The devil threw up on the Island...

Hey,

Transfers came and went and we will be together for at least 6 more weeks. Elder Tiebing was a little disappointed at first, but now we're both really excited for this transfer. It's crazy, this means he'llspend 1/4 of his mission in his first area. It's very possible now that I could be here that long too. Our district was kind of torn apart though. We are the only ones that stayed together. Elder Hamilton that flew down here with me is gone. He will be my new zone leader so he's in Las palmas, another island. The rest went to Madrid. I will now be the oldest in our district as far as time in the mission goes. The new guys coming in are all from my mtc group. It's going to be a ton of fun. Oh yeah, there was some sad news. Zamora looks like it's closed now. Idk how long it will be closed for, but there aren't missionaries there rihht now.

The devil threw up on this island this week. Carnaval is the worst thing I have ever seen in my life. We have tried to work like normal but Saturday the entire district was stuck in piso by 1 o'clock. We spent the rest of the day there and now we have a curfew this week. We have to be in piso by 8 everynight. There is no dress code, it is legal to wear whatever you want, including nothing. We tried to go grocery shopping today in Puerto and had to go somewhere else because the parties are just crazy. There are constantly party buses and floats driving around blasting music. I'll put some pictures in the drive.

So elder Tiebing was certain he would leave, so we had some amazing goodbye lessons this last week. Some of them really helped us with some investigators and we had an amazing lesson with Jonathan, but this week will be awkward when we show up and he's still here. I personally can't wait because I told him not to do it, so it won't be awkward for me.

The weather has been really nice. It's the first time since I've been here that I've really seen the sun. But it was 75° the other day and I loved it. I added some more pictures of loro parque (with my face). That was such a fun pday. We're talking about doing monkey park at the end of this transfer. I guess it's only like 5 euros because a member can get us a discount. I was in charge of planning loro parque last week. So I bought the tickets, food, transportation, everything. At one point I had over 400 euros. I don't really want to do that again, it was a mess. Afterwards we went to a black sand beach that's in our area. We were allowed to do it because there isn't sunbathing so that was nice. I grabbed some sand and seashells for the piso and we took a few pictures.

I love that talk from Elder Uchtdorf. We listened to it a few times in the car before I left Zamora. I think we're going to have a general authority coming to the mission soon but I'll miss it since I'm in the islands. Go figure, I'm always in the middle of nowhere. I'm thinking they will announce something soon for the mission realignment but I haven't heard anything yet. I can't wait to know.

Also, everyone is always asking if I write in my journal. I just thought that I would mention something. I do write still, but for the last 2 months I have been writing in Spanish. I changed everything to Spanish so I could learn faster. Like my tablet, journal, music, even some emails. It's pretty cool. Just don't plan on being able to read anything.

Love you guys,

Elder Johnson