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Happy Birthday!!!!! I know it's late but yeah...
Oh man I'm sorry I forgot how much you don't know about missions. Doesn't Dad help? The white handbook says that we "must sleep in the same room but not in the same bed" (yes it really does say that). We are in a four man so Toney is my companion, and then Jackson and Zabriskie are our roommates too. We all just have our four mattresses on the floor in the front room and we use the bedrooms to do our studies and planning and stuff. But yeah Zabriskie is gone which is kinda sad, we all love Zabriskie he's way cool. Jackson's new companion is Elder Harding from Canada so that's fun. He asks me weird stuff like, "where's the washroom at?" haha we give him crap about Canada all the time but he's cool about it. He doesn't say eh but he does say aboot sometimes. He's been out for about a year I think he's the oldest out of all of us in the apt.
New Year's eve was lame, we just went to bed at like 10:30 just like any other night. Ugh I still haven't burned a tie, I know I'm lame but Black didn't burn his tie until after his year mark so I'm sure it will happen eventually. Oh my gosh that dang family is being weird. The husband is a dead beat. We dominated him with the spirit and he knows that he needs to change, the spirit told him that he needs to change and he knows it, but he still refused. I'm really worried for him. The Lord has a way of humbling us until we are ready to change, his wife has told us that she is thinking about leaving him, he'll lose his son, he's out of work, I just wonder how much he needs to be humbled until he will actually change. The wife and her three kids were going to come to church yesterday but her littlest kid 17months old fell and hit his head and had to go and get stitches. Ugh it's crazy with these people! It's ok though we'll get them baptized eventually. At least the wife and her 8 year old son. She also has a 6 year old, get this named Austin Cole Beavis, and then the 17 month old boy. But guess what happened! So there's this guy named Marcos who we met a long long time ago, ok maybe like a month and a half ago but we met him a while ago and taught him and he accepted a baptism date. We've tried to go back and visit him like a million times but he's always been gone or leaving to work. Finally we got to talk to him on Saturday night and we asked him if we could come back Sunday. We brought the Zone Leaders over on Sunday at 9 and he got interviewed and then he got baptized at 12. We didn't teach him anything accept a little about the restoration but he's been reading the Book of Mormon and he knew it was true and he wanted to get baptized! It was crazy!
Oh man this whole less active work is teaching me a lot. I've had to do a lot of repenting lately. We just had a meeting for the leadership in the ward with the bishop basically trying to fire up everybody to do their jobs and fellowship people and help us get the less actives active again. I didn't realize what a stewardship I had as just a member of the church over other people. I felt horrible! I was a home teacher and the Family Home Evening Group leader in my singles ward at school and I don't even know any of the girls names that I was over. I just thought ok this is something I have to do once a month or once a week and then it's over. I didn't realize what responsibility I had to help these people and I did a horrible job. I don't even know any body's name that I home taught and the only people I know from my FHE group is Kestri's apt. So yeah I had to do some serious repenting. I'm going to do much better when I get home.
Haha it sounds like you had an awesome birthday! I'm so glad I know how much you love your bday. Fossils, the Solar System, Bill Cosby, that's funny! Do they even know who Bill Cosby is? I'm so glad that you had a good day! I wish I could have been there to see what crazy things you did and watch dad just roll his eyes. haha good times. I'm sorry I didn't send anything, I know I suck. I'm going to do the CD picture thing today at Walmart I promise. Could you send me some pictures too? The house, the family, whatever. Grandma Nettie sent me this huge photo album and I was so excited and I flipped through it and there were only 7 pictures in it! Haha I loved it and I was really happy to get those pictures but it just faked me out a little bit.
Guess whose birthday it is tomorrow? Will you tell Natalie that I said happy birthday? Oh sweet thank you for the debit card. Yeah I should be fine for now with my pross money. But when you send some shirts do you think you could send some socks too? I've done so good all 6 months not losing any socks but all of a sudden I'm missing a ton, I have no idea what happened. Ugh also will you get Stacey's email address for me? I lost it I thought it was on this mail thing but it's gone now but I do want to write her before she goes to the MTC. You've been talking to her mom? She's way cool! She's really funny and really sarcastic just like Stacey it's really fun to talk to her. Yeah I know she's not LDS but her Dad is, I'm not sure about Shelby. So yeah every member a missionary you should get her baptized! I know you will feel the joy that Ammon felt when he brought his bretheren to the waters of baptism as you see her prepare herself for baptism. I'm going to ask you how she's doing and how she's progressing next week ok? By then I want her to have read a little bit out of the Book of Mormon and prayed and asked God if it's true. Will you make sure that happens before next week? haha commitment pattern in Preach my Gospel is sweet :) but seriously you really should that would be really awesome. I'm sure she has a lot of questions especially now that her daughter is giving up 18 months of her life for this cause. I love you all!
Elder Johnson
Oh man I'm sorry I forgot how much you don't know about missions. Doesn't Dad help? The white handbook says that we "must sleep in the same room but not in the same bed" (yes it really does say that). We are in a four man so Toney is my companion, and then Jackson and Zabriskie are our roommates too. We all just have our four mattresses on the floor in the front room and we use the bedrooms to do our studies and planning and stuff. But yeah Zabriskie is gone which is kinda sad, we all love Zabriskie he's way cool. Jackson's new companion is Elder Harding from Canada so that's fun. He asks me weird stuff like, "where's the washroom at?" haha we give him crap about Canada all the time but he's cool about it. He doesn't say eh but he does say aboot sometimes. He's been out for about a year I think he's the oldest out of all of us in the apt.
New Year's eve was lame, we just went to bed at like 10:30 just like any other night. Ugh I still haven't burned a tie, I know I'm lame but Black didn't burn his tie until after his year mark so I'm sure it will happen eventually. Oh my gosh that dang family is being weird. The husband is a dead beat. We dominated him with the spirit and he knows that he needs to change, the spirit told him that he needs to change and he knows it, but he still refused. I'm really worried for him. The Lord has a way of humbling us until we are ready to change, his wife has told us that she is thinking about leaving him, he'll lose his son, he's out of work, I just wonder how much he needs to be humbled until he will actually change. The wife and her three kids were going to come to church yesterday but her littlest kid 17months old fell and hit his head and had to go and get stitches. Ugh it's crazy with these people! It's ok though we'll get them baptized eventually. At least the wife and her 8 year old son. She also has a 6 year old, get this named Austin Cole Beavis, and then the 17 month old boy. But guess what happened! So there's this guy named Marcos who we met a long long time ago, ok maybe like a month and a half ago but we met him a while ago and taught him and he accepted a baptism date. We've tried to go back and visit him like a million times but he's always been gone or leaving to work. Finally we got to talk to him on Saturday night and we asked him if we could come back Sunday. We brought the Zone Leaders over on Sunday at 9 and he got interviewed and then he got baptized at 12. We didn't teach him anything accept a little about the restoration but he's been reading the Book of Mormon and he knew it was true and he wanted to get baptized! It was crazy!
Oh man this whole less active work is teaching me a lot. I've had to do a lot of repenting lately. We just had a meeting for the leadership in the ward with the bishop basically trying to fire up everybody to do their jobs and fellowship people and help us get the less actives active again. I didn't realize what a stewardship I had as just a member of the church over other people. I felt horrible! I was a home teacher and the Family Home Evening Group leader in my singles ward at school and I don't even know any of the girls names that I was over. I just thought ok this is something I have to do once a month or once a week and then it's over. I didn't realize what responsibility I had to help these people and I did a horrible job. I don't even know any body's name that I home taught and the only people I know from my FHE group is Kestri's apt. So yeah I had to do some serious repenting. I'm going to do much better when I get home.
Haha it sounds like you had an awesome birthday! I'm so glad I know how much you love your bday. Fossils, the Solar System, Bill Cosby, that's funny! Do they even know who Bill Cosby is? I'm so glad that you had a good day! I wish I could have been there to see what crazy things you did and watch dad just roll his eyes. haha good times. I'm sorry I didn't send anything, I know I suck. I'm going to do the CD picture thing today at Walmart I promise. Could you send me some pictures too? The house, the family, whatever. Grandma Nettie sent me this huge photo album and I was so excited and I flipped through it and there were only 7 pictures in it! Haha I loved it and I was really happy to get those pictures but it just faked me out a little bit.
Guess whose birthday it is tomorrow? Will you tell Natalie that I said happy birthday? Oh sweet thank you for the debit card. Yeah I should be fine for now with my pross money. But when you send some shirts do you think you could send some socks too? I've done so good all 6 months not losing any socks but all of a sudden I'm missing a ton, I have no idea what happened. Ugh also will you get Stacey's email address for me? I lost it I thought it was on this mail thing but it's gone now but I do want to write her before she goes to the MTC. You've been talking to her mom? She's way cool! She's really funny and really sarcastic just like Stacey it's really fun to talk to her. Yeah I know she's not LDS but her Dad is, I'm not sure about Shelby. So yeah every member a missionary you should get her baptized! I know you will feel the joy that Ammon felt when he brought his bretheren to the waters of baptism as you see her prepare herself for baptism. I'm going to ask you how she's doing and how she's progressing next week ok? By then I want her to have read a little bit out of the Book of Mormon and prayed and asked God if it's true. Will you make sure that happens before next week? haha commitment pattern in Preach my Gospel is sweet :) but seriously you really should that would be really awesome. I'm sure she has a lot of questions especially now that her daughter is giving up 18 months of her life for this cause. I love you all!
Elder Johnson
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