Letter from August 24, 2015

This week has been good! We taught 19 lessons this week, found 7 new investigators and got 78 I/O's, so we didn't get the standard because we didn't get 100 I/O's which sucks but it's fine, we were teaching lots of people! Cool little miracle thing that happened this week, we were on our way to a lesson and while walking up to the house we stopped and talked to a guy to get a little I/O before the lesson.  He was like 'yeah I'm going through some family problems' and wants to help his family out so we told him our message blesses families.  He was like 'Well, come on in right now!'  We told him 'We have a lesson right now but after we can try.'  He was cool with it so we went in and taught this lesson and then came out and went to another lesson, and then went to a third lesson before we came back and said 'Hey we have some time! are you available for a lesson?'  He was, so we taught him outside of his house and it was a great lesson! He invited us back over and said he is really looking for some direction in his life! He really loved the part about the apostasy! He said he sees alot of the end result of that! So that was cool! His name is Sam and he even said he would be baptized if he came to know that it was true! So that was super cool!

Alright, so the hardest question we have gotten is usually if Jesus is black or white or that they were already baptized and don't want to get baptized again. 

The question we really hate getting is if Jesus is black, because the person is usually really racist and will dwell on trying to proove to us that Jesus is black.. I don't really care what color he is, his teachings are what matter most. 

And the easiest question that we have been asked is 'when can I get baptized?' haha Those ones are super easy! 

This week we were told something pretty far fetched, he clearly doesn't understand scriptures.. but he told us we worship pagan gods because we celebrate Christmas and Easter.. Super lame. But I wanted to ask why he was wearing a cross, because that would mean that he is worshipping the cross and not Jesus, therefore meaning he worships pagan gods as well.. I thought it was funny. haha That was pretty much our week! :) I miss you all and can't wait to see you again soon! 

Elder Johnsen