one Year Mark

Well tomorrow's my year mark as a missionary, and that's cool. I like being a missionary, what a great way to spend this part of my life! some people are partying in college, but I'm partying with Jesus! This has been a stellar week, and pretty packed. We had transfers last week, and I lost Elder Hoole sadly. Though he was replaced by Elder Kearsley! who is also a stud, I love him so far, and he really loves Ice cream so I think its going to go well. We visited the Hopewell rocks last week and they're neat, they are some gnarly rocks on the bay of fundy that erroded really cool, and when the tide is out you can go walk under them. (The bay of Fundy rises and falls 50 feet every day!) We got two new cool investigators this week, Carla and David, they were potentials given to us by some other elders. We buzzed their apartment, they let us in. We Walked up stairs, and there were two people just standing in their doorway staring at us as if to say "Yes, We are glad you are here!" in a more awkward scary sort of way. They immediately let us in, and told us about how interested they were in the mormon church, and how they saw the light in us that they also saw in their other mormon friends. They were cool. We also had a miracle on monday, Our day was packed, and for some reason I felt like we should put one new investigator down for a goal (when that didn't make sense in the plans). Well we showed up late to one guys house and he said he was not able to meet anymore, because his fam was in town. We walked out and saw a guy walking away down the street, and Elder Kearsley said "Speak with Everyone" so we yelled hello to the Older man, and ran to speak to him. We had a stellar conversation with this man named mike, and he invited us into his sweet home which was nearby. (reminded me of this old House!) We talked with him, and he had a lot of questions relating to the Restoration. Lo and behold! new investigator. Love Ya'll! Elder Johnson

Life is Good

So this week was pretty good. We had a lesson with Kurt and Parker again, and we took bishop once again. We got to hang out with Kurt and Parker while bishop interviewed their mom, and that was pretty sweet! it was roughly 35 degrees fahrenheit, and raining, so we just ran around and played tag! Fun Stuff. I Also Got to call Me Madre! I love my mother with all of my heart, She's the life of the party. simple as that. Oh, and she makes phenomenal cupcakes. I miss those quite a bit, and it didn't help when my dad described the white chocolate raspberry cupcakes she just tried😌 This week President Pratt (our mission president) asked us to focus on getting a mother's day miracle. He challenged us to pray for a miracle in every prayer said, and fast to have a miracle. For me the miracle I recognized was having four Solid investigators come to church. It's never easy to get them to church, but when they do they mean business, so we were quite blessed to have Jeff and Terrilynn there, as well as two dudes the same ages as my brothers, Kurt and Parker. Life is Good. Faith comes by choice not by chance. God is great, root beer is good, and people are crazy.

This was a pretty sweet week

We had the opportunity to do quite a bit of finding this week (Looking for new investigators! Knocking lot's of doors) We knocked in this Trailer park that made Elder Hoole and I feel like we were back home in the states. There was even one house with the Confederate flag. Not many people answered for us there, but one old lady did and she cussed us out for having hundreds of wives. Oh Well! other than that she was a sweet old woman. This week we taught Jeff and Terrilynn quite a few times, and we were able to teach a couple of new investigators named Kirt and Parker. They are so cool, they are the same ages as kaden and Porter, and they are the sons of a returning less-active mother (who is also really cool) we Taught them twice this week, and it's awesome teaching them. Kirt is super smart like kaden, and he's just a thinker, while parker is a feeler. We had the opportunity to teach super simply, and they told their mom after they left "I'm not sure what it is, but i feel super happy!" and she taught them about the spirit !Kirt and Parker live about 30 minutes away in a coastal town named Shediac. We taught them, and bishop wanted to meet briefly with their mother before we went, so we hung out with the boys. just over an hour later they got out, so we had just had a blast with Kirt and parker, we played baseball, threw boomerangs, and played hot potatoe (don't worry, it was with a tennis ball) That pic of me with a note in the window was sad, this one lady was super excited to learn more, came back for when our appointment was and she didn't want to talk anymore! too bad. We'll stop back later. There is also a pic of me at shediac beach, the warmest beach north of South Carolina, (though it was flippin cold today!) And there is a pic of me riding the giant lobster they have there. A picture of my comp and I covered in cigarette dust from helping a guy move. Love Elder Johnson