so i'm able to email this last time. but things have been going very well here. it's been nice an warm, except for the rain last week, but other than that verything has been good.
i'll be leaving wakefield tuesday morning , and then i have a meeting with pres. millburn a last interview and then i quess i'll meet up with you at two then.
well for this past week the most intersting experience we had was actually yesterday. we were in for lunch and there was a knockat the door. elder conlin answeres, and it a jehovah's witness. right when he opened the door, her eyses went big, stared at his nametag, quickly went through her spill as handing him the pamplet and then took off very close to a run. it was funny. then we had a family home evening on sunday with the grubers and they had this game called missionary impossible. it was really fun. basically the game is is your trying to go through a mission, and you have cards with an amount of weeks on i, and you strive to make it to 26 weeks and then you win that round. but you can place trials on you oppenent to slow thm down, suck a dog bite, hostile investagtors and things like that. it was actaully really fun. but other than that this past week was fairly busy, we had a lot of appointments and was just running around, excpet earlier in the morning didn't have much of anything going on. but it was good all around though.well i guess i'll talk to you next week, and have fun till then and take care Elder S. Johnson
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Friday, March 5, 2010
well for snow, there isn't to much here, i don't know about further north or not. and from the sounds of it it won't be here to long it's suppossed to be in the sixties next week. but everything is starting to turn green here again. so spring is on it's way here.
oh yeah just so i can let some people know, old companions mostly, what time does church start? also tell kate and grace, i'm excited to see them.
well we are having a baptism on friday. so some good news on this front. there names are tim and freda. they actually have a cool story. there son got baptized about 3 years ago but he hasn't been the greatest example. he been very defiant to them. but they didn't want anything to do with the church, and from what elder conlin told me when he got here 6 weeks ago they wouldn't even let missionaries inside. but there son micheal let them in oneday and the parents didn't notice and freda when she found out they were inside just glared at them from the other room. she eventually moved and went to the room they were in and just stood there. elder conlin asked her if she would like to sit down, and she said no, shes not intersted. but he looked at her and said, no, you have questions? she was taken back by it and and a few minutes later she said, yeah i do, i want to know what my son belives. and they have changed alot since missionaries have taught them and they have changed alot, in just a space of two months or so. so thats the best news on this side of the front. last thurdsay we had mission confernce and had a senior missionary get up and basically atke to us alot of menatl health. mostly on monitoring or self talk. it was pretty intersting. and also the three stakes in richmond are hosting a huge missionary event, i'm really excited for. it will be on the 19th of march. the saints united voices choir directed by gladys Knight. basically its it going to be a musical fireside and then gladys knight is going to bear here testimony on why she joined the church. i thnik its going to be awesome, so we learned alot about what going to happen there and things like that.but thats been the biggest news on this front. but things are going great here on this end. well talk to you later, and have fun.
oh yeah just so i can let some people know, old companions mostly, what time does church start? also tell kate and grace, i'm excited to see them.
well we are having a baptism on friday. so some good news on this front. there names are tim and freda. they actually have a cool story. there son got baptized about 3 years ago but he hasn't been the greatest example. he been very defiant to them. but they didn't want anything to do with the church, and from what elder conlin told me when he got here 6 weeks ago they wouldn't even let missionaries inside. but there son micheal let them in oneday and the parents didn't notice and freda when she found out they were inside just glared at them from the other room. she eventually moved and went to the room they were in and just stood there. elder conlin asked her if she would like to sit down, and she said no, shes not intersted. but he looked at her and said, no, you have questions? she was taken back by it and and a few minutes later she said, yeah i do, i want to know what my son belives. and they have changed alot since missionaries have taught them and they have changed alot, in just a space of two months or so. so thats the best news on this side of the front. last thurdsay we had mission confernce and had a senior missionary get up and basically atke to us alot of menatl health. mostly on monitoring or self talk. it was pretty intersting. and also the three stakes in richmond are hosting a huge missionary event, i'm really excited for. it will be on the 19th of march. the saints united voices choir directed by gladys Knight. basically its it going to be a musical fireside and then gladys knight is going to bear here testimony on why she joined the church. i thnik its going to be awesome, so we learned alot about what going to happen there and things like that.but thats been the biggest news on this front. but things are going great here on this end. well talk to you later, and have fun.
February 24, 2010
thats an awesome story, it's always amazing to see the simple things like that bring about something larger. like theres a member here and he was walking his dog and his dog, loves people, and jumped up on a sister missionary and that how he came in contact with them. funny how things like that work. so on firday we went to pres. holle's house for a young women activity. basically they made us dinner and then we taught the first lesson to them. it was differnt, alot them were very distracted and talking with each other as we taught them. but we did some visuals for them. elder conlin did theses cups and basically made them into a building, for the church, and the bottom was the apostles. then you pull out the apostles for the apostasy. then i did this one where i made a telephone out of soups cans and related that to how God speaks to us. and compared the string to the prophet. so two young women were talking to each other threw it as i was explaining it, and then i talked about how sometimes we don't want to listen and we reject/kill the prophet. then i cut the string. they werent to thrilled. but other them goofing off the whole time, it went allright.but other than that not anything really cool to tell you right off. but i quess i talk to you later. and take care and have fun.Elder S. Johnson
Monday, February 22, 2010
MIssionary Opportunity to Speak Date
Steven will be speaking in Sacrament Meeting, March 28th, at 1pm. More details to follow, but just so you have the date. He will be home on March 26th! Only 33 more days! (Gordon and I will see him in 29!).
Jane
Jane
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
February 17, 2010
well i'm not to trunky right now, it still feels weird thinking that i only have that little left, i don't think time has hit me yet perosnally. wow, so jmaes is going to peru, that should be fun.
wakefield has changed quite abit. when i left there was a bout 40-50 members each sunday but there been a few baptisms and a few fmailies that moved in and now there is about 60. theres a new branch preisdnecy here, and a few families that have moved, other than that it's about the same. but right now the area is on fire, theres about 6 people set for baptism and one of them has a pretty cool story behind it. her mom joined the church a little less than a year ago, and two weeks ago she died suddenly and she is alot more intersted now. alot of the members here were very excited to see me again. the branch president wife when i was here she, was very excited to see me again. it's defiantly been fun.
address is still the same it P.o box 964, wakefield, Va 23888. so my companion name is elder conlin, from pocotello. he's been out for a while as well, he is actually going home 3 months after me. and his last companion here, just finished his mission. so people are strating to call him the killer.
so i actually have some funny stories for this week. yesterday was a sad one, we were leaving an invetsigators house, and as i got to the door the dog was trying to get it, so out of reflex i shut the screen again not to let it out and all of the sudden the dog started whining, i was lloking at it and was wondering what is this dog doing. and at the same time not realizing i was still trying to shut the door. it turns out it's paw was caught in between the door. i felt so bad. but the dog is fine now. but the better story is we went to teach a family and one of them volunteered to say the paryer, and then we stood there in cirlce holding hands, a baptist thing, and we stood there for about 4 minutes waiting for him to say the paryer, i was thinking are they just saying a slient prayer to themselves, i wasn't sure what was going on, so we didn't say anything and it turns out the person forgot he was saying it. so were teaching this family named the fishers and they are awesome, there son has been a member for a few years and they never have been intersted, and now they are. the reason there intersted is so there family can be together forever. pretty sweet huh.well other than that not to much more i know to say, but it's been fun being here again. it's had some sad things though, like one person that i atught she is going down the wrong road. she wants to be out on her own and basically wants freedom of no rules, and apparently she moving in with someone that has had problems with the law, so it's been heartbreaking seeing that. but all we can do is hope she comes back. well sorry to end on a sad note but things are doing very god here, talk to you later.
wakefield has changed quite abit. when i left there was a bout 40-50 members each sunday but there been a few baptisms and a few fmailies that moved in and now there is about 60. theres a new branch preisdnecy here, and a few families that have moved, other than that it's about the same. but right now the area is on fire, theres about 6 people set for baptism and one of them has a pretty cool story behind it. her mom joined the church a little less than a year ago, and two weeks ago she died suddenly and she is alot more intersted now. alot of the members here were very excited to see me again. the branch president wife when i was here she, was very excited to see me again. it's defiantly been fun.
address is still the same it P.o box 964, wakefield, Va 23888. so my companion name is elder conlin, from pocotello. he's been out for a while as well, he is actually going home 3 months after me. and his last companion here, just finished his mission. so people are strating to call him the killer.
so i actually have some funny stories for this week. yesterday was a sad one, we were leaving an invetsigators house, and as i got to the door the dog was trying to get it, so out of reflex i shut the screen again not to let it out and all of the sudden the dog started whining, i was lloking at it and was wondering what is this dog doing. and at the same time not realizing i was still trying to shut the door. it turns out it's paw was caught in between the door. i felt so bad. but the dog is fine now. but the better story is we went to teach a family and one of them volunteered to say the paryer, and then we stood there in cirlce holding hands, a baptist thing, and we stood there for about 4 minutes waiting for him to say the paryer, i was thinking are they just saying a slient prayer to themselves, i wasn't sure what was going on, so we didn't say anything and it turns out the person forgot he was saying it. so were teaching this family named the fishers and they are awesome, there son has been a member for a few years and they never have been intersted, and now they are. the reason there intersted is so there family can be together forever. pretty sweet huh.well other than that not to much more i know to say, but it's been fun being here again. it's had some sad things though, like one person that i atught she is going down the wrong road. she wants to be out on her own and basically wants freedom of no rules, and apparently she moving in with someone that has had problems with the law, so it's been heartbreaking seeing that. but all we can do is hope she comes back. well sorry to end on a sad note but things are doing very god here, talk to you later.
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Letter from President Milburn (February 13, 2010)
We got the official release Letter from President Milburn today! It's really going to happen--he's coming home!
Thursday, February 11, 2010
February 10, 2020
Mom's note: Only 6 more weeks!
yeah we got snow again. but were are able to email. it's been pretty annoying, we finally got power back yesterday from the last one, but sounds like no snow in forecast so some good news.
well for transfer news it's been pretty exciting. i foun out i am going to wakefield. i'm going back for my last six weeks. crazy huh. my companion name is elder conlin. I don't know him to well, just heard of him, so it will be intersting to see what happens.
the first week sounds fine to me. so tell him the 28th of march. (Mom's Note: The Bishop wanted to know which week he wanted to speak) yeah i heard about the super bowl, i heard it was a close game for most of i, but then peyton threw that interception, and heard it was over after that.
but for this week, we had a pretty good week, we had a good lesson with jason and tabby on thursday and there doing awesome. and then the next day we got hit by that storm. i was crazy because it snowed, and then turned to freezing rain that night, and then snowed on top of that. trees were down all over the place, what was crazy about it is that the roads didn' even look the same, after the storm, they just looked different. but powers back so it's good now. but other than that not to much exciting news for the week. well take care and have fun.
yeah we got snow again. but were are able to email. it's been pretty annoying, we finally got power back yesterday from the last one, but sounds like no snow in forecast so some good news.
well for transfer news it's been pretty exciting. i foun out i am going to wakefield. i'm going back for my last six weeks. crazy huh. my companion name is elder conlin. I don't know him to well, just heard of him, so it will be intersting to see what happens.
the first week sounds fine to me. so tell him the 28th of march. (Mom's Note: The Bishop wanted to know which week he wanted to speak) yeah i heard about the super bowl, i heard it was a close game for most of i, but then peyton threw that interception, and heard it was over after that.
but for this week, we had a pretty good week, we had a good lesson with jason and tabby on thursday and there doing awesome. and then the next day we got hit by that storm. i was crazy because it snowed, and then turned to freezing rain that night, and then snowed on top of that. trees were down all over the place, what was crazy about it is that the roads didn' even look the same, after the storm, they just looked different. but powers back so it's good now. but other than that not to much exciting news for the week. well take care and have fun.
February 3, 2010
as you could probably tell we are having alot of snow. so the storm last weekend dumped three times the amount they were predicting, and yesterday, had a light dusting. but from the sounds of it, were going to get dumped again this weekend. weve heard a bunch of differnt estimates, but all of them are saying around 20 inches, and i've heard higher. so i can understnading with Blanding getting aton. hopefully everything turns out allright.
the plans sound fine to me. so i don't know to much more to add right off. yeah i remember the sonntags i think, i think they were there before i left. but elders defiantly not.(Mom's note: I told him about our Sacrament Meeting, and Brother Sonntag and Brother Elder talked)
yeah transfers are next week, and i'm not expecting to stay, but it's still possible. the only way i could see us both staying is if a third elder comes in. but i quess well find out. well this past week we shoved snow, and actually met someone who was taught like 5 yers ago and still wants to be baptized. so pretty exciting. other than that i can't think of to much more o say. sorry this is short, but take care, and talk to you later. take care.
the plans sound fine to me. so i don't know to much more to add right off. yeah i remember the sonntags i think, i think they were there before i left. but elders defiantly not.(Mom's note: I told him about our Sacrament Meeting, and Brother Sonntag and Brother Elder talked)
yeah transfers are next week, and i'm not expecting to stay, but it's still possible. the only way i could see us both staying is if a third elder comes in. but i quess well find out. well this past week we shoved snow, and actually met someone who was taught like 5 yers ago and still wants to be baptized. so pretty exciting. other than that i can't think of to much more o say. sorry this is short, but take care, and talk to you later. take care.
January 27, 2010
hey how is everything going? yes i got the package monday and i loved the pitcures. sounds like you didn't get to much of snow, were suppossed to get more this weekend but i'm unsure on how much, i've heard light dusting, to 8 inches all from different people, so hopefully nothing to bad.
well wakefield doesn't have any motels are anything there probaly the closest would be either franklin or williamsburg, so thought i would let you know. wow, it's hard to belive colton is going on his mission now
jacob's baptism was awesome. it went very well. I think probably the best part of it was seeing jason smith baptize him. just because about six months ago, he wasn't active, and and hadn't been to church for a while, and now seeing him baptize his nephew was awesome. i can't remember if i told you this or not, but jason and tabby both got recommends to do baptisms at the temple, and she got her recommand for a patrictial blessing. they are on fire right now.other than that not to much more to tell you. but things have been going great here, i'm loving it. well tell everyone hi for me, and talk to you later.
well wakefield doesn't have any motels are anything there probaly the closest would be either franklin or williamsburg, so thought i would let you know. wow, it's hard to belive colton is going on his mission now
jacob's baptism was awesome. it went very well. I think probably the best part of it was seeing jason smith baptize him. just because about six months ago, he wasn't active, and and hadn't been to church for a while, and now seeing him baptize his nephew was awesome. i can't remember if i told you this or not, but jason and tabby both got recommends to do baptisms at the temple, and she got her recommand for a patrictial blessing. they are on fire right now.other than that not to much more to tell you. but things have been going great here, i'm loving it. well tell everyone hi for me, and talk to you later.
Saturday, January 16, 2010
January 13, 2010
heythat's sucks about your job. well i hope that everything will go well in the new job search, hopefully everything will go well. this week has started off pretty rough for us, some of our investigators dropped us, but we were leaning toward doing that as well. so worked out for the best. but thats awesome with sunday. i've never heard of anyone doing that before, but it sounds awesome (mom's NOte: we had scripture Sunday and people told their favorite scripture). jason and tabby boith gave good talks on how the gospel has helped them with there family and both were very powerful talks. tabby said she was very nervous about giving it but once she got up it went away and she spoke from the heart and it was amazing. to bad i couldn't hear tiff or dans talk.
i don't know what the weather is like there, but it's cold here. everyone says it's the coldest winter they've had for a while. i even heard that florida is having damage to there crops because of it. hopefully it will warm up soon. so i can't really think of any cool stories right of for this week, other than we had alot of lessons with everyone and it's been very busy, but we have also found quite a few people that seem very promising, so good news on that front.well i'll defiantly keep you in my prayers, that everything will go well with the job hunt, well take care and hope that all goes well. and i'm glad that grandma is doing a little bit better. oh by the way elder beames parents aren't picking him up, but he's going home later than everyone else, because the soonest flight they could get is like thursday or something. so he's got alittle bit longer as well. well take care
i don't know what the weather is like there, but it's cold here. everyone says it's the coldest winter they've had for a while. i even heard that florida is having damage to there crops because of it. hopefully it will warm up soon. so i can't really think of any cool stories right of for this week, other than we had alot of lessons with everyone and it's been very busy, but we have also found quite a few people that seem very promising, so good news on that front.well i'll defiantly keep you in my prayers, that everything will go well with the job hunt, well take care and hope that all goes well. and i'm glad that grandma is doing a little bit better. oh by the way elder beames parents aren't picking him up, but he's going home later than everyone else, because the soonest flight they could get is like thursday or something. so he's got alittle bit longer as well. well take care
January 6, 2010
well thats exciting about the the tickets. (mom's note: we have our plane tickets to go pick him up!) as for the question about near the airport, as far as i know, which i don't know that part of richmond well, i belive it's farly safe. atleast as far as i remember it looked fairly safe. i'm not sure to much on things to see, but i know williamsburg and james town are close to wakefield, so that's an option. and the biggest thinbg i know down in farmville/burkeville area is appomattox courthouse/lee's retreat. basically the end of the civil war. so not sure. i don't really have to much information about getting info about tourist places here, but i'll give it a shot.
that exciting about jill and jessica, i can't pitcure any apartments there but sounds fun. oh yes, happy birthday. i'll get a card sent out soon. yeah i've seen one of those pitcure frames before. i think there pretty nice, a member had one in the nursoing home with her, she loved it. well for this week, we had it pretty crazy, on wensday night the snow storm in salt lake postponed transfers til the next day. and then the plane had mechanical problems the next. so finally saturday i got my new companion. it was a blast seeing elder beames again. it's been an adevnture here so far. i also saw pres. gruber, he was the branch president when i was down in wakefeild. it was good seeing him again. on sunday jason smith was called into the young mens and i know there working on tabby to get her a calling, so things are going good on that front. they also are giving talks on sunday as well. we also had our brakes replaced yesterday so we did a whole lot of walking yesterday. wasn't to fun. new years eve was pretty boring all we did was stay in after five, and watch elder karpowitz pack, so it was pretty boring.well i don't know to much more to say, but it's been good here, cold but good. well talk to you later
that exciting about jill and jessica, i can't pitcure any apartments there but sounds fun. oh yes, happy birthday. i'll get a card sent out soon. yeah i've seen one of those pitcure frames before. i think there pretty nice, a member had one in the nursoing home with her, she loved it. well for this week, we had it pretty crazy, on wensday night the snow storm in salt lake postponed transfers til the next day. and then the plane had mechanical problems the next. so finally saturday i got my new companion. it was a blast seeing elder beames again. it's been an adevnture here so far. i also saw pres. gruber, he was the branch president when i was down in wakefeild. it was good seeing him again. on sunday jason smith was called into the young mens and i know there working on tabby to get her a calling, so things are going good on that front. they also are giving talks on sunday as well. we also had our brakes replaced yesterday so we did a whole lot of walking yesterday. wasn't to fun. new years eve was pretty boring all we did was stay in after five, and watch elder karpowitz pack, so it was pretty boring.well i don't know to much more to say, but it's been good here, cold but good. well talk to you later
December 30, 2009
well some big news here in Louisa. i'm staying. and the big suprise of all is who my companion is going to be, it elder beames. i came out here with him, and louisa was his first area. it was a very big suprise for me, but i'm excited to serve with him. so it will be crazy to see what happens next transfer, but i doubt that we will end together. elder karpowitz is headed to Norfolk. so well see.
most of the snow is gone now, mostly because it rained on christmas. but from the sounds of it we may have another storm tomorrow. don't think it will be as bad. that subks about brett and liz's car breaking down, hopefully they make it back safely.
this week was has been a blast. on monday night we had a really cool experince, we had a lesson with someone named carl. we got there to find out he wasn't there. so it's about an hour before we go in and really didn't want to tract in the dark and started calling people to see how they were doing. so we ended up calling vallery and she was really upset at the time and elder karpowitz started talking with her and can't remember all that he talked about but now she got the fire back, and really helped her out. it was awesome. thats was proabbly one of the neatest expriences this past week, sorry i can't remeber to much that happened this past week, but i'll talk to you later, take care Elder S. Johnson
most of the snow is gone now, mostly because it rained on christmas. but from the sounds of it we may have another storm tomorrow. don't think it will be as bad. that subks about brett and liz's car breaking down, hopefully they make it back safely.
this week was has been a blast. on monday night we had a really cool experince, we had a lesson with someone named carl. we got there to find out he wasn't there. so it's about an hour before we go in and really didn't want to tract in the dark and started calling people to see how they were doing. so we ended up calling vallery and she was really upset at the time and elder karpowitz started talking with her and can't remember all that he talked about but now she got the fire back, and really helped her out. it was awesome. thats was proabbly one of the neatest expriences this past week, sorry i can't remeber to much that happened this past week, but i'll talk to you later, take care Elder S. Johnson
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