September 25, 2017

Hey mom ! This week went really good I really like my new area and my companion. He is from Virginia and he is way chill ! He knows how to work hard and have fun and he's only been out about 3 months.  The members here are great and the work here is awesome ! There's lots of work to be done and I know this is where God needs me to be.  The recent converts here are amazing.  I was talking to one of them and she said the last missionaries gave her a Book of Mormon and they told her to just read the first page and so she did and then she said "she couldn't put the book down" and she read it twice and was baptized two weeks later ! She is now in the relief society presidency and has a strong testimony of it.  The area here is really flat and its only about 3000 people so we are back on the bikes and walking (even tho we have a car) but it feels great to be working hard and being outside all the time. It snowed on us on Thursday and it go a little chilly so we took the car out most of the day.  We found two new investigators and another one this morning !  Today were headed out to Winnimucca for groceries and to meet the zone so I'm looking forward to that.  I'm looking forward to  conference this weekend and we also have interviews with the mission President that day as well so it'll be a busy week for us ! Anyways thanks for all you do mom and I'll look up those pictures ! have a great week ! love you mom !

Elder Johnson

 

 

September 18, 2017

Hey mom ! Sounds like it's been a good week and the wedding went well.  I'm getting shipped off to

 Battle Mountain, Nevada, I will go wherever the lord needs me to go !

 It's been good serving here in Elko and getting to see all the miracles I did and it's going to be hard

 leaving here but time for a new adventure in the mission and more miracles to come ! So this last

 week went really good we did a lot of service for people and I dug a ditch and hauled gravel for 

some members in the ward and we helped a lady move on Saturday for 5 hours and I was hurting 

at the end of it because she had super old heavy antiques and it was up 3 flights of stairs but we 

got it done.  My health is doing alright and the smoke hasn't been bothering me.  Anyways thanks 

for all you do mom and I'll send you my new address next week.  Love you mom ! 

Elder Johnson

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August

Hey mom !  This week went really well. Thank you so much for the letter ! I'm definitely learning a lot from this area and training a new missionary and it's been going good ! I had a way better week than the week before and we did a lot of service this week.  We went out to the Indian Reservation and split wood for a while and it's pretty fun being out there with the Native Indians and they all have some interesting stories to tell. But we're going to start going out there more because they are more receptive people out there.   I don't have too many pictures for this last week but things are going great and today me and my companion are going golfing with our investigator so I'm pumped for that.  Anyways, I'll write you some more this week in a letter but thanks for all you do mom ! love ya 

Elder Johnson

August 7, 2017

Hey mom ! That's good to hear Brandon got married and I'm doing great ! This week went by really fast and I will be training a new missionary !  Not a whole lot happened so I don't have too much to write but I'm doing good and this up coming week will be crazy but I hope all is well back home and I will write more next week ! 

Love you mom ! 

Elder Johnson

July 30, 2017

Hey mom ! It's been a pretty good week a little slower than usual but definitely a lot of disappointment ! The greatest thing that happened this week was my favorite family here in Elko the husband is trying to quit smoking and we went and taught a 15 step stop smoking lesson and the first part of the lesson they have to get rid of all of their cigarettes and he and his family destroyed over $60 worth of cigarettes and to this day he is one week clean ! It's amazing to see how much faith can do and the goal is to get him and his family to the temple in the next year ! It's awesome, but other than that my hands are fine and we just stay here in Elko for zone conferences but we had a goal to get 5 investigators this week and it was going good and then people just shut us down so it hasn't been my favorite week but it's a new week so we'll see what happens ! We are going hiking today with the zone out to Lamoile Canyon so that should be fun ! Anyways, thanks for all you do mom and have a good week and enjoy boating ! love you mom !

Elder Johnson

 

 

July 24, 2017

Hey mom ! So I heard about the news and that's really sad but I hear stuff like this all day long and God has a plan.  This week was really crazy for us, we went hiking out in the Ruby Mountains and it was awesome ! On Tuesday we went to go help a less active guy do some tile work but when we got out to his place there was a big fire in his back field and so I grabbed a shovel and fought a crazy field fire for about two hours and stopped a hundred yard section and there were two helicopters dropping water and fire trucks and it was crazy ! I wrecked my hands pretty good and got them all blistered up but me and my companion saved two houses from burning down so that was my Tuesday afternoon.  We think a kid was playing with fireworks and got out of hand and it took off but we were the 4th people on the scene and it was already big by then ! The rest of the week went good we saw a lot of miracles and found a couple of new investigators we're going to start teaching and it's been a hot one this week ! Anyways thanks for all you do mom and have a great week ! love you mom !

Elder Johnson

 

 

MTC Companion

Elder Jared Johnson met his brother-in-law, Keith's, MTC companion in Elko, Nevada.
Small World!!