things
that they can’t comprehend are: mountains (they can't think of things bigger
then coconut trees) and not being able to see the ocean. The funniest thing is
that I too am starting to forget what mountains looked like. haha!
Elder
Scott Johnson
April 26, 2015
Well
I will let you know what I usually do for our schedule. We sleep in ‘til around
2 then when we are hungry we go to the restraint down the road. haha… That's a
total joke don't believe a word of it! We wake up at 6.30, we usually don't
have time for studies because we are either going to service or going to our
lessons that we start at 11:00am. We usually don't get home until 9:30 or 10ish
just because of how many lessons we have. Right know we are teaching a lot of
resent converts. One of them wasn't happy
to take the lessons. Her mom was forcing he to take them. She saw us as enemies
at first, so we tried just being friends and asked her to try looking in the Book
of Mormon and praying. As soon as the Gospel was something she wanted, she
asked to be baptized.
Elder
Scott Johnson
April 12, 2015
Mauri,
Well
last week was Easter and this week was General Conference so I will make up for
lost time.
First
off I would like to talk on our awesome Easter. Our branch wanted to do Easter
like America, so I help with a lot of the planning. In the end I believe we are
the first to ever hold an Easter Egg hunt on Kiribati. Each family got an egg
for the family, and the branch made the difference. We painted the eggs with
dry erase marker. Then had kids, YSA, them adults look for eggs. We also had
ice cream which almost made me cry tears of joy!
General
Conference also went really well. It was a hard week of teaching and it felt
good to be taught instead of doing the teaching. Elder Oaks gave a great talk
on seeing the hand of God in our live. Since then I’ve prayed for that and it’s
changed my view a lot.
Favorite
Conference Talks: Elder Dallin H. Oaks, Elder Ringwood, Elder Ballard (priesthood
session), Elder Holland, and Elder Uchtdorf (on Grace). But this was a really
good one. I was able to listen to all of
Saturday. They spoke mainly to families. I would encourage everyone to listen
to those talks again.
Well
I love you all tons and hope you have great weeks. In other news I am tan. All
you that can’t believe it, here is a picture.
Love
you all tons and hope you have great weeks.
Elder
Johnson
March 29, 2015
From what I heard, we will hear General Conference
after its translated in to Kiribati (the week after conference). I am so happy
that I get to hear it. I'm excited for Easter though. I helped to plan the
Branch activity. They want to be the first to have an actual egg hunt! We will
see how it all turns out.
Love,
Elder
Johnson
March 22, 2015
Mauri,
I'm
glad to hear spring finally has come to all of you in the states. I was still
thinking it was summer. Everything is going well in the sunny islands of
Kiribati. We got 34 lessons this week and biked the distance of the Tour de France
(that’s not true but we biked a lot.). We also got a baptism in Bikinibeu, and
we have another planned for this coming week. I've found in the mission that
the week you work the hardest are the best, and the weeks you don't are the
worst. Nothing to exciting happened this week. My companion is starting to
teach me Fijian so we can have a kind of Kiribiti/Fijian code talk that no one
else knows.
Well
love you all. Sorry for not writing much.
Love,
Elder
Scott Johnson
The food is a little different. Aranuka was an outer island so
they didn't use money a lot. They went and got fish out of the ocean or they
would get coconuts or pumpkins or what ever else they could grow. Here we get a
lot of bagged chicken from Australia or fish from deep sea fishing vessels.
Elder
Scott Johnson
March 15, 2015
Kam
ni beni ni mauri,
This
has been a crazy week transfers have started and that means thing are getting
crazy. Vula and I are working 3 Area's because right know there's no one in the
areas. We are working Temwaiku, Abetoa, and Bekinebue 1st Ward. We have lot of
people to teach and little time to do it. We leave around 10 every morning and
come home around 9pm every night, but it’s far worth the work. I've had some
great experiences this week and we have some great investigator, two of which
we hope will get baptized this week.
It’s
been cloudy all week and raining on and off. Last Monday a huge storm rolled
in. Rain was getting blown side ways, but we still played an intense game of
soccer.
One
cool story this week, we were teaching Nei Tautai about baptism. In the lesson
she ask, "What about those that are dead?" We were amazed that someone
would wonder about that. We explained about Temple work, and she seemed really
excited about it. We are still early in the lessons but she is so excited to
get baptized.
Well
I hope everything is going good for all y'all.
The
Church is true!
Elder
Scott Johnson
Feb.
22, 2015
Maui,
Sorry
for writing for so long, but all I will say about my last area is that I’m a
grad and I moved. I am now working in Temwaiku. My companion is Elder
Nagonevulavula. He is from Fiji and one of the hardest working elder I have had
the opportunity of meeting.
The
area is really nice too. It’s close to the airport so it’s good to hear
airplanes again. Some crazy thing happened this week. The highest tide of the
year was one of them. After seeing that, I believe this island is sinking. Roads
flooded, sea wall destroyed, and trees washed away; that was a crazy day!
Then
we had Zone Conference. The mission president made an announcement. Meet the Mormons
would be shown in Kiribati and the missionaries where first to see it. It was a
great video and I feel it can do a lot for missionary work here. Well that’s
it. Love all of you and hope your days are well. Until the next time l write.
Love,
Elder
Scott Johnson
Maui,
I would kill to run through some ice cold water.
Transfers
just went down and I am now working in Temwaiku (te.my.kue). My companion is
Nagonevulavula from Fiji. He is one of the hardest working missionaries I have
had the chance to meet and I feel so blessed to work with him. I haven't gone a
single lesson without feeling the spirit. We are also working an outie at the
same time. We work there once a week and works is little slow out there.
Elder
Scott Johnson
