Letter from July 6th

Well this week has been interesting. What started as what I thought would be a pretty cool companionship didn't end that way.. You always have two companions you don't like on your mission. So here's number one.. I just don't like being micro managed and being told what I HAVE to do all the time, so that has gotten quite annoying. I might deck him in a few weeks if it gets bad.. But I'm keeping my cool and excercising every ounce of patience I have... so hopefully this transfer can go by quickly so I can get out of this companionship. They think I will either be transferred out to go open an area and train or they will both leave and I will train in this area and they will be zone leaders in another area and open that area as well. Guess we will see in a few weeks!  But this week we have not been doing too much teaching because Zone Leaders have so many meetings and stuff. We had missionary leadership council, weekly planning, zone meeting planning, zone meeting, and exchanges! It was alot to do in a week. So we didn't get alot of time to proselyte, which isn't a bad thing I guess, but we really wanted to teach more lessons. We did have one day on exchanges where we tracked for 6 hours, because it's the country out here and every house is like a football field away from their neighbor. haha So we did that and met a really great family! His name is Dean and we told him we were coming around offering service and he was like 'nawh guys I should be good.' But for some reason I felt like I should keep prying and keep asking. So I just laid into him with questions and basically told him we would be there on Wednesday in our service clothes and will start pulling weeds whether he likes it or not! haha And he then started to ease up a bit and said he would be okay with us coming over and stuff, so I told him to have a list ready and we will bust it out! haha He is a great guy so hopefully we can also teach him as well and be able to see something come of it! Otherwise we haven't done too much that would be worthy of explaining in my letter.. hah For the 4th of July it was a proselyting day so we went out and saw some potentials! It went pretty well. Then that night we were bored, so I started catching frogs! Then the other two wanted to join so we went on a frog hunt! We ended up catching 3 total. Which is lame compared to my usual catching ability's... and I also tried to catch a deer.. but it didn't work.. We also had a sweet daddy long leg spider as a pet! We kept him for 4 days. With his legs fully extended he was about 6-7 inches in diameter. They look funny when you put them in water.. haha We fed him other spiders and bugs from the garage and a brownie.. :) He was pretty cool but we finally got rid of him haha He was gross. Not as cool as the frogs.. We also see lots of road kill. The other day we passed by a deer that had been hit with 4 vultures just devouring the thing. haha Just another day in the life of living in New Kent! Anyway I think that's all I got for now! I miss you guys and will be home in a year and a few months!

Love,

Elder Johnsen