Week 8

Hello family and friends!!!


This past week has been a hot one! It's been 95 + everyday and on
Saturday it was 106 and that was the day we decided to ride bikes
all day...yeah, that was a mistake lol. I was sweating bricks! This
past week we have had a lot of success with getting our ward
mission leaders to actually do their jobs. We have it set up now
where we go out with a ward mission leader on Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday, and Sunday night. That will give us a lot of work to
do and get to know more families. We also finally got a large list of
less active and inactive families for some of our wards so we will be
busy the few next weeks meeting them and teaching them.

On Thursday night we had a lesson with Brent, we taught lesson 4
which is the commandments, it went really well. He was willing to
accept them and start living them. We challenged him to pray for a
date that he will be baptized. We're meeting with him Wednesday
night so that's gonna be awesome! Hopefully I can come back to
Kuna to see his baptism.

Sunday a missionary came home and gave his farewell in the 4th ward,
that was a packed house. He went to the Mcallen Texas mission. We
had two investigators there so that was a awesome powerhouse talk
for them to hear. We got all but one of our investigators to church so
that was awesome! After church we went out to Melba and met with
Norma Jean. She's an 85 year old lady who we've been teaching for
awhile. She is so close to baptism. She knows it's true. Her only hold
up is that she doesn't have any dresses and she would feel
uncomfortable at church wearing pants. I think we can help her with
that lol. She's been saying she'll get baptized at some point in her life
since she was 12! We were really bold with her and promised her, as
representatives of Jesus Christ, that if she read the Book of Mormon
and prayed to know of a date to be baptized, she will have the Holy
Ghost tell her an answer. I know our next meeting will be awesome
with her.

We struck out this week with getting baptismal dates set, I've found
out that people don't just WANT to be baptized. It's hard work to get
them to be baptized, so we're working hard to get some. This up-
coming week, our zone is having a competition with getting the most
lessons with a member present. Our goal is 8 this week. I think we
can win if we get that, hopefully we can get some more. I want to
ask you to go out with the missionaries when they teach investigators.
Be there when they teach. A huge obstacle for investigators is coming
to church because they don't know anyone. If you're there when they
get taught, they will have a familiar face at church. That will help
them and make the missionaries love you! Please introduce yourself
to any investigators you see at church. That will either make or break
a investigators experience at church.

I learned something really cool this week. We were teaching Rick,
who's an excommunicated member. We told him that because of
Jesus Christ, two things were accomplished, and he told us no there
was three. So we said well, he was resurrected so that we can
conquer physical death, and he also atoned for the sins of the world
so we can conquer spiritual death. We asked him what the 3rd gift
was and he told us that it's the gift of the Holy Ghost. In
John 14:26-27 it says that Jesus will leave the earth, and will leave
us the comforter (Holy Ghost) to take his place and that will give us
the peace, not what the world thinks of peace where it's temporary,
but an eternal peace that never ends. I thought that was awesome.

Today was p-day and we went and worked out at a member's
house this morning with one of our priests in one of our wards. I felt
so weak, I could only get 185 up like 5 times. :-(  Then we went to
a zone BBQ! We played some b-ball, then football, then some
ultimate Frisbee. After that we went back to one of the companions'
house and had a Hawaiian BBQ. Elder Dumaguin is from Hawaii and
he cooked us some rice and Hawaiian steaks. It was so good!!!! Ok,
well that's all for today. Hope everyone is doing great! Thanks for
all the letters and packages!

-Elder Johnson



"You need to occasionally be uncomfortable, that's the only time that
you grow. Think of the uncomfortable experiences you've had, you've
probably learned something from each one. Learn to live outside of
your comfort zone."