Michael's Mission: I. LOVE. NEW. KENT!!

Wow! Only 4 days in my new area and I'm already in love. They just put a fat boy in a cake factory! This area is amazing! I may hate Virginia weather but... this style and type of area would be the only reason I move out here! :) Will talk more bout that la'r own. (thats some redneck country slang right der) I'm happy to be in a trio again because we can teach anyone! We don't need to find a third male to teach a single lady! It's great! And this will be my third trio haha! Once in the MTC, once in Norfolk, and now here! My two companions are Elder Coltrine, he's from Cali, loves country music and did construction stuff back home and is a pretty cool guy. Elder Thurgood is your typical missionary from good ole UTAH! So you can already guess what he is like. We do already have investigators we are teaching. We have about 8 people we are teaching currently, which is a good size number! We do about 2 hours of tracting each day, which is how we have found most all of our investigators so far! So this area I'm serving in is very country style. When you think of a farm, this is the place. The law here is that you can't buy a house without AT LEAST 3-5 acres. AT THE LEAST 5 ACRES!!!!!! They do that because they don't want to over populate the county. So everyone has horse property and everyone has a cute little barn on their property! The place is just awesome! haha I love it here! The downside is it's only a Branch (maybe because your neighbor lives a quarter of a mile down the street!) But that's not a bad thing! Everyone here is full of love and has that southern hospitality! It;s great! The thing with Norfolk was that I was there for one purpose. I was there to get Sister Fredricks husband to be baptized! And I got him going on the right track so swoop I'm done there! Now I'm here and I think I already know my purpose for this area! There's a guy in the branch who's son has stopped coming to church, because the President of the branch kept bombarding him with questions about going on a mission! (kinda sounds like my bishop) And so he said screw it I'm just done with it. (kinda sounds more like me and not serving a mission) And the best part about this whole story is he just graduated and all he wants to do is work on his cars... (yes this is basically the same thing that happened to me) So when talking with his dad (who has a awesome beard BTW!) He said I think your purpose here is to re-activate my son and get him on a mission. I was like well, I don't know my purpose here, but I would love to go work on some cars with your son though! He told me that me and his son have basically the same exact mindset! So, hopefully I can help out his son and maybe find other people I'm here for in this area! Did I say that I love it here yet? Well I do just in case you didn't know! The main difference between here and Norfolk is that this branch is full of love and every member loves you, they all want to help you out as much as possible! And everyone here is just awesome! haha Well that's pretty much been our week! I hope you guys are enjoying Lake Powell without me... :/ But don't worry and don't fear... POWELL 2K17 IS IN FULL SWING! Me and Garrett have both invited our whole missions to come to Lake Powell with us in the summer of 2017. So there will be a big time party going on the summer I get home! ;) Might want to start making plans for that ;) But I'm doing great and can't wait to hear from you guys! I will include pictures in the following few emails!

Love,

Elder Johnsen