Holy Tuna in a can Batman! anyway.... Holy smokers this week
went fast. I know i say that every week but its true ok. I don't remember
if i told you but M and H, the young couple we were working with for
the past few months, well they are getting married in January! And then in a year they will get sealed in the
temple! Hurray! Its finally gonna happen. Too bad its after i leave :( But they
are legit and we have built a great repore with them and we go over each week
and read the book of mormon together. Speaking of the book of mormon, Elder M and I started listening to it on cd's this week and in one day, i kid you
not, we finished the whole first book of Nephi! Ya it was a long driving day but
its cool cuz i feel like we are really maximizing our time.D is set for baptism this week but its hard to meet with him lately so it might be pushed back one more week. Jand S are back and we are teaching them and they are working towards baptism really soon. They are good kids.
Wanna hear a random
story? of course you do. So the other day we get a referral from HQ(SLC)
saying that we need to go visit this man asap to give him a blessing. We go that
very day and a lady lets us in and she is from Laos (very close to Cambodia) she
lets us in and takes us to a man who is literally on his death bed-dying from
Cancer. We find out that one of their daughters live in Las Vegas and is a
member and she was the one to request us to visit. However no one there
spoke very good english so we were struggling. Then another woman came in and
still, we couldn't communicate and then i just said in cambodian, "does anyone
speak Cambodian?" and one of them did. So i would speak in cambodian then the
woman would say it in laotian and thats how it went. Pretty cool. I actually got
to use my khmae like 4 different times this week. Thats probably a new record
since being in Providence.
Oh monday i received the greatest text in my
life! It was from the Revere Elders saying that R, one of my
converts from there, was going through the temple on Wednesday to get her endowments!
That totally made my day! I was kinda ticked that i didn't know sooner but
oh well. Wednesday rolls around and one of our members was planning to
come out with us from 6-9 to teach people but we asked him to instead drive us
the hour distance and come to the temple with us. He was all for it.
He said that he had the prompting to go to the temple this week but didn't think
he could cuz his only free night was going to be taken up by teaching with us
but now it all works! MIRACLE! We go to the temple and almost miss
the session cuz we are late... we are late alot ha. And we didn't tell
R that we were coming and so we walk into the chapel and see her sitting up
front with 2 of my favorite members from Revere. They looked
dumbfounded that i was there haha they later told me they thought I had just
happened to go to the temple tonight without knowing about what was going
on. Needless to say the session was wonderful and then we had a good time
catching up a bit in the temple. I can't believe its already been 8 months since
i saw them last. R was so happy in the temple. It was amazing to
get to be there. We took some cool pics outside the temple and then
departed. It was an unforgettable experience. I can't wait to go back and
visit again. R says that her daughters have been praying that Me and Elder
G get transferred back to Revere. Awwwe :)
Also yesterday, we had a
special stake conference and Sister Elaine S. Dalton, the young Women's general
president, and Elder Matthew Eyring, our Area 70(and also Pres. Eyring's son)
came and spoke! It was fantastic. And we got to meet them briefly and talk
to them. Sis Dalton is the nicest lady on the earth, im pretty sure. My
favorite thing i learned was 1, to smile. and 2, "the Lord cannot steer a parked
car."
Well I could go on and on about this week but what i have thus
written doth suffice. But, Wowzers this week was just flippin awesome
wasn't it? Oh and you want to know what else? I received a phone call from my
very good friend, who also happens to be the AP, Elder P and you know
what he told me? "You'll Be Home for Christmas!" Yup you got it.
Mission office is sending the new missionaries sooner so Pres wants to send us
home sooner. So I will now be coming home on December 18th :) See ya. Love ya
bye!
Love,
Elder
Brady Johnson
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