sounds like you have had a lot of fun. i actually mispelled my new companions name last week his name is elder Wingemann. he's an amzing guy. he's from Lindon, Utah.
this week was intersting. wensday was just tracting. we had no appointments that day and couldn't set anything up. so we knocked on quite a few doors that day. we found this one street that looked like you should have belonged out in Goochland. there was just a house and then a big space. but by the end it was fairly normal. it was werid anyways just being with Elder Neilson. he had a fairly embarrasing story this week. he called up a sister in the ward and it turns out she was converted by another elder neilson. he still calls her up everynow and then. the funny story is, that she thought it was the one who converted her. she asked, how's your baby. elder neilson said in a really confused voice, okay, i guess. it was pretty intersting.
on thursday we picked up Elder Wangemann, and he's pretty amazing. i'm glad to have him as my steptrainer. he's also has very good sense of humor.
on saturday we have been working with a member. it's a funny story, we had a lesson with him to pray about finding missionary oppritunties. the next day he gets a call from jehovah witness's missionaries. so he has been taking lesson's from them and is trying to introduce them to the gospel. he's invited us over a couple of times. we've gone twice now, the first time we just sat there, and it was werid. this time we tried to teach them. we even handed out a Book of Mormon to them. it's been very intesting so far. unforunately he's just accepted a job offer and is moving outside our mission boundries. so who knows what might happen.
on sunday we had talks by former servicemen and it went very good. it was a very amazing sacrament meeting. i had a hard time staying awkae after that though. i slept really bad the night before and then slept bad again. so it wasn't very good. but i have slept fine ever since.
this week has been intersting to say the least, but i've enjoyed it. elder yelton i think is going to be around bountiful this week for a wedding. a former compaion is getting married in the bountiful temple. he made a comment about dropping by, but it sounded like he was joking around. so you may just have a visitor this week. my allegies have been doing better, i bought some pills to try and they've been doing pretty good. gas is about four dollars here at places. it's insane. sorry i wasn't able to send pitcures home last week, but i will try this week. so soon you will have some visual proof that i'm allright.
Elder Johnson
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
May 20, 2008
everythingt has been going well here, we haven't had any bad storms for a while. the pollen is starting to get me however. that heat doesn't sound fun, but i heard this summer it gets bad. humity goes up and summer heat. so i'm not to excited for that. elder yelton is leaving for the mission home today and he flies home tomorrow. i am also getting transfered. i'm going to Innercity richmond. from what i've heard it's very scary at night but it's supposed to be amazing. it's the most coveted area in the mission and it's been having alot of sucess there. i have alos heard there's been some murders there lately. just kidding, i'm staying here. but we recived transfer call yesterday. so thursday, me and elder Neilson will pick up our new companion. his name is elder wingson or something like that.
thats cool that jill got to see Andrei kirlenko. that's cool. one friday we had to go on exhanges with the zone leaders, so i got to see intercity richmond. the main road there is called moneument ave, mostly because there are many statues there, like general lee. so we were will elder ord, not elder ford. elder yelton stayed there and we stayed here at gayton. so it was a very intersting experince, elder ord was amazing. we also had dinner that night and it was good. we get to his street and it turns out we didn't have his address. we see some kids and roll down the window, and one of them told us were itb was, turns out it was there son. his firneds were screaming at him saying get away, it's church people. so it was a little werid. he explained later that his friends think missionaries are spies for the church. the diiner was great and we had a good lesson.
then i went on exhanges the next day and went to Louisa again. it was pretty fun. it's very country and they live in a members home. i also found out they they to donot have a church building, so they hold it at the high school. that was a very foriegn idea to me.
on sunday we had a meeting with Jack again. it was more of an interview you could say. he just asked elder yelton many questions and it was mostly his testimony. jack is a very amazing guy. he knows we have amde a differnce in his life and he feels the spirit, he just doesn't gain the spiritual apsect of it. but he very nice, he even gave us a very delicous chocolate pie. so it was good experince.
a few weeks ago we were looking up a less active member and we met someone else, who had just moved in with him. he speaks french, and creole, but he's not very good at english, and he wants to know english. so we have been working with him, trying to teach him english. so that's been an expeince. he is also a memeber as well. then we had a dinner appointment with a some non members. they are very nice. they have a son who converted to the church, and is on a mission in urguway. so she is always happy to see us, and any other missionaries. we think one day they are going to join.
everything has been going great here. yesterday we gave some cd's to memeber and he burned some copies. so if you would like, could you please send me my cd player. i already have some speakers. but other than that everything. i'll try to send some pitcures home this week as well.
elder Johnson
thats cool that jill got to see Andrei kirlenko. that's cool. one friday we had to go on exhanges with the zone leaders, so i got to see intercity richmond. the main road there is called moneument ave, mostly because there are many statues there, like general lee. so we were will elder ord, not elder ford. elder yelton stayed there and we stayed here at gayton. so it was a very intersting experince, elder ord was amazing. we also had dinner that night and it was good. we get to his street and it turns out we didn't have his address. we see some kids and roll down the window, and one of them told us were itb was, turns out it was there son. his firneds were screaming at him saying get away, it's church people. so it was a little werid. he explained later that his friends think missionaries are spies for the church. the diiner was great and we had a good lesson.
then i went on exhanges the next day and went to Louisa again. it was pretty fun. it's very country and they live in a members home. i also found out they they to donot have a church building, so they hold it at the high school. that was a very foriegn idea to me.
on sunday we had a meeting with Jack again. it was more of an interview you could say. he just asked elder yelton many questions and it was mostly his testimony. jack is a very amazing guy. he knows we have amde a differnce in his life and he feels the spirit, he just doesn't gain the spiritual apsect of it. but he very nice, he even gave us a very delicous chocolate pie. so it was good experince.
a few weeks ago we were looking up a less active member and we met someone else, who had just moved in with him. he speaks french, and creole, but he's not very good at english, and he wants to know english. so we have been working with him, trying to teach him english. so that's been an expeince. he is also a memeber as well. then we had a dinner appointment with a some non members. they are very nice. they have a son who converted to the church, and is on a mission in urguway. so she is always happy to see us, and any other missionaries. we think one day they are going to join.
everything has been going great here. yesterday we gave some cd's to memeber and he burned some copies. so if you would like, could you please send me my cd player. i already have some speakers. but other than that everything. i'll try to send some pitcures home this week as well.
elder Johnson
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
May 13, 2008
well this week has been going well here in Virginia. that's awesome that Spencer is going to Arizona. there a missionary from the Gayton ward(the ward were in) who is there. the girl we were going to baptize this saturday has decided to postpone it. she wants her grandpa to do it and he couldn't make it out here, or someone she wanted here would not. so she is going to be staying with them in the summer and will get baptized then. so it's good, just wont include us.
the bishops soon was baptized on sunday and there was no room in the inn(well the room the font was in). we ended up sitting outside and then after he was babtized, they had us teach the restoration. it went fairly well. then the bishop's wife invited us over for dinner. we had homemade fried chicken. it was good.
i have a funny story that happened last week. we were talking with a member and she asked if we could help her take some stuff over to her best friends house(not a member). we heard some sort of muttering behind the door. her friend answers it and it turns out her husband came to the door looked out the peephole and said in a panicked voice, "it's louise, and she brought the mormon's." we all thought it was funny.
we also had this meeting with a member in our ward who lives in the same apartment complex as us. it turns out he has the Jehovah witnesses coming to his door and trying to teach him. he's told us he going to try to convert them instead. he was missionary at one point and he's says the biggest difference between us and them, is we have the spirit when we teach, and they try to convince everyone through there bible, unlike us who ask everyone to pray and ask if it's true. a way he discribed it is black and white.
the program we had was four older sisters and they talked about there mothers and i believe all of them were converts. it was really amazing. i haven't told you this yet, but some intersting history for the chucrh in virginia is, that it was all started by two families, the powers, and the amos's. one of them had 21 kids and they all tned to live in the same place. i met the powers awhile back and there's this long street and most of them live on it.
on friday we were tratcing and we were not being very successful. i knock on a door and someone answers it. i then gained the impression to talk about the book of mormon, and it turns out he's very intested in studying about different religions and he had never heard of it before and he wanted to read it. it was amazing.
well that's all for this week and i think it would be fine for grandma to email me. i always have spare time waiting for everyone else. i laos just realized i forgot my camera so no pitcures this week. hoepfully i can next week.
Elder Johnson
the bishops soon was baptized on sunday and there was no room in the inn(well the room the font was in). we ended up sitting outside and then after he was babtized, they had us teach the restoration. it went fairly well. then the bishop's wife invited us over for dinner. we had homemade fried chicken. it was good.
i have a funny story that happened last week. we were talking with a member and she asked if we could help her take some stuff over to her best friends house(not a member). we heard some sort of muttering behind the door. her friend answers it and it turns out her husband came to the door looked out the peephole and said in a panicked voice, "it's louise, and she brought the mormon's." we all thought it was funny.
we also had this meeting with a member in our ward who lives in the same apartment complex as us. it turns out he has the Jehovah witnesses coming to his door and trying to teach him. he's told us he going to try to convert them instead. he was missionary at one point and he's says the biggest difference between us and them, is we have the spirit when we teach, and they try to convince everyone through there bible, unlike us who ask everyone to pray and ask if it's true. a way he discribed it is black and white.
the program we had was four older sisters and they talked about there mothers and i believe all of them were converts. it was really amazing. i haven't told you this yet, but some intersting history for the chucrh in virginia is, that it was all started by two families, the powers, and the amos's. one of them had 21 kids and they all tned to live in the same place. i met the powers awhile back and there's this long street and most of them live on it.
on friday we were tratcing and we were not being very successful. i knock on a door and someone answers it. i then gained the impression to talk about the book of mormon, and it turns out he's very intested in studying about different religions and he had never heard of it before and he wanted to read it. it was amazing.
well that's all for this week and i think it would be fine for grandma to email me. i always have spare time waiting for everyone else. i laos just realized i forgot my camera so no pitcures this week. hoepfully i can next week.
Elder Johnson
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
May 6, 2008
hey everyone
this week was amazing and i got it yesterday. so everything is fine. it sounds like i'll be calling sometime around 8:00 in the morning. (your time). tell Chad congradatulations on his call. how did Jill's test go? everything has been fine here. weathers been nice. it was so rainy that week. the missionary that was assualted was a spanish missionary, and i haven't heard much other than the person walked up to him and struck him. the good news is he's not going home, the bad news is, he has to stay inside for two weeks.
we have a had an amzing week here. we started a goal to get two babtisms by the end of this transfer. one sunday we taught a family with an unbaptized youth. we've been teaching her for a while and sunday invited her to be baptized. she wants to she's just not sure she will stay active, so she's nervous. before that this person came up and asked about if a child is over nine and not baptized, they need to have the lessons before theyv can be baptized. elder yelton said yes and said, that his daughter wants to be baptized, and was talking about sunday. so it may not work and it may, we don't know yet.
last friday we were going tracting on a road. i start up a driveway and heared someone yell get back here. i turn around and there's this black lab running towards us wanting to play. we ended up talking with her for a while. it was great. she's known quite a few members of the church but not exactly intersted, but it went effectively i think.
yesterday we went on echanges with the Louisa elders. so i went to Louisa county for the first time. it was very spread out there. buty nothing really intestring happened out there. i'm going to try sending home some pitcures soon. so far every meal i have had i've liked, except for two. the first night here, and a dinner we had last week. it was meatloaf, but everything else was good.
Elder yelton right now has been making alot of jokes about being trunky, he even wrote a poem about it. but he's still working hard and effectively and he wants to stay. one intersting story is that when he got out here, he found out he had a cousin live here. he never met them or anything. his first area he met them and he sent some sisters there later. they opened the door and said there not intertsed and then the sisters said, that Elder yelton sent them and they invited them in. last tuesday, his cousin called and said he had something important he wanted to tell him. he said, he wants to be baptized and wants him to baptize him. he feels like thats the reason he was sent here. it's a really cool story. we can see the Lord's work in so many places, and it's so amazing.
i can't remeber if i've told you about elder neilson or not. he is very allergic to pollen and he's a very nice guy. he's from Carey idaho. most maps from what i have heard don't have it. it's about two hours away from other civilization. elder yelton makes jokes saying that he just pitched a tent in the middle of nowhere and called it his home. his high school from the sounds of it is small. he said he graduated out of a class of eighteen.
well i'll talk with you this sunday. i can't think about much more to write. and thank you for all the letters i have recieved the past two weeks. the one from jacob was forwarded three times till it got to me, and the one from Aunt pam was nice as well. tell kim and Shawn congrats.
Elder Johnson
this week was amazing and i got it yesterday. so everything is fine. it sounds like i'll be calling sometime around 8:00 in the morning. (your time). tell Chad congradatulations on his call. how did Jill's test go? everything has been fine here. weathers been nice. it was so rainy that week. the missionary that was assualted was a spanish missionary, and i haven't heard much other than the person walked up to him and struck him. the good news is he's not going home, the bad news is, he has to stay inside for two weeks.
we have a had an amzing week here. we started a goal to get two babtisms by the end of this transfer. one sunday we taught a family with an unbaptized youth. we've been teaching her for a while and sunday invited her to be baptized. she wants to she's just not sure she will stay active, so she's nervous. before that this person came up and asked about if a child is over nine and not baptized, they need to have the lessons before theyv can be baptized. elder yelton said yes and said, that his daughter wants to be baptized, and was talking about sunday. so it may not work and it may, we don't know yet.
last friday we were going tracting on a road. i start up a driveway and heared someone yell get back here. i turn around and there's this black lab running towards us wanting to play. we ended up talking with her for a while. it was great. she's known quite a few members of the church but not exactly intersted, but it went effectively i think.
yesterday we went on echanges with the Louisa elders. so i went to Louisa county for the first time. it was very spread out there. buty nothing really intestring happened out there. i'm going to try sending home some pitcures soon. so far every meal i have had i've liked, except for two. the first night here, and a dinner we had last week. it was meatloaf, but everything else was good.
Elder yelton right now has been making alot of jokes about being trunky, he even wrote a poem about it. but he's still working hard and effectively and he wants to stay. one intersting story is that when he got out here, he found out he had a cousin live here. he never met them or anything. his first area he met them and he sent some sisters there later. they opened the door and said there not intertsed and then the sisters said, that Elder yelton sent them and they invited them in. last tuesday, his cousin called and said he had something important he wanted to tell him. he said, he wants to be baptized and wants him to baptize him. he feels like thats the reason he was sent here. it's a really cool story. we can see the Lord's work in so many places, and it's so amazing.
i can't remeber if i've told you about elder neilson or not. he is very allergic to pollen and he's a very nice guy. he's from Carey idaho. most maps from what i have heard don't have it. it's about two hours away from other civilization. elder yelton makes jokes saying that he just pitched a tent in the middle of nowhere and called it his home. his high school from the sounds of it is small. he said he graduated out of a class of eighteen.
well i'll talk with you this sunday. i can't think about much more to write. and thank you for all the letters i have recieved the past two weeks. the one from jacob was forwarded three times till it got to me, and the one from Aunt pam was nice as well. tell kim and Shawn congrats.
Elder Johnson
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