- Pictures
- Sam chopping wood
- Sam's letter to family
- Zone conference
- Great investigators but didn't come to church
- Sick - lost voice
- Transfers coming up
- Dad's letter to Sam
- Working at ranch
- Parent Weekend
- Demi Maack's graduation
- BYU finally beats Gonzaga
- Quote from Elder Ballard
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Sam's Letter to Family
Hello all :) What a wonderful week it has been! I thought we finally beat the winter, but it is cold again today. It was 85 degrees on Tuesday! The rest of the week was beautiful too :)
We had zone conference this week, it was awesome!! I love going to those! It's like revelation nation!! I always come away with so many things I need to improve on it's kinda seems overwhelming sometimes. But I know if I take it one thing at a time I'll get them taken care of in no time :)
We had a pretty good week of teaching. We had some awesome lessons with our investigators, and we worked so hard to focus on getting them to church and they all committed to go and we were so excited! ....but then none of them came :( I guess they didn't understand it's importance as well as we thought they did hah. But we're not going to give up! We know it will bring them more peace, joy, happiness, and answers than they ever thought possible, but we just have to get them to understand that! They'll come along though I know they will :) It's a shame they missed church too because sacrament meeting was awesome!
I cant think of anything too unusual that happened this week. Sorry this letter is kinda lame... One of our exchanges hit a mailbox with his truck hahaha that was funny :) Luckily it wasn't a brick one like most people have around here!
Oh I caught a cold this week and I lost my voice it was terrible! Try being a missionary without being able to talk! It's pretty much impossible. Poor elder carter hated it haha. He had to do all of the teaching for like two days :) It's coming back now though so that's good :)
This is the last week of the transfer believe it or not. So we'll see what happens next week! Who knows where we'll be! I heard a quote in church yesterday that I really liked. I'm not sure who said it, but it said "It's not where you serve, but how." So I know that no matter where I'm sent, that is where the Lord will have me and I just need to do all I can to accomplish what the Lord wants me to do!
I hope you all have a great week full of missionary opportunities!! Choose the right!
Love,
Elder Johnson
Dad's letter to Sam
Dear Sam,
This has been an interesting week. Mike Randall has been out of town all week so I spent the week out working with the horses. It was a lot of fun. Still learning a bunch about working with horses.
We had a parent weekend and I think that went well. The parents received training about working with their son's and also got to spend time with them. They all seemed to enjoy that.
I don't know if you remember Demi, but he graduated yesterday. He went home and tried out for the baseball team and made JV. After a few days he moved up to varsity. He was really excited about that. He got a really nice belt buckle from the school.
BYU update. BYU finally beat Gonzaga in basketball this week and they also won their game last night against Portland who beat BYU in a triple overtime. They blew them out 89-72. I guess they are on the bubble to make the NCAA tournament. If they can win out they probably will.
I was listening to Elder Ballard's conference talk from this past conference. There were some great promises in his talk. There were several parts that I really took to heart about doing better missionary work. There was one part where he quoted from Preach my Gospel. It was a part about if we want to share the gospel with more people we need to talk to more people. Here is the quote.
"You full-time missionaries, if you want to teach more, you must talk to more people every day. This has always been what the Lord has sent missionaries forth to do."
I guess it is a law of average deal. Well that is my suggestion for the week. Hope everything is going well in Texas. It is real dry here. No snow on the mountains. We are asked to fast for snow and rain this next week.
Well that is about it for this week.
Love Dad
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