- Pictures from Dad's Trip
- Indian writings 1
- Indian writings 2
- Pictures from Sam's Mission
- Sam and Elder Quarter
- District picture
- Picture of Sam
- Elder Carter?
- Chandry to Sam
- What happened to you
- Sam's Letter to Family
- Snow
- Reported as criminals
- Sam get's to drive
- NJ's suprise...comes to church
- Dad's letter to Sam
- 3 day 2 night horse ride to Kanab Creek
- Answer to 2 prayers
- Spoke in church
- Tanner came for dinner
Pictures From Horse Ride
Sam's Pictures to Family
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| Sam and Elder Carter |
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| Elder Carter? |
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| Sam's District |
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| Sam somewhere |
Chandry's letter to Sam
What has Texas done to you?!
Sam's Letter to Family
Let it snow let it snow let it snow :) Guess what we woke up to snow on Thursday! It was pretty fun :) No ice this time so that was nice! It still didn't stop us from doing our run in the morning though! There was ice on my eyelashes :) We're getting pretty quick believe it or not :)
We had a pretty funny experience this week on Tuesday. We were tracting this street in Woodland Springs and no one was really answering because it was the middle of the day, but there was this lady that kept driving by and looking at us and we thought that was a little odd. Our handbook tells us to watch out for people that ask probing questions or watch us closely so we kept our eye on her. Then finally she pulled up and asked us who we were working for so we told her we were missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints then she asked us if that was our car parked at the end of the street and we said it was. Then she drove off but she pulled into this driveway (which we assume was her house) and she got out and was just watching us. So we finished the street and then got in our car and drove off. Like an hour later we started getting texts from people in our ward asking us if we were in Woodland Springs that morning because some lady had posted on the neighborhood facebook page that there were two guys walking around claiming to be from our church and they were acting suspicious! Hahahahaha I guess she took a picture of our car and posted it. A member showed us the facebook discussion yesterday and they were all arguing about whether missionaries drove cars or if we only rode bikes. Then people were like reporting sitings of us around town that day haha. We were like outlaws! We told the members that text us that it was us and they posted that we are legit. It was pretty funny though. Some people were talking about reporting it to the police and stuff. I don't know what we were doing to act suspicious, but whatever :) It gave our members some missionary opportunities because they were able to post about what missionaries do and how people can learn more so it was some good publicity :) kinda :) The original lady that was watching us when she found out we really were missionaries "commended us for our service" :)
Oh I get to drive now! Not going to lie I was a little nervous at first after not driving so long! I guess it's like riding a bike though it comes back to ya :)
Our investigators are doing ok. We are having a hard time getting in with people because everyone is getting sick and it just passes around their families for like two weeks until everyone has had it then it goes away.
We did have a lady named NJ come to church yesterday! We were sitting in sacrament meeting and some lady came in and asked if we were Elder Johnson and Elder Carter and she said we had an investigator out in the foyer. We were trying to figure out who the heck it would be and it turned out to be NJ! The last one we would have expected! We hadn't seen her for like two weeks and we had an appointment for that evening. She said she wanted to surprise us :) She did a good job :) I think she really enjoyed it too :) We had lots of members come up and introduce themselves so that was awesome :) She said she wants to come back :)
Well that was about all of the excitement from the week that I can remember! Now I'm going to try and figure out how to attach some pictures to this so you guys can remember what I look like :)
Have a great week!!
Love Elder Johnson
Dads Letter to Sam
Hi Sam,
How is everything going. Any progress on your investigators? Hope so.
This week we took some boys down to the Kanab Creek where we went a couple of months ago. This trip was three days and 2 nights. It was a blast. I was a little better prepared this trip and didn't get as sore this time. We saw a bunch of Indian writings that were really cool. It rained on us all the first night, but we had good tents. The rest of the time the weather was great.
The only down side was that I got sick the last night, but I prayed that I would feel better by morning for the long ride out. A miracle happened and I was better by morning.
I actually had two miracle's on the trip. On the ride out I had my smart phone in my shirt pocket and as we were riding out, we got a little stampede going. We were all on a dead run and my phone fell out of my pocket. It wasn't until several miles later I realized that I had lost it. We had a truck carrying the gear out and it was behind us. I turned and road back to the truck and told Justin Heaton who was driving and over the ride that I lost my phone. He said we could go back and look for it. I turned my horse lose and and got in with Justin to go look for it. I was praying that we could find it but it could be anywhere so I guess I wasn't real hopeful, baring a miracle. We drove back a couple of miles and I saw something in the dirt and a tire track right over it. I figured it would be smashed or the glass broken, but I got out of the truck and went and picked it up and other than being a little dirty, it didn't have a scratch. I was really grateful to find it.
It is scout month and I spoke in church today. It went ok, but I didn't really have it prepared like I wanted to. Got it over with though.
Tanner stopped by with a friend and a girl named Jennifer. He seems to always find another girl to bring over. Spiritually he doesn't look that good, but I guess he goes to church, at least he says he does. We keep praying that his heart will be softened and he will desire a testimony. We can never give up hope.
BYU update, they won both games this week and are now in second place, but I don't think they can catch Gonzaga. They will have to win the tournament. I guess the winter Olympics have started. Haven't watched any of that.
Well that is about a wrap. Hope things are going good in Texas. Keep working hard. We pray for you.
Love Dad.
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