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