Hey family,
so i am not going to write that much this week because i will talk to you in two days, and if i tell you everything that happened now, i will have nothing to say on christmas. it was a good week, but still not very christmasy. it has rained three days straight here which has helped a lot with the temperature. things are going really well. we have a baptism scheduled this week for Joan but i will tell you more about that later. actually, i will tell you more about everything in two days so i am going to stop writing. i love you all and hope you have a great christmas eve and christmas.
Love, Elder Johnson
And an addendum written by Angeli, Mark's older sister...
Talking to Mark on Christmas was the highlight of my Christmas this year! I know that we all loved it - it made him seem not so far away. Our parents cried... they live for news from their baby boy (who am I kidding - we all do! Mark brings the party to our family)! Mark sounds like he is doing awesome. I could definitely hear the homesickness in his voice, but he sounded optimistic and grateful to be serving the people of the Dominican Republic. We called him at about 10am Vegas time, which I believe was about 2pm in the DR. He and three other missionaries were hanging out at the church building calling their families, and didn't have much of a time restriction. So... we ended up talking to Mark for nearly 3 1/2 hours! None of us knew that Mark could talk so long!!! Half way through the conversation, our phone card ran out, so we had to restock it and call him back. He talked about everything from his investigators,to daily life and culture in the Dominican Republic. To follow up with the French Haitian family that they "Santa Claused", it didn't go as they had planned. I guess no one was very grateful and it was kind of awkward. But they did pass on a Book of Mormon. And you never know. The gospel is all about planting seeds of truth and kindness. Mark is a wonderful example to me, and I could not be prouder of him and the choice that he has made to sacrifice two years of his life and serve the Lord for a cause that I know to be true. He is one amazing kid and we are all lucky to be a part of his life. Feliz Navidad Marky!
Friday, December 25, 2009
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
French, Anyone?
Hey Everyone,
This was a good week, not too exciting but good. On Saturday, we had a couple of hours free without any appointments, so we decided to walk our entire area, because we have never done that before, and try to find a good family to teach. in the non-city party of our area we found this little dirt road that led into the forest so we decided to walk down it to see what was there. after a couple of minutes we found a ranch so we talked to the guys for a little while and then kept walking. After about 25 more minutes on this road without seeing anyone, we found a little clearing with about 5 houses in it. we walked in the middle and started looking around to see if anyone was there. we saw this little Haitian boy about 8 years old, so we waved to him and smiled. he immediately ran for his house and said something in french. we then started to see more heads poke out from behind some bushes. i think they thought two white men from the government had come to take away their houses. we walked closer to show them that we were friendly. we saw this old lady who had a really deformed left arm, one of the worst i have ever seen. we talked with her because she knew spanish and then one by one the other people started coming over to see what we had to say. the other family members just spoke french so we used the little french we know and then just talked to the old lady in spanish. it was just one big Haitian family that lived there. we talked for a few minutes and told them who we were, but we had to leave because the sun was setting and we wanted to see where we were going to get back home. while walking back, my comp and i had an idea to do something for them for christmas. we have been looking for a family to do something for and that was them. we are going to go back Christmas eve with candy and toys for all of the kids in our santa hats and bring a book of mormon in french and something else for the adults. i know it wont be much but we are excited to do it because we are pretty sure they havent ever had a christmas before seeing as how poor they were.
Yesterday, we had a big zone conference with 3 zones together. it was a great talk about the importance of Christmas and Christ and His Atonement. it lasted about 4 hours but it was good to bring the true spirit of christmas. after the conference, they gave all of us lunch and then our district put on a special musical number for everyone. the presidents wife asked us to do it just two days before so we didn´t have too much time to practice but it turned out really well. me and another guy played the guitar, another played the piano, and the others sang. Of course the last song we played was feliz navidad. i think one of the senior couples sent mom the pictures so ask her for them. we also had our interviews with the president this week which went really well as always. he always has a smile and advise to give us. it was a good spiritually boosting week for us.
besides that we just did a lot of teaching this week. Joan is still progressing really good and still has his baptismal date for the 26th. No one else really seems to be progressing, but we found a couple of new investigators this week that seem like they have potential.
well thats about it for this week. my first call home is just 9 days away. have a great week.
Love Elder Johnson
This was a good week, not too exciting but good. On Saturday, we had a couple of hours free without any appointments, so we decided to walk our entire area, because we have never done that before, and try to find a good family to teach. in the non-city party of our area we found this little dirt road that led into the forest so we decided to walk down it to see what was there. after a couple of minutes we found a ranch so we talked to the guys for a little while and then kept walking. After about 25 more minutes on this road without seeing anyone, we found a little clearing with about 5 houses in it. we walked in the middle and started looking around to see if anyone was there. we saw this little Haitian boy about 8 years old, so we waved to him and smiled. he immediately ran for his house and said something in french. we then started to see more heads poke out from behind some bushes. i think they thought two white men from the government had come to take away their houses. we walked closer to show them that we were friendly. we saw this old lady who had a really deformed left arm, one of the worst i have ever seen. we talked with her because she knew spanish and then one by one the other people started coming over to see what we had to say. the other family members just spoke french so we used the little french we know and then just talked to the old lady in spanish. it was just one big Haitian family that lived there. we talked for a few minutes and told them who we were, but we had to leave because the sun was setting and we wanted to see where we were going to get back home. while walking back, my comp and i had an idea to do something for them for christmas. we have been looking for a family to do something for and that was them. we are going to go back Christmas eve with candy and toys for all of the kids in our santa hats and bring a book of mormon in french and something else for the adults. i know it wont be much but we are excited to do it because we are pretty sure they havent ever had a christmas before seeing as how poor they were.
Yesterday, we had a big zone conference with 3 zones together. it was a great talk about the importance of Christmas and Christ and His Atonement. it lasted about 4 hours but it was good to bring the true spirit of christmas. after the conference, they gave all of us lunch and then our district put on a special musical number for everyone. the presidents wife asked us to do it just two days before so we didn´t have too much time to practice but it turned out really well. me and another guy played the guitar, another played the piano, and the others sang. Of course the last song we played was feliz navidad. i think one of the senior couples sent mom the pictures so ask her for them. we also had our interviews with the president this week which went really well as always. he always has a smile and advise to give us. it was a good spiritually boosting week for us.
besides that we just did a lot of teaching this week. Joan is still progressing really good and still has his baptismal date for the 26th. No one else really seems to be progressing, but we found a couple of new investigators this week that seem like they have potential.
well thats about it for this week. my first call home is just 9 days away. have a great week.
Love Elder Johnson
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Banana Bread and Buckets
Dear Everyone,
Once again i had a very good week, although not much really happened. it just kind of went by and now its p-day again. The only rough part of the week was that we had to drop about 5 of our investigators because we have taught them everything and they still haven´t gone to church or kept the commitments. the only investigator that we really have progressing is Joan. He even went to us to the Christmas 1st presidency message because he wanted to hear the prophet. although, i am getting a little nervous as christmas gets closer because he baptismal date is the day after christmas and and christmas is a really big drinking day here and i know he will be around people (aka his mom) who will be drinking. But if he has a testimony, he should be able to get through the holidays and baptized.
The Christmas fireside was amazing. the prophet sounds so strong. that whole hour just flew by for our of all. I wish it would have kept going on forever. I really think Joan liked it too.
My comp and i are still getting along great. The best part about working with him is that we have the Spirit with us. A lot of times we will be in a lesson and just feel like we should teach something else than what we had planned and we are able to do it effectively. We just seem to click together. Also, we both have been missing some homemade cooking at this time of the year so we have been doing a lot of cooking, which has mainly just been banana bread, brownies, and cookies.
Its weird that it is Christmas time because it doesn´t seem like it at all. you will see some little lights here and there, and a little tree in some people´s houses but thats about it. i know we shouldn´t be focused on the material things of christmas, but it is nice when it actually feels like christmas though. We are doing good though, we are still healthy and alive.
Anyways, that is about all i can think of to write. like i said not a lot happened this week. The other day i got really scared because i dropped the mission cell phone in a bucket of water on accident but it still works...for now. Sorry that it was kind of a random email this week. hopefully i will have more to say next week. have a good week, i love you all.
Elder johnson
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Thanksgiving in the DR
hey everyone,
This was a great week. There wasn´t too many exciting things that happened, it was just really good working hard with someone who wants to work and someone who i really get along with. the second day of this transfer we even got 9 lessons in one day which was a record for me. i know its not about numbers, but it was just nice to be busy. Right now, we are getting rid of some of our investigators that don´t seem to be progressing and getting a new batch of people to work with, especially less active members. in our area, there are about 500 members, and only about 100 of them are active, so we have a LOT of work to do.
We actually had an amazing thanksgiving feast. one of the other elders cooked a turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, garlic bread, and a cheesecake. there were 8 of us there and we ate pretty much all of it. of course it wasn´t as good as yours, mom, but it was pretty close. This week, my comp and i bought a little Christmas tree and some lights, but that is pretty much all of the Christmas decorations we bought seeing as how neither of us have that much money. One of the best things about this companionship is that he knows how to bake and has a lot of recipes for cakes and brownies. i have learned how to do a lot (well not a lot but enough) of cooking here so i cook and he bakes. we have a feeling that we are going to get fat this transfer so we started running in the mornings too.
The best news that i have is that a couple of days ago we found out that Elder Bednar is coming to speak to us in January. This will be the second time that i will have heard him speak live in the mission, but the first time was with 2000 other missionaries. this time it will be with about 70 or less. I have heard some talks by him where he pretty much chewed some missionaries out for not being obedient, and i have also heard talks where he is really funny and just has a good time with the missionaries, hopefully it will be the latter in January.
Being Senior comp is cool, but not that much different. the only real change is that i get the cell phone and i get to set the pace, but my comp is on the same pace as me so it works out good. I thought i would have a little trouble with the Spanish without someone to rely on but i haven´t had any trouble with it so far.
As far as our investigators go that are really progressing, we just have the two. we had to drop the 11 year old girl because her mom didn´t give us permission to baptize her. we have an appointment to return and teach her mom so hopefully she can feel the spirit and change her mind. The other two are still progressing and we have two baptisms planned for them this transfer which should go through unless Satan tries to be a (fill in word here) and gets into their hearts.
Well that's about all i have to say for this week. it was a very good week and hopefully this next one will be better. have a great week. i love you... a lot!
Elder Johnson
This was a great week. There wasn´t too many exciting things that happened, it was just really good working hard with someone who wants to work and someone who i really get along with. the second day of this transfer we even got 9 lessons in one day which was a record for me. i know its not about numbers, but it was just nice to be busy. Right now, we are getting rid of some of our investigators that don´t seem to be progressing and getting a new batch of people to work with, especially less active members. in our area, there are about 500 members, and only about 100 of them are active, so we have a LOT of work to do.
We actually had an amazing thanksgiving feast. one of the other elders cooked a turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, garlic bread, and a cheesecake. there were 8 of us there and we ate pretty much all of it. of course it wasn´t as good as yours, mom, but it was pretty close. This week, my comp and i bought a little Christmas tree and some lights, but that is pretty much all of the Christmas decorations we bought seeing as how neither of us have that much money. One of the best things about this companionship is that he knows how to bake and has a lot of recipes for cakes and brownies. i have learned how to do a lot (well not a lot but enough) of cooking here so i cook and he bakes. we have a feeling that we are going to get fat this transfer so we started running in the mornings too.
The best news that i have is that a couple of days ago we found out that Elder Bednar is coming to speak to us in January. This will be the second time that i will have heard him speak live in the mission, but the first time was with 2000 other missionaries. this time it will be with about 70 or less. I have heard some talks by him where he pretty much chewed some missionaries out for not being obedient, and i have also heard talks where he is really funny and just has a good time with the missionaries, hopefully it will be the latter in January.
Being Senior comp is cool, but not that much different. the only real change is that i get the cell phone and i get to set the pace, but my comp is on the same pace as me so it works out good. I thought i would have a little trouble with the Spanish without someone to rely on but i haven´t had any trouble with it so far.
As far as our investigators go that are really progressing, we just have the two. we had to drop the 11 year old girl because her mom didn´t give us permission to baptize her. we have an appointment to return and teach her mom so hopefully she can feel the spirit and change her mind. The other two are still progressing and we have two baptisms planned for them this transfer which should go through unless Satan tries to be a (fill in word here) and gets into their hearts.
Well that's about all i have to say for this week. it was a very good week and hopefully this next one will be better. have a great week. i love you... a lot!
Elder Johnson
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Christmas Came Early - I Have a New Companion!
hey everyone,
This has been an amazing couple of days. at the end of last week i was getting really nervous that me and my comp would stay together for another transfer and we would be stuck together for thanksgiving, christmas, and new years. i did a lot of fasting and praying (not that he would go, but that the best thing for me would happen whether that be he stays or go and that i would be able to handle him if he stayed). Monday morning, the Lord answered my prayers. The monday before wednesday transfers in our district meeting we find out who stays and who goes. that morning morning before the meeting the president calls those people who are going up. i wasn´t expecting a call because i only have 6 months and my comp didn´t go up until he has a year and 1 in the mission. Lo and behold i got the call to go up to senior comp. i was really shocked and nervous because i am still really new but at the same time i was really happy because i knew i would get a different comp. in the meeting i found out that my comp is another american, Elder Holmes, who is in my zone. he is a really cool guy and i am so excited to work with him, especially during the holiday season. its a little weird because he is in the group behind me so i only have six more weeks than him in the mission so my spanish will really be put to the test. almost all of the americans in my group got moved to senior comp this transfer because we have all been learning spanish good and are ready for it. I really hope the Lord knows what he is doing on this one. Elder Holmes came this morning and we have gotton along great today. i have a feeling that this transfer is going to fly by.
Last sunday, me and another american in my group who is in the same ward sang in sacrament meeting. i know i can´t sing that good but it turned out really good. after, they asked us to be in the ward choir (mainly because there are only 3 men there and no one else wants too). As far as thanksgiving goes, i´m not sure what we are going to do. one of the Elders in our ward is an amazing cook and wants to cook a turkey and some potatoes this year so hopefully that will happen. besides that it will just be another working day.
Funny side note, out of the 8 people in our district, i am the 3rd oldest with 6 months. we have a VERY young district but we have a lot of desire to work so we will see what happens. Besides that i don´t have too much to say. my old comp is on the other side of the mission and i am still in cienfuegos with my new comp.
We were supposed to have a baptism this saturday with our 16 year old, but his mom said know because he wasn´t putting into practice the things we are teaching him. The kid says he is ready but the mom says no and since he is under 18 we have to go with the mom´s decision. of course i want to wait until he is ready too but we will keep working with him and hopefully baptise him sometime this transfer. Anyways, thats all i have to say for this week. i am still safe and healthy and i hope you all have a great thanksgiving.
Love Elder Johnson
This has been an amazing couple of days. at the end of last week i was getting really nervous that me and my comp would stay together for another transfer and we would be stuck together for thanksgiving, christmas, and new years. i did a lot of fasting and praying (not that he would go, but that the best thing for me would happen whether that be he stays or go and that i would be able to handle him if he stayed). Monday morning, the Lord answered my prayers. The monday before wednesday transfers in our district meeting we find out who stays and who goes. that morning morning before the meeting the president calls those people who are going up. i wasn´t expecting a call because i only have 6 months and my comp didn´t go up until he has a year and 1 in the mission. Lo and behold i got the call to go up to senior comp. i was really shocked and nervous because i am still really new but at the same time i was really happy because i knew i would get a different comp. in the meeting i found out that my comp is another american, Elder Holmes, who is in my zone. he is a really cool guy and i am so excited to work with him, especially during the holiday season. its a little weird because he is in the group behind me so i only have six more weeks than him in the mission so my spanish will really be put to the test. almost all of the americans in my group got moved to senior comp this transfer because we have all been learning spanish good and are ready for it. I really hope the Lord knows what he is doing on this one. Elder Holmes came this morning and we have gotton along great today. i have a feeling that this transfer is going to fly by.
Last sunday, me and another american in my group who is in the same ward sang in sacrament meeting. i know i can´t sing that good but it turned out really good. after, they asked us to be in the ward choir (mainly because there are only 3 men there and no one else wants too). As far as thanksgiving goes, i´m not sure what we are going to do. one of the Elders in our ward is an amazing cook and wants to cook a turkey and some potatoes this year so hopefully that will happen. besides that it will just be another working day.
Funny side note, out of the 8 people in our district, i am the 3rd oldest with 6 months. we have a VERY young district but we have a lot of desire to work so we will see what happens. Besides that i don´t have too much to say. my old comp is on the other side of the mission and i am still in cienfuegos with my new comp.
We were supposed to have a baptism this saturday with our 16 year old, but his mom said know because he wasn´t putting into practice the things we are teaching him. The kid says he is ready but the mom says no and since he is under 18 we have to go with the mom´s decision. of course i want to wait until he is ready too but we will keep working with him and hopefully baptise him sometime this transfer. Anyways, thats all i have to say for this week. i am still safe and healthy and i hope you all have a great thanksgiving.
Love Elder Johnson
Monday, November 23, 2009
Six Month Mark! I'm 1/4 There!
Hey everyone,
So i am sorry but this week wasn´t as interesting as last week. i did not get robbed, shot, stabbed, or hit by a car, so the rest of this letter will be pretty boring. Last Saturday, we had another flash flood. This time, however, we were on the other side of the area where there is only dirt roads and it is at the bottom of everything. we had to go home about an hour early because there was nothing we could do. we only had one more lesson of the day and it was even farther down the hill. The water wasn´t as deep but it was pretty much all mud. unfortunately, i wore my other shoes that i didn´t wear in the first flood so now both of them are kind of gross, but all is well. On the positive side of things, my comp and i put 3 baptismal dates for 3 different investigators we are teaching and put a marriage date with another couple we are teaching. our investigators with the baptismal date are a 27 year old guy named Joan that i talked about last week, a 16 year old kid named Jean Carlos, and a 12 year old girl named Trini. They all seem really interested so hopefully we everything will go as planned and they will be baptized next transer but i don´t want to jinx myself.
This is the last p day of the transfer. on Monday we find out who goes and who stays (if anyone does). I´m not going to lie, i want my comp to get transferred somewhere else, but if he stays i know that it is for the best and will help me in the long wrong.
I hit 6 months in 2 days which is exciting. i probably won´t do anything to celebrate, just go out and teach. the time has gone by super fast for me but at the same time it has been kind of long (mainly just this transfer has been long).
I know that i told you (mom) that i wanted a family baptised for christmas. there is a young woman in our ward who is the only member in her family and really wants her parents to be members so she can be part of an eternal family. we started teaching her parents a couple of weeks ago. the seem some what interested but i am not sure about how interested. the mom is Catholic, which is a big problem for us here because most of them have the motto "my grandparents were Catholic, my parents were Catholic, i am Catholic, and i will die a Catholic." we will see if we can break them though.
That is about all that i have to say for this week, so enjoy life and i love you all.
Elder Johnson
So i am sorry but this week wasn´t as interesting as last week. i did not get robbed, shot, stabbed, or hit by a car, so the rest of this letter will be pretty boring. Last Saturday, we had another flash flood. This time, however, we were on the other side of the area where there is only dirt roads and it is at the bottom of everything. we had to go home about an hour early because there was nothing we could do. we only had one more lesson of the day and it was even farther down the hill. The water wasn´t as deep but it was pretty much all mud. unfortunately, i wore my other shoes that i didn´t wear in the first flood so now both of them are kind of gross, but all is well. On the positive side of things, my comp and i put 3 baptismal dates for 3 different investigators we are teaching and put a marriage date with another couple we are teaching. our investigators with the baptismal date are a 27 year old guy named Joan that i talked about last week, a 16 year old kid named Jean Carlos, and a 12 year old girl named Trini. They all seem really interested so hopefully we everything will go as planned and they will be baptized next transer but i don´t want to jinx myself.
This is the last p day of the transfer. on Monday we find out who goes and who stays (if anyone does). I´m not going to lie, i want my comp to get transferred somewhere else, but if he stays i know that it is for the best and will help me in the long wrong.
I hit 6 months in 2 days which is exciting. i probably won´t do anything to celebrate, just go out and teach. the time has gone by super fast for me but at the same time it has been kind of long (mainly just this transfer has been long).
I know that i told you (mom) that i wanted a family baptised for christmas. there is a young woman in our ward who is the only member in her family and really wants her parents to be members so she can be part of an eternal family. we started teaching her parents a couple of weeks ago. the seem some what interested but i am not sure about how interested. the mom is Catholic, which is a big problem for us here because most of them have the motto "my grandparents were Catholic, my parents were Catholic, i am Catholic, and i will die a Catholic." we will see if we can break them though.
That is about all that i have to say for this week, so enjoy life and i love you all.
Elder Johnson
We got Robbed!!!
Hey everyone,
So this has been a crazy and difficult week. it all started last thursday, when someone broke into our house and stole my guitar, cd player, speakers, fan, my toiletry kit with my razor and everything, and some stuff of my comps. however, he did the leave the most important things that i have, my pictures and camera, my scriptures, and my glove. it was just really annoying and now its really quiet in the house without music. he did leave all of my church cds though so i just have to by a new cd player. We called the office and they came over but they couldn´t really do anything or reimburse anything that was stolen. they just bought a new more durable lock.
the next day, all of our appointments fired on us except for one so we only got one lesson all day which has been a first in the mission for me. we also found out that Etcel, our investigator that was practically mormon and just had to go to church one more time to be baptized, moved because he didn´t have money to pay rent and now we don´t know where he is. also, we are teaching this other investigator, but one of the guys in our ward told us that his mom is a witch. it has just been kind of a stressful week with all of that and then my comp is still crazy and was getting on my nerves. Although, i have learned to have a lot of patience this week. on the bright side of the week, we had a really good zone conference and we had 4 investigators at church (which has been the most this transfer). One of our investigators, Joan, has really seemed to like the gospel. he has already gone to church twice and always seems really interested in the lessons. the rule for us is that we have to teach him a couple of more lessons and he has to go to church one more time and then he can be baptised so hopefully we will be able to do that either this transfer or next.
Here in the city we don´t get to do as much service as i did in my first area which is kind of lame but it gives us more time to proselyte and teach lessons so it´s still a win win situation.
This morning for a zone activity we got to play basketball for a couple of hours. Dominicans may be good at baseball, but they are definitely lacking in their basketball skills. i was the only american playing so it was a little rough but still fun and good exercise.
Besides that, nothing i don´t have too much more to say. it has rained the past 3 days but really lightly so there weren´t any flash floods, just a LOT of smelly mud to walk through. It has also cooled down a little bit but not enough. everyone here thinks its so much colder though and i have seen a number of people in sweatshirts and jackets.
The work is still going good here, there is a lot of people to teach and a lot of people waiting to be taught. the ward is still going good as well, although i am pretty sure they are getting tired of my comp and want him to go next transfer as well, but i will find out in 12 what is going to happen. i hope everything is going well for all of you and you are enjoying the holiday season.
Love Elder Johnson
So this has been a crazy and difficult week. it all started last thursday, when someone broke into our house and stole my guitar, cd player, speakers, fan, my toiletry kit with my razor and everything, and some stuff of my comps. however, he did the leave the most important things that i have, my pictures and camera, my scriptures, and my glove. it was just really annoying and now its really quiet in the house without music. he did leave all of my church cds though so i just have to by a new cd player. We called the office and they came over but they couldn´t really do anything or reimburse anything that was stolen. they just bought a new more durable lock.
the next day, all of our appointments fired on us except for one so we only got one lesson all day which has been a first in the mission for me. we also found out that Etcel, our investigator that was practically mormon and just had to go to church one more time to be baptized, moved because he didn´t have money to pay rent and now we don´t know where he is. also, we are teaching this other investigator, but one of the guys in our ward told us that his mom is a witch. it has just been kind of a stressful week with all of that and then my comp is still crazy and was getting on my nerves. Although, i have learned to have a lot of patience this week. on the bright side of the week, we had a really good zone conference and we had 4 investigators at church (which has been the most this transfer). One of our investigators, Joan, has really seemed to like the gospel. he has already gone to church twice and always seems really interested in the lessons. the rule for us is that we have to teach him a couple of more lessons and he has to go to church one more time and then he can be baptised so hopefully we will be able to do that either this transfer or next.
Here in the city we don´t get to do as much service as i did in my first area which is kind of lame but it gives us more time to proselyte and teach lessons so it´s still a win win situation.
This morning for a zone activity we got to play basketball for a couple of hours. Dominicans may be good at baseball, but they are definitely lacking in their basketball skills. i was the only american playing so it was a little rough but still fun and good exercise.
Besides that, nothing i don´t have too much more to say. it has rained the past 3 days but really lightly so there weren´t any flash floods, just a LOT of smelly mud to walk through. It has also cooled down a little bit but not enough. everyone here thinks its so much colder though and i have seen a number of people in sweatshirts and jackets.
The work is still going good here, there is a lot of people to teach and a lot of people waiting to be taught. the ward is still going good as well, although i am pretty sure they are getting tired of my comp and want him to go next transfer as well, but i will find out in 12 what is going to happen. i hope everything is going well for all of you and you are enjoying the holiday season.
Love Elder Johnson
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