Last e-mail from Virginia.

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

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.

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