He uses the foolish, weak and the lowly

Man, Peru has been a blast from getting to love on the workers to loving on kids the Lord used us in big ways! The first two days were pretty hardcore! We got to move huge piles grass to a field so they can have a soccer/sports field. We used wheelbarrels and arms to move the piles of grass. We definitely got a work out. This was apretty great task and taught me alot! The Lord definitely was teaching me to work for Him and not for man! My pride and competitive nature was wanting to carry more than others, worker faster, and do a better job! Yes, that is good and all, but my motives for doing that were completely wrong! I was doing it for myself rather than serving for the Lord Colossians 3, 23 Sorry not sure how to put the colon for this

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men.

After those first two days, on Saturday we went to a plaza and played with kids. We played camp games like 3,6,9 hey, hi-yah, and look-up look-down. We played with them for about 2 hours or so then shared the Gospel with them. This day was one of my favorites at camp for sure! We just got to be relational and love on some people! The Lord is so good! We need to make the most of the opportunities given to show Jesus to others.

Our accomodations were pretty good! We slept in cabins the first couple nights and then slept in our tents the last 3! We had running watering, but the water smelled like fish and was quite yellow! Nonetheless we were able to shower and for that I am grateful! Peru made me appreciate warm showers, foods beside chicken and rice, and being able to speak the same language!
In Peru the counselors called me Chuck Norris!! I do not believe they know my real name , but everyone knew who Chuck Norris was and who they were referring to! One night we went into town and someone spotted a photo of him, so that is where this picture came from. The kids loved the picture and were even more convinced I was his look alike! This was a great memory!

The Lord has been challenging me that He uses the weak, foolish and lowly to do His work so we can't take pride in our own work! He uses his power to accomplish His will through the weak, foolish and lowly! He has really challenged me with my motives, and taking the glory rather than pointing the glory to God! Man, we serve an amazing God who choses us to do His will. We are blessed to get to be apart of his will!

1 Corinthians 1, 27-29
But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. 28He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, 29so that no one may boast before him.

WOW!!!!! The thought of 47 days coming to an end and the adventure closing is baffeling! The Lord has shown me so much and I hope and pray He will continue to show me after the trip has completed!

Thank you all so much for the continued support of these past days! I appreciate your encouragement a great deal and following along with the journey God allowed me to go on! You all are a blessing. Thanks so much for the prayers and I am excited to share with you when I get back to the states. May God bless you in mighty ways!

For His glory and your joy,
Levi Johnston

Bom dia

The Brasil Flag

The Lord worked here in mighty ways. The first night we got to tell about what the Lord is doing around the world in China, India, and Uganda. We hopefully opened the eyes to the mission field not only around the world, but also in their community. We talked about the great commission in Matthew.





The next day, we spent the morning passing out flyers and inviting people to a big event with skits, music and a speaker. The opportunity was great to set a foundation for Christ in this city because Sorriso (where we are in Brasil) is only 23 years old. It is relatively young for a city and the opportunity for Christianity to grow is big. The pastors and people we worked with were excited about what the Lord was doing in their city.

This is where the Big event was held.

Sarah Rinn got to co-star on Brasil television with Ellen Ximena. That was pretty cool.


That was a random side note.

We have been privileged enough to talk to two youth groups about what we have done and encourage them to be missionary in their schools, community, and if feeling lead around the world! It is pretty great to get to pour into students in other countries and love on them.

The Ximena Family

We are getting to stay with Ellen Ximena and her family! This has been a great opportunity to get to see her in her element. She is great. Her family is fantastic and firm believers and a great example of a family founded on Christ. They show love, servanthood, and hospitality indeed. They have been a great encouragement and have taken care of us as a few of us have felt under the weather a bit, but are recovering. As the trip moves on the more tired we get to please pray for continued health.





The Lord has definitely taught me to be a leader for Christ in everyday life. He has also taught me to be consciounses about everything I do in word and deed. Psalm 19:14 [May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.] The Lord is good and He is continuing to give me a peace and comfort in times of need.

Rehab Center

Another opportunity we had was to go to a drug rehab center where the men there were free to go at anytime, but made the choice to clean up their life through Jesus Christ. The rehab center was a place where Jesus Christ and His power is proclaimed. This was really encouraging that the guys were turning to the Lord for satisfaction and not wordly things anymore. They were looking to be filled with the Living water. I was given the privilege of leading a devotion that morning with them and the Lord put 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 on my heart to share with them. [But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.]

Ellen and I

If you are a vegetarian Brasil is not a destination for you to travel to. They eat meat for every meal! I have been craving some meat and the Lord definitely provided in might ways. Today we went to a Brasilian steak house wear they just bring out meat after meat after meat. It is great! The food is pretty great here.





I can´t wait to tell you guys more stories when I get home! I am so blessed to have you all praying for the team and me back home! Thank you so much!





For His glory and your joy,


Levi Johnston

Pictures from Uganda

The Bible boys

Beatrice my friend from Lulwanda

Paul my brother from another mother

The Uganda gang!



Yusuf in his Oklahoma shirt








The children´s home we worked with meaning the Rock



What a church in Uganda looks like



Sunset in Uganda

The turkey incident with Kim

Lulwanda aka The Rock

Romans 1:12



I am not sure how to start this, but the Lord is good! He has definately given us alot of time to do manual labor and get to know the people whom we are staying with. We painted two buildings and swept off a basketball court. We painted lines and had alot of fun bonding and getting to goof off.

There is a 16 year old boy who has blown me away how he is allowing the Lord to use him and the depth of his knowledge. He is amazing the questions he has.

Another thing that I have been encouraged about is the heart for the Uganda people. They love their people and want to reach their own people for Christ. It blows me away. There are 3 Bible students I have become very close with and they have encouraged me. The Lord has used them in mighty ways.
Romans 1:12
that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith.

I am sorry this is so short, but we only have 30 minutes on the computer. We are doing fine and the Lord is definitely teaching us and working through us here. He is amazing and the one thing He is probably to teach me the most through here is. "Iron sharpens iron as one man sharpens another." Proverbs 27:17

I love you guys,

For His glory and your joy,
Levi Johnston

I am an Uncle!!

Let me explain the title!!! I am an uncle to about 40 or so orphan kiddos that blew me away this week. I heard "Levi Uncle, Levi Uncle" non-stop for a week! These kids have very little to our standards in world, but to these kids are so joyful with what they have. They amaze me with there wants. They want a Bible in English not Hindi, just a little something to remind them of your friendship, but what they really want is to be loved.

That is what the Lord sent our team to do and love on them did we ever. I was taught so much about love through these kids it us unreal. It is hard to put into words how they taught me but I will try. In the states if you told me a kiddo has lice I would leave them alone because I wouldn't want to get. If I would have looked at these kids through my eyes I would have missed an amazing opportunity to share the love and joy of Christ. The Lord allowed me to see these children of God through His eyes and it completely changed my perspective. The Lord taught me unconditional love by this. It never failed that at every meal time, the little girls would ask us to eat their food. They didn't receive much food during the day so this was a huge sacrifice. We didn't eat it, but I tried bits and pieces here and there. It was decent.

These kids also taught me to be joyful with what you have! These kids wore the same clothes for 2 or 3 maybe even 4 days at a time. They don't have the Wii (but had a random controller for some reason) or PlayStation. They didn't have basketball that were aired up (Inez/Chris just a shout out), but these were so grateful for what they had! The joy would beam from their faces constantly and it was because they put their faith in the Lord and knew He would protect them in everything. They trusted He would provide like when we didn't have any water for 2 and 1/2 days. You think they would be panicking nope that was just the Americans there (us). They simply ask for the Lord to provide and did He provide in a mighty way! It rained harder than I have ever seen before! It filled up the well and they even had water out of the tap for a few hours! It was like Christmas for them. This experience from the Lord providing increased my faith.

Some of these kids are here by choice and some are not. One kiddo was telling me his testimony and his parent beat him because he became a Christian. Instead of having hate and malice for his family for that he just asked me to prayer for them to become believers. He at the age of 13 is so firm with his foundation in Christ it blows me away! Another boy came because he wanted to be educated unlike any of his other family members. He hasn't heard from his family except for once to tell him his step-mother passed away in 5 years. He dad would not feed him if he did not worship the idol in the Hindu religion! He is firm in his faith as well at the age of 17. He wants to be an evangelist or a professional soccer player in the States.



Here in India there are several sweet memories and experiences here, but there is a funny one I can share. There is a lady I called "Amma Momma" because she was like the motherly one at the orphanage! I would go and talk to her with her big smile on her face and ask her how she was doing and she would reply "How are you doing" I would answer with "good" and she would reply "good" I then would say things like "Good Morning" and she would respond "Good Morning" I asked her "are you just repeating me?" and she said, "are you just repeating?" so i figure out she was just repeating whatever I was saying and it cracked me up! I would then just start saying random sentences and she would try to repeat them. It was quite funny. She is an amazing lady and has a huge passion for these kids.



Another funny story is after a prayer time we came out and a lab dog had a red mark down the its forehead. It was funny to see a dog like that!



We got to sight see around the Taj Mahal today and it is pretty impressive. Everything is symmetrical except the tombs on the inside. It took 22 years to build it and cost 3 million rubies back in the day. As we were leaving Ronnie Turiaf from the Lakers and Kyle Korver from the Jazz was walking into the Taj Mahal. That was pretty random to see some NBA players.

This experience was great and definitely changing. The Lord is good and He is showing me that in new ways. He is the Ultimate Provider and in Him we need to give thanks.

For His glory and your joy,

Levi Uncle
1 Corinthians 13:13
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

But God

Although the first adventure has come and gone the experiences and lessons I have learned will leave a last impression on me. First, we arrived here on Tuesday and got situated where we would be staying in China. It is place nothing out of the ordinary you would see at home. The next day we went through a debriefing process with the people or friends we worked with. They told us the huge need for Bibles in China and it was amazing to see their passion for this ministry.

Here in China you can't buy Bibles in bookstores but you can buy Max Lucado stuff

50 million New Testament Bibles have been printed in the past 30 years

There are 1.4 billion people living in China currently

Churches get raided here by the government and the Bibles previously printed are burned

Ten's of millions Christians need Bibles

You have to be registered to have a church, to print Bibles, just about anything.

I hope that gives you an idea of what needs the Christians in China need is for the Bible.

Now, we got to help bring Bibles to China by going through customs and sometimes the Lord wanted us to take one Bible in after being detained by the Chinese customs and sometimes the Lord wanted us to bring several in through backpacks and suitcases. The opportunity to bring the Bibles into China was not mentally taxing, but physically, it was taxing carrying several pounds on your back. Satan could try to attack us by saying this opportunity is boring, easy, but while debriefing someone said a quote that convicted me but impacted me as well.

*Finding the Lord in the routine will grow a deeper relationship than with special events or experiences*

This was great to hear because sometimes I feel like I need something to jump start my walk again to get out of a rut, but this quote was true. I like it because it gets our focus off of us and on Christ. Something that I have learned from working at camp the past few years is that being Christ-centered is so much better than being self-centered. Our life is not about what we did or what we accomplished, but about what God did through us being a willing instrument for His Kingdom. Another quote that someone said was, "*But God."*

After being detained a couple times the group was talking about if we wore hats or changed our hair color then we might be able to get across because they would not be able to recognize us. That is when they said BUT GOD which she was implying that takes away the idea of letting God orchestrate His will and us feeling like that if we changed our hair or wore a hat that we had something to do with getting through. That would not be the case.

The Lord allowed myself to get through to China three times and every time there was a big diversion when I went through whether it was other people getting stopped by the customs or the last time we went threw a guy had a gun who they pulled over and all the customs were focused on him. Praise the Lord these custom officials are there to protect. We cannot look at them as enemies for doing there job, but just ask the Lord to give them blind eyes because we are not trying to harm them but help the Christians who need Bibles.

The first time I was detained, I ran into 3 other people who got caught doing the same thing, bringing Bibles into China, which was really encouraging to me and the others on the team knowing there were several people living a life of servant hood for the Lord.

When we get detained we are perfectly fine because all they do is take the Bibles and give us one for our personal use ( like we can read Mongolian Chinese right?) but it is one more Bible into China that was not there before. After they take our Bibles we have to go back to a place where they are holding our Bibles and pay to get them back. The amount in which you pay is determined by the weight of Bibles you brought to China. Everything is fine when you get caught except for having to carry them back. That is the least we could do and just try again later.
We have one more day of Bible couriering and then off to India Tuesday morning.

We had a day off to sight see and check out the culture so we decided to go around China and check out where we had been living. We went to a place called Splendid China because it brought all the Chinese cultures into this amusement park. The great wall of China was there and buddhist temples. They were much smaller and the replicas were the scale of 1:12. It was amazing to see the Lord provide people who could speak English to us because we had no idea where to go and we found it perfect. The Lord provided us with guidance and direction. pretty much the whole day.

I will leave you with one story from our adventure.

One funny story from yesterday was that when we tried to eat was the only time we couldn't find anyone who spoke English. So we finally found a place that had food and we walked up and they handed us menus which of course was all in Chinese. We asked if they had one with both English and Chinese because most places do here. They just laughed and shook there heads. Well a guy came out of the back of the kitchen and said, "Tomato and egg, Tomato and egg." We then laughed and was like "no, no" I asked if they had any chicken and the guy was like oh chicken. Well, when they decided to show us the chicken we made a surprised look on our face because it was a beheaded chicken with feet and toenails and the such. It was pretty funny. All the people in the restaurant were cracking up at us. I decided to look around the place to see if I could find anything I wanted to eat, but we didn't so we left. It was pretty interesting day.
It has been an amazing journey and will post more about it soon hopefully.

Proverbs 3:5,6

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight."

For His glory and your joy,

Levi Johnston

Ready or not world here we come!

First, off I want to say thanks to everyone who is supporting the team and myself on this amazing journey! The Lord is so good and I am ready to see what He uses us for! I have a story that happened to me while at home in Oklahoma to tell you guys

I went to eat at Johnny's because I was craving the world's best onion rings, so mom treated me with that. She invited some friends and some people I was able to meet who just got back from camp at Turner Falls called Falls Creek. There were 5 boys and a mom named Kimie. They were such a blessing to me.

First off, they were telling me about a cousin who accepted the Lord at camp (Praise the Lord) and how another kiddo surrendered to ministry (Another Praise) so that was pretty great to see the Lord working. Then the encouragement from them poured out! They gave me a scrub that they all signed and wrote some encouraging words on then prayed for me at the restaurant. It was amazing to see the Love and support they were giving me. It blew my mind and was great to see them being used by the Lord to send encouragement my way.

Then the mom was an encourager at Falls Creek and begged for a name tag that said encourager on it. She felt empowered when she had that name tag. Well, she decided to give to me which meant a lot because she really liked it and although some may say its just a name tag, but to me is a reminder of what we should do and look for opportunities daily to love on some one! They definitely did that with their words and actions that day!

Wow! We leave tomorrow morning at 6 A.M. for Phoenix then will head to San Francisco and then to Hong Kong for a short flight of 14 hours. This will be great because the team will get to meet Heather in San Francisco and we will all be unified together!

I ask for your prayers that you pray this passage for us! As we begin that we will be unified

Romans 15:5-6

"May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you a spirit of unity among yourselves as you follow Christ Jesus, so that with one heart and mouth you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ"

Until next time,

For His Glory and your joy,

Levi Johnston