February 8, 2016

Well hello! This week has been amazing! We have been doing lots of service! In fact, we wore service cloths for 4 days straight! I felt like I was back in high school... It was weird... But we had a good time and did lots of great things! We set Craig with a date of March 12th! So we have another baptism coming up! So that's super exciting! The best part about it was, he was talking about how he has a CDL drivers license the other day at our lesson and I know with a CDL you got to be a truck driver and truck drivers move big things.. So then he went on to talk about how he got a ticket the other day from an officer saying he needed more ratchet straps on his 44,000lb excavator.. Now he continues to keep talking and I start thinking.. 44,000lbs is a freaking lot. That means he has a big excavator.. like a huge one... So I ask 'Well is that your excavator?' And he told us it was his, that he does some work with it but he said its not running currently because of a leaky injector. So I told him 'Well hey, I would love to fix it!' And he said 'Really?' And I said 'Heck yeah, on one condition...' and so I told him I would fix it if he lets me dig a big hole with it and fill it back in! haha And he agreed! So my life dream of driving an excavator has come true! This Wednesday I will get to drive a big bad excavator! And I will take some video! I'm so stoked!!!! The biggest excavator-like thing I have driven was the back hoe at camp Cole in California when I was like 11, dad probably remembers! But I'm so excited to feel the raw power of this thing! hahahaha But anyway.. We did also do productive stuff! haha We taught a bunch this week! We taught the Webbers, we also watched super bowl at their house.. :) shhhhh don't tell anyone.. :) But it was exciting! It got very cold and started raining a bunch during it! There was ice everywhere! I think Brother Webber has really grown to like me. I have been helping him a bunch in his shop at home. He showed me how to prep a bumper for paint so I got to do that for him. I also changed the plugs on his race car for him and we cleaned out and put away all of his tools that were everywhere! So I know he likes the service and appreciates it a lot! So hopefully we can see a little more of a change of heart in him! We stay hopeful and pray for him! But thats pretty much all the cool stuff that happened this week. There's more on the video journals that I send home so be sure to watch those to get a little more info from day to day living! Anyway! I'll see you guys in less than a year! :)

Love, 

Elder Johnsen