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