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

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

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