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