well i'm glad you got that letter, i'm sure quite a few parents were wondering what was going on yesterday, when they didn't get an email. this week was definately intertesting, a little bit longer than normal. well transfers are coming up in two weeks. so it's coming up, i'm probably going to stay here but there is still a chance of leaving. sounds like kate is learning a lot of things since i've been gone. prayer even. i started using my debit card mostly because i got a little low on money this month. so i used it a bit. but you don't need to worry about replacing it yet. i already have a helmet but not a bike. (elder yelton gave me his.) well let grandma know i say hi as well.
well in our zone there is about ten areas. then about 3 districts with about 3-4 companions in that area. which covers a stake. there is 8 zones in our mission but one is spanish. so at zone confernce, ours has elders from the chesterfeild, midlothian, waynesboro, and richmond. pembroke is the spanish. then the other one which is for the newport news, virginia beach, and cheasepeake. zone confernce a more learning oprunties from the mission president, and the other senior missionaries. then they have departing testimonies for those who are going home that transfer. then usually the A.P.'s make some sort of game to break it up. so thats the normal zone confernce.
the past ftwo days have been tiring, weve been doing service for an older lady in the ward. she's from greece and has problems with her lawn mover. so we go over monday just planning on mowing her lawn and it turns out she was us to take out two of her small trees and plant them some where else. we agreed and now were are stiff and sore from it. she also a little crazy, but the good kind.
our zone confernce was just amzing. it was about the Book of Mormon. then they had recent converts who came and bore there testimonies of the Book of Mormon. it was really good. it was long because the testimonies went a little longer than planned, so they ended up cutting out the game. many missionaries were not happy. but it was still good. elder wangemann had a really funny departing testimony. he made quite a few jokes during it. like sorry if this isn't too good, i've never done this before. but my favorite, he said, my companion is really nervous about who is next companion is going to be. then he turns to President milburn and said, will you let me know who my next one will be. let me tell you, it took people a little bit to get it. but once they did everyone laughed. he really woke everyone up.
then on friday i went on exchanges with our zone leaders. i went with Elder Baird. he was amazing. it was a great learning experince. elder wangemann wen to the inner city of richmond. very ghetto. that area is always on fire and about 70 percent of the crazy stories come from there. elder wangemann was talking to someone and asks this lady if she ever knew that christ came to america. and she said, i know that, i am Jesus. that's just a little why missionaries love that place, it is full of crazies. Elder yelton served there once and met a person who believed he was god. it's very intersting.
well thats about it this week. today we are having a zone get together and playing basketball and stuff. talk to you later.
elder Johnson
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
July 22, 2008
Just me being silly. The pastor tag is Elder Wangemann's. Below is a funny road out in Goochland.
well everything is dried up now. we now are having quiet nights of sleep. so no more insomnia. the carpet was to be fixed on last wensday but it turns out that it was still alittle wet so on friday, everything was good. everything is mostly fixed now, other than the hole in the wall they made to fix the pipe, but other than that it good. well i should be getting mail anyways. on wensday i sent to letters, one that said, elder johnson, the other said steven johnson, i got them both, so everything is fine now. so send everything you got for me here now. so this week has been interesting, between trying to sleep with five loud blowers on.
on wensday we had a district meeting and i did a little training on the missionary handbook, it went good for my first one. elder wangemann did one as well. he started out saying this week was been werid. first our apartment flooded and then i got my going home papers. i then said, woohoo. everyone just started laughing. one of the sisters that loves to give people a hard time really enjoyed it. elder wangemann got a kick out of it as well, then said he would get me back for it. but the meeting went great. on saturday i went on exchanges with elder taylor. i got burned pretty good there, but it was good, we got to talk quite a bit. there was aslo a baptism on saturday for one of the sisters investigators. it was amazing from what i heard from elder Wangemann and Elder Green. the nioght before the sisters were just frantic because they could not get a hold of her. she ends up calling them at about ten o'clock that evening and told them they shoul;d not have been worrying and such. then after she was baptsied she gave a heart tocuhing testimony about the Savior. that brought the whole room into tears. elder green came out of there so ready to go find someone to teach. he's an incredible missionary and he's only been out three weeks, it's crazy.
it's been a great week. we've been teaching a person named Jim who is very solid. he hasn't started reading the book of mormon yet but he just sucks everything in. so he is doing very well, we both think, once he starts reading everything is going to move fast with him.
well i'm glad to hear that grandma is doing better. i also heard from elder neilson a while ago that he has met the lady who wrote popcorn popping on the appricot tree. she lives somewhere in virginia. man that's annoying with brett farve. but everything has been going well here. it sounds like it next week is going to be very hot. yesterday it reached a hundred, but many people offer water here though. but thats it for this week.
elder johnson
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
July 15, 2008
thanks for letting me know about grandma. i'm glad she's doing better. that letter was from me, i was just checking to see if my change of address worked or not, two weeks ago. i'm going to try to send something else to see if it works now or not. so hopefully, but it should be fixed.
this week there's not to much exciting news. on thursday we had an appointment with a less active member we have been working with. he called us earlier and told us he would be a few minutes late, so just hang around. so we did, five minutes passed, and then ten minutes, next thing we knew it was over thirty. so we knew something must of happened. we go back to the apartment and theres a message on on our answering machine. it's the person we were heading to go see, and it turns out he was at the checkout stand and his two year-old son was in the shopping cart and dropped his truck. he bent over to pick it up and the cart fell over and he busted his lip open. so he had to take him to the emergency room. so it was the most intesrting story this week until last night.
it was normal, we go to bed nothing unusual. i wake up about one thirty needed to use the restroom, i placed my feet on the ground and my feet got wet. i told elder wangemann get up, but he is a very deep sleeper. he slept through his alarm eariler this week. i turne on the lights pick up my glasses and it was bad. i yelled, get up now. he heard now, wakes up. and as soon as he stood up he said oh, shoot. we quickly found out that the main pipe for the water heater broke. so we call a plumber and they said they cant help us because we live in an apartment, so we have to call the landlords. so we call them and it just rang, and about the time elder wangemann didn't think they were going to answerthey did. a person came turned off the water, and called someone one else to to come a suck it all up. so elder wangemann calls President Millburn to let him know whats going on. he said, president we have an emergency. we wondered what the look on his face would be when we said that. but everything ended up turning out allright. we getting new carpet and we also don't have any water at the moment. but i'm sure glad it's p-day, so we can catch up on sleep. but we had almost two hundred gallons of water in our apartment by the time the water was shut off. our neighbors woke up because that vacuum they use is loud. so that's my crazy story for the week.
other than that everything has been fine. we had a really good week. i met a baptist pastor that was very much telling us we are being mislead, but were doing good, but were mislead. so it was crazy. we also found out the jehovah witness had tracted that street earlier that day. so people weren't exactly thrilled. we had a zone meeting this week and it sounds like p-day is going to be moved to monday soon. we think he's going to have a vote at zone confernce and probably start next transfer. after our zone meeting this week, we went to a resturant, called five guys. it had very good burgers as well as french fries. i've been there twice now and they are just amazing, but that's it for this week.
elder johnson
this week there's not to much exciting news. on thursday we had an appointment with a less active member we have been working with. he called us earlier and told us he would be a few minutes late, so just hang around. so we did, five minutes passed, and then ten minutes, next thing we knew it was over thirty. so we knew something must of happened. we go back to the apartment and theres a message on on our answering machine. it's the person we were heading to go see, and it turns out he was at the checkout stand and his two year-old son was in the shopping cart and dropped his truck. he bent over to pick it up and the cart fell over and he busted his lip open. so he had to take him to the emergency room. so it was the most intesrting story this week until last night.
it was normal, we go to bed nothing unusual. i wake up about one thirty needed to use the restroom, i placed my feet on the ground and my feet got wet. i told elder wangemann get up, but he is a very deep sleeper. he slept through his alarm eariler this week. i turne on the lights pick up my glasses and it was bad. i yelled, get up now. he heard now, wakes up. and as soon as he stood up he said oh, shoot. we quickly found out that the main pipe for the water heater broke. so we call a plumber and they said they cant help us because we live in an apartment, so we have to call the landlords. so we call them and it just rang, and about the time elder wangemann didn't think they were going to answerthey did. a person came turned off the water, and called someone one else to to come a suck it all up. so elder wangemann calls President Millburn to let him know whats going on. he said, president we have an emergency. we wondered what the look on his face would be when we said that. but everything ended up turning out allright. we getting new carpet and we also don't have any water at the moment. but i'm sure glad it's p-day, so we can catch up on sleep. but we had almost two hundred gallons of water in our apartment by the time the water was shut off. our neighbors woke up because that vacuum they use is loud. so that's my crazy story for the week.
other than that everything has been fine. we had a really good week. i met a baptist pastor that was very much telling us we are being mislead, but were doing good, but were mislead. so it was crazy. we also found out the jehovah witness had tracted that street earlier that day. so people weren't exactly thrilled. we had a zone meeting this week and it sounds like p-day is going to be moved to monday soon. we think he's going to have a vote at zone confernce and probably start next transfer. after our zone meeting this week, we went to a resturant, called five guys. it had very good burgers as well as french fries. i've been there twice now and they are just amazing, but that's it for this week.
elder johnson
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
July 8, 2008
well so far it hasn't been to hot. so far, knock on wood. there has been thunderstorms the last couple of nights and been raining alot here. but Virginia is needing it. this week was very interesting. on wensday we went to a golden corral before elder neilson transfered. it was very good. elder neilson had found four five dollar gift cards in an old area so we used them that day. i tried these things called hushpuppies. they were very good. there like these scones, but more of sticks, but there more like bread. they were delicious. that was supposed to be elder neilson's last day. we arrived back at the apartment that evening, and there was a message from the zone leaders. transfers were postponed a day. it turns out that the new group of missionaries plane broke down before they left salt lake. so they were stuck at the mtc another day. so we had another day together. so it was strange. i'm now elder neilson longest companion, three months and a day. so after we dropped elder neilson off we had a lesson with a new family that just moved into our ward. it was in another ward with sisters, now they passed them to us. the parents are members but the kids have not been baptized. right now the oldest is set for baptism but the youngest the mom wants to wait on, because he thinks of it more like a game. so we know have someone set for baptism. then we had a barbque with the ward mission leader. it was good and fun. so that day we didn't get much missionary work in except for the lesson. yesterday we helped someone move in. there an older couple, one is dutch, and the other is german. they are very friendly. one is an art teacher and his wife is a designer. they mostly had some things they needed help with, like a marble slab that was ridiciously heavy. so we are still alittle tired from it. so far i have met three of the new elders that have come out. the first one is Elder Green, and he is from bountiful. but he's just north of the temple. so opposite end. then i met an elder simmons. he said, i flew farther to go to the MTC, then to my mission. he's from new york. then the last one i've just heard his name. his anme is elder lovelady. he's going to get jokes about his name for two years. well thats it for this week. it looks like my address cancelltion didn't work, so i'm going to have to try it a third time. so hopefully it will get fixed soon. but that's it for today.
Thursday, July 3, 2008
July 1, 2008
howdy yall
well this week was intersting. this whole week elder neilson was saying he was going to get transfered, he just had a good feeling he was, and he did. he's going just south of us. the end of this transfer is going to be an experince. me and elder wangemann will remain here and at the end of his transfer he goes home. so i will have a day without a companion. so i will either be here 4 and half months and the area will get shotgunned(me leave, two new ones come in) or i will be here six months. either way i'll enjoy it. i love this area. so i'm going to have to stay with someone else till transfers. so it will be intersting. elder beames is going to newport news, so i want see him any more in distirct meetings, so i pretty bummed out about that.
well hopefully mail will be better now, i asked to cancel the change of address form, and the person helping me didn't fully understand so instead i've been sending everything home. so i went by there this week and this time i am fairly certain i did it right. it was different form anways, so hopefully letters will work now. well i'm not sure what will be going on, but it sounds like it will be like any normal day. but most likely someone will have us over for dinner. so it should be fine.
nothing really exciting happened much this week, other than we had another lesson with ashley, and that went very well. i've enjoyed teaching her because you have to try teaching it to someone younger than you. so i we usually draw a lot of pitcures. so it works well. on friday i went to Louisa on exchanges and it went very well. we met a really hypocritical lady there, so that was to much fun. but i still enjoyed it. sunday we had dinner with a family in our ward and it went very well. they have an almost eight year old that was very picky. cant believe i was that way. i've tried many new things here. i've tried broccoli. not the best, i like the stems but not the tops. i hear it's usually the other way around.
everything has been going well here. but sorry about the whole mail screwup, i kept forgetting to ask if it caused any problems at all or not, but at least i know now. so thats it for this week. jill, i'm sorry but i can't remember your email. i remeber you changed it and i can't remember to what. but i'll email you next week. have fun.
well this week was intersting. this whole week elder neilson was saying he was going to get transfered, he just had a good feeling he was, and he did. he's going just south of us. the end of this transfer is going to be an experince. me and elder wangemann will remain here and at the end of his transfer he goes home. so i will have a day without a companion. so i will either be here 4 and half months and the area will get shotgunned(me leave, two new ones come in) or i will be here six months. either way i'll enjoy it. i love this area. so i'm going to have to stay with someone else till transfers. so it will be intersting. elder beames is going to newport news, so i want see him any more in distirct meetings, so i pretty bummed out about that.
well hopefully mail will be better now, i asked to cancel the change of address form, and the person helping me didn't fully understand so instead i've been sending everything home. so i went by there this week and this time i am fairly certain i did it right. it was different form anways, so hopefully letters will work now. well i'm not sure what will be going on, but it sounds like it will be like any normal day. but most likely someone will have us over for dinner. so it should be fine.
nothing really exciting happened much this week, other than we had another lesson with ashley, and that went very well. i've enjoyed teaching her because you have to try teaching it to someone younger than you. so i we usually draw a lot of pitcures. so it works well. on friday i went to Louisa on exchanges and it went very well. we met a really hypocritical lady there, so that was to much fun. but i still enjoyed it. sunday we had dinner with a family in our ward and it went very well. they have an almost eight year old that was very picky. cant believe i was that way. i've tried many new things here. i've tried broccoli. not the best, i like the stems but not the tops. i hear it's usually the other way around.
everything has been going well here. but sorry about the whole mail screwup, i kept forgetting to ask if it caused any problems at all or not, but at least i know now. so thats it for this week. jill, i'm sorry but i can't remember your email. i remeber you changed it and i can't remember to what. but i'll email you next week. have fun.
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