September 5, 2016

Our week was really good! We started teaching Andrea! That was a big blessing! We taught her once and she brought up some concerns and we’re working through them, so we’re not going to stop teaching her! Her husband is less active and is kinda mad at the church, but she said she is doing this for her! and that she is going to find out for herself if it’s true and not think about the problems her husband has because they can be resolved over time! So we asked our Mission President if he would come with us and he said he would! So we’re super excited to have him out with us the next time we go see her! So that’s exciting!

We also had a killer lesson with a less active family and I was super bold with the commitments I left them. I really just want them to be doing the basic things so they can see the blessings of it, so they can hopefully come back to church. So I strongly committed them to read a chapter together every night as a couple for the next week and to also to share their favorite scriptures on social media this next week! So hopefully they can do that because I have seen it throughout my mission bless families! So we’ll see what happens with them.

Me and the Comp are getting along great! The time is really starting to fly by! which is nice. I'm not excited to be done or want to be done but I'm ready for the next challenge... But I'm enjoying the time we’re having here and I'm still going to make the best of it! We’re having a lot of success in the area which is nice and I'm excited to see who will be our next baptism! We also had our investigator Linwood come to church, but we found out he isn’t really retaining as much as we thought. Even though we have gone over the restoration twice and the plan of salvation 3 times. It was very embarrassing in Elders Quorum when someone gets set apart and they then ask Linwood, ‘So the missionaries have taught you about Priesthood Authority right?’ and he says ‘No, I never heard of that.’ When he said that I just put my head down and was like are you kidding me? I was so embarrassed. I just didn’t know what to do. And my companion has never taught him yet, so he didn’t know anything. But anyway, that kinda sucked. But we are still working with him, but he probably just won’t get baptized as soon as we thought. So we’ll see what happens!

None the less were still working hard. And here are some pictures for ya! I love you guys and miss you a lot! See ya in 16 weeks! 

Elder Johnsen

Looks like lots of rain and some flooding in the streets!