Amazing Week

Wow this week has been amazing let me tell you. We had a zone conference this week and we had the opportunity to here from Elder Kenneth Johnson from the Quorum of the 70. It was amazing to be able to sit and shake his hand and talk one on one with him. He is definitely a man of God and has a very strong spirit. Grandma Baker would love him and his wife just because of his accent. He is from London, or some place over there, and then we had a fireside the next day with him it was great.

Then it got better because Ray got baptized on Saturday. It was amazing, the spirit was so strong. Then the next day I had the opportunity to give him the Holy Ghost and next Sunday he gets the priesthood. He is loving the gospel so much and he wants to come visit us in Colorado some time. The only thing that was not so cool was that Elder Aguilera got food poisoning bad and was sick for a few days. But he is all better now.

We have another cool friend that we are teaching named Drea and she is way cool too. She is planning on getting baptized in the near future also, she is way cool. Well this is Elder Aguilera’s last week and he is doing great, so pray for him because he isn’t too happy about going home because he loves his mission so much.

Well family love you lots and tell Alex he will love his mission. I want to tell him about it because Riverside and LA are pretty much the same environment. I am happy for him.


Kenneth Johnson
Sustained to the Second Quorum of the Seventy March 31, 1990, at age 49; sustained to the First Quorum of the Seventy April 3, 1993. Former regional representative and stake president; converted to the Church in 1959. Graduated from Norwich City College in England and did graduate work at the City and Guilds of London Institute of Printing; former college instructor and partner in a British insurance brokerage firm. Born July 5, 1940, in Norwich, England, to Bertie A.M. and Ada Hutson Johnson. Wife, Pamela Wilson Johnson; parents of one son.

Bus Rides

Well this week has been just as good as all the other weeks. One thing that is different is that our investigator really has been out with us every day this past week, except Tuesday and it has been way fun.

We are starting to get a little cool over here; it must be preparation for me- AAAAAH!

Oh yeah, we have retired our bikes for the rest of our missions. We are full on bus rides, it is way fun and we get to talk to people on the bus too, I love it. Thanks for the packages and that huge card it was great. I love you all family.

Wooo hooo 21

Well Family thanks for the cool packages and sweet emails you all gave me. I have to say this is one of the best b-days ever because of all the love I feel from you and all the members here. I know I have been telling you all about how great our week has been going but I have to say that it is getting way way better. I have to tell you, our friend Ray decided he wanted to get baptized so he is really exited about that. It is way cool because I feel he is more of a friend than any thing else; I probably will keep in contact with him for the rest of my life. Just know he is way cool.
We have a lot of other people that we are teaching that are making great choices also. I was talking to my companion while we were laying in our beds and we both find that we are so busy we have no time to dilly dally or even relax, not that we want to but if we did we couldn’t, it is awesome. You wake up and before you know it you are sleeping again, I like it. So I was told you got my flight plans in the mail or that you will soon so. But I want all you guys to stay focused as well. I don’t know what on but do it…
Thanks family I love you.

Happy Halloween

Wow, it sounds like a lot of good and sad things are going on. I am glad you are going to have a girl Erica, now you can save money and use hand me downs- woo hoo! Well that is sad about Mike’s wife, I will pray for lot’s of things.

Well this week has been great. I have never been this blessed with this much work my whole mission; it is way great to have this much work. I have to say that it is nice to not have any time to just tract for 4 hours at a time and we have a team up every day, it is great. You know all those missionary experiences that all missionaries want? All those text book questions and answers from investigators? That is the kind of stuff we are getting! Stuff like "Will you teach me about the restored gospel?" "Come into my home and teach me about it all!" Even the most famous one "When can I get baptized?" I love it! It is such a blessing to be here right now.

As for not telling anyone that I am leaving soon, it is impossible because all they ask us is ‘how long we have been out’ and stuff like that. That is very specific but I try not to bring it up too much. Oh yeah, everyone is telling me it is way cold there. And me, who is climatized, am a little worried to go from 80 mid-day to 50 mid-day, eeeeeeeeeekkk. Oh well. Well family, I love you and have a good one!

Horse Dog

Hey Family,
Sorry for not writing this past week I didn’t even really get to have a P-day because we were so busy; but it wasn’t a to eventful week. This week a few things happened, first we have this investigator. His name is Ray Boreddo and he is doing so well in progressing (He most likely will get baptized soon). But we had the opportunity to go over to his house (and see it because normally we teach at Starbucks) but we went inside and he has the biggest dog I have ever seen. It is an English Mastiff and the nicest dog ever. I have pics I will show you when I get home but it was pretty cool to play with it; it is kind of like playing with a horse. We are also teaching a man named Elijah and he is from the south, so it is really hard to understand him at first but after an hour it gets easier. Now I know what David Perley felt like when he went on his mission to the south, all that Ebonics and stuff. Ok love you all


English Mastiff

Conference and Cockroaches

Hey Family,
I am feeling a lot better, a whole lot better. I was just miserable last Monday but all better. So I have to tell you about this experience from last week. Okay so we visited this old investigator and he has had some drug problems his whole life. He hit rock bottom and didn’t know what to do so he called us over. We went over and his house was a mess and normally I ignore that but the longer I sat there the more I noticed that the walls were moving and then I lost focus of him and I guess the cockroaches got use to us and started to come out EVERYWERE, IT WAS SERIOUSLY EVERYWERE! Huge ones the size of your entire thumb! They got all over me, so when we got home we had to check ourselves before we went inside so we didn’t take them inside our apartment. We had a team up with us at that time and he called us back when he got home and told us he had them in his pants and in his crack it was a awful experiences but its not like we stopped going over we just meet with him in other places (other than his house).
So conference, I can honestly say that Elder Holland’s testimony on the Book of Mormon is by far my most favorite talk ever! Just listen to it on line again, it is so cool!



Other than that, this week has been way cool. Lots of cool experiences that I can’t write down (it needs to be told face to face) so I will tell you those later. Well love you family, stay safe.

Sick

Well Family, I am so sorry but this email is just going to be as short as the last one because I am so so sick. I don’t know where it came from but I got it. I guess I could have got it from anywhere, I do meet a lot of people. So the conference and the cockroaches- I need you to remind me of for the next email, Okay? I love you all family and you all are in my prayers.