Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Week 25

So here's some news, Elder Schmuck just left this morning.
President needed him as a Zone Leader so he left and we got
a new companion named Elder Denning. He's way cool, I knew
him from my first area. He's been out just over 10 months,
he's a real genuine guy and pretty awesome so the next 2
weeks will be great. Interviews with President went well.
He had told me that Elder Schmuck was going to leave and I
was going to be with Elder Garcia by myself for 2 weeks but
I luckily got Elder Denning to come. President said that he
really appreciated me working hard to deal with Elder Garcia
and he said my hard work and sacrifice are not going unnoticed
so that was good to hear. I think I am going to be leaving
Nampa soon though, we get transfer calls next week so I'll
find out for sure then.

The lesson with Keira went great, we're teaching her again
tonight. She is excited about baptism and she told us in the
past she tried to get baptized twice before but she said she
failed the interview and didn't know enough (not sure who was
interviewing her because the questions aren't hard...) so we
went over the interview questions and she answered all but 2
right, which was perfect because we hadn't taught her the word
of wisdom and tithing stuff yet so she was all excited that she
knew so much already. We don't have a date set for it yet but
we challenged her and I think it will be sometime in December.

We are getting our investigator pool back up to olympic size
which is great, we're having a lot of success with members
referrals which is just great so good things are happening.

I was reading in the Ensign conference issue and the beginning
of Tad R. Callister's talk is so awesome. He said, "Suppose
for a moment someone told you these three facts about a New
Testament personality and nothing more: first, the Savior said
of this man, “O thou of little faith” (Matthew 14:31); second,
this man, in a moment of anger, cut off an ear of the high
priest’s servant; and third, this man denied knowing who the
Savior was on three occasions, even though he had walked with
Him daily. If that is all you knew or focused upon, you might
have thought this man a scoundrel or a no-good, but in the
process you would have failed to come to know one of the
greatest men who ever walked the earth: Peter the Apostle.

Similarly, attempts have been made by some to focus upon or
magnify some minor weaknesses of the Prophet Joseph Smith,
but in that process they too have missed the mark, the man,
and his mission. Joseph Smith was the Lord’s anointed to
restore Christ’s Church to the earth. When he emerged from
the grove of trees, he eventually learned four fundamental
truths not then taught by the majority of the contemporary
Christian world." I thought that was so awesome.

You've heard David O. Mackay's quote "every member a missionary"
well up here the saying is "every member a mission president."


We had a great week, we taught 24 lessons. I'm gonna be really
busy the next 2 weeks because I'm leading the area. I have to
teach Elder Denning it since he just got here. Wish me luck!
lol love you guys!

-Elder Johnson

Alma 31:5

PS

I had a cool experience this week. I was on exchanges and I was
in the other area in our district and I was with Elder Cluff
and we were tracting and on the 3rd door we knocked on we got
let in and we talked with this guy for over an hour. He started
with just questions about our beliefs and stuff and I could tell
that he really wanted to bible bash but we held back and just
shared our testimony when we wanted to bash, but it was a neat
experience. I got to really see if my bible knowledge was any
good and he also gave me a lot of things to look up and study.
So it was a cool experience and it ended with him committing to
read the Book of Mormon so it was tight!

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