Oct 8, 2008

sounds like you had a great week. things have been great here. we just opened up a P.O. box so we can get mail now. it's
P.O. box 964
Wakefield, VA 23888

so there you go. so right now it's been going great here. yeah, confernce was kind of scary me and elder brockman have been talking about. a lot of talks seemed to be get prepared, the second coming is coming. it just seemed to have a lot of focus on it, so the probably the biggest message. also found out president monson like showtunes. i'm not sure what my favorite talk was but elder worthlin defiantly had the best joke. so saturday morning we were going out to go tracting and quess what, we had a parade here. elder brockman was tempted to call elder martz, the distict leader and tell him the world was ending, cause there was a large number of sirens going off. so we ended up going to the church early, because we couldn't do anything else. so it was intersting. theres something i want to tell you about elder martz. he been in the same area for almost a year now. it will be a year at the end of this transfer. it's crazy. but he loves the area. he is up in petersburg. then yeterday we had a zone meeting. that was fun. elder peterson and neilson are both in my zone now. it's werid tough, elder neilson is going home next transfer.

well tell jordan congradulations. i'm excited for him. we actually already had an apartment. we had it when we got here. the landlord told us that missionaries have moved in and out of that same one many times. yes we do have a grocery store. here's the funny thing. every area with a car is allowed fourty p-day miles. here's the sad part, we can walk to the libary, to the grocery store, and back to the apartment. we are that close to everything. there are a few fast food places, we have a subway and then we can go to th north and find a hardee's(carl's junior) and a mcdonalds. so there are places, but not much. we actually cover two counties here. sussex, and surry. we made it to the james river this week. but that's about it. oh and we also can walk to the church. it's pretty much across the street. well that's about it for this week. everything is going well here.
elder johnson

Oct 1, 2008

so i guess you already now a bit about this place. i have more to share though. it has an airport, last area didn't. it also has many peanut fields around us. alos micheal Vick's house is in our area. the one with the dogfighting thing. but the biggest thing is, that me and elder brockman are reopening this area. it's been crazy. we arrived basically with nothing. but the branch is very supportive. all of them are thrilled that were back. it's very exciting. i've learned a lot. so the first night we arrived, we unpacked bought our food, and evrything else. then we went out with a bro. holle. he toured us around, helped us go up to the zone leaders apartment and get some more supplies. so that was pretty intersting. we already have someone set for baptism, belive it or not, and another were planning to set on sunday, there unbaptized youths but still something. i have already seen so many miracles here. one day we were looking up potental investigators and we knocked on the door, no one. elder brockman then felt inspired to go to another door, and we ended up tracting everything and nothing happened, as were getting into the car, the potientails wife pulled in. so we talked with her and she's always been interseted in learning more. it's been great here. and quess how big the branch is... make sure you sitting down for this. in my last ward there was about 40 active young men, here there is about that many active members. it is very small. but it's great.
so my companion, elder brockman was a zone leader and now were reopening this area. he has only six weeks left though, so we are really moving to get this area going. he's great, he's really been helping me learn. i've already leanred alot from him. right now we are working on getting a p.o. box because they don't have mailboxes in the town limits. so it's been intersting. we ont be biking here, mostly because elder brockman doesn't have one, and it's not worth it to buy one for six weeks. so it will be different. congradulations on your calling that sounds great. yes, wealso get the ensigns but usually later in the months so we get sneak peaks from members often. well that's about it, i don't know when i can sned pitcures though, mostly because of there's no place here to do it. but i will sometime. well that's it for now. talk to you later.
elder johnson

April 15, 2008

hey everyone,
it turns out that my p-day is actually on tuesday. so here i am. it is so amazing here. it is so green and yellow.(pollen) you can see it all over the car. so no i'm not in a bike area right now but its been great here so far. my companions name is Elder Yelton and Elder Neilson. Elder Yelton leaves in a month. he tells me he is very jealous. he is from Denver Colorado. my other companion is from idaho(i cant remember where). it been great here, the fisrt day the heat really got me but it's been fine since. i alsop have had two meals with members. one was a hispanic family and they were very nice. i liked the meal they had, chicken, rice, and salad. that was the second, the first was my first day here. it was an older sister, she was incredibly nice, the meal i'm still suprised it sayed down. it was sweet and sour macroni with meatballs, something that was supposed to be chicken, and canned fruit, all in a cassorale. it tasted much worse than it sounds, but i ate it. so be proud. there has been very many investigators were teeaching, so far evry lesson has fallen through sense i've been here but, i've meet most of them. one person's name is Jack. he is a retired lawyer, who is now selling realistate and cars. he is very friendly and is very intersted in the gospel. we also have been teaching a sister's friend in her home. her name is elouise and last saturday and her friend committed her to be baptized. she accepted. there another family that sounds very close to wanting to be baptized. it's been amazing here. oh yeah the area i'm in is called Gayton, it's still considered Richmond. it's just north of Richmond. i have also seen a Papa Johns here and i have also seen a Maggie Moo's. so it's got both my old jobs here. i'm really loving it here. the ward is very nice and many are trying to get friends intesrted in the gospel. my address here right now is
2532 Potomac Hunt Lane #1a
Richmond VA 23233
A few days ago we were tracting and turned out we were in a spanish area. so we had our jackets on and knocked on a door. we saw a light in a peephole and it goes dark and the lights turn off as we heard some scampering. so later we think they thought we were border patrol or something. we thought it was a little funny. we also served a nonmember on saturday. they had some friends who were members and asked if we could help them out. we filled up about thrity bags of leaves and rainign off and on. it started wehen we arrived but quit miost of the time we were working. she was very appreciative. she asked how many times we call home and we told her and she couldn't believe it. she said she would be praying that our mothers could handle it. she was very nice. so thats all that's really happened so far. i don't know if i need a phone card or not but i'll let you know. so for now that's all.