hey everyone.
this week has gone by fast to me. jill got herself a hamster, that was a suprise when i read that. last tuesday was amazing. the game we went to was fun, a missionary nearly caught a ball. it was in his hand one second, and gone the next. what was intesting the most about it, i saw clifford the big red dog, and cursious george. they had a PBS kids day there. it was very fun, unfornately i forgot my camera. so i was sad about that, but i still enjoyed it.
then that night we had a dinner appointment with a lady that cuts hair. she is very intersting and she's fairly crazy, and gets scary at times. she's greek. so the meal was intersting anyways. she very hard to describe.
on wensday we went to a farewell party for A.J. it was great. it was a fun and good barbaque. we also had a lesson with someone we met off of tracting a while back. don't worry we still have our heads(the roads name is sleepy hollow). the lesson went very well and he had a lot of questions concering baptism. such as infants, when people are baptised, and if it's done by immersion. it went very good.
we have alos been seeing a less active member as well, he understands what we talk to him about, he just doesn't come very often. the scary thing is he reminds me to much of Robby, he doesnt get hurt like robby, but everything else reminds me of robby. how is Robby doing by the way?
on sunday we had a dinner with a nonmember family. they have a son who is a member, he's in uraguay. so she loves to have us stop by, and also enjoys feeding the missionaries.
this week has been great. on monday i'll find out if i will be transferred or not. so i will let you know on tuesday. i dont have much else to say, but i have created an intersting meal though. a cheese tortilla with ramen inside. it very good. my companions think it werid but i like it. reminds me off enchaldas a bit. well thats it for now.
elder johnson
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
June 17, 2008
hey everyone this week was awesome. not only did i have a baptism, but the heat has gone down. (knock on wood) i heard from people it was record heat for this month. so not to fun, now it has cooled down a bit, feels much nicer.
i forgot a very funny story last week, we were teaching a members friend in his home, the lesson went well, answered all of his questions, and then at the end he said, i only have one problem with the book of mormon. i was excpeting somethinmg really bad, and then he said, "i can't read it, the prints to small." so the member happend to have another copy of the book of mormon, large print. so that was good.
on wensday we had a zone confernce. it was fun. i got to see my old MTC buddies, and it had quite alot of speakers. were losing quite a few good missionaries though. elder Callahan, our zone leader is finishing up his last transfer, along with an assiastant. so that was fun to hear there departing testimonies.
the lady me and elder beames tratced into a while back, she has know been set for baptism, and she is very excited. it was very exciting to hear.
sunday, they had four men speak about there dads, all of them were amazing, one of them, was A.J. who i talked about last time. he spoke about his dad, and it was very touching. his dad and mom were both there to hear it. his talk was really amazing. he talked about the islamic belives on families and fathers, and then shared our views. it was very good, then he ended with the faith of our fathers talk by president Uctordf. it was very good, but all of them were. then we had a baptism. it went very well, they had some primary kids there, and after she was baptized, a little kid as they came back said in an excited voice, wow. me and elder wangemann laughed quietly to ourselves.
yesterday we finished up some service we have been doing for a less active member in our ward. he's cuts down trees for a living, and he's been spliting wood, to use in a firplace. so we been helping him, load into a truck, and then unload it. it was fairly fun. he competes in compition shooting events as well. so he aalways is telling stories about that, or when he was in the miltary. he's one who is hard to leave at times. he also had this small cat, that loves to play fetch with twisties ties. it's really funny.
well thats my life right now, today we are having a tri-zone p-day and are going to a baseball game. sounds fun to me. but thats my life this week. school here ended last friday, or on friday the 13th. i liked that story with Kate pushing her stroller to the door and then sitting in it waiting for a ride. i laughed when i read it, well quietly. transfers are coming up as well. on the thrityth i'll find out if i'm going somewhere else or not. but i'll let you know. that's it for this week.
elder johnson
i forgot a very funny story last week, we were teaching a members friend in his home, the lesson went well, answered all of his questions, and then at the end he said, i only have one problem with the book of mormon. i was excpeting somethinmg really bad, and then he said, "i can't read it, the prints to small." so the member happend to have another copy of the book of mormon, large print. so that was good.
on wensday we had a zone confernce. it was fun. i got to see my old MTC buddies, and it had quite alot of speakers. were losing quite a few good missionaries though. elder Callahan, our zone leader is finishing up his last transfer, along with an assiastant. so that was fun to hear there departing testimonies.
the lady me and elder beames tratced into a while back, she has know been set for baptism, and she is very excited. it was very exciting to hear.
sunday, they had four men speak about there dads, all of them were amazing, one of them, was A.J. who i talked about last time. he spoke about his dad, and it was very touching. his dad and mom were both there to hear it. his talk was really amazing. he talked about the islamic belives on families and fathers, and then shared our views. it was very good, then he ended with the faith of our fathers talk by president Uctordf. it was very good, but all of them were. then we had a baptism. it went very well, they had some primary kids there, and after she was baptized, a little kid as they came back said in an excited voice, wow. me and elder wangemann laughed quietly to ourselves.
yesterday we finished up some service we have been doing for a less active member in our ward. he's cuts down trees for a living, and he's been spliting wood, to use in a firplace. so we been helping him, load into a truck, and then unload it. it was fairly fun. he competes in compition shooting events as well. so he aalways is telling stories about that, or when he was in the miltary. he's one who is hard to leave at times. he also had this small cat, that loves to play fetch with twisties ties. it's really funny.
well thats my life right now, today we are having a tri-zone p-day and are going to a baseball game. sounds fun to me. but thats my life this week. school here ended last friday, or on friday the 13th. i liked that story with Kate pushing her stroller to the door and then sitting in it waiting for a ride. i laughed when i read it, well quietly. transfers are coming up as well. on the thrityth i'll find out if i'm going somewhere else or not. but i'll let you know. that's it for this week.
elder johnson
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
June 10, 2008
the heat has started to hit. we have had hit the 100 everday since about friday. it's bad. yesterday the district leader called us and told everyone to have banannas and salty foods with us when we go tracting. sounds like quite a few missionaries are getting in trouble from the heat. yesterday it really got me. a lot of people have been much more nice. most of them offer water but there not interseted. so that part sad. last tuesday night, we got rained on really hard, and we also had a tornado warning for our area, but nothing happened, just rain, rain, and more rain. then the heat came. sounds like it usually doesn't get this warm this fast, unfornately the humity still hasn't reached it's july, and august levels from what i've heard.
this week has been great though. i'm having my first baptism this week. her name is Ashlee Vosper. she's an unbaptized youth. so we've been teaching her like crazy. we also have been meeting with a less active memebr whose husband is not a member. but her husband is a proffesional chef, so far all our appointments have been dinner appointments, so it's been fun. we also have zone confernce this week. so that's going to be interesting. no quest speaker this time, elder Wangeman's told me i'm very lucky to have that on my fisrt zone confernce. it was Elder Marriot.(his family own marriot hotels). we tracted into this guy this week that has been fighting cigarettes in court, he trying to to make them unconsitutional, so that good. hope he succeeds, but we kind of doubt it.
we've also met this little kid a few weeks ago that told us that were with the church that lied to them. it turns out some missionaries a while back tracted into there family, and they wanted them to come back. they never did. so we were able to set up an appointment with them and came back on saturday. he was not expecting us to come back. we ended up giving them a book of mormon because that was what he really wanted. it was a very sad experince.
we then went tracting somewhere else and we finish the street with no sucess. it was very disappointing and then as were heading back to the car, another car starts going very slow behind us. the ended up stopping next to us and it was a spanish family. the girl was trying to translate for them but the mom asked us if we had a stamp. the girl gets a very confused look on on her face and said, no, no, a card. we talk with them for a while and luckily elder Wangemann knows spanish fairly well. that family is a family we like to call golden. they were very much wanting to get involved with a church, in fact our church. so it was a very fun experince. we have sent the spanish missionaries to them and there very excited.
there is also this recent convert in our ward, who joined the church a few months ago. he is very amazing. his name is Aujeng Abadi. everyone just calls him A.J. though. his whole family is muslim, and he converted over. well he's going for to Iran for six weeks to visit his family members. he's very nervous about going over there, but he's going. he's very amazing though, he had an incredible testimony and he feels like he didn't betray Islam, he just builded upon it, and thats the highest focus of his testimony. he very amazing, hopefully he makes it back safely.
that was the highlights for this week though. so i'm glad it's p-day today, and that we have many appointments later on so we can stay out of this heat. with the music we can listen to, it's tradintaion hymn music, Motab, and efy music. so anything that is included in that is fine. i asked elder Wangemann and he said that i can email friends as well. so that is on the plus side, but i only have an hour to email though. well i'm glad that earthquake wasn't to bad. i've heard about that one in China a while back. thats it for this week.
elder Johnson
this week has been great though. i'm having my first baptism this week. her name is Ashlee Vosper. she's an unbaptized youth. so we've been teaching her like crazy. we also have been meeting with a less active memebr whose husband is not a member. but her husband is a proffesional chef, so far all our appointments have been dinner appointments, so it's been fun. we also have zone confernce this week. so that's going to be interesting. no quest speaker this time, elder Wangeman's told me i'm very lucky to have that on my fisrt zone confernce. it was Elder Marriot.(his family own marriot hotels). we tracted into this guy this week that has been fighting cigarettes in court, he trying to to make them unconsitutional, so that good. hope he succeeds, but we kind of doubt it.
we've also met this little kid a few weeks ago that told us that were with the church that lied to them. it turns out some missionaries a while back tracted into there family, and they wanted them to come back. they never did. so we were able to set up an appointment with them and came back on saturday. he was not expecting us to come back. we ended up giving them a book of mormon because that was what he really wanted. it was a very sad experince.
we then went tracting somewhere else and we finish the street with no sucess. it was very disappointing and then as were heading back to the car, another car starts going very slow behind us. the ended up stopping next to us and it was a spanish family. the girl was trying to translate for them but the mom asked us if we had a stamp. the girl gets a very confused look on on her face and said, no, no, a card. we talk with them for a while and luckily elder Wangemann knows spanish fairly well. that family is a family we like to call golden. they were very much wanting to get involved with a church, in fact our church. so it was a very fun experince. we have sent the spanish missionaries to them and there very excited.
there is also this recent convert in our ward, who joined the church a few months ago. he is very amazing. his name is Aujeng Abadi. everyone just calls him A.J. though. his whole family is muslim, and he converted over. well he's going for to Iran for six weeks to visit his family members. he's very nervous about going over there, but he's going. he's very amazing though, he had an incredible testimony and he feels like he didn't betray Islam, he just builded upon it, and thats the highest focus of his testimony. he very amazing, hopefully he makes it back safely.
that was the highlights for this week though. so i'm glad it's p-day today, and that we have many appointments later on so we can stay out of this heat. with the music we can listen to, it's tradintaion hymn music, Motab, and efy music. so anything that is included in that is fine. i asked elder Wangemann and he said that i can email friends as well. so that is on the plus side, but i only have an hour to email though. well i'm glad that earthquake wasn't to bad. i've heard about that one in China a while back. thats it for this week.
elder Johnson
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
June 3, 2008
hey everyone.
i'm glad i read the one from mom before i read jill's and wonder what happened to Robbie. elder neilson told me about one of his friends who broke his leg and had to come home this week and i told him about Robbie, now i have something new to say. not trying to be mean or anything, but tell robbie to stop trying to hurt himself. there's this less active memebr in the ward that to me makes robbie accident look like nothing. i heard the story last week and his wife does a paper route. well she was in a car ahead of them and she said she looked back and saw two cars racing down the road, one of them lost control and nailed her husbands car. he is a mess. almsot all he does is sleeps. his vison was blurry and now there is some black spots in his eyesight. he also is having a hard time with short term memory and he has some spinal cord damage. his wife says he should have died, but some reason he didn't. but he is slowly getting worse. it's very sad to here, his neighbors, whom we are teaching, said he used to be a very outgoing guy, and he hardly can do anything now. it very sad. the accident happend in january.
i am glad you got my pitcures,now for a better story. the reason we had a hannah montana cake is that elder malone bought a cake and brought it to our district meeting.
it been really great this week. we finally got an appointment withh an unbaptized youth. we have her set for the fifteenth. then there family is getting sealed on that saturday. so we kind of in a rush to teach the six lessons. but its been going well. we have had a lot of dinner appointments this week. it had been slow for a while and then we get alot. we had one on friday, with bishop barbee and his family, porkchops off the grill. then on saturday we had a dinner and it was hamburgers off the grill. now these were the biggest ones i have ever seen. they were about an inch thick. they were very good. so far i have had only two meals i haven't liked.then yesterday we had [pizza for lunch and it turns out we had pizza from pizza hut for dinner that night. so it was pretty intesting day. on saturday we did exhnges with the elders in louisa. they're having quite alot of babptisms down there, it's incredible. they already have had three this month with more to come. elder wangeman made a joke the night before about sending me and elder beames out to louisa by ourselves. elder taylor ended up thinking it was a great idea. the first street we go tracting on was gravel road. the first house we knock on and no one answered. we walk up the street and every one told us were not intersted and slammed the door. we walk back down and then as we get in view of the first house a lady walks out and flags us over. it turns out that her husband is a member and she intersted in the church. she told us a story about how bad her life was and how she was not supposed to get pregant. she ends up getting pregant and it changed her life around, and now she wants that to kid to grow up in the church and she wants to join. it was amazing, elder beames said as went went back to the car and said, that is our next baptism. he was very excited to tell his companion.
everything has been going great here. i'm loving it here. it's starting to get warm here and everyone is telling me just you wait, this is nothing. wait till august. so i'm not too excited about that coming up. but everything is going great.
Elder Johnson
i'm glad i read the one from mom before i read jill's and wonder what happened to Robbie. elder neilson told me about one of his friends who broke his leg and had to come home this week and i told him about Robbie, now i have something new to say. not trying to be mean or anything, but tell robbie to stop trying to hurt himself. there's this less active memebr in the ward that to me makes robbie accident look like nothing. i heard the story last week and his wife does a paper route. well she was in a car ahead of them and she said she looked back and saw two cars racing down the road, one of them lost control and nailed her husbands car. he is a mess. almsot all he does is sleeps. his vison was blurry and now there is some black spots in his eyesight. he also is having a hard time with short term memory and he has some spinal cord damage. his wife says he should have died, but some reason he didn't. but he is slowly getting worse. it's very sad to here, his neighbors, whom we are teaching, said he used to be a very outgoing guy, and he hardly can do anything now. it very sad. the accident happend in january.
i am glad you got my pitcures,now for a better story. the reason we had a hannah montana cake is that elder malone bought a cake and brought it to our district meeting.
it been really great this week. we finally got an appointment withh an unbaptized youth. we have her set for the fifteenth. then there family is getting sealed on that saturday. so we kind of in a rush to teach the six lessons. but its been going well. we have had a lot of dinner appointments this week. it had been slow for a while and then we get alot. we had one on friday, with bishop barbee and his family, porkchops off the grill. then on saturday we had a dinner and it was hamburgers off the grill. now these were the biggest ones i have ever seen. they were about an inch thick. they were very good. so far i have had only two meals i haven't liked.then yesterday we had [pizza for lunch and it turns out we had pizza from pizza hut for dinner that night. so it was pretty intesting day. on saturday we did exhnges with the elders in louisa. they're having quite alot of babptisms down there, it's incredible. they already have had three this month with more to come. elder wangeman made a joke the night before about sending me and elder beames out to louisa by ourselves. elder taylor ended up thinking it was a great idea. the first street we go tracting on was gravel road. the first house we knock on and no one answered. we walk up the street and every one told us were not intersted and slammed the door. we walk back down and then as we get in view of the first house a lady walks out and flags us over. it turns out that her husband is a member and she intersted in the church. she told us a story about how bad her life was and how she was not supposed to get pregant. she ends up getting pregant and it changed her life around, and now she wants that to kid to grow up in the church and she wants to join. it was amazing, elder beames said as went went back to the car and said, that is our next baptism. he was very excited to tell his companion.
everything has been going great here. i'm loving it here. it's starting to get warm here and everyone is telling me just you wait, this is nothing. wait till august. so i'm not too excited about that coming up. but everything is going great.
Elder Johnson
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