October 26, 2015

Well I wasn't transferred! So I'm going to finally have a companion longer than one transfer! haha This is exciting! haha But we get along so well, so it's been a fast and great past 6 weeks! I'm excited for the next 6 weeks! We still don't have a car.. which sucks, but we're working hard. I did go to the doctor and he said it's just chronic muscle pain from the car accidents. He basically said any time it hurts just take a bunch of pain pills... So I guess I'm just going to go with it umtil something worse happens, or I'm not sure. Just until something happens haha! They did x-rays and said the bones are spaced out where they need to be and everything looks fine, so he said it's probably just muscle. So we press on! haha This week was a pretty cool week! So, since we split the areas we have had problems with the other missionary's poaching our area for investigators and less actives. Since they have a car they can cover more area/people.. It makes us mad... So on Friday night we were out with Brother Rose, who usually takes us to visit lots of people! So we were out with him visiting people that Bishop gave us to go see and while we were out, we came to the Weidmans (pronounced weed-mans) and they were like 'Whoa! Hey more missionaries!' and we were like crap... So they told us that the other set had scheduled an appointment on Saturday at 7:30 so I had the great idea of saying 'Well hey, we will teach you a much more powerful lesson at 7:15 the same night.' And they were like 'Sure, we would love that!' So my intent was for them to show up and see us teaching a family in their area.. so that maybe they could learn their lesson about poaching! Well it went better than planned!! We took a very powerful member that was previously excommunicated, and went over to their house! And we made sure we were on time! (of course we were because this guy has some very fast cars... we went in his Audi s8)  We show up and we start having our lesson and 7:30 comes and no knock... then 7:35.. no knock yet... then 7:40 comes and still no knock.. So I'm thinking they must have told them that we were coming.. And I mean we prepared a short lesson so I'm trying to drag out this short lesson with this family, and to say the least, it's not quite working out... So 7:45 comes and still no knock... I'm like man we're about to say a prayer and leave! But at few minutes later there's a knock, and the dad gets it and the look on their faces was so priceless!! We were dying laughing once we saw their faces!! hahahahaha I was tickled quite a bit by it! :) haha  Needless to say, the next day at church they were very upset! So I hope they got the point about coming to our area and stealing our less actives and our investigators!! haha

Another funny thing that happened was while we were out finding people on the DO NOT CONTACT list, less active list, and part member family list, we ran into this old guy. We knocked on his screen door (everyone here has screen rooms.. no idea why...) and he yells 'I'm coming.'  So we wait and he gets to the door and opens it and doesn't see anyone, and hes like 'Are ya there?'  And we yell 'Yes, were at the screen door.' And he peeks out and yells 'MORMONS! Are you Mormons?' And we say 'Yes we are!' and he was like 'Well goodbye!' haha And so we yell and ask if he is Brother Nelson (that's not his name) and he quickly opens the door and yells 'Yes!' and then slams it! hahah We were cracking up just laughing! haha So it's been fun and scary trying to contact these people... haha

But otherwise, we didn't teach any of our investigators this week and Landon's dad keeps prolonging his baptism so we are being patient with that.. Hopefully something happens... Hopefully someone will be baptized in this area before I leave.. I want one really bad... so I'm determined to get one!! haha But that was pretty much our week! :)

Elder Johnsen 

 

 

So happy to have received these pics of these two handsome missionaries in my email yesterday!

I love these little surprises.