November 23, 2015

Well this week we have finally been seeing the success coming from long weeks of just visiting less actives. I DON'T WANT TO LEAVE THIS AREA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We have picked up a NIMR each week now and we have started setting people for baptism. We have started to have people at church! This area is starting to take off! We have been loaded with referrals from active, less active, and recent converts! It has been a great past few weeks! We have visited every less active and part member family in our area! And so many of them have told us to come back and we have set up so many appointments this week! We are going to be doing lots of teaching this week! I'm very excited and we, as a companionship, are very happy about all the success we have been having!


We taught one of our new investigators, Kim, this week and she is doing soo well!!!! She is married to a less active and the father is an extremely active member. So we had a really great first lesson with them and then we came back on Sunday to teach her again and she told us that out of all the missionary's that have taught her, we were the only ones that have the Spirit so strong in our lessons! It was crazy! I have never loved an investigator sooo much!! Usually I just know they probably won't progress, but with her I know that this time she will be baptized! She was previously taught by a few sets of missionaries, but when we went over the first time we taught her the new way we are teaching and they just felt the spirit so strong! They were both crying and it was just a good lesson! I just can't contain how excited I am for her! We then extended a baptismal date for her. We set her for January 2nd! And she said that she feels very prepared for this date! And I know she will be! She was very excited to hear about a date for her! Next lesson I'm going to tell her that if she gets baptized on that date, than in a year I will come back out and go to the temple when they are sealed! And the best part about us meeting with them is she then invited us over for Thanksgiving dinner with her whole family, who are non members! So we are super excited to hopefully teach them a lesson about what we believe!


We also had an investigator at church! She was also a member referral from a recent convert! She has a lot to do before she can get baptized, but we are hoping we can set her with a date as well! haha So as you may know, this has been an exciting week! I am so happy right now!!! haha Anyway! I love being out here and I'm having so much fun in this area! haha Well I love you and I miss you a bunch! 

Love,
Elder Johnsen

More fun pictures I found on his photo storage.  I have no idea what they are doing or where they are.  But, he and his companion seem to get along very well.  :)