Commitments

Hello!!

First, thank you to all that wished me a happy birthday and even to those that had the desire to wish me a happy birthday but didn't :P

It was a pretty decent week. On Tuesday we had our annual district meeting which was also my birthday.  Elder Jager was nice enough to cook me breakfast for my birthday in the morning so it started out really good. After our district meeting all the district members decided to soak me with a whole bunch of water! It's a mission/ culture thing.  Missionaries even did that to President Stevenson on his birthday last year. Thankfully since it was an office day, I just rolled the windows down while driving to get dried off.

The work in our assigned area is improving every single week!  It would improve more if we were not in the office two days a week and get random phone calls to come to the mission office while out teaching. We met with President Stevenson on Friday to speak with him about a couple things. One of them was if we could change our time to go out and teach. Usually on Tuesday and Friday we are in the office then go out to the area from 6-8, but no wants to meet us so late at night :) So we have permission to go out from 3-5 to teach and then stay until 8 or so at the office .

Francis is progressing towards baptism really well at this point. He is continuing to come to church and keep his commitments. This past week we extended a commitment to him to hold family home evening with his family on Mondays. For him it is really hard because he works as a shoemaker during the day then goes to his security job at night. But we asked him to sacrifice one hour of his shoe making job and promised him if he made the sacrifice to go home and have some time with his family that our Heavenly father and Jesus Christ will help him. All I envision right now is a temple sealing to his family! :)

We also had one of our less actives come to church after meeting with him a couple times. His name is John Aggrey, he is 17, and was baptized 2 years ago by my first district leader Elder 'Atu' Ake. When we met with him we reminded him about the Gospel of Jesus Christ (Enduring to the End) and the next time we spoke about his baptismal covenants. We are very happy he attended church again yesterday. As for the other less active, Helina, she did not come. I can not wait to hear the excuse this time.  People will lie here just because they do not want to disappoint us, but she did feed us earlier this week :P

All is well with me! I hope everything for each of you is going well :)


Elder Johnson


“We do not strive for conversion to the Church but to Christ and His gospel.” —Elder D. Todd Christofferson