Family!
This week has been
great! Not a whole bunch of new things, but I want to share a few funny stories
in my email today. I hope I can explain them so they will be funny!
So after email time
this last week, I went to the barber shop to get a hair cut. Well, first of
all... I just want to challenge anyone to go to a haircut store and tell them
how you want your hair cut with out using words. Only actions. Ohhh and did I
mention, you can't understand them clearly when they speak back to you. Anyway,
that's how I do it every time. So this last week as I went to the hair cut place,
I tried to do my best explanation of how I wanted my hair cut.. As she kept
cutting and cutting, I told her to just go shorter and shorter. As she got to
the length I like, I told her to stop there. Well, long story short... As she was
cutting my side burns, I didn't realize this at first but she was turning me into
a "SPIKE," (hence, my nick name for the past week by all the Elders
in my district). She cut one of my side burns completely in a triangle and my
other one on my right side the way it is supposed to be. The one that is cut in
a triangle shape, she also nicked the side by the top of my ear, so I have a
little bald spot and when she got done washing my hair at the end, my front
left side of my hair had not been cut at all... So she took the scissors and
cut a straight line right across my fore head. I guess you could say I am one
of the more stylish missionaries walking the streets. Haha The other Elders
have been laughing at me all week! It has been great! Definitely a good memory!
When someone cuts your hair and all you can say back to them is, "Yeah IT
LOOKS PERFECT," or "YEAH, THAT'S OKAY," because you don't know
hair cut vocabulary, things get real interesting. :)
I was able to go out
on a bus to the country side today and help one of our members with some
farming stuff. It was so amazing. Such a cool experience. We had to take these
big pipes and move them like a half mile to this other place, we had to wrap
these big plastic things up that they put on the top of the big flower gardens,
and we got to fix these walls that needed to be repaired out on the farm. It
was amazing.
I was grateful that the Lord gave me an amazing opportunity to
serve. It was a lot of hard work, and it was nice to get out in the dirt and
fields and get all dirty!
After we worked in the field our member took us back
and we had a big lunch at his house. It was amazing, we had these hand picked
strawberries from his huge strawberry garden and he fed us this really good
meat and lettuce wrap things, (of course with rice). It was awesome. Such a
good experience.
This week we have
been able to continue to meet with our investigator. He is the one I found on
the street that I have been talking about each week. We were able to spend
basically a half day with him on Thursday. We taught him a lesson and then went
to a member's home together for a dinner and an activity! It was perfect,
something that he really needed. He is slowly starting to progress. He and
another one of our investigators came out to church this last week. Those were
two big miracles! Each night I have been able to call him and talk to him on
the phone. I have developed such a good relationship with him. We have such a
strong friendship, and I have really just been trying hard to gain that
relationship with him and help him to see the love God has for Him. That is one
of the most important things, Letting your investigators know that God loves
them. I have been doing that by example. Trying to let them see the light that
I have been blessed with. I have been bearing my testimony of the fact that I
know God Loves me. I know He knows me personally. I have been grateful for that
testimony I have gained while I have been serving.
I love everyone! Hope
you all have a good week! Be safe and work hard. I feel impressed to share this
to anyone who reads my e-mail. God Lives and He loves. He knows each and
every one of us. I challenge all to give thanks each day, and I promise that as
you do this, you will feel His love and a new light will come into your life. I
know that God knows each and every one of us. He has a plan for us and we are
down on this earth seeking that plan, and we need to allow his son Jesus Christ
to be a part of that plan. He can if we let Him. God loves each and every one of
His Children.
I love you!
Elder Johnson
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