Week 18

The pictures from the flooding are crazy, I cant believe it was so
disastrous that they had to call in the "Mormon helping hands"  lol

Currently I am at the mission office writing e-mails because we spent
the day here today but normally we write them at the family history
center in Nampa and we spend as much time as we want to write
e-mails, usually its around 2 + hours.

I can't believe that Nate only gets a hour to write e-mails and that
he can only get letters on p-day and can only write letters on p-day,
that would really be tough...but it would definitely keep us focused
during the week.

With Brother Lorenzen, what you guys were saying is what we
were thinking too. There's nothing more we can do so now we're
just gonna visit him every month or every other month and to
check up and see if anything has changed with him.

I am out of Emergen-c right now.  I did just buy a big box of that
muscle milk light from Costco, one of the Elders out here has a
card there so we went there today. I don't really need anything
else. We went shopping today to the thrift stores and I picked up
2 suits, one is way ugly and I love it lol and the other was pretty
decent looking. We have to start wearing suits all the time in a
couple of weeks so I need to pick up a few more because that
gray pinstripe one I have is too small now, so I only had one other
suit. This lady while we were in line at D.I. bought the suit I was
gonna get so that was awesome, she saved me $20.

Elder Schmuck's knee is doing better, he doesn't use his cane
anymore and he goes without his brace most days, he still
is a wobbly guy and feels like its too weak to do any kind of
sports, but I am getting to go with the zone leaders in the
morning to play basketball, so my exercising is going just fine.

We have interviews with the President tomorrow, I'm excited for
that. He usually tells me a lot of what is going to happen with
transfers so that will be good. I am so excited for General
Conference this weekend, I've never been this excited before,
even when I was able to go to the conference center. We are
going to watch the sessions with our investigators so we're
currently trying to coordinate that.

We went to the Temple this morning. It is always great to go in
the early morning, it makes the rest of your day so much better.
Well I got to go. We've got to get back to Nampa, hope all is well.
I've been reading in 2 Nephi this past week and I really liked the
last few verses of the last chapter in 2 Nephi, I think it is chapter 32,
the faith that Nephi has is so powerful and his last words are so
strong... it's almost scary, but very powerful. I love the Book of
Mormon, it really is the most correct book EVER. Love you guys!

-Elder Johnson

Week 14

Today for p-day we went golfing! It was my first time going to an
actual golf course. Brother Ramero took us and it was so much fun,
I want to do it a lot more. We did 9 holes and I was getting better by
the last one lol. 

The mission tour with Elder Johnson was awesome!! He had some
serious power when he spoke, his English accent was awesome too.
I learned so much from him, he spoke a lot about studying and how
powerful teachers teach less than what they know so we need to
study and learn a lot. He also told us that information doesn't
convert people, revelation converts people. Then he talked to us
a lot about desire, he shared a quote from Michael Jordan, "desire
makes the difference". Maybe ask Barron if he knows the story
behind the quote, he said it after the last game of the NBA finals
when they were playing the Utah Jazz in the 90's.

This past week has been great! The baptism/confirmation this
last weekend went the best it could go. We got to stand in the
circle for the confirmation, it was way spiritual. We have Danny's
baptismal coming up this Saturday. We taught him all of the
lessons this week, which was great because we love teaching
instead of finding people to teach. We hit a personal record for
lessons taught in a week, 18! It was awesome. We had to go on
splits 3 times this week. All that is left is doing his baptismal
program and doing his baptismal interview and we'll do that 
Wednesday and Thursday this week. I hope all is well back home.
Thanks for all the love and support. Love you!