hey everyone
yeah this week has been intesrting and frustrating. that family i told you about last week fluffed off. they weren't there so we both were pretty bummed. then i got sick monday. more of a cold like flu. mostly my stomach been alittle upset, and i've been exhausted. yesterday i woke up and were suppossed to exersice thirty minutes each morning, all i did was stretch. i was exhausted. so it wasn't to fun. well i'm glad your feeling better. i'm feeling much better today as well, just a sore throat now.
well wensday we had a lesson with a investigator who has the nickname mad-dog hersey. she in her 60's, and she a retired police officer, from washington d.c. she also was on survior, so that was intersting. the lesson went fairly well, she seems very intersted. she has took lessons before and last time she was running for sheriff, then she found out that basically all the members lived in the other county and so she stopped taking the lessons. she really does seem intersted, so no worries this time.
friday we had a zone meeting and that was pretty fun. theres a funny story with that. it's elder neilson's last transfer, so i waned to make a joke to him. when he walked in i said, hi elder neilson, you trunky yet. he said in a fast, annoyed voice, no! trunky means basically your packed and ready to go home, no longer care about missionary work. so it was pretty fun.
satyrday we did some service and raked up some leaves. made me wonder if jill is helping dad with them this year.
heres a cool story we tracted into this older woman a while back and as were were talking with her she kept taking about her neice that lived with here. she has two kids and so we decided to go back, felt like we needed to talk to her neice. it was cold that day and we started to talk with her. we tried to make it brief but she was very intersted. and we talk with her for a while. we set up a time to come back and that lesson was amazing. we committed her to read the book of mormon and to pray to know if it's true. she said, i already feel it ius true. it was amazing.
well that basically we had this week. hope you keep feeling better. tomorrow we have one place were going, with a part member. wife's the member but the husband just got back from being on a ship for a month. he's in the navy. they also have a two year old son that for some reason reminds me of the stories i herad when i was that age. he also loves trains. so i talk with you later. have fun tommorrow.
Elder S. Johnson
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Nov. 19, 2008
yeah i can understand with being sick. no i'm not sick but my companion is, was, is. back and forth. we stopped by the branch president saturday night and we were there for a bit and then the next morning him and his son who lives in the branch, who was there as well, they both got sick. so we considered ourselves a little lucky. he's been sick twice in the past week. last wensday and yesterday. luckily it's been off and on so it's not been bad. we had a an intesting week to say the least. doesn't sound like you've had to fun of a week for us we had it intestring. i can't believ rebecca is getting married. the last time i heard anything about marraige she was totally turned off by the idea. but i guess that was about a year and a half ago.
so your probably wondering why i said from the cold son, it is very cold here right now. when we left the apartment it was in the thrities this morning. the biggest problem about the cold here is its a wet cold. so it makes it more miserable. yesterday we drove through snow. wasn't sticking but it was cold. and it's funny because last saturday it was high seventies. so it changed fast.
oh yes, i found out that elder salisbury is related to some peterson's, up near the blackffot area of idaho. so i asked him if there from denmark and he said yes. so we might be related somehow. just thought that was intesting.
saturday we had this person we tracted into invite us to his church. basically he said this, if you want me to come to ours come to mine. so we went to a bible study sunday night. it was intesrting. never turned into a bash or anything but it was differnt. he never came though, but the pastor there knew we were coming. we were kind of nervous about what might happen, i know some have anti mormon classes around here. so it turned out okay.
but the cool story happened yesterday. it started out bad. elder slaisbury was sick and we were in the morning. then we had an appointment at three that fell through. the road we chose to tract had no houses on it. so it wasn't going well. so we prayed to know where to go. i looked at our map and say a street not to far from us and felt like thats were we should go. so we found a house and found a parking spot, said a prayer and was getting ready to leave a school bus just pulled up behind us. two young girls got off and so we started towards the house, nrevous because the other day we scared two young girld and there dad wasn't to friendly. we asked if we could give them something and one of them went inside and the mom came out. she said, now is not good time. so we were going to leave her with a card for a book of mormon. as soon as she saw the card. the mom said, we were wondering how to get in hold of you. we found a family. so it was a really cool. so that was the highlight yesterday.
well i hope you get better. and not much else i know to say, but get well. and how is dad's back doing? i hope it's better.
well talk to you later.
Elder S. Johnson
so your probably wondering why i said from the cold son, it is very cold here right now. when we left the apartment it was in the thrities this morning. the biggest problem about the cold here is its a wet cold. so it makes it more miserable. yesterday we drove through snow. wasn't sticking but it was cold. and it's funny because last saturday it was high seventies. so it changed fast.
oh yes, i found out that elder salisbury is related to some peterson's, up near the blackffot area of idaho. so i asked him if there from denmark and he said yes. so we might be related somehow. just thought that was intesting.
saturday we had this person we tracted into invite us to his church. basically he said this, if you want me to come to ours come to mine. so we went to a bible study sunday night. it was intesrting. never turned into a bash or anything but it was differnt. he never came though, but the pastor there knew we were coming. we were kind of nervous about what might happen, i know some have anti mormon classes around here. so it turned out okay.
but the cool story happened yesterday. it started out bad. elder slaisbury was sick and we were in the morning. then we had an appointment at three that fell through. the road we chose to tract had no houses on it. so it wasn't going well. so we prayed to know where to go. i looked at our map and say a street not to far from us and felt like thats were we should go. so we found a house and found a parking spot, said a prayer and was getting ready to leave a school bus just pulled up behind us. two young girls got off and so we started towards the house, nrevous because the other day we scared two young girld and there dad wasn't to friendly. we asked if we could give them something and one of them went inside and the mom came out. she said, now is not good time. so we were going to leave her with a card for a book of mormon. as soon as she saw the card. the mom said, we were wondering how to get in hold of you. we found a family. so it was a really cool. so that was the highlight yesterday.
well i hope you get better. and not much else i know to say, but get well. and how is dad's back doing? i hope it's better.
well talk to you later.
Elder S. Johnson
Nov. 12, 2008
hey everyone.
this week sure has been an adventure. so it turns out with transfers, that we had an intersting time. there was two elders getting transferred and 5 coming in. becuase three went home. so it was intersting. so we got everything arranged so that three elders stayed behind and then they picked up everyone else. with a senior missionary couples help. the peterson's, there from orem, i don't know if were related though. yes i just got my line of autority today. i was really excited when i saw it. well my mouth is doing just fine, no pain so far. knock on wood. but i have a return appointment saturday. my companion hopelly doesnt have it too bad. he going in after me to have his tooth checked out. it's been really bugging him. well from the smallville thing you asked doomsday is somesort of genetic monster from kyrpton. don't know much about him. yes i also got my package as well. don't worry i shared.
well this week was intesting. sunday we had a branch confernce. so we had a lot of people from the stake there. then this branch has this thing called a lingerlonger every second sunday. basically it's just a big get together that has a lot of food. so it was fun. they couldn't last month becuase of general confernence, stake confernce, and fast sunday, so it was pretty busy.
my new companion elder salisbury grew up in long beach california, and then moved to logan, utah four years ago. he'll be out a year this friday. he is also thinking about playing football in collage as well, he's thinking of utah state.
on monday we had a big group family home evening again. that was pretty intersting, theres this one little kid named eban, and i think he reminds me of myself. i don't know what i was like but he's usually bouncing off walls. me i had a cat jump onto my lap and fall asleep so it was pretty funny, the lint roller came in handy.
yesterday we had interiews with president millburn, and it went pretty good, we also now have elder salisbury's bike which makes country tracting a lot better. don't have to use as many miles, and don't take as long walking in between houses.
one thing about the ensign magazines, the missionaries always get them last. they give them to us at a meeting, sometimes we get it a week before the end of the month. this one i think might be sooner, but don't know. well that's about it. this week. it was great to hear from all of you. later
Elder S. Johnson
this week sure has been an adventure. so it turns out with transfers, that we had an intersting time. there was two elders getting transferred and 5 coming in. becuase three went home. so it was intersting. so we got everything arranged so that three elders stayed behind and then they picked up everyone else. with a senior missionary couples help. the peterson's, there from orem, i don't know if were related though. yes i just got my line of autority today. i was really excited when i saw it. well my mouth is doing just fine, no pain so far. knock on wood. but i have a return appointment saturday. my companion hopelly doesnt have it too bad. he going in after me to have his tooth checked out. it's been really bugging him. well from the smallville thing you asked doomsday is somesort of genetic monster from kyrpton. don't know much about him. yes i also got my package as well. don't worry i shared.
well this week was intesting. sunday we had a branch confernce. so we had a lot of people from the stake there. then this branch has this thing called a lingerlonger every second sunday. basically it's just a big get together that has a lot of food. so it was fun. they couldn't last month becuase of general confernence, stake confernce, and fast sunday, so it was pretty busy.
my new companion elder salisbury grew up in long beach california, and then moved to logan, utah four years ago. he'll be out a year this friday. he is also thinking about playing football in collage as well, he's thinking of utah state.
on monday we had a big group family home evening again. that was pretty intersting, theres this one little kid named eban, and i think he reminds me of myself. i don't know what i was like but he's usually bouncing off walls. me i had a cat jump onto my lap and fall asleep so it was pretty funny, the lint roller came in handy.
yesterday we had interiews with president millburn, and it went pretty good, we also now have elder salisbury's bike which makes country tracting a lot better. don't have to use as many miles, and don't take as long walking in between houses.
one thing about the ensign magazines, the missionaries always get them last. they give them to us at a meeting, sometimes we get it a week before the end of the month. this one i think might be sooner, but don't know. well that's about it. this week. it was great to hear from all of you. later
Elder S. Johnson
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Nov 5, 2008
yeah i've heard about elections. not to excited about either of it. obama kind of scares me though. i'm up in hopewell staying till my new companion elder salisbury arrives. which will be tommorrrow. i'm stil junior though, but elder peterson has it pretty crazy. he's going senior, and district leader. he is also step-training, and training. so he's got it crazy. no the cookies were fine. they were still good. i'm feeling okay after the dentist. bad night for it though. man i hope dad's back get better. i also thought it was cute how kate says goodbye to all her toys and such. at chucrh sunday before sacrament meeting a little boy at 1 years old was walking around. i smiled and said, hello james. well he then walked up to me smiling and started wanting to pick me up. now i'm not allowed to as a missionary, so because i didn't he walked off and began to cry. it was so sad. i felt so bad. thats a cool story from chad. right now we have someone set for the 29 of this month. an eleven year old girl. still can only seem to only baptize kids. but oh well. i don't know if you remember about elder martz and elder taylor. they both are zone leaders now. so that's some good news.
sunday we had an awesome branch fireside. there we started a book of mormon reading that will take place the next year. so that's pretty exciting. everything is pretty crazy. though. last night i've been with a zoneleader and we went to fort lee to visit some members. there is senior missionary couple that serve there as well. we did a little fmaily home evening and that was pretty fun. i also get to play zone leader tonight. we have a meeting with the stake president so that is a fairly strange feeling.
well that all i really have. i still haven't got that halloween one but i'm sure it will be there by tomorrow. so that all for this week.
Elder S. Johnson
sunday we had an awesome branch fireside. there we started a book of mormon reading that will take place the next year. so that's pretty exciting. everything is pretty crazy. though. last night i've been with a zoneleader and we went to fort lee to visit some members. there is senior missionary couple that serve there as well. we did a little fmaily home evening and that was pretty fun. i also get to play zone leader tonight. we have a meeting with the stake president so that is a fairly strange feeling.
well that all i really have. i still haven't got that halloween one but i'm sure it will be there by tomorrow. so that all for this week.
Elder S. Johnson
Oct 29, 2008
hey everyone.
this week has been intersting. i still haven't recieved the package, dont know where it is. so elder brockman said, you mihht be able to track it, but don't know. it's hopefully at the post office now, didn't go by it this morning. wow, i can't belive josh is back now. but it sounds like he had a good time there. yeah, i heard byu was humilated. so i have some exciting news this week.
so friday we had our baptism. we did it up in petersburg. elder brockman baptized aidan. heres the funny thing. it was suppossed to start at 6:00 and bro. johnson our mission leader made the goal that we were going to start on time. the problem was, the local highschool had a parade for homecoming and people struggled to get around it. so byt the time it got started it was 30 minutes late. not our fault. besides the person doing the opening prayer was in the caravan running late. but it went very good. then on sunday i confirmed him, so that was pretty exciting. but thats the most exciting thing for this week. today is elder brockman last p-day and then next wendsday he's flying home. i'll be staying up in hopewell. where there will be only one zoneleader, because the other one is going home as well.
we have to be in by six on halloween and i've already heard plans by memebers planning to come by, so we have to get some candy, kid probably wouldn't like pass along cards to well. oh yes yesterday we were out tracting and sometimes a dog will start foling you, this time we had a cat. it was funny, never pet it, never fedd it or anything, but it just followed us everywhere. it was funny walking down the street and having it walk along the side of us. it was pretty odd. it acted a bit like a dog. whenever a dog follows us we call it a disiple dog, this time it was a disiciple cat. well that's it for this week.
i'll talk to you in less than two months. later
Elder S. Johnson
this week has been intersting. i still haven't recieved the package, dont know where it is. so elder brockman said, you mihht be able to track it, but don't know. it's hopefully at the post office now, didn't go by it this morning. wow, i can't belive josh is back now. but it sounds like he had a good time there. yeah, i heard byu was humilated. so i have some exciting news this week.
so friday we had our baptism. we did it up in petersburg. elder brockman baptized aidan. heres the funny thing. it was suppossed to start at 6:00 and bro. johnson our mission leader made the goal that we were going to start on time. the problem was, the local highschool had a parade for homecoming and people struggled to get around it. so byt the time it got started it was 30 minutes late. not our fault. besides the person doing the opening prayer was in the caravan running late. but it went very good. then on sunday i confirmed him, so that was pretty exciting. but thats the most exciting thing for this week. today is elder brockman last p-day and then next wendsday he's flying home. i'll be staying up in hopewell. where there will be only one zoneleader, because the other one is going home as well.
we have to be in by six on halloween and i've already heard plans by memebers planning to come by, so we have to get some candy, kid probably wouldn't like pass along cards to well. oh yes yesterday we were out tracting and sometimes a dog will start foling you, this time we had a cat. it was funny, never pet it, never fedd it or anything, but it just followed us everywhere. it was funny walking down the street and having it walk along the side of us. it was pretty odd. it acted a bit like a dog. whenever a dog follows us we call it a disiple dog, this time it was a disiciple cat. well that's it for this week.
i'll talk to you in less than two months. later
Elder S. Johnson
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