He is Spanish and traveled to Bolivia to reunite with his nanny after 45 years

A man of Swedish origin was the subject of a touching story after he decided to look for his nanny after not seeing her for 45 years.

The story of Juan Jonsson and Ana Jiménez went around the world and moved millions of social media users, platforms on which they both shared their reunion after almost half a century. The 52-year-old Swedish missionary arrived in Yacuíba, a town in Bolivia, where the woman who gave him care and love when he was only 6 months old lives.

Juan He came from Spain to Bolivia with one purpose: to find Ana, his nanny. After 45 years, the current pastor of the church embarked on a search “Looking for Ana” and I finally found it. The moment sparked emotion in a video she shared on TikTok.

The protagonists of this touching story are “Juanito”, now a pastor, and his nanny Ana Jiménez, who is 78 years old. Johnson was born in Sweden, but lived most of his life in Spain.

When Juan was 6 months old, his parents went to Cochabamba, Bolivia, to work. They lived there for almost six years and had to find a nanny to look after the child and his two brothers. It was under these circumstances that Ana entered the life of this foreign family when she was 31 years old.

Jonsson has never forgotten Ana and a few months ago he had the idea of ​​opening a page, entitled “Help for Ana”, in which he intended to collect donations from users.

This way, Juan traveled from Fuengirola, Spain, to Yacuiba, where the woman lives with her son.. The young Bolivian was precisely decisive in the meeting that moved social media users, because he had maintained contact with the Spaniard.

“She knew someone was coming to see her, but she didn’t know who,” the pastor said in an interview. In the video we see that Juan appears at the door of Ana’s house, he crouches down, as if a gesture of respect and love, to which she reciprocates.

Juan showed him the photos of the child, then they both went to eat and enjoyed the typical dishes.

“When I saw him again I didn’t recognize him, but I had him in my heart. When he was a child, I was sad to lose my children, so he and his family came as a gift from God,” Ana said.

She explained that her son was terminally ill due to heart problems, but she also lost her husband in a work accident in Alto Beni.

“All that was a burden on me and I got sick”she said.

The Jonssons, a family whose parents were missionaries, traveled to several communities in southern Bolivia. The two eldest children remained in boarding school, while Juanito was looked after by his nanny.

“I stayed with Juanito, he was six months old, he was affectionate. Later, when he grew up, he would run wherever I was,” the Bolivian woman recalled.

Jiménez recalled some of Juan’s anecdotes and jokes. “I called him ‘my Swedish cholo’ and he called me ‘my grandmother,'” he said. Finally, the pastor said he wanted to “honor” Ana and want to continue to help her repay what she did to him.

“The affection and love, which never fades and that is why I have the privilege of meeting Ana; She is very special,” Jonsson said, more than four decades later.