May 3, 2016

This week was really good! We taught a lot, but I also learned more about what I want to do in life. But first starting out, Hunters mom came to town but didn't talk to anyone about the baptism. So everyone got pretty upset about that! We really want him to be baptized, but it's hard when his mom isn't going to put forth any effort or even talk to us. So that's very frustrating. John is doing great. We had a good lesson with him the other day. He thought it was cool that we have been emphasizing a lot on faith. We told him that we just pray to seek guidance on what we teach him and that Heavenly Father has been guiding us to teach him about faith. So that hit him pretty hard that WE aren't just thinking of something cool to teach. So we're slowly but surely progressing with him. He also took us out riding the cross country trail in Greenville again. So it was nice to talk to him since it's a pretty long drive. So he is doing well.

We recently got in contact with one of the part member families that we have been trying to teach. We talked to their daughter and got her number since she is a UN baptized youth, and we are going to start working through her to meet with her and if her family wants to join in they can, but they are so not active. But we are hopefully going to be able to have success there! So that will be cool!

This week at church I found out there is a member that is a dentist and so I really wanted to talk to him about how he became one and all that jazz.. and I'm almost positive I'm going to join the military. He told me he went to 4 years of school, became an accountant and hated it. So he decided to become a dentist. So he joined the Navy, because he said he didn't want to pay $100,000 a year for dental school. So the military paid for it and he is now in the military as a dentist, and he says he loves it!  It made me really re-consider the military. They have such a great program with helping people get to college and things like that, if you do military service. So that's something I have been pondering on. I'm still wanting to become a dentist and I know serving this mission has really made that clear to me.

That's all for this week. Nothing really new happening. I will try to make something interesting happen this week to mix it up a little as well! So stay tuned! haha I miss you guys tons! And I love you guys a bunch! :)

Love, Elder Johnsen