tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31490566976753746512024-03-13T12:30:12.567-06:00Brady JohnsonBrady Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17992926881766101599noreply@blogger.comBlogger102125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149056697675374651.post-75913856135450381242016-12-12T19:00:00.000-07:002016-12-12T19:50:16.419-07:00Holy Tuna in a can Batman!ALOHA! Ya i don't really know why i said that but too late now i
guess... oh by the way this is totally random but i haven't seen a Polynesian/
tongan/ samoan/ islander since i've been out here on my mission except for 2
sister missionaries. I wonder why none of them come out this way. I miss
them.<br />
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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.<br />
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D is set for baptism this week but its hard to meet
with him lately so it might be pushed back one more week. J and S are
back and we are teaching them and they are working towards baptism really soon. They are good kids.<br />
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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.<br />
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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 :)<br />
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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."<br />
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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! <span style="color: #888888;"> <br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">This is my last letter because next week
will be kinda crazy. So here it goes. </span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Well family and
friends, it's finally here.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">I can't believe my mission has come to an end.
</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">What an adventure it has been. An
adventure filled with learning, growing, spiritual experiences, testimony, hard
days, wonderful days, complete exhaustion, stress, lots of traffic,
disappointment, peace, comfort and the love of God.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Friends have
been made. Best friends. </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Many cherished
memories have been shared.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Discouragement and doubt were washed away by truth,
joy, and light. Not to mention lots of laughter.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">I have been
a part of something way bigger than just me.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">I have been
a part of a brotherhood, part of the Lord's army, and part of the greatest and
most glorious work this world has ever known. I have been a part of the work of
Salvation.</span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">I have seen many amazing things whilst on my
mission. I have seen lives change, people change -myself included. I have seen
how the Holy Ghost really works and how to use this special gift we hold. I've
seen how vitally important it is to follow and act on promptings. I've seen
wonderful things, weird things, funny things, sad things and unfortunate things.
I've seen the great impact the gospel can have on the individual and the family
when applied properly. And on the contrary, I have seen the great impact on
families and individuals who reject the gospel and the darkness and sadness that
is part of their lives. I've seen the light that comes into people's lives as
they embrace the gospel. I've seen people come and go but the gospel and truth
remain constant where ever I am. I've seen prayers answered. In short, I've been
a witness of many miracles throughout my time here in the Massachusetts Boston
Mission. I will not forget these moments and memories. I can't. They have made
me who I am today.</span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">I still have a long way to go and lots of work to
do but I have become many things on my mission. I have become independent but
dependent on the Lord. I am more charitable and more aware and thoughtful of
others. Instead of thinking about what I want to give others, I have learned to
rather think about, find out, and give people what they need. I am more patient
and understanding than I was before. I have become a missionary and a missionary
I will be throughout my entire life. I have become one that will not ever
compromise my values or standards. I have become one that will stand for his
beliefs even if that means standing alone. I have become, and am continually
working at it, someone the Lord can trust. I have become someone that acts on
all promptings, regardless at how awkward it may be. Now I'm not perfect but I
have become more humble, much to my parents pleasure I'm sure. But more
important than all of that, I have become a disciple of Jesus Christ and I will
never go back.</span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">I have always had a testimony of this gospel but
my mission has definitely strengthened and solidified that testimony. I know and
solemnly testify that God is our Heavenly Father and we are His children. He
knows us and loves us incredibly so. He has a plan for each one of us and what a
wondrous plan it is- SALVATION and HAPPINESS for all of us if we will but do His
will. Can there be anything better? I submit to you that there is nothing
better! We are so blessed to have the knowledge that we have! We have something
that a lot of people don't have, and that's hope. We have the hope in good
things to come. We have the hope that we can change because of the infinite
power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ. We don't have to keep making the same
mistakes every day. We can change and be better. As a representative of Jesus
Christ I testify that He truly is the Son of God, our Savior and Redeemer, and
He lives. What an incredible blessing it has been to share this testimony daily
with everyone I come in contact with. I love this. I'm gonna miss this.</span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">I don't quite know what is in store for me as I
get ready to move into the next chapter of my life but I go forth with faith and
excitement. Each ending brings new beginnings. So bring it on :)<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gCFR13xdFXA/WE9g7q1Dw0I/AAAAAAAAEmU/txx56a-ozCEB3eZZth6mGtKl1zbj1YhsgCK4B/s1600/DSC04292.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gCFR13xdFXA/WE9g7q1Dw0I/AAAAAAAAEmU/txx56a-ozCEB3eZZth6mGtKl1zbj1YhsgCK4B/s320/DSC04292.JPG" width="320" /></a></span><br />
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I just had the best P-day of my entire
mission today! We made a sweet music video that we will be showing at our
Christmas party on Dec. 11th! It was with our whole zone all over Boston. I
can't wait to edit it and show you the outcome! Obviously no time to write :s
I'm sorry once again. But know this, my life couldn't be better, cept i kinda
wanna stay on a mission after all.... but too late for that so im coming home anyway. I will probably crash when i get home of exhaustion cuz im giving
EVERYTHING i have for these last 3 weeks. It is go go go every day and im
loving it. Couldn't ask for a better way to be ending my mission. <br />
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Turkey day was good- ate at the Temple President's house. W and Jr
got confirmed and all is well there. There is so much to do and we've done so
much, i just don't even know what to talk about. But I'm eternally grateful to
all of you and love you! Be safe. K bye!</div>
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Alright peeps so here's the deal. I'll be seeing you all shortly so my emails will be a bit shortly :) Mostly because i don't even remember what happens every day any more. but here are the wonderful things (plus i will attach pics and each pic is worth 1000 words):</div>
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Transfers were this week so from tuesday
to friday we are pretty much out of our area/home and in the mission home with
either the new arrivals or the departures or at transfer meeting. Each time we
make take the departing missionaries to the airport its harder and harder mostly
because it is saying goodbye to friends that i've served most of my mission
with. I had the privilege of taking my trainer(we one of them cuz i was trained
in a trio) to the airport for him to go home. Elder A is finally leaving America. What a sad day. One pic is me and him saying goodbye. Yup we are
holding a stuffed animal. That is elder A for ya :)<br />
As he is walking away, I
say out loud and on video, because i recorded it, He is never going to make it
to Cambodia. Well it turns out that while trying to get on his flight from NY
to vancuver Canada or maybe whilst in Canada he didn't have the right documents
to proceed so they sent him back to NY or kept him there... we are a little
unsure on details. Well all of a sudden no one knows where this missionary is at but he
is not on his right airplane to Cambodia. Sister Packard calls me and asks what i
think happened or where he might be and i said Greenland (inside joke for all
that know this kid) and that didn't help the situation. But luckily Sunday
morning all of a sudden Elder A shows up in Cambodia safe and sound. No one
knows how. I personally think he snuck on thru the landing gear and rode the
whole way in the luggage rack. But the world will never know.<br />
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Next
thing is I'm Thankful for all of you!<br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UBb0hLjsMR8/UKu1-RzDp7I/AAAAAAAAAKM/Uq_KzS3G1wI/s1600/brady+baptism.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UBb0hLjsMR8/UKu1-RzDp7I/AAAAAAAAAKM/Uq_KzS3G1wI/s320/brady+baptism.jpg" width="320" /></a>Lastly, we had two more baptisms
this week..... I said we had 2 more baptisms! Ya they came out of no where,
kinda. It was the 2 D kids. We went over on Monday to teach a regular
lesson after taking a whole week off from visiting them and only the mom was
home. So we talked to her and had a really good lesson and tried to resolve her
concerns about her children being baptized. She was not really having it and we
felt kinda defeated. Then she just asked for the records so she could sign them.
Wait What? good thing i had just put them in my backpack just in case. I handed
it to her and she said that she just wants to get it done. Huh? we even tried
to dissuade her by saying she doesn't have to do anything unless she really
wants to and she feels that it is right, and she said that it was fine and that
we should do it sunday and expect her to be there too. Then we left. We were
confused when we left and looked at each other and said, "Did that just happen?"
So we decided to wait til our next appointment on friday to make sure it was
legit.<br />
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So friday we come back and yup she's serious. So with just saturday to
prepare we got the whole program together but with some serious doubts that they
would all show up on sunday. Well as you can see in the picture, They all showed
up and the baptism went fabulously! The ward and tons of missionaries have been
working to get these 2 kids baptized for at least 3 years. So it was a very big
deal to them and tons came to support. I couldn't help but feel pretty good
about myself having accomplished this feat. But then I had a really humbling
experience during the closing hymn. I was pondering about this whole experience
and how it all happened so fast and how did it even happen when it hit me. This
is the Lord's work. Not mine. Its not about me or the things I can do because
regardless what I try to do to help people convert and come unto Christ,
ultimately it is God that changes people's hearts. It is He that can work
through me if I am worthy, but otherwise i am nothing.<br />
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of this throughout my mission but I will just emphasize this one. Elder R and I came in wanting to be the missionaries to finally baptize these kids. We wanted to finally get this family together and coming to church and
progressing towards Christ. We went over 3 or 4 times a weeks and taught many
lessons. It was not easy, if you only knew the family. But we didn't give up.
So after all we could do, we came close, it was the night before their original
baptism date that the mom changed her mind and said no. We were so close and yet
forever away and we were crushed. I felt so defeated. That's where the lesson
comes in when Heavenly Father looks at us and says, "You know you can't do this
without me. I'm in control and can do anything. So I'm going to give this one to
you just because I love you and because the time is now right but watch and see
how I am in control and that I will do things in my own due time." Ok so maybe
He didn't say it like that but you get the point. And the point is, we have to
depend and rely on the Lord. There is NO WAY that we could've got their mother to
change her mind on our own. It was the spirit of God and we are all on His time.
I hope you get what I'm saying, cuz it makes more sense in my head then it does
when i try to explain it.<br />
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Thats it. Love ya! Have a fabulous
Thanksgiving! (ps we have multiple places that we can go to eat so we are all
set!)<br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: medium;">Love,</span><br />
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thanks to all those who sent things for my birthday. I really have the greatest
Family in the whole wide world and i want you to know that i am so grateful to
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Lc-D4TnV8yY/WE9eslll1eI/AAAAAAAAEjc/gBQEphXONEkCRRsWrcPnZ-BjLjfI-k6kACK4B/s1600/DSC04020.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Lc-D4TnV8yY/WE9eslll1eI/AAAAAAAAEjc/gBQEphXONEkCRRsWrcPnZ-BjLjfI-k6kACK4B/s320/DSC04020.JPG" width="320" /></a>Its been the craziest week of my life (i know i say that alot but i really
mean it this time!). It was the week of discussing transfers with President and
getting everything set up for that and all preparing for the weekend mission
Conference and Service day down in New Haven CT. I honestly can't tell you what
happened during the week but i know we were swamped from 6am to 10pm every day
and didn't even have a chance to visit the DJL family or T this week. The
H's (an office senior couple) took all 4 of us assistants to the Cheesecake
Factory for my birthday and what a treat that was. They are the funniest
people. I love them cuz they remind me of my fabulous grandparents. The office
couples depend on us greatly because they are a bit slow when it comes to
computers and technology (unlike Gramma Butler) so they love us and treat us
like heroes every time we come into the office and help them with their latest
problem and then when we succeed they do these funny little dances all hooting
and hollering hahaha its priceless. I love older people!</div>
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I will just cut to the chase, Friday after running around all over greater
Boston trying to get everything ready to go down to CT, we picked up some sister
missionaries in the city and drove down 2.5 hours or so to Madison CT. One of
the sisters is from Las Vegas and used to sing with Gladys Knight! She's got
such a good voice. When we arrived, the whole mission was together (first time
since the consolidation of the two missions) we had hot chocolate and donuts and
reunited with many friends and companions we haven't seen for a long time. It
was a glorious time and just something special in the room where we were all
gathered. Then we moved into the chapel to have our mission conference meeting.
Elder R and I conducted the meeting and we started by singing Called to
Serve and it was such an incredible sight to behold as we were sitting on the
stand looking out across the hundreds of faces of people i have come to love so
much and who we have been praying really hard for because of transfers. I
almost lost it a few times in tears just because of the pure Christlike love I
felt towards all of them. And once again, there was just something different and
special about the feeling and spirit that was present in that chapel with our
whole mission together. Something i will never forget. </div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-x7VFA5135Wk/WE9fS_6KFEI/AAAAAAAAEkE/hPNajYCW84AEjGuO3Jq73Roez59I8FPdwCK4B/s1600/DSC04062.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-x7VFA5135Wk/WE9fS_6KFEI/AAAAAAAAEkE/hPNajYCW84AEjGuO3Jq73Roez59I8FPdwCK4B/s320/DSC04062.JPG" width="240" /></a>Each of the Packard
kids spoke and they are amazingly mature speakers, and i learn so much from
them. Sister Packard also spoke to us but the best talk was definitely by
President Packard. This is how he started: "Albert Einstein once said- simple
minds talk about people, as in gossip. Mediocre minds talk about things, as in
the weather or sports or whatnot. But Great minds talk about ideas. I want to
talk about an idea. Its called Zion. Everybody wants it. A few people have tried
to create it. only a couple were successful." He focused alot on Joseph Smith
and the early saints and their efforts in trying to build Zion. It was that idea
of Zion that lead people from place to place being burned out of their houses
and driven across the plains. There is power in that idea. He really thinks we
can create it here in our mission. I believe him and want to do it. He is such
a powerful speaker and when he talks, he has a way of inspiring you to want to
join him because of the faith that he has. A life-changing talk. He and his
daughter also sang a special musical number. That family is so talented!</div>
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missionaries went to stay with local members. Saturday we woke up and dressed
in our yellow Mormon Helping Hands shirts and vests and took off in groups to go
serve. It was such a fun day! And such a good change of scenery. We shoveled
sand off of people's property-sometimes up to a couple feet! Cleaned out
basements, moved furniture, walked along the beach and picked up trash and
debris, helped take boards off of windows, Lifted a shed off of a fence ha, and
lots of other little things. The people we served LOVED us! They were so
grateful. And even the people who we didn't help but who just drove by on the
street would take the time to stop and thank us for helping their community. It
was amazing. I'm so glad I got to be a part of it. </div>
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There are so many other
little stories that happened throughout the day but it suffices me to say that
we served and lifted burdens and had loads of fun doing it! plus the weather was
great even with the random snow storm earlier in the week. Blake, count me in
for next year hurricane clean up cuz i loved it! (as you can tell by the picture
i sent). We drove home Saturday night and fell asleep instantly. Easily some
of the best days of my mission.</div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-upUAJaXRF8g/WE9fU2qg4yI/AAAAAAAAEkM/szJhuWEm0DozU9QYQWH0jH22OHK0UFfVgCK4B/s1600/DSC04094.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-upUAJaXRF8g/WE9fU2qg4yI/AAAAAAAAEkM/szJhuWEm0DozU9QYQWH0jH22OHK0UFfVgCK4B/s320/DSC04094.JPG" width="320" /></a>Well, I love you all! I know that this gospel is true. How can it not be.
When you stop and think about all the good that comes from this gospel and what
we learn and what we strive to be, its so obvious that this is what Christ wants
us to be doing. Look for those in need of this great message of purpose and
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Why hello beautiful people. Its been awhile hasn't it. Well i hope this one doesn't bore you :)<br />
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From Hurricanes to Bishops not being on board, from organizing flood clean up to Halloween parties, from parents holding their kids back from progressing to sickness almost preventing covenants, and from visiting a district meeting where Elder A is the District leader to having one of the most spiritual baptismal services I've ever attended, this week I've done it all. Its been a wild ride and as I mentioned in another email to some of you, I feel like my mission is going so fast that if I even just blink, i will miss the rest of it. We looked at what was ahead for this next transfer and every week is stacked with things to do and then this morning we got even more things to do from President in regards to all the new missionaries we will soon be having(Probably after i go home-so i get to do all the work but not get to see the fruits of my labors :( But such is life.<br />
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Tuesday we got up and finally went home. The storm was done and only a few missionaries throughout the mission ever lost power. As we were leaving, Michael(12) comes down stairs and says, "Are you guys coming back?" We said ya michael we come here pretty often remember? and then he said the funniest thing, "no i mean are you going to come back tonight and do the same thing as we did yesterday?" haha it was so sad to tell him no. There was no real damage to our area so we just went back to normal missionary work. But in the New Haven CT stake theres lots to do and half of the mission got to go down last saturday to help with some cleanup and this weekend the entire mission is going down to help out all wearing our Helping Hands T-Shirts so Im stoked! (We didn't get to go down cuz we were super busy Saturday....but when are we not?)<br />
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Tuesday we also found out that our bishop was not going to let the baptisms happen until he interviewed them and found them worthy and ready to be baptized. Obviously he doesn't hold those keys so we called him and helped him see that and so he said then that he wants to meet with them in his office before the baptism so he can get to know them. Eventually everything turned out alright and T our investigator who has stopped smoking for over 3 weeks was able to get baptized.<br />
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Jumping to the baptism, It was one of the most spiritual services I've attended. The members just love T and have been a big part of getting her in the ward. Sis. K (the one from Portugal) gave a talk at it and did wonderfully even tho she's only been speaking english for like 3 months. Its amazing to see the lord bless those who work hard with the gift of tongues. Sis K and her comp have been switching offf teaching with T over the past few months and I have no doubt that the reason she got baptized is because we got the sisters involved. We have some really solid sister missionaries in our mission and they add so much to the work. I had the opportunity and privilege to Confirm T that day as well and that was a cool experience. She is such a sweet lady who has had a rough life. She cried multiple times that day just out of joy and excitement.<br />
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Oh random side note, some italian reporters tried to interview me about the election but i told them no so instead they asked me about my mission and i was answering their questions and so they started filming me for a few seconds. But then we had to tell them to leave the church grounds cuz we aren't affiliated with any political party.<br />
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So back to the DL kids not getting baptized.... That was probably the saddest and most frustrating days of my life. This week after hearing the mom say multiple times that YES her kids can get baptized, we went over to get her signature. Well she wouldn't even show her face or talk to us and so we tried to communicate through messages passed to the kids to her and back to us and it went on forever and she just wouldn't budge. She said they can get baptized but that she was not going to sign anything. J started crying when his mom said no to letting them get baptized and W kept saying over and over again, "I just want to be baptized, please let me do it." ;( It was heartbreaking. But we will continue to work with them. I haven't given up all hope yet.<br />
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We've had some really spiritual moments with members at our dinner appointments lately and its because we actually prepare a lesson to teach them and think about their needs and teach to them. But we often start out by asking them why it is they keep coming to church each week? What is it that brings you back? why? And its been amazing the spirit that enters their home as they have the chance to bear their testimony to us but more importantly in front of their spouse or children in their own home. Theres power in sharing testimony with each other in the home. So i challenge all of you to do that this week sometime. Ask each other what it is that keeps you coming back to the church or staying in it? And i promise that you will grow closer together and that you will share a spiritual experience, which are so essential to have in a family. The reason why i keep coming to church is because it teaches me what it is that our Heavenly Father wants me to do and become. I am a better person because of belonging to this church. I learn there. I learn that we can change. We can let go of our weaknesses and our mistakes and change and have hope in good things to come. And that is something that i feel like everyone needs to know about. Hope is what is missing in this world. So share your light and bring hope to others this week and always. </div>
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So yeah....This is why I never had the chance to write a real letter last week. We have a lot to do and I have only a little time left. Just Don't hate me, k? :) Love you all! Thanks to Blake Karli and Brody for being the first to send me something for my birthday! and Mom thanks for the package it was PERFECT!!!!!!!</div>
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Love, Elder JohnsonBrady Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17992926881766101599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149056697675374651.post-73341773626304726502012-10-23T08:22:00.000-06:002016-12-12T19:32:04.513-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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so bad. but just know that im really really loving life. I couldn't have asked
for a better way to end my mission. I love my comp and my area and we are
teaching a ton and W& Jr and this other lady T are all getting baptized on Nov 4th and they all 3 came to church and same with our
next door neighbor, L. It was a legit Sunday. We are making some great
progress with W and J's mom. Things are coming. We are out doing stuff
for president and what not usually every day from morning til 5pm and then work
in our area from 5-9 and with that short time we manage to lead our zone with
people coming to church, people with a baptismal date and lessons taught in the
week. Don't ask me how but we'll just go with it :) Thanks for all the updates
and support from everyone! Someone told me that I just have 8 weeks left...
yikes. played soccer today with tons of missionaries (like 25!) It was heaven!
Cept all of the really good players have already gone home. Oh well it was still
good.
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-h4ZXJatk9JI/WE9dlFTIvFI/AAAAAAAAEiY/_nPsuhohr5AjVaeYMMQU_68mfVOPcl63ACK4B/s1600/DSC03866.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-h4ZXJatk9JI/WE9dlFTIvFI/AAAAAAAAEiY/_nPsuhohr5AjVaeYMMQU_68mfVOPcl63ACK4B/s320/DSC03866.JPG" width="320" /></a>Brock you are the man! I love you. I'm really interested to hear what kind
of things you've seen about me that have changed because of my mission. Mom you are fabulous! I love your insights. I shared the one with Pres Packard about how
Christ counseled everyone go home to digest everything and then came back the next day
to learn again cuz that is exactly what we are doing
in our mission. Pres has unloaded quite a bit of info and tips and training and
we took a step back to let people think about it and try it out and now we are
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Alright love you bye!</div>
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all of that, that would be great. put me in a khmae class, photography class,
ballroom, computer class of some sort so i can be more acquainted with them, and
maybe a spanish class, and whatever else i need to be in. Thanks Momma you are
the BEST!<br />
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Brady Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17992926881766101599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149056697675374651.post-32582602813343448862012-10-20T17:24:00.000-06:002016-12-12T19:30:02.578-07:00Sorry to write so late in the week<br />
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busy this week and it all has to do with the announcement made by Pres Monson
about age changes for missionaries. Let me just say that A LOT more
missionaries are coming out then were to be expected which is awesome,
especially tons more sisters-super awesome. But that means they need to find
where to put them. Well our mission has requested 50 more missionaries making
our mission have 250 (the max a mission can have). Still not sure what will
actually happen but Elder R and I are in charge of gathering all of the
hundreds of suggestions from the missionaries here on where to put the new ones.
That includes deciding where to put them (as in which branch or ward), if they
are elders or sisters, if they speak english, Hatian, creole, portuguese, or
spanish; and where to actually put them within the ward boundaries (cuz here,
wards are multiple cities/towns big); plus we have to find out how many members
are in each ward/where do most of the members live within each boundary, etc.
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but we get everything ready, all the info, so he can make a decision. We could
start increasing our mission numbers within the next 6-9 weeks which means no
time. Yeah, pretty intense! So I am sincerely sorry for the lack of writing, but
Im doing all that i can to write in my journal so i can be sure to tell you all
about the crazy and fun things that are happening here at this time. There is
alot of excitement in the air and good things are coming. I'm only sad that i
will just be here to set everything up but not get to see how it all works out.
I love being a missionary and I love that our prophet continues to receive
revelation for the Church. The Second Coming is near and that is why the church
is getting more serious about spreading this gospel throughout the world. Please
be a part of that spreading of the message. Nothing could be more important, and
nothing can bring the spirit more fully into your life then when you are sharing
the gospel. I love you all! Thanks for all of the Love and support!</div>
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PS: Dad you are a baller! i love it. Brock, you are such a stud! Mom your
insights are amazing! Wescotts, I absolutely LOVED your package!!!! I think
it was one of the best package i've received on my mission. So thanks! :) Nikki your package was also one of
the best! much needed! loved it. Blake and Ryan, Mom and Dad thanks for the
advice. Everyone/anyone else that i've forgotten, thank you for
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a blur and i don't even know what day it is most of the time. All i know is that
things are super busy and I am having so much fun. I love serving with Elder
R. And i know you are all pronouncing it wrong but it rhymes with Fever so we often call him R Fever (like Bieber fever
-and everyone's got it haha). He is from Mesa Arizona, and no he doesn't know
the Allens. He is the youngest of 5 and loves to skate and is very musically
talented (was in a band as the drummer plus he sings and plays guitar too). So
you might be thinking that we must be pretty different but actually we aren't.
We get along very well and have a lot of fun. He's pretty overwhelmed with the
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go for the past week plus 10hours of conference, arrivals, transfers,
departures, Zone Leader council and office work. Fun, huh? No but really i love
it. We thought that by having the Traveling Elders (and mom they are just new to
our mission not to all missions) we would be freed up a lot more to work in our
area but i don't think that will be happening. Cuz this transfer we have
interviews with President, where we go with the Pres and Traveling Elders around
the whole mission and do various trainings while President interviews each
missionary, and we also have Zone Conference. Its gonna be insane but super
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Picking up the Arrivals from the Airport was probably one of the funnest
things i've done on my mission (that may be a bit of a stretch but still, it was
awesome). Sister K from Portugal was in that group and my buddy Butch
totally served in her branch and worked a lot with her family and preparing her
to serve a mission. He was actually there when she opened her mission call and
found out she was coming here. Small world, huh? She's way cool. Elder C (dad's friends's son from Rexburg) was also in that group and he was telling me
that he stayed at our house a while ago! Small world again. Geez it blows my
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So we picked them up, drove them to the Cambridge church for a light snack
and then got to take them out contacting/talking to people in down town Boston. Elder R and I took the "party bus"(12 passenger van we drive during transfer
week-I want one when i get home haha) and a whole car full and went to Copley
station right next to the John Hancock building and let them loose. We went with
them and it was such a rush to be out contacting in the heart of Boston. The
new missionaries did very well and had alot of fun. For some it was a big wake
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home giving various trainings on what is to be expected/how we do missionary
work in our mission/how we work with members/ everything they need to know.
Power packed day and it was splendid, but the children (new missionaries look
like children to me) were pretty exhausted. Thursday was the transfer meeting
and going to the temple with the departing missionaries and hanging out with
them all night and hearing the fabulous advice from the Packards for whats next
for those missionaries as they go home. I love the Packards so much! They had us
4 AP's (the 2 traveling elders are counted as APs too) over for family home
evening and we ate delicious salmon, all performed a talent, told some stories,
read the email from their son who is on a mission, and President taught us from
the scriptures. They really are my family away from family.</div>
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As for Conference here are some things I loved. 1) it was incredible. I'm
sad its my last one as a missionary. All the talks kinda run together for me in
my head but some things I picked out was that we really are lead by modern
revelations. It is incredible to know that President Monson really is a Prophet
and that he receives direct revelation from the Lord to know what to do to help
the work progress. I'm so excited for the age change for missionaries. Its going
to be amazing. I'm excited for Brock, I can't believe he can already go on a
mission so soon after i get home. He is going to be such a great missionary, I
wish i could have him as one of my companions. </div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tZ5DYyN0MBY/WE9cqun-M0I/AAAAAAAAEhU/WwpFfw7yAU8GmHrVyEAUXTQBHlenHtaIACK4B/s1600/DSC03753.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tZ5DYyN0MBY/WE9cqun-M0I/AAAAAAAAEhU/WwpFfw7yAU8GmHrVyEAUXTQBHlenHtaIACK4B/s320/DSC03753.JPG" width="320" /></a>In reviewing my notes, I realized that a lot of what was emphasized or
maybe just my focus was the need to help others and be aware of others and how
you can bring them closer to Christ. I really liked what the relief society
Pres said "first observe, then serve" Its a great motto to live by. Pres Eyring
also talked about building zion and we are trying to do that in our mission...ok
so just got a text and we got to go help some sisters with a ride some where....
so to be continued. haha Sorry Family! </div>
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alot because they are from Cambodia and so far from home. I'm so excited for
Brock and Stacy and Homecoming! I miss high school so badly. I wanna go back ha.
Make sure to send me some pictures of them and their dates. Good times. </div>
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So i don't have much time this week cuz we don't get a P-day cuz we are
with the new greenies Tuesday and Wednesday then transfer meeting and temple
trip on Thursday and then party all night (well, not really) with the departing
missionaries and then Friday we wake up super early to take them all to the
airport. Its gonna be a blast!</div>
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My first Transfers went well. It was a lot harder than I thought and it took
many hours of counseling and thinking and prayer to finally get every once
situated. It was interesting to me that there weren't any "he needs to go here"
or "she has to be with this companion" feelings, but as we worked on the
transfer board, things just fell into place and felt right. It was pretty fun
knowing everyone's fate before they did :)</div>
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The L family all came to church!-cept for the mom.
but the 4 kids all came and it was
awesome! The ward members surprised them with their very own scripture quad
each! That was unexpected but they loved it. We had some sweet lessons with them
this week as well and we are finally getting somewhere with them and I think
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companion. His name is Elder R and I have already been living in
the same apartment with him for the last 6 weeks and we are best buds so its going to be
really great. Im really excited. Elder R and I are the AP's and then Elder
M and Elder M are the, brand new to our mission, "traveling Elders."
What they do is go where ever they want when ever they want and help, lift,
encourage, inspire, and train other missionaries throughout the mission full
time. So they will live with us and come to church with us but other than that,
they will be all over the mission. Elder M is an awesome missionary and
will do great things in that responsibility. I will continue doing the things in
the office and organizing things/running the behind the scenes operations, where
i like to be. I'm stoked to be with Elder R and with the new traveling
elders, we will have more free time to work in our area and I forsee alot of
great things on the horizon.<br />
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Elder Brady
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Ok so I've been sitting here for like 10mins trying to think of what to
write about this week. A ton has happened over the last few days but nothing
that exciting. We've been apartment hunting for some other elders in preparation
for transfers, we've been meeting with President talking about some changes in
mission rules, I played M's (President's son) saxophone and it took me
back to the good old days playing in band with Casey Spilker haha. We had lots
of dinners with members- we actually had every day signed up for this whole
transfer. How legit is that! Just FYI that is not normal but I like it :) </div>
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The
members in the Cambridge 2nd Ward are mostly all young couples going to Havard
Business school and they are super cool. I think by the end of my time here,
which will be till the end of my mission, I will really want to come back here
after going to BYU and go to HBS. That'd be sweet, right? And its not a dubious
(word of the week ha) ambition, I am really liking it here and could totally see
myself back here. Pretty much following suit with Blake with going back to his
mission to go to graduate school. </div>
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We taught the L family again and had a really solid lesson. The
mother sat in and listened quietly and at one point you could feel the spirit so
strong as one of our members testified and you knew that she was feeling the
spirit. It will take time but im sure her heart will soften. We are moving the
baptism date back into mid october to give us more time to get the whole family
active. Jr came to church with one other sister but the rest of the family did
not, unfortunately. :( </div>
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Also at church, some random lady from Beijing China came walking in and
said she her school class was told by one of her professors to go study about a
different religion. She loved our church meeting and now wants to meet with us
this week. Her name is Yan and she has only been in the US for 2 months but
speaks fairly decent english. How cool is that?! And to top it all off, a member
came up to us at the end of church and said the best thing, "Elders! I have
someone ready for you to teach in our home thursday night at 8pm. Can you
come?" uh, heck ya we can come :) So this week should be legit. Plus this week
we will be working on transfers with President and Sister Packard so I am
equally excited for that.</div>
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So there is this subway stop here called Porter Square. And it has the
hugest stair case ever! like more than 100 stairs. Some of the less
informed sister missionaries thoguht it would be fun to challenged Elder M and me to race up them. They went about training for like 3 weeks and we did
our usual workouts and met up last saturday morning to race. The whole
zone showed up to watch. It was my first time seeing the stairs and I was a
little intimidated but we raced and obviously we won :) By a long shot. Moral of
the story, don't buy mission vehicles. jk, But really tho, don't buy them. the
real moral of the story is not important. well thats it love yall!</div>
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Oh also need to thank everyone who has written me lately that I haven't had
the time to respond to. I have been receiving some mail every day this last week
and its so great so thank you one and all. <br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> Elder Brady
Johnson</span>Brady Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17992926881766101599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149056697675374651.post-89010214322917051982012-09-19T15:24:00.000-06:002016-12-12T19:22:27.391-07:00<br />
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To answer some questions:</div>
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always the ones to drop them off and to pick them up-which I will be able to do
in a few weeks!(president comes with us too). I keep up on my language by mainly reading the Book of Mormon in Khmae
every day and also all of my personal prayers are in khmae. There is just not a
lot of spare time to do language study especially because my companion doesnt'
speak another language so i feel bad making him sit around while i study a
language. No i don't speak khmae with hardly anyone except for other
missionaries at meetings cuz I have yet to find a Cambodian in my area.</div>
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Yes I am still somewhat learning spanish but only passively. I speak it
with other missionaries and when i can even tho its not soo good and I ask
others who speak spanish to talk to me in spanish so i can practice.</div>
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W the 12yr old I mentioned last time and Jr, her little 9yr old
brother are both set to get baptized in october! When we went over there to
teach them we straight up asked them if they wanted to be baptized like their
older siblings right at first and they both excitedly said YES! So we have been
teaching them and things are going really well. Their mom isn't too sure if she
is going to let them be baptized tho. The other 3 older sisters and
very active and love young womens. So we will have to see. But keep them in
your prayers and pray that the mother's heart is softened.</div>
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a whole lot of time with President lately because we've all been busy preparing for a
general Authority coming...and that happened these past few days. Elder O. Vincent Haleck and his
wife came and toured our mission. He is brand new as a GA and it
was great getting to be with him. We had 4 zone conferences in 2 days that
Elder M and I had to set up all the technical equipment and get the
buildings open and pretty much make everything happen so He and President
Packard could just show up, speak, bring the spirit in great abundance, and then
leave. So we really didn't get any one on one time with Elder Haleck but we got
to hear him speak 4 times and each time was a little bit different. He shared
a lot of experiences from his mission in Samoa and also his experiences as a
mission president 40yrs later in the same place! Cool huh? So it was a bit of a
stressful and tiring 2 days-feels like 2 weeks should've passed in that time
haha. But its done and things are settling for this week and then next week we
start doing transfers with President. That should be really fun.</div>
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the next few months so I'm stoked. Loving life, thats for sure! Loveya bye!</div>
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Brady Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17992926881766101599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149056697675374651.post-42121176694864485212012-09-10T13:00:00.002-06:002016-12-12T19:20:56.237-07:0099<br />
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Now i don't want this to sound Trunkie but in our mission, it is tradition
to go the the 99 Restaurant when we have 99 days til we go home.... So yup today
is my 99. Its unreal i know.<br />
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my head at this point. But it was a really good week. Wednesday we had Zone
Leader Council and it was powerful. President loves teaching us these
deep/intense lessons from the Book of Mormon whenever a group is assembled with
him. He talked about prayer this time and counseled us to not do prayers like
we are doctors giving a diagnosis and telling Heavenly Father what we need him
to do for us, but rather to have "what would thou have me do?" prayers. Its
exactly what i needed to hear. So every night before bed I say a prayer and say
the usuals like bless my family and friends and what not but then I just ask,
"what can i do?" "what would thou have me do" for such and such case. And then
I wait. I keep a notebook close by so i can write down the promptings that i get
and it is amazing the inspiration i receive and the specific action items i need
to do. Or I will remember something that i need to do tomorrow or whatever it
may be. My prayers now are alot more meaningful and fulfilling and its more
like a two way conversation. I encourage you all to try doing the
same.<br />
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Thursday we went to Springfield MA for a zone meeting and it is way
out in western mass. And i bet dad knows this, but That is the birthplace of
Basketball. We drove by the Basketball Hall of Fame but thats all we did- drive
by, cuz we had no time. We also took an elder to the airport who is flying home
to Brazil. Its so
weird doing that ha. I don't think i will ever get used to it. </div>
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Friday we went to Revere to a different Zone meeting and it was so fun
being "home" ha. I got to talk to the Khmae elders there and it let me know
that i have made progress in the language on my mission thus far, so that was
comforting. Saturday we were in the office from 10-5pm like usual reporting
with all the zone leaders on the people who were baptized or are preparing for
baptism plus the majority being talking with the ZL's about each missionary and
how they are doing. Its crazy how much changes in just one week. Things can be
going just fine and then BAM there's a problem (but nothing too
big).<br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-c9LZjAIlbCc/WE9a-5nevqI/AAAAAAAAEe8/t2i7FBTxLGsPeJ2NQbRzEMaRVHkyZBWTwCK4B/s1600/DSC03610.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-c9LZjAIlbCc/WE9a-5nevqI/AAAAAAAAEe8/t2i7FBTxLGsPeJ2NQbRzEMaRVHkyZBWTwCK4B/s320/DSC03610.JPG" width="320" /></a>Sunday was the best day by far. As church was starting i was half
thinking to myself half praying and I said, "you know, we haven't had alot of
time this week to do anything in our area to find people to teach and i really
want to start teaching someone. If it be thy will, can we please have someone
come to church or get someone to teach by the end of today?" I didn't really
think much of it because I wasn't desparate or anything, just thought it would
be nice to have an investigator. (cuz currently we don't have any.) After
church, we had ward council and towards the end, a 12 yr old girl was brought up
whose sisters have been baptized and all 3 of them come to church regularly but
the 12 yr old just never got baptized because the parents aren't members and
arent' on top of things like that. So the Young Women's pres asked if the
missionaries had to teach her first before she can get baptized we answered yes
(cuz that is the answer :)) and so now we are going to go meet her tomorrow and
most likely she will be baptized at the end of this month! How awesome is that?
God answers prayers. He hears each one of us. Plus i also learned that it NEVER
hurts to ask. God wants us to pray to him. Don't forget that.<br />
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that, most of our work done in our area is going to dinner appointments with
members. And our members are sooooo awesome! I love them all and we are
working with them in their missionary efforts they already are doing/want to do.
All we do is encourage and support them in their efforts and then be the
accountability factor and follow up with them to keep em honest, you know. And
they love it. The members here are very missionary minded so within the next 2
months, I have a feeling that we will have alot of people to teach. I feel like
this area is so under-utilized because we are the only elders that cover this
ward and we are super busy and gone most of the time. But Elder M and I
have alot of plans to really take advantage of this area and the solid members
that we have. There hasn't been a baptism in this ward in over a year and a half
i believe and we are going to change that. Things are great, life is so
wonderful, fall is here and God is good.<br />
<br />
I love you all! Thanks for
everything! Yes, a package sounds really good right now mom and anyone else who
feels so inclined :) haha you guys are the BEST!<br />
<br />
ps i just have to give a
shout out to my cuz's Amber and Emilee Johnson for their letters they wrote me
forever ago that i never responded to. but just know, I love getting your
letters. and Emilee, i think you are my best writer/most consistent for my whole
mission So thanks a bunch! Sorry I can't write back but feel free to keep
writing me and i promise i will write back a few more times before I go
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
Elder Brady
Johnson</span></span><br />
<!-- BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS -->Brady Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17992926881766101599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149056697675374651.post-61879892260636270392012-09-04T13:32:00.002-06:002016-12-12T19:19:45.099-07:00Hello from Yale!<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YE5NgAQLHcE/WE9amPp3iII/AAAAAAAAEeg/5HSTd8nD1Bw8rrpnqbtKAB3kA_2NWu-ZQCK4B/s1600/DSC03597.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YE5NgAQLHcE/WE9amPp3iII/AAAAAAAAEeg/5HSTd8nD1Bw8rrpnqbtKAB3kA_2NWu-ZQCK4B/s320/DSC03597.JPG" width="320" /></a>Yup you heard that right, i am currently writing to you as I am on exchanges for
the day with my good friend from Richfield, Elder M in the lovely city of New Haven, CT Home of Yale University. Man, New England has a
lot of prestigious schools Like Yale, Harvard, MIT and Brown and I've now been
to them all. The picture I sent is of me on a big hill overlooking New Haven.
Pretty epic, huh?<br />
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<br />
This week has been pretty busy like the last one. I
think this is how its going to be for the rest of my mission which is awesome!
I love being on the go a hundred percent of the time. Last week I went to a
district meeting in Hartford, CT and one in Keene, New Hampshire (that place is
forever away! And we saw a mountain while we were up there and that is my first
time seeing one in 20 months!) I love traveling all over the mission and meeting
all of the missionaries. I think i have most of the missionaries names
memorized from looking at their cards in the mission office or at the mission
home but it helps alot to actually meet the missionaries for me to remember
them. Oh and we went to Revere, MA to drop something off the the Cam elders
there and I was driving and it was like I was coming home! I definitely went on
a trip down memory lane when i went in that apartment again. I can't believe its
already been 9 months since i was last there. Good times.<br />
<br />
Things are
going great with Elder M as a companion. We go running at Harvard Stadium
almost every morning- well, how we decide is if we are home and in bed before
11pm we will wake up at 6am to go running, cuz its just 5 mins away. The times
we are out past 10:30 is when we are with President doing something or other or
traveling to do exchanges with the zone leaders in Hartford or something. But
its awesome because Elder M is super athletic so he is going to help me get
in really good shape and get me ready for soccer tryouts in a couple months.
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-r86Vv62p8K0/WE9aQ3UqW-I/AAAAAAAAEeI/3ordJdcgIPw8EXu7UO7rFW7OfyXA6yLtACK4B/s1600/DSC03591.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-r86Vv62p8K0/WE9aQ3UqW-I/AAAAAAAAEeI/3ordJdcgIPw8EXu7UO7rFW7OfyXA6yLtACK4B/s320/DSC03591.JPG" width="320" /></a>We currently have no investigators but we are working on that. We only
get a few hours a day in our area and maybe one or two whole days and with that
time we are mostly focusing on the Less Actives that the bishop wants us to be
visiting or finding. But we did have an incredible experience while at dinner
at the Packard's home. We had been at the office all saturday long because we
were reporting with all the zone leaders (9 of them. I report with 5 one week
and then 4 the next) President randomly called us and invited to dinner. Ha I
love being at the mission home because it is just that, a home. Its so cool
having kids there. Its different tho, coming over and seeing one watching tv, one dancing around singing some song, and one telling us all about their adventures of that day. Its like
being at home. Dinner was delicious and as we were finishing up, a salesman
came to the door and President welcomed him in and let him give us all his spiel
and it turns out that he is a 21yr old father with a 1yr old boy and a
girlfriend who has lived on the streets his whole life but he finally decided he
wanted to make something of himself and had to start somewhere so now he is
selling magazines. Pres said, 'Im not going to buy your magazines but i will
feed you." so we fed him a giant meal. N played a song on the piano for us
all and then we taught a lesson about happiness and purpose that is found
through the gospel and the book of Mormon. The spirit touched all of our hearts
that night and the guy left with a book of mormon in hand and my phone number. I
hope he calls. The kids LOVED it! they kept saying, "that was soo cool! I could
totally feel the spirit." Lesson that i learned was, have the missionaries in
your home no matter how "righteous or spiritual or all-set" you think you might
be.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nPvkaeoWlhg/WE9aTG9yBbI/AAAAAAAAEeQ/x7zghOqHNd8B_KrctvRU65L6unvKuRzJQCK4B/s1600/DSC03585.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nPvkaeoWlhg/WE9aTG9yBbI/AAAAAAAAEeQ/x7zghOqHNd8B_KrctvRU65L6unvKuRzJQCK4B/s320/DSC03585.JPG" width="320" /></a>I love being on a mission! I love you all! Just know that, as
President often says, "I'm finer than frog's hair." so don't worry about me :)
(you gotta love those texans)<br />
<br />
<br />
So cool that Adam is home! Thanks for taking "me" down to see him.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: medium;">Love,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Elder Brady
Johnson</span></span><br />
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<!-- BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS -->Brady Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17992926881766101599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149056697675374651.post-90565480442215856962012-08-27T14:31:00.000-06:002016-12-12T19:15:43.669-07:00The office life<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yETx1aOfDf4/WE9ZwzdGEQI/AAAAAAAAEdk/ZqW1ihgvZhEGHPJfk18gkQ_I3gxxQPjCwCK4B/s1600/DSC03524.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yETx1aOfDf4/WE9ZwzdGEQI/AAAAAAAAEdk/ZqW1ihgvZhEGHPJfk18gkQ_I3gxxQPjCwCK4B/s320/DSC03524.JPG" width="320" /></a><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-L7gqHEnR1-o/WE9ZvSXQyOI/AAAAAAAAEdc/r9nj2BxhKkk6Qm7Epn_Hv9ba-e5PWfELgCK4B/s1600/DSC03523.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-L7gqHEnR1-o/WE9ZvSXQyOI/AAAAAAAAEdc/r9nj2BxhKkk6Qm7Epn_Hv9ba-e5PWfELgCK4B/s320/DSC03523.JPG" width="320" /></a>So I'm here in Natick in the Mission office. This is where i will spend at least
2 days a week doing reporting and what not. But anyway let me tell you a bit
about whats new.<br />
<br />
I now live in Brighton MA which is right outside of
Boston proper, very close to Cambridge (where harvard and MIT is). I am indeed
in the city, in the middle of all the busy and crazy and hustle and bustle and i
love it. We do have our own area to work in when we aren't out traveling around
the mission or doing different assignments for President Packard. We attend the
Cambridge 2nd ward and it is mostly young families. We are always around a lot
of missionaries because of being in the city. We live with the Boston Zone
Leaders and they are super tight. Elder M is my companion as I told
you and its a lot of fun reminiscing with him about high school basketball days
and what not. Its fun when people ask us where we are from and we get to say
that we are both from St. George Utah, and yes we knew each other. That doesn't
happen very often. <br />
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Another cool thing (one of many) is that we spend so
much time with President Packard. I love that man. And he really takes our
assignment seriously. He chose us to be his assistants and he definitely uses us
as such and he tells us everything that is going on in the mission and often asks us for advice even tho he probably knows way
better than us what he should do ha. Along those lines its weird to know about
everything that is going on in the mission and all the upcoming plans that
president has for the mission and really get to see first hand who he is. Its
really a privilege and I'm humbled greatly at this assignment. There is much to
do, a lot of people to get to know and help, and fun to be had.<br />
<br />
If you
can't tell, I'm psyched for this transfer. Life is good. There is so much more
that I want to tell you about these last few days but if i did, I wouldnt get
lunch and have a decent P day. So I love you all! Thanks for everything :)<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Love,</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> Elder Brady
Johnson</span><br />
<!-- BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS -->Brady Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17992926881766101599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149056697675374651.post-40478551927900982472012-08-22T09:44:00.002-06:002016-12-12T19:14:14.659-07:00Big news from transfer weekAs you have probably figured, this week is transfers. And after 5 transfers here
in the wonderful land of Providence, I am sad to say that i will be leaving. But
it is not to a place i was expecting. But i will get to that later....(oooo i
bet the suspense is killing you :) )<br />
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insane! One of my goals that i set for the week was to just survive. And we did,
barely. We had exchanges with the newport elders, zone conference (had to drive
an hour in a crazy rainstorm to get there)-tangent- while there we found out
that Clayton Christensen is now the 1st counselor in the mission presidency. i
don't know if you all back home know that when a mission president comes out,
they choose to counselors from people that live in the mission to help him out.
So we will be seeing alot more of C.C.<br />
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go visit and then on friday we met up with Elder B and Elder W who are
serving in Connecticut and drove together up to Lowell, MA in preparation for
WATER FESTIVAL! Yes its already here and gone again! We ate dinner at
some members house that we knew from the last time we were there and then slept
over at the elders place. Saturday we were with all 9 Cambodian Elders along
the Merrimack River and we set up our booth and Book Of Mormon display and got
to work contacting everyone ;) It was a lot of fun and the weather was nice and
so were the people. I didn't talk to nearly as many people as i did last year
but i feel like I had way better and longer conversations about the gospel with
them. I spoke alot of khmae and bought some cool things (but not much because
there weren't as many booths this year). There were Thousands of Asians tho and
I loved it. Plus i got to see some old friends from Lynn and Lowell and even
got to see M one of my recent converts! She is now almost 16 and such a
different person. She is super outgoing and there is this glow about her
countenance and she is happy. The gospel really does change lives! It was so fun
being with Elder G again and elder A and the other khmae missionaries.
One of the newbies is Elder C and he actually helped coach at Bountiful
High with Marty in Lacrosse! Crazy small world huh? It seems as tho that day
is already like a dream to me. <br />
<br />
Oh ya and in the middle of the day i
receive a phone call from President Packard (so keep in mind that day was the
day for the transfer texts to come out and so if president calls, you know
something is special is happening to you like becoming a zone leader or a
trainer.) So my first thought is that, oh i will finally get to be a trainer,
seeing as i have gone my whole mission without being one. But then he said,
"Elder Johnson, the Lord has called you to be the next..... Assistant to the
President." i was completely shocked. I of course said yes that i would fulfill
that assignment and then ended the call. So i will be replacing my very dear
friend Elder P as he is going home and i will be serving with Elder M who also happens to be from St. George, and we will be serving in the
Cambridge, MA area! You wanna know whats super crazy? Elder M and I have
been on opposing teams in basketball since rec league bball all the way to
Varsity B-ball in high school (he went to Snow Canyon). And now we are joining
forces as the Assistants to the President. Its gonna be such a blast! We are
already such good friends and im stoked to get to spend alot of time and work
closely with President Packard. The hard part was that i couldn't tell anyone
until they saw it on the "T-texts" that night.<br />
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have been saying my goodbyes. I love this area and this ward so much. It is like
home to me. I know i say that as i leave all my areas but this place has been
the very best by far. The people and the experiences here have changed my life
in a way I can't even begin to describe. I love it. I love being a missionary.
Saying goodbye however, is not fun. I felt alot of love as i stopped by
different members and recent converts and investigators houses. As a missionary
you always hope that you will be able to help change peoples lives and help them
be better and sometimes you even think you are doing so, but its such a humbling
thing and special thing when those people tell you what you have done for them.
Its at those times that you really feel like you have fulfilled your purpose as
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It was especially hard to say goodbye to A, C and V-my 3 Liberian little brothers. Im gonna miss those kids so much. They
have so much potential. Its gonna take alot of support but in roughly 10 years,
i could see all 3 of them out serving missions. I will never be able to forget
them. Our good ward member friend D was hard to say bye to too. i can't wait
for you guys to meet him.<br />
<br />
Well thats about it. Tonight i will be leaving
Providence for the last time (well i might be back cuz we do alot of traveling
as the AP's. but...) Its really sad having to leave this all behind but i was
reading in the Conference Ensign of this year and David Baxter said the
following, "As you move forward in patience and in faith, <u>Providence</u> will
move with you." Isn't that cool, and timely? The memories will always move with
me.<br />
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So things are going to get pretty busy as an assistant and so i can't
promise that i will write big emails any more but thats ok cuz the next 4 months
are going to fly by.(i will finish my mission in cambridge im almost 100%
positive.) Thanks for everything, your love, letters, prayers, and support. I
love you!<br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
Love,<br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Elder Brady
Johnson</span></span><br />
<!-- BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS -->Brady Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17992926881766101599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149056697675374651.post-86782630254270420202012-08-13T12:38:00.000-06:002016-12-12T19:04:11.914-07:00I'll be home for Christmas!ALOHA! Ya i don't really know why i said that but too late now i
guess... oh by the way this is totally random but i haven't seen a Polynesian/
tongan/ samoan/ islander since i've been out here on my mission except for 2
sister missionaries. I wonder why none of them come out this way. I miss
them.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xoXQ2KRLu_k/WE9Wx3ZCuGI/AAAAAAAAEZs/Ro9SIzW7yI08tRpfQOCD5-GBrTQVo6i7wCK4B/s1600/DSC03378.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xoXQ2KRLu_k/WE9Wx3ZCuGI/AAAAAAAAEZs/Ro9SIzW7yI08tRpfQOCD5-GBrTQVo6i7wCK4B/s320/DSC03378.JPG" width="320" /></a>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.<br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-R8f4WzZ5nyA/WE9W5_LrSNI/AAAAAAAAEaM/f9rGcXEgzzkerxCNKq2KwTFihlWMNGPNQCK4B/s1600/DSC03383.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-R8f4WzZ5nyA/WE9W5_LrSNI/AAAAAAAAEaM/f9rGcXEgzzkerxCNKq2KwTFihlWMNGPNQCK4B/s320/DSC03383.JPG" width="320" /></a>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.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SnBDnlJaxCo/WE9W4zrcdUI/AAAAAAAAEaE/g7jWek2BO50-FaNHAG3HChr-R9SZ97WhgCK4B/s1600/DSC03389.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SnBDnlJaxCo/WE9W4zrcdUI/AAAAAAAAEaE/g7jWek2BO50-FaNHAG3HChr-R9SZ97WhgCK4B/s320/DSC03389.JPG" width="320" /></a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2Qf-zyMrWYw/WE9W2I1G7DI/AAAAAAAAEZ0/hXzjIVn4ligzIrEK82-tTgoEvUnoZ2NggCK4B/s1600/DSC03392.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2Qf-zyMrWYw/WE9W2I1G7DI/AAAAAAAAEZ0/hXzjIVn4ligzIrEK82-tTgoEvUnoZ2NggCK4B/s320/DSC03392.JPG" width="240" /></a>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 :)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2EeDn_5nIYM/WE9W3V2daeI/AAAAAAAAEZ8/fqNtMGgL3OcMiKHXpPDKOzQsFxZ3fYY1QCK4B/s1600/P1030278.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2EeDn_5nIYM/WE9W3V2daeI/AAAAAAAAEZ8/fqNtMGgL3OcMiKHXpPDKOzQsFxZ3fYY1QCK4B/s320/P1030278.JPG" width="320" /></a>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."<br />
<br />
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--t_dzqn32yw/WE9W8pHoXhI/AAAAAAAAEaU/ldxjVwP16SIUbUp1Qi-1qlRCyW1S3Rj4wCK4B/s1600/DSC03399.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/--t_dzqn32yw/WE9W8pHoXhI/AAAAAAAAEaU/ldxjVwP16SIUbUp1Qi-1qlRCyW1S3Rj4wCK4B/s320/DSC03399.JPG" width="320" /></a>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!<span style="color: #888888;"> <br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #888888;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Love,</span></span></span></span></div>
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R2JqsUOCaYA/WE9W85m4HKI/AAAAAAAAEac/bAdSq5MCuk8463fcydrgZ9hwqR_GybEuQCK4B/s1600/DSC03423.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R2JqsUOCaYA/WE9W85m4HKI/AAAAAAAAEac/bAdSq5MCuk8463fcydrgZ9hwqR_GybEuQCK4B/s320/DSC03423.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="color: #888888;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> Elder
Brady Johnson</span></span>Brady Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17992926881766101599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149056697675374651.post-30191143754251638062012-08-07T09:16:00.000-06:002016-12-12T19:00:13.028-07:00Wow what a crazy two weeks. I feel like time couldn't go any faster. Time is
just flying by way too fast. Well at least faster than i want it to. I feel
like I am always playing catch up. We have been really busy with
investigators but most of the craziness is coming from meetings, service, and
spending time with the missionaries in our zone. in a nutshell here is my
last 2 weeks in no particular order.<br />
<br />
We went to a muslim mosque and it
was super cool and the people were friendly and the speaker said some good
stuff about living your religion but there was something lacking, besides the
AC haha, but no, it was alot of fun. Its always good to learn about
different religions and i feel like i learned something from the sermon...
or whatever you call it. You can always find good things in
other religions.<br />
<br />
The BYU Idaho dance team came here and stayed with
members of our ward and then performed in Providence and alot of us
missionaries got to go watch. It was pretty fun, I didn't know anyone in the
dance team.<br />
<br />
A, our 10 yr old recent convert, was such a great example
to me and everyone yesterday at church. He came, dressed very nicely
as always (cuff links included) and he was fasting and he brought money
to pay tithing so i helped him fill out a slip, and then he said he wanted
to bear his testimony so i helped him prepare and he was the 2nd one to go up
and he did great! our Bishop had the biggest smile on his face as A walked
up to the stand and i was so proud!<br />
<br />
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eNuyCXzlXO8/WE9WKjL29yI/AAAAAAAAEZk/B7_3RPiO1gUumUvj6olTW7pcE-LtEuSxwCK4B/s1600/DSC03369.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eNuyCXzlXO8/WE9WKjL29yI/AAAAAAAAEZk/B7_3RPiO1gUumUvj6olTW7pcE-LtEuSxwCK4B/s320/DSC03369.JPG" width="320" /></a>The other day for lunch we were in
our apartment and we had tons of food but I got the prompting to go get a big
mac at the Mcdonalds across the street. I was like, No way! Im not wasting
money today.but then i felt it again- at this point i didn't think it was
a prompting, just a crave. So we went anyway. What helped was that
we had a coupon for buy one get one free. So we go and while we are
in line ordering, this dominican lady calls us over. (thankfully i was
on exchanges with elder Jones from mexico) We talked to her and she
said that she was a member of our church and had joined down in the
DR (domincan Repulic) and that her daughter is super active. She had moved
here and never learned where the church was and so she has been looking for
the past bit and then we showed up in McDonalds! So we were able to give her
the spanish sisters number and get her info and things are set for her to go
back to church! Cool, Huh? Moral of the story, its not always a bad thing
when you get prompted to eat a big Mac :)<br />
<br />
I gave a talk last week on
missionary service (of course- what else are we missionaries good for with
talks?) and it went really well. It was for the YSA branch and so there were
only like 15 people there but what can you do... Anyway i spoke about how
"We only live once, but if we live right, once is enough"(a quote i heard
from a CES talk or something) We have only got one shot at this thing we
call life. What are we gonna do with it. We gotta prepare ourselves for whats
to come and then we've gotta get everyone else prepared too! Also in
my talk was a point about how "We don't realize what we have." If You stop
and think about what we have because of the things that we know in the gospel
and you really understand those things, then you will know how important it
is for us to share those things! And it doesn't have to be all about getting
people into our church and baptized. First start with helping your friends
and family and associates be their best selves that they can be. Find out
their needs and be the ones to meet them. Some people are ready for church
and the book of Mormon but some people aren't and just need a friend that
will push them to be their best. That is missionary work, bringing
people closer to Christ in ways that they are ready for. I hope that
makes sense.<br />
<br />
Went to the Beach for a ward party and it was super cold
and cloudy...but fun none the less. One of our recent converts of about 1
year, W, who is this 50 yr old guy from Alabama who thinks
he is still 20, challenged me to a 400yd race in front of the whole
ward and so i raced him... backwards, haha. He is alot of talk and
is hilarious.<br />
<br />
I went on an exchange with an elder Lemon from
bountiful, Utah who used to sing in choir with my cousin cody :) He is way cool and it
will be fun to visit him when i'm up there with all the family members
who live up there now. And yes i know elder Bushnell who is coming into my
mission this month, we actually were in seminary together during my senior
year.<br />
<br />
Ok im out of time and my mind is blank... But lastly, we went to
a funeral of someone in the ward who died this last week in a car wreck. It
was all very sudden and it got me thinking once again how short this life
is. We don't have time to be mad at others or to hold grudges or to hate.
We have to take advantage of what we have. I love you all! Have a wonderful
week and always Choose The Right!<br />
<br />
Love,<br />
Elder Brady
Johnson<br />
PS J is doing really well! she came to church again this
week and is making lots of friends. She will be baptized on the 19th
of August. J and S are back and they will hopefully
get baptized on the 26th of this month. Things are going really
well here. I love this place and these people.Brady Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17992926881766101599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149056697675374651.post-43104438860825566492012-08-01T11:29:00.001-06:002016-12-12T18:58:52.643-07:00Sorry, no time today<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HA8DuxcdUxw/WE9VEJbXJUI/AAAAAAAAEYI/8_I1y5OS6pIqgkZAAAxpBvFbATUUg9VCQCK4B/s1600/DSC03301.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HA8DuxcdUxw/WE9VEJbXJUI/AAAAAAAAEYI/8_I1y5OS6pIqgkZAAAxpBvFbATUUg9VCQCK4B/s320/DSC03301.JPG" width="240" /></a>Well, the computers are all filled up and its super busy today for some
reason, so i have no time to write. I apologize and will write a ton
next week!<br />
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Just one thing: J, our new investigator, has
read thru mosiah already in the Bof M! and she had her daughter
come to a lesson with us and She testified how the Book of Mormon helps
her mentally, physically, and spiritually and how she knows it is a true
book.<br />
<br />
I, like J, know the Book of mormon is true. There is
real power in that book. Take advantage of what we have and READ IT! I
promise that life will be better and that you will be
happier. Love ya! bye!<br />
<br />
Love,<br />
Elder Brady Johnson<br />
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<br />Brady Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17992926881766101599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149056697675374651.post-61875205685552136042012-07-23T15:15:00.000-06:002016-12-12T18:53:11.958-07:00No, Really!<div>
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FE5irrVNsiY/WE9UZj2xu5I/AAAAAAAAEXo/ltN3dsl9hUcyqiOureU88xQkhXAeswIKgCK4B/s1600/DSC03276.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FE5irrVNsiY/WE9UZj2xu5I/AAAAAAAAEXo/ltN3dsl9hUcyqiOureU88xQkhXAeswIKgCK4B/s320/DSC03276.JPG" width="320" /></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-J4TJODwqZ7g/WE9UZFQoLTI/AAAAAAAAEXg/Wd6R-iE5cWc4TG6IiqrGyaYkYn8Wr488wCK4B/s1600/DSC03283.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-J4TJODwqZ7g/WE9UZFQoLTI/AAAAAAAAEXg/Wd6R-iE5cWc4TG6IiqrGyaYkYn8Wr488wCK4B/s320/DSC03283.JPG" width="320" /></a>Well Hello everybody! This week was BUSY but i love being busy! some highlights: C adn V were confirmed -i was able to confirm V so that was special- haha
when we all put our hands on his head, he said, "OW!" really loud. i guess there
was just too much weight on his head ha. We also spent the rest of sacrament
meeting with them and their cousins trying to keep them controlled and quiet, ha
we really need to get their parents to church somehow.... the YSA branch that
we cover had a record 40 or so people at church this last sunday and it was
AWESOME! One of my and Elder M's focus since he came to this area is to
help the YSA grow by inviting those in other wards to come attend here. And its
coming along. Plus we've had a few people move in for the summer. one of which is
C Flake and yup he is second cousins to Dawson! He has a little brother who we went to lunch with who actually was in Dawson's ward at Dixie
State! Small world. </div>
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Next, We spent all day wednesday at the Warwick Chapel for interviews with
president and trainings by us and the Assistants. We did 3 sessions so we had
our zone split up in 3 groups and they came at 9, 11:30, and 2:30 and we stayed
and helped train them on the things we learned at zone leader council a few
weeks back. It was a long day but so good too. There was a crazy thunderstorm
towards the end and the power went out so we ended up doing the last 2 hours in
the dark ha. Then we immediately got in the car with President Packard and
drove down to Groton RI to meet with our Stake Presidency. i love those meetings.
Then drove back with Pres and he took us to dinner. With all that time with
him, we really got to know him. He told us all about his mission, his life
before the mission and his job. He was a big time Trial attorney and spoke in
some pretty intense court cases. Some, murder cases. From his stories I felt
like it was something in a movie.My conclusion about President Packard: He's the
man! He likes to ask
us for advice and what we think on certain matters or what can he improve on and we can be totally honest and open with him.</div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oR4Js3NXfLU/WE9UckCjgOI/AAAAAAAAEXw/qmAFLPxfzPUTNaIPVcpfTLxXyYm45OfeACK4B/s1600/DSC03294.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oR4Js3NXfLU/WE9UckCjgOI/AAAAAAAAEXw/qmAFLPxfzPUTNaIPVcpfTLxXyYm45OfeACK4B/s320/DSC03294.JPG" width="320" /></a>Lastly, I went on an exchange from friday to saturday with my good friend
Elder H, the chilean. This is what the title of my email eludes to.
Little background: Elder H is from chile. He's been on a mission for 3 weeks
and has been speaking English for about 3 weeks :) Talk about a fun tour. He
has a few phrases he really likes and says over and over again which include, NO
Really! Be Mature. That is for Girls. Bring it. (and my favorite) Curtains!
haha He tries to say curtains like people from utah where you don't say the "t"
so he says Cur n's and that is how he texts it to us at least once a day haha.
But i digress. It was so fun spending the whole day with him. My spanish got a
good work out and I realized that i could probably survive if i only had to
speak spanish. It would be super rough but i could do it... maybe. I love being
around people from other countries and different cultures. I think my love for
them all started back with Ivan the Ukrainian, Henry from Germany and then Palm from Thailand - exchange students from my high school days. Haha
good times. I've decided that i HAVE to live outside of the U.S for at least
6 months at some point in my life. I just gotta experience being the foreigner
cuz it looks like it is so much fun!</div>
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That is all. Oh, sounds like the Idaho weekend was fun, congrats to Jessica and Colby. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Love,</span></span></span></div>
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Elder Brady
Johnson<br />
</span>Brady Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17992926881766101599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149056697675374651.post-64195917672542381992012-07-16T15:11:00.001-06:002016-12-12T18:51:05.105-07:00Full Speed Ahead!Holy smokes the weeks are flying by! And they are just getting jam-packed
with stuff. Its been Go Go Go this last week and its been pretty stressful
having to make sure everything works out but thats what i love so its
great!<br />
<br />
<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CDwQSOP2Qak/WE9T8Mr1C6I/AAAAAAAAEXU/sH6wKQlGNOYTz1fD_DcmvebV-FxFUkI9QCK4B/s1600/P1030164.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CDwQSOP2Qak/WE9T8Mr1C6I/AAAAAAAAEXU/sH6wKQlGNOYTz1fD_DcmvebV-FxFUkI9QCK4B/s320/P1030164.JPG" width="240" /></a><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xM-5dyP-4g4/WE9T6pf7YoI/AAAAAAAAEXE/AcExQ9gcBscSxMotNrtjvfSI9-iTYYyegCK4B/s1600/DSC03250.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xM-5dyP-4g4/WE9T6pf7YoI/AAAAAAAAEXE/AcExQ9gcBscSxMotNrtjvfSI9-iTYYyegCK4B/s320/DSC03250.JPG" width="320" /></a>First off, the most exciting thing was that C and V
got baptized yesterday! Their Mom and Step-dad and two sisters all came to the three hours of church and then the baptism
and they really enjoyed it! Their mom was super happy and
thanked us a ton for everything. Elder M baptized C and then
i baptized V:) When they both got in the bathroom after
the baptism they looked at each other and yelled, "that was so
cool!!!" haha it was the best! Lots of members were there to support and
all in all, SUCCESS!<br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5keljwhufH0/WE9T72sekWI/AAAAAAAAEXM/8diJ2r8QAN0Y15Ftj-DHUe0hdY6x59s0ACK4B/s1600/DSC03254.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5keljwhufH0/WE9T72sekWI/AAAAAAAAEXM/8diJ2r8QAN0Y15Ftj-DHUe0hdY6x59s0ACK4B/s320/DSC03254.JPG" width="320" /></a>Another cool thing that happened sunday is that I
got to confer the aaronic Priesthood upon Y (finally- He's been super
busy with work) That was a first for me. He's the man! He will do
great things as he progresses in the gospel.<br />
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Oh and we also taught the
High Priest quorum lesson. That was a first ha. We taught them about how to
effectively share the gospel and had a really good lesson. Now in this ward
I have taught HP, Elders quorum, Relief Society, young womens, young mens,
and also taught a primary class. Plus given talks in Sacrament. Haha wow that
shows that I've been in this ward way too long. If I'm here much longer,
they will make us teach Nursery haha!<br />
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So some of the stressful things
of being a zone leader was that we had two new elders brought in to the
spanish ward in our zone and so we were put in charge of finding them an
apartment, getting everything set up, having them live with us for a few
days, and then get them moved in. All this took place in less than 5 days.
Yup it was crazy. But We got it done and all is well. The two elders are way
cool. Elder H is straight from Chile (He's only been in the US
for 3 weeks) and speaks very little english haha its so much fun.
It brings me back to the days when Elder A barely spoke english.
But its all good cuz I can understand him in spanish and we can at
least communicate. But his comp is way good at spanish and does a great
job translating. the Chilean also plays soccer. of course he does,
he's from chile, but i mean he was about to play for a pro club team
down there but chose to come on his mission. And the cool thing is
that he's been a member his whole life. We are gonna have alot of fun
this transfer together in the zone and whatnot.<br />
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Lastly, something cool
that happened was that we had 13 different members come out and teach with us
this week! Thats our new record. The key is that we got couples to come out
together :) there's a good date idea-go out with the missionaries and teach
someone the good word! Dad asked, what we are doing differently to work with
members because, you are right, I've spent most of my mission working
with members and not much is different, just that now the whole mission
is going to make a more concentrated effort on working with
members, instead of just tracting all day. And President Packard gave us
alot of good ideas to build off of and suggestions on what to do
better when helping members with missionary efforts. and one of the things
is following up on the commitments you give to them. He wants us to treat
members like we would investigators and to keep records of what we teach them
and what invitations/commitments we give them. We will be training all of
the elders and sisters in our zone this week on the things we learned from
President at Zone Leader Council so it should be pretty sweet.<br />
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Last
week we played basketball at this park and there was like 6 of us elders and
these 14yr old kids came on and challenged us to a game. They were pretty
good. I think they actually beat us... ha no one in my zone really plays b
ball cept me. But i did get a fast break and i totally dunked it again :) Oh
the great things that come to you when you serve a mission!<br />
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Whelp,
thats all folks. I love you all! In the words of my good friend, Kolby
Emett: Call me! haha k bye!<br />
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Love,<br />
Elder Brady JohnsonBrady Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17992926881766101599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149056697675374651.post-73413717076865283622012-07-11T11:34:00.000-06:002016-12-12T18:49:29.329-07:00It's a new day!<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-i4N6iAbHjXE/WE9SjFWIzQI/AAAAAAAAEV4/k95s_hmtEB4DsFu9RqWgPIsJinvwKXQ6ACK4B/s1600/DSC03147.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-i4N6iAbHjXE/WE9SjFWIzQI/AAAAAAAAEV4/k95s_hmtEB4DsFu9RqWgPIsJinvwKXQ6ACK4B/s320/DSC03147.JPG" width="320" /></a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GCT77LYUQr0/WE9SipcQPNI/AAAAAAAAEVw/WpCbJU_abQ8o6TizaUAwRfOakARRJkGPgCK4B/s1600/DSC03135.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GCT77LYUQr0/WE9SipcQPNI/AAAAAAAAEVw/WpCbJU_abQ8o6TizaUAwRfOakARRJkGPgCK4B/s320/DSC03135.JPG" width="320" /></a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-14HSR9RShU8/WE9Siu7k3sI/AAAAAAAAEWA/nSKRRF960sMW9Zg7xopkF4Lf02Ciz5K1ACK4B/s1600/DSC03133.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-14HSR9RShU8/WE9Siu7k3sI/AAAAAAAAEWA/nSKRRF960sMW9Zg7xopkF4Lf02Ciz5K1ACK4B/s320/DSC03133.JPG" width="320" /></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IHtJkFHongI/WE9SgU_HWfI/AAAAAAAAEVg/VczcGzA2FRou3GBA4Vb8MoKZAorPiSOQACK4B/s1600/DSC03130.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IHtJkFHongI/WE9SgU_HWfI/AAAAAAAAEVg/VczcGzA2FRou3GBA4Vb8MoKZAorPiSOQACK4B/s320/DSC03130.JPG" width="320" /></a>Holy smokes I feel like its been forever since I last wrote and that SO much has
happened. Where to begin? Well since most asked about 4th of july i will start
there. That morning we drove up to Franklin, MA and had a meeting with 3 of the
9 zones and got to meet President and Sister Packard our new mission president
and wife! They are soooo awesome! They are in their early 40's and Pres is from
little ol Beaumont, TX and has a sweet southern accent and tons of those classic
southern sayings. Blake probably knows what I'm talking about. He served his
mission in So Cal and he remembers his mission so well- like when he talks about
it, it seems as tho he just got off his mission. Sis. Packard is from Utah and
served a mission in south america- Uruguay i think. They are both big time
trial attorneys and were last in California practicing. Oh and did i mention
that they have kids?! 4 of them! Its so cool having kids here in the mission! Yup so that whole morning/noon we got to listen to them speak and
introduce themselves and then got to personally greet them just for a couple
seconds. But you could totally feel the love and the energy of a new young
mission president. Needless to say, we all let that meeting excited for whats
next.<br />
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Later that night we got together with a few missionaries and went to
the bay of Providence and watched the fireworks that were shot off of a barge in
the middle of the bay. it was pretty decent and we had a good time. <br />
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So
if you recall that last monday I told you about going to the gymnastics gym with
the huge foam pit that we all jumped in and did tricks and what not. Well,
friday we went to that same gym to do a humongous service project-taking all the
foam cubes out of the foam pit and then letting them air out and rise and then
putting them all back. You would think, oh thats not too bad but they only do
this like twice a year and there was 8 missionaries there and it took two hours
of intense labor of throwing the foam cubes out of the pit and then took an hour
lunch break and it took about an hour and a half to throw them all back. There
were thousands of foam cubes!!!! It was so much fun tho! I don't think I've ever
had so much fun, sweated so much, and been so sore afterwards from any other
service project before. it was epic! I'll be sending pics of it soon
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C and V did not get baptized this week because we just
wanted a little more time for them to really understand everything, but now its
all set for this Sunday and even their mom is going to be comming to church and the baptism!!!!! Those kids are so excited! V asked
me to baptize him but first he asked one of our members, "if you were gonna get
baptized, would you trust elder Johnson to baptize you?" haha. Too bad their
sister stopped meeting with us. But im confident that she will come around
someday soon.<br />
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Not too much else in regards to investigators cuz last week
was filled with lots of meetings, a holiday, and lots of service. But it was a
great week none the less.<br />
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yesterday we had zone leader council with
President and Sister Packard and all the other zone leaders. It was so different
from how Pres. Evans would do it. Thats why the title of the email is its a new
day, because with a new mission president comes a lot of new things. new ideas,
new changes, and new excitement. We were there at the mission home for the
council from 8:30am til 4:00pm with only an hour lunch break. It was intense.
Alot of information. We talked mostly about how to work with members and I am so
stoked for the things that will happen here in this mission. President Packard
is definitely the perfect man for the job here in New England. It will take
awhile to start implementing his plans and ideas but once it starts going,
amazing things will happen. I am convinced that success and miracles are out
there within our reach. We just gotta move forward with these new plans and
ideas and we will see the fruits. I wish i could tell you all about what i
learned at the meeting but its impossible. Maybe over the next few months I'll
share some of the things we are doing to work with members and help them with
their sharing the gospel efforts. A quote by Pres Packard is this- "in our
mission we will live or die by member work". And so, like what i've learned
over and over and over again through out my mission, Change is GOOD! Embrace
the change and love life :)<br />
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I love you all! Thanks for everything! Good
luck to Nikki and Ryan and Carter in AZ! Thanks Grandpa Butler for going to my old Mission President's homecoming and reporting on it! I have the best
family and friends in the world! :) OH and just so you know, im not getting
transferred! I get to stay another round here in good old Providence! the promised
land!<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Love,</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> Elder Brady
Johnson</span>Brady Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17992926881766101599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149056697675374651.post-82745355557445817282012-07-02T17:14:00.000-06:002016-12-12T18:48:49.552-07:00Happy 4th of July!<div>
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HKlT-P9MDBw/WE9RVrfVjsI/AAAAAAAAEUE/8zsgFrmBeIkgVbRCN13dzu8zQXwAA_hAgCK4B/s1600/DSC03085.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HKlT-P9MDBw/WE9RVrfVjsI/AAAAAAAAEUE/8zsgFrmBeIkgVbRCN13dzu8zQXwAA_hAgCK4B/s320/DSC03085.JPG" width="320" /></a>Well my friends and family, I don't have much time at all this week cuz we
are having too much fun this p-day! So real quick: </div>
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the 3 children I have been teaching should be getting baptized this week on the 8th.<br />
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I'm still not sure what we will do for the 4th of July but we have permission
to stay out late for fireworks- I like the new mission president already :) We will meet President Packard for the first time on July 4th in the morning along with his
family. I'm way excited!</div>
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We went to the temple with some of the ward on saturday night and J went and then on sunday she bore her testimony for the first time and said
how grateful she was for this church and all the members and the missionaries
who brought her here and helped her be baptized. It was so cool to be there for
that. She is so solid :)</div>
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members want to come out than we have appointments so its pretty awesome! I
feel like this is my home ward now and I'm such good friends with alot of the
members. I hope i don't get transferred any time soon cuz I absolutely love it
here!</div>
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I had legit ethiopian food and that was way interesting!</div>
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I love it here. I love the investigators, the missionaries, the members, my
companion elder M is way cool, and things are just great! We are so lucky
to live in this great country where we have so many freedoms! our founding
fathers truly were inspired by God. Life is great when you are a missionary!
We have every reason to be happy as Latter Day Saints! Remember that and be
happy! I love you all!<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Love,</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> Elder Brady
Johnson</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2ipbkTD_1WA/WE9RuZCRUGI/AAAAAAAAEUs/3Nqiq3PlrKMuv-eaQvi5UMfEzql0BuT3ACK4B/s1600/DSC03102.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2ipbkTD_1WA/WE9RuZCRUGI/AAAAAAAAEUs/3Nqiq3PlrKMuv-eaQvi5UMfEzql0BuT3ACK4B/s320/DSC03102.JPG" width="320" /></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-U17blAP1gyo/WE9RuegLPJI/AAAAAAAAEUk/YKjeFqxcRJIiNde_zA3dMJZajHlkRGJZgCK4B/s1600/DSC03106.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-U17blAP1gyo/WE9RuegLPJI/AAAAAAAAEUk/YKjeFqxcRJIiNde_zA3dMJZajHlkRGJZgCK4B/s320/DSC03106.JPG" width="320" /></a></span><br />
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DR6TPCHn-qA/WE9TdsFF8iI/AAAAAAAAEWg/dVp6BDxkXh8aS3JEOOa5hxYffQHHUxRNQCK4B/s1600/P1030053.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DR6TPCHn-qA/WE9TdsFF8iI/AAAAAAAAEWg/dVp6BDxkXh8aS3JEOOa5hxYffQHHUxRNQCK4B/s320/P1030053.JPG" width="320" /></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6zyri2pSVb4/WE9Tfk4KyWI/AAAAAAAAEWo/JzQflZU3t1keNXVnVXac3wQ6iyj_R2PLwCK4B/s1600/DSC03116.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6zyri2pSVb4/WE9Tfk4KyWI/AAAAAAAAEWo/JzQflZU3t1keNXVnVXac3wQ6iyj_R2PLwCK4B/s320/DSC03116.JPG" width="320" /></a>Brady Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17992926881766101599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3149056697675374651.post-76009675700656088282012-06-25T19:36:00.001-06:002016-12-12T18:39:15.524-07:00Uncleship times 2!<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MVBtIuP7DVE/WE9Qp90tyEI/AAAAAAAAETg/ybGVGxABmIomr86y5xauRMS2bUB1im9VgCK4B/s1600/DSC03053.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MVBtIuP7DVE/WE9Qp90tyEI/AAAAAAAAETg/ybGVGxABmIomr86y5xauRMS2bUB1im9VgCK4B/s320/DSC03053.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "calibri";">First off, Congratulations
kikki!!!!!!! You're a real live momma now! how exciting!
Geez my big bro is changing diapers and my big sis is having babies and my
little sis is 16. I'm not gonna recognize anyone when i get home! Fun fun fun
stuff :) Next, sorry Ryan for misquoting the song from last week. I've been on a mission for 18 months give me a break.
But actually now it makes me wonder how many things am i quoting wrong? cuz i
love to quote movies like most of you know (I do it more out here than i ever
did at home if you can believe that) and I bet because of the missionary veil,
I am mis-quoting quite a few.<br />
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This week was fantastic. It started with an exchange with one of my best
friends, the assistant, Elder P! How cool is that?! We got to
spend Monday night and tuesday down here in Providence. We haven’t had that
much time together since back in the Revere Days. So it was alot of fun to
catch up and reminisce. We got to teach S and it was amazing! We read with her Sis Dalton's talk from the Young
Women General broadcast this year and then we talked about it with her. At the
end of the lesson I asked , "do you feel like meeting with us and
hearing these things is helping you in your life?She answered saying, "YES! Everything you guys talked about today and what
the lady said are exactly what has been on my mind this week. It helps alot. I
love when you guys come over. Its like God was talking to me through you."
Those are my favorite moments as a missionary when you know you are saying
things that others need to hear and apply to their lives and then those people
confirm that and let you know that they are hearing what God wants them to
hear. I love being that instrument that Heavenly Father can use to communicate
to His Children. I love helping people. There really is nothing better.</span><br />
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So this week was HOT! I think it got to 100 degrees. But honestly, the humidity
really isn't that bad. I've been in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Virginia in
the summer and I still think St. George is just as hot or hotter. You just
sweat more out here. We had the privilege of helping a new family move in on
one of those really hot days from 1pm to 3pm. It was quite the pleasant experience
ha it was like i had jumped into a pool. Oh and Friday morning at indoor soccer
it was way hot and i came out of there completely soaked and dripping sweat
haha
isn't it great?<br />
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We had some really fun lessons with M, C and V -the little
african kids. We taught them the Word of Wisdom and also the 10 commandments
and all three of them can tell you all the commandments in order. How many
of you can do that? didn't think so haha. We made up this little hand trick for
the Word of wisdom and used something we learned in seminary using our hands to
remember the commandments and the kids loved it and it really stuck. I have to
hold back fits of laughter at some points of our lessons with them cuz
they get so distracted at times or ask really random and funny questions. But i
love teaching them. We moved their date back another week to July 8th to make
sure they are really ready to be baptized. But they are almost there.<br />
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Last night was one of the best nights. We had a family home evening with some new members at H's house (H is the one we were
teaching awhile back with the and now we've been meeting with
them once a week cuz they noticed a difference when we meet with them and they
want that spirit in their home) Elder M and I taught the lesson on Hope
and it was great. C agreed to come to FHE and I
think she really felt the spirit and she made a lot of comments how she has
realized that she needs more hope and to endure. It was perfect. And it was
great for M and H too cuz we had asked them if they could do us a favor
and they were more than happy. So moral of this story, 1) have FHE 2) don't
give up on people cuz miracles happen and 3) One of the keys to missionary work
is to get people to serve with you, don't just serve people. because most
people want to serve. Its natural and it feels good to serve others, people
just need opportunities. Plus it allows them to feel the spirit. So challenge
of the week, think and look for ways you can get non members or less active
members to serve with you in your respective callings or assignments in the
church or anything really. Ready? GO!</span><br />
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ok i'm going too. I love you! Have a wonderful week! Do good..Stuff :)
"hey mom is this a good activity?" <br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">ps. Mom stop counting my days left! <br />
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Love,<br />
Elder Brady Johnson</span></div>
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