August 8, 2016

This week we finally got someone to come to church! His name is Linwood, he is a pretty funny guy, but he loved church! We had to go pick him up and we were late getting to church. We got to church right as soon as they finished the prayer for the bread! We thought we were going to have to ask the Bishop to give us sacrament later in the day or something! haha But he loved how smiley people were and how friendly they were and he said he wanted to come back next week! So that's very exciting! We only taught him once last week and he was acting kind of funny during the lesson so we didn't really get through it. He might have a problem comprehending everything we are saying, so we might have to teach him a few times before he really understands anything that we say. But he’s a good guy and we’re excited to be working with him. We taught only one lesson last week to an investigator, which was Linwood, but we taught 8 less actives which wasn't too bad. It was kind of a slow week compared to what we are used to. None the less it was still fun!

We got rained on while I was on exchanges again this week! It was pretty fun. I love playing in the rain haha. Well, I guess I always have... but we had a cool experience while we were in the rain. We biked to a less actives house that we didn't know, that we recently found on the roster. After knocking on the door and no one being home we left and it started down pouring, so we went under a tree and hung out until it was practically over. While we were waiting, a truck passed us and then stopped and backed up and said "Hey do y’all wanna come to my house and dry off?" and we were like sure! So we went over and he was the boyfriend of the girl we were trying to contact! He pulled up to the house we had just tried! He let us in and we had a good talk with him and he was from GILBERT ARIZONA!!!!!!!!!!!! It was awesome! We had a good talk. He isn't a member since his family stopped going to church when he was about 5 years old, but he has respect for the Mormons and thinks what we do is pretty cool! But his wife is a member and she wasn't there, but he texted her and she told us to come back and he gave us her number, so we will be calling her and setting something up in the near future to meet with them. Hopefully we can get him baptized! it would be so cool! But that was a cool little miracle that happened this week! I hope all is well and that everyone is having fun! I love y'all!

Elder Johnsen