November 11, 2008 to Family

hello family!
this is a letter from your son that is in maylasia...haha. thats pretty funny sounding still. sounds like for the most part you all are doing well! except the bathroom roof incedent. its funny it took me a few seconds to think of the word roof, first wrod that came to mind was atap haha. Im sure dad can take care of that stuff no problem. there isnt much he cant do with construction and what not.o ya! i ment to say happy birthday to megan in my last letter, but happy birthday megan! thank you for the letter and the updates on life and all the adventures with Lily!so you emailed good old president skelton hu? he really is a neat fellow. I hear around zone meeting is when you really start to appreciate him for what he has to teach. Word is he is a very powerful teacher. this last week was totally and completely fun and awesome! yes we had the baptism of asanka the sri lankan man and it went very well! i wanted to send some pictures but elder kartchners plug thing doesnt work for my camera :( but anyways the baptism was very spiritual and the spirit testified to me while the baptism was happening that this is truely what we must do to enter into the kingdom of God. It was very powerful.

Other than that this last week was very hard work, and we didnt get the best results but we worked hard. This week is already shaping up to be much better. All of our meetings with investigators have been powerful this week and its so rewarding. I'd just like to say that, if i havent already, which i think i have, people from nepale are soooo cool. I just love meeting with them. There are alot of them here for work and they are all so kind and humble. I have been picking up a little nepale from some members so i can just start conversations with them. this country is so diverse and I love it!thats good news about prob 8! i heard from all the africans that oboma won, ya? they all ask us what we think about a black man ruling the world. its pretty funny. we tell them its awesome but we dont know anything about politics (which we dont) and the subject changes haha. its very interesting how some of the africans we talk to honestly think that they can now go to america without a passport or anything. They're in for a surprise haha.About the nativity scence mom.

This country is primarily muslim and christians are very scarce so it may be hard to find but i will keep my eyes open. And in answer to shannons question, right when i got here hari deepavali was going on. which is an indian holiday, i think it has to do with the hindu god which made for alot of fireworks and good food haha. i just missed hari raya which is a muslim holiday, but im sure there will be many more.well theres not much i need. but my toothbrush doesnt charge anymore so i will be needing to get a new one if they have them here. I will keep ya posted. But i will check here for one first. YA if you have questions for me put them in like 1,2,3...format so i can remember them better. that has seemed to work in the past. thank you dad for your letter I wish i had time to comment on them all but i have to go. but i just wanted to share how a woman in my branch named ima from indonesia called me last night and had a question about the plan of salvation. she doesn't speak any english so i had the opportunity to help her understand about her mother who is not a member, whom just passed away. i got to tell her more about the plan of salvation in detail.

And i know that earlier i said how it was a little dissapointing how i dont speak malay very much here, but if i didnt know malay, i would have never been able to help her. I guess what im trying to say is, that god knows all things. and im sure she could have found her answer elsewhere, but i had the opportunity to help her in her native language.i feel so blessed. missionary work is truely amazing.sorry if that didnt make sense but i have to go!
love you all so much!

elder johnson