So this week we have had some good stuff happen, as well as some bad stuff.. An Elder in our district went home for some reasons that needed to be taken care off... But he has promised me that he will be back and will be my companion at least once when he gets back to the field haha! I heard most the time people do what they think is full repentance but once they get to the field they go 'Oh crap, wow I forgot about one thing'. And usually Mission President takes care of that, but sometimes they need to go home. And the way he was talking to us I know he will be back! He was an awesome missionary and was heartbroken he had to go home. So that is good and bad, but now we have Elder Tolman and we are in a TRIO!!!!! Trios are the best because whenever we find a single lady and she has some time for a lesson we can actually teach her! So this will be really awesome! So far we have been having so much fun, and it's only been one day! It reminds me of the MTC when we were in a Trio!
We finally talked to George and asked about his fears about coming to church. He was scared he was going to be the only black person there, so we talked to him about it and hopefully we can see him at church in the next week or two! That's basically the only new thing on our investigators.
We do have some funny news to report though. I had my first good bike crash. We were flying down the side walk going about 15mph, which is a little slower than our average cruise speed, and I saw this beautiful, and I mean beautiful Chevy dually, and I was star struck. I was caught in a gaze dreaming of how I would love to drive it.. then all of sudden, out of no where a pole appeared. And I slammed right into the pole and was taken out of my dreams of driving that truck. I was thrown into the road and luckily, from my bmx days, I ran it off and didn't hit the ground. So I got lucky, and my bike suffered very little damage. Then yesterday Elder Hood, my usual companion, had figured out how to do wheelies on his bike and loves showing off to me and is always looking for ways to be better than me at things. Well karma finally bit him in the butt. Literally. He popped up this one wheelie and went straight up and off the back and didn't ditch the bike, so he landed right on his tailbone and now walks around like a grandpa! haha I was laughing when it happened. It was great! And on that same day I found the best sleeper ever. There was a guy outside talking to his neightbor with his littlee s10 idling. Now this was not any regular idle... This was a stroked 383 small block with a nasty .554 lift cam in it. I pulled up and said 'nice little s10 you got threre' and talked to the guy for a bit. Found out all about the truck. It's a 383 with a huge cam 1.6 roller rockers, Edlebrock high rise intake with an Edlebrock 7150 double pumper carburetor, running 100 race gas. This thing was soooooo ugly looking, but had the greatest engine ever! He built it for the 1/8 mile and I recorded all of it on the GoPro! He reminded me of the farmtruck and daddy Dave's Sonoma. He apparently is the fastest on the streets in Norfolk and has beat a 05 GTO, a turbo civic and a bunch of other cars! He then told me as we were leaving that when I get a chance, I need to put the video up on YouTube so he can see it. (he was 54 I'm not sure if he knows how to use youtube..) But he was so cool! He was very vauge on the hp number.. He smiled and said 'It makes more than 475 at the rear wheels and I will leave it at that!' He was awesome! But that was our week!
I love you guys and miss you all so much! 3months down, 21 more left! We got this! :)
Love,
Elder Johnsen
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