Letter from September 7, 2015

This week we did really good! We had a meeting up in Virginia so we had to drive up Tuesday afternoon and stay the night there for our meeting on Wednesday. It's a little over a 3 hour drive so that was kinda fun. So for two days we didn't really get much done.. But we still did teach 18 total lessons and got 6 new investigators, with 61 invite others. So we didn't hit the standard but we still did a pretty good job. If we had those two days we could have gotten the invite others for the standard. We had exchanges with the Assistance's which went pretty well! I found this quote in this lady's house that I wrote down during the lesson.  I didn't get it at first but it makes a lot of sense! 'It's better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust'. I didn't get it but I do now and it's a really great quote! I love it haha. Also, if you remember last week me talking about our investigator Lucy..? Well great news!!! No I'm kidding, this is actually really funny! So we took the Spanish Missionary's over there to talk to her about the Book of Mormon. Well it went pretty good! We found out she is a Pentecostal Minister and only went to church so she could try and steal some of our church members to go to her church! It was crazy!!! We were stunned, but we had to laugh about it! haha Alright... So to get away form my companions... I do like dad does... "pretend to go to the bathroom."  But mainly I just stay quite and don't really engage in conversation... Because then I say something stupid, and it lets me think about other things.  I haven't really learned how to cook any new meals. We have mainly just suffered through eating the basics... Pasta for lunch, bagel for breakfast... Whatever the members feed us for dinner. I did learn how to cook ranch marinated chicken while on my mission.... and I would say the reason I have gained weight is just by eating so much.. And being in a car all day, instead of me walking around an auto shop all day and working on cars. Instead I'm sitting at a desk and riding around in a car.... Very different. But I do plan to just work it all off when I get back on the wake board back home. That will really kill me and get me into shape. If my back allows me... so we will see! That's pretty much it for our week! I hope everything goes well for you guys back home! :) I love you guys and miss you! 

Elder Johnsen

 

A little P-Day fun at the golf course.  He also sent a few pics of his blistered hands from swinging the clubs.

Pretty cool looking night sky!