November 9, 2015

Well this week was an interesting one.. I almost got shot, we didn't baptize anyone, and we still don't have a car. haha We have been having pretty good success with trying to find people that don't come to church! Except for last night.. that's when we almost got shot. So it starts getting dark around here at about 6, so we went out to find people like usual. We brought one of the kids from the ward who is leaving for his mission in a week, and we get to a house and the garage is open so we're happy because we're thinking 'Man we will be able to talk to them!' So we're all excited. We're walking up to the front door and the guy comes in from the backyard and I'm like 'Hey! How's it going!' And he goes 'Woah! You guys kinda scared me!' And I was like 'Oh I'm sorry man! I didn't mean to.' And he was like 'Well it's all right, we can't do it tonight!' And we're like 'OK, well does Jessica (I'll change her name for protection) live here?'  He then turns to us and starts walking towards us and he just starts yelling! 'Get the F*** off my driveway!' And we're like 'Yes sir! We are going!' He then said 'You know what, actually I'm just going to kill you guys because you keep coming over!!!!!!' So we're like 'Umm we want no part of this!' So he starts running inside! And while he's running inside he's yelling 'Jessica! I'm going to kill the F***in Mormons!' So as we're walking fast back to the car, I look back and see him running through his house to his room, so I'm like 'Oh snap he was serious!' So I start bookin it to the car! And Josh (the youth) had the car locked and was looking for the keys, so I'm freaking out because there's a guy with a 12 gauge running through the house trying to get me! So I'm yelling at Josh and finally we get in the car and we start that car so fast and we got out of there sooo fast!!!!! Needless to say we will not be going back to try and see Jessica... haha So that was a great experience.. I have decided that I'm going to now turn my gopro on when we do less active contacts at night... Just in case it's the last video of me.. haha Because if I could have gotten that on film, it would have been sweet to show people!! Maybe we'll go back just so we can film it... No, I'm kidding mom. We won't be doing that! haha Otherwise contacting the less actives has been good! They usually just say 'Umm yeah I don't want to talk to ya!' So we just verify that they are the person that the records say lives there and then we just tell Bishop that they would prefer not to be contacted at that time.

We actually stopped by an old lady's house who can't come to church because she has health problems. She's 82.. I mean, that's old. And she was an unknown less active. And we were the first people to visit her in probably over a year and she was so happy to see us! And to see people from the church! She couldn't stop saying how much she loved us! We had a great lesson with her! :) It was a bittersweet moment! :) So there's a success story and a funny/bad story! haha! Besides that, we have gotten back in contact with Jamilah and have a lesson with her today and a lesson with Tony. We have gotten a little more support from the ward so we are able to hopefully bring these people to Baptism! We'll see how the lesson goes. We did stop by Landon's last night and his dad informed us he will probably be wearing the brace for the next 3 months... So we can cross him off our list.. So we told him when he feels like he is ready, to give us a call. So we dropped him, but we'll continue to pop in every now and then. But that was pretty much our week! I love you all and miss you a bunch!

Love, 

Elder Johnsen

 

I have no idea what these pictures are of or who is in them.  I just found them in his My Cloud account and thought I would post them.  His current companion is in the picture with him at the Dr. Office and the bottom picture.  I do recognize some of the other missionaries in some of the pics, but not all of them.