------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------5 more days and I'm out of here! This week has been pretty awesome I have been learning so much. My companion and I are teaching an investigator that goes by 3J and he is awesome. The first time we taught him he was studying for finals and want to talk to us so we just talked him outside his door for like 5 minutes and then we found out that he and my companion are from the same place so they started talking about that and he finally let us in. We began to ask him about his family and he said that his dad had died a few years back from cancer so we began to talk about eternal families. He and my companion had so much in common it was crazy. The Spirit was so strong in that room it was amazing. My companion was doing all the talking and I felt so dumb just sitting there twittling my thumbs and I was thinking what do i say what do i say!? Then I just thought what is the spirit telling me right now and I just heard it so clearly in my head, don't say anything. So I didn't. Towards the end he turned to me and asked why do you even care? I told him how happy this gospel makes me and I asked him how it would make him feel if he made his mom happy because he said earlier that his mom was never happy anymore. He said that would be pretty great and as the tears began to roll down his cheeks I told him that when I share this gospel with people and bring that same joy into their lives that I feel it makes me soooo happy just like him making his mom happy would make him so happy. He then said he would pray to know if what we were saying was true because we had invited him to do that earlier. It was hands down the best feeling I have ever had in my life. The joy was indescribable. After we left the moment we got out of sight Elder Reas and I just went crazy!!!! We were so happy and excited we were like hysterical for the rest of the day hah.We got to go to a fireside. It was really good. Elder Gay from the first quorum of the seventy spoke. He taught about teaching by the Spirit. we get to go to a worldwide broadcast with president Monson so that is super cool. Maybe you will see me on tv :)Thanks for sending the suitcase and the mints! I need to quit pulling the mints out while there are people around though cause everyone always wants one. We got a new district in our zone last night so Elder Reas, Sister Anderson, and I got to meet them and welcome them and show them the ropes. It was fun because you remember that that was you just a week ago. All of the Elders are going to the Arizona Phx mission and they have cottonwood in their mission so I got to share a little bit of my knowledge on the subject. There is also a sister that is from hurricane. She said she had seen me around before but i didnt recognize her. Her name is sister Eschler.It sounds like everything is going good down there. Have you sold all the puppies yet? Oh and i am allowed to email family so you can get the word out if you want. What is Tanner's email?Well I need to go change my laundry. I wont have any more p days here at the mtc so I don't know when i will get to email you again. They said we get to call home when we are at the airport so if you get a call from a pay phone on tuesday morning that is probably me so you can answer it if you want to talk to me :)
Talk to you later.LoveElder Johnson
Thursday June 20, 2013
Dear Sam,
Well everyone is bummed that Miami beat the Spurs in the finals tonight. The Spurs had the game in the bag in game 6 and lost in overtime. They had a 5 point lead with 20 seconds left.
Not to much going on here, still a lot of work. We have had some people call and stop by to look at the puppies, but no takers yet. We will probably lower the price. Don't want to be stuck with 9 puppies. I seem some pure bread Britney's on ksl.com for $150 dollars a piece. That is really undermining what we were hoping to get for ours.
A bunch of the boys at school got in trouble and so we made them work all day today. They have to work again tomorrow and don't get any movies this week. That is pretty tough on them. They were making bad comments to the girls across the creek. The fun never ends.
On Saturday Bevin and me went up to Smiths Mesa to check fence. We took the horses and road and herded cow's a bit. That was fun.
Your mom probably already told you, but we took Grandpa Ewell's Razor out on Friday night after work and did a pizza on the barbecue. It actually turned out pretty good except we went swimming in the river and forgot about it so it was a little over cooked.on one side.
Monday we did a major clean outside. Took us three hours and you mom was beat. We built a fence around the garden to keep Daisy out. She was digging the tomatoes up. She is fenced out now.
Well that is all I can think of that might be of interest. Mom probably covered anything I missed. Hope all is going well at the MTC. We pray that you are doing well and not too homesick. Keep up the good work.
Love Dad.
sounds like you are having a great experience so far! keep up the good work. everyone likes to read your letters.
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