Elder Cache Troy Johnson

  To start off, we had a good hard working day Tuesday. We got home and as we were about to go to bed we saw an announcement from a member on their WhatsApp story about a tsunami. We sent it to the APs and they confirmed it. The APs told us that our whole zone had to go to the stake center so that we could evacuate to Guayaquil on a bus (we are the zone on the beach)  We got that call at 11 a clock at night and there were some missionaries that wouldn't answer our calls so we had to wake the bishop up (we live above him) and drive 15 minutes to Salinas to wake up the elders and evacuate them. We also had to go a sister's house and wake them up.  We all got to the stake center at 12 aclock at night and we left in the bus and got to Guayaquil at 2:30 in the morning. President let us sleep in until 9:30 that morning 😁 Good news is, that the tsunami didn't hurt anybody because the waves were only a meter high. President told us that he would rather laugh about this experienc...

  Gooood morning a todos  First off, our ward had another white night where 4 people got baptized and 1 of them was our friend Antonio!!  🥳 It was a super special day. It was probably the last baptism of my mission too. This past week was my last week of straight work without any conferences, interviews, travels, nothing. That being said, my comp and I wanted to achieve all of our goals this week but focused a lot on getting 40 visits with members. I can happily say, that with God's help and our work efforts we accomplished that Goal.  This week I did get a little discouraged at times, and I was a little down when we couldn't complete the goal we put for new people at church.  This thought reminded me of a call we had this past week with the mission leaders and President Taylor. In this reunion our mission president asked us if we were bad missionaries if we didn't bring people to church. He asked us if we were not fulfilling our missionary purpose if the peopl...