October 7, 2013

Hi family, It´s going to be short this week, sorry. This week has been a massive overload of meetings. From trainings, to district meetings and general conference! But a short little recap. The 3 girls we found last week, Melina, Yamalie, and Neda, are doing great! We had a little bit of trouble finding them this past week, but when we did, they took the things we taught them and applied it super well! 2 of them went to conference with us on sunday, and really enjoyed it. The best thing was that a member who was baptized 7 months ago who is the same age as them became super good friends with them and helped thema lot. Their goal is to get baptized this weekend, but we still have a l,ot to do before that happens, and its still a little bit of a pain to try to find them and teach them because they are fixing a house up in a nother part of the city so they can move in 5 or 6 months. Also, conference was great! I learned so much! I´m pretty sure the best talk was by the 70 on saturday night who talked about the exclamation points! I loved his excitement! It was great to hear all the excitement about the missionary work. It was crazy, because we´re right next to the area offices of the church.. we were sitting in the room waiting for the sunday morning session to start and in walks Elder Gonzalez of the 70 and sits down to watch conference with us. It was pretty dang cool! I´m also excited to hear the good news about the football game, its about time haha. I´m pretty bummed that I couldn´t be there, but I´m glad you guys could experience it for me! Go wolves! and ASU too! Man, I just get so excited to watch sports again that it sometimes drives me insane that I have no one to talk to about it, seeing as all my companion knows is soccer haha. It´s okay though, just be ready to hear me talk your ears off with questions and excitement when I get back! Oh no! What´s happening to me... I´m already starting to talk about "when I get back" hahah. I´m still focused though, don´t worry :p. Anyway... to finish off, one of my favorite lines from conference was... "Never look back, look at what we have left to do." That´s a great way to look at things in life. We have gone through a lot, some good things, and some bad things. It´s okay to have those memories, but we should never dwell on things, we need to use them to get back to work, and do what needs to be done. When we do this I know the Lord will bless us. We just pray and ask His help, and HIS will, shall be done. I love you so much! Thanks for all the great emails! READ AND PRAY EVERY DAY! Love, Elder Johnson!