July 9, 2012

Dearest Family, Thank you soooooo much for your letter Benjamin. I greatly enjoyed it. ¿ Spencer Greer is going on a mission? Who would have thought... That is great news. Chariton and Nick too. Wow! Sometimes I forget that time passes at the same rate in every place. ¿Is it passing by superfast for you all too? At times I feel like it is good, and then at times I wish it would calm down and take it slow. I do not believe that will ever happen. Well, I´ll just relate some of the things that happened in my life over the course of this past week. Last Monday,.... it rained! Wooohooo. My companion and I got drenched. It started at 7:00 and ended at 8:00, and the streets were flooded, and they looked like wide canals. It took a total of 3 minutes for Elder Toomey and I to be completely soaked from head to toe. It was quite a fun experience. It has kept on being cloudy for the past few days. Sometimes it sprinkles, but when that happens, it just all turns in to humid vapor,and I feel like we are cooking in a sauna. Yesterday we had a lightning storm for about 30 minutes. I have never seen the lightning so sharp. It was awesome. That is about it for the weather. This week Elder Toomey and I have been working a lot on the map. Actually President gave the command to the whole mission that we had to update the lists, and make HUGE maps and put all of the people on the map. When I say people, I mean the members (actives and in-actives), investigators (futures, present and past), and the action list from the Bishop. That would be great except for the fact that there are about 80 families in our area. 50 of them are inactive, so we do not know where they all live. This upcoming week, I get the feeling we are going to be going around and visiting all the members, and finding their houses! What fun.... Then, after we have plotted all of the people on the map, we have to give them all colors and numbers and the coordinate all of them with the lists and our area book. I know that this is going to help the work greatly, but I do feel like it is a lot of back aching and tedious work. (It is probably a little bit like checking a program... not the funniest thing in the world, but it has to be done). We have spent a great amount of time in Office Max. (That is officially my new favorite store. It has just about the coolest of everything. I am, for sure, going to try to get a job there someday.) Due to this fact, we actually have not done a great amount of proselyting. In the long run, what we are doing right now, if we do it good, will help all of the future missionaries who come into this area. I love you all super greatly muchly a lot. Thank you for all that you do for me. I sure do appreciate it. I know that you are all sacrificing so that I can be here. I wish the best week ever. This church is true. There is no doubt in my mind. Jesus is my Savior. Love, Elder Johnson p.s. I do have a regret Mother,... I have not written in my journal for like 3 weeks. Life has just gotten so busy, that it was push down my list of priorities. I promise I´ll try to do better this week, and catch up on everything that has happened. Sorry.