Zachary Justus Johnson

I am finally getting around to writing about what has been happening to me the past couple of weeks. It's been nonstop since my birthday.  The night before my birthday Elder Cartwright and I were walking home for one of the last times. We had both received the news that we were going to be transferred and that some Hermanas were going to be "pink washing" the area. "White washing" is when they call 2 new Elders to go into a new area without any introduction. It's called a "pink wash" if it's Hermanas because pink is for girls or something. I don't really know. So, we had a ton of stuff to do when we got home, including calling one of the sisters who was going to be coming in. It's kind of nice to get the run down so you are not completely stranded. We had to do that and then start cleaning our apartment because President told us it had to look like the Celestial Kingdom before we left. Just as we sat down, we got a call from the Zone Le...

  I like looking back in my journal. When I am tired, I often express really random feelings in my life. Also, my handwriting is horrible. I wrote on Sunday March 21, "I am really hungry right now, representing my hunger for game (mission)." There's a quote from Spencer W. Kimball while he was referring to keeping a personal journal that says "angels may quote from it one day." I wonder which angel is going to quote my random thought. The past 3 weeks have seemed more like a couple of days because of everything that has happened. The first thing I guess I will cover is Holy Week. Holy Week or Semana Santa is the week leading up to Easter. The Covid cases in Paraguay recently skyrocketed and due to some problems of civil unrest, the government decided to put a curfew out. It slowed some things down but nobody really followed the 8:00 pm curfew, so they decided to shut the country down for Semana Santa. It was pretty dead on the street. About as dead as a Sunday m...