Hello Friends and Family! Happy New Christmas and Merry 2015 year! I hope your Christmas was amazing, with much focusing on Christ, and lots of love from friends and family. I know mine was!
So, starting off the week, Monday was a pretty fun day! Elder Larson and I are completely out of miles, as are the Hillsville missionaries, so we weren't able to get together and party like usual, so we had to chill out locally. I was able to meet a cool new person, Brother JB, an aged less-active who has a bunch of stories to tell. We chatted with him for a while and I got to hear some fun stories from his Korea days. It strikes me how much history can be found through these veterans. I hope we are asking and learning about these stories to write them down and keep them!
Tuesday I met some other less actives from the ward that we hadn't been previously able to see! We sat and chatted for a little while with them all. We have some good people in this ward, active or not!
Christmas Eve was a fun day! On Wednesdays (when we can), we go to the local genealogy center in town and do service for them. They have just moved to a new, cooler building and are still trying to get organized. We had been busy the past two wednesdays, so I previously hadn't been able to go. I was able to help them out with some inventory and get to know the volunteers who are there. It's cool to see that the spirit of Elijah works in all people, even if they aren't LDS. It just shows the time is coming! The hearts of the people are starting to turn to their ancestors!
Christmas Eve was a fun day! On Wednesdays (when we can), we go to the local genealogy center in town and do service for them. They have just moved to a new, cooler building and are still trying to get organized. We had been busy the past two wednesdays, so I previously hadn't been able to go. I was able to help them out with some inventory and get to know the volunteers who are there. It's cool to see that the spirit of Elijah works in all people, even if they aren't LDS. It just shows the time is coming! The hearts of the people are starting to turn to their ancestors!
Also on Wednesday, we were invited to a member family, the Pohligs, for Christmas Eve! They have a yearly tradition of having the missionaries over for Christmas Eve. We sang songs from the hymnbook, ate some delicious stuffed shells, corn, and cheesecake, played a few games of ping pong, and were given a stocking each with some goodies inside! What a family, right? Some good people right there.
CHRISTMAS! What a fun day it was! We started off being invited to lunch with The Studebaker family, out in Tim-buk-too NOWHERE. They live on the top of a taller hill, overlooking the rolling hills of Virginia. Man, do they have a view. I failed to get a picture (sorry mom), but just imagine rolling blue hills and miles and miles of trees. Our visit with them was cut short by their son calling, who is on his mission in Uruguay, but before he called we were able to share some stories and talk for a little bit.
Another member family, the Vannatters, let us skype over at their house! Woo hoo! Call numero uno is down! I loved talking to everyone who was there! Thank you all for your support and encouragement! I love you all! It was great to see you all.
The rest of the week went by slowly. Friday we went and saw an investigator named JE. We taught him The Restoration and set him on date to be baptized for Feb. 8! The dang guy is one of the best investigators ever. He is reading through the book of mormon right now, and everything he sees in there, he checks with the bible to make sure it doesn't contradict. He ALWAYS keeps his commitments, and really the only problem is understanding his broken and very very fast English. Hopefully he will make it! Make sure you are all praying for him! He has some big changes he needs to make, but we believe that he can make them.
Saturday was a fun day, we were able to teach SA, who unfortunately wasn't baptized yesterday. We still have to teach her a lot of things. The lesson went alright. We had dinner with Sister B, C, and G (awesome RC couple) also on Saturday! They aren't the wealthiest people in the world, but they love the missionaries so much that they feed them every Saturday. How awesome is that?
Ended the day with the regular Saturday basketball! Unfortunately no one showed up this time, but it was still good exercise!
Sunday with Brother Whisman is always a good day! Church was awesome, as it usually is, and we were able to go see a whole bunch of people with Brother Whisman. He basically just a referral machine. A big, awesome, funny, great, referral machine. If he remembers someone from his past, boom, missionaries, go see them. So cool. What a guy!
That was my week, I hope you all had a great one as well! Have a very Merry New Year (Or is it Happy?) and I will talk to you all next week!
Love,
Elder Brax Johnson
Love,
Elder Brax Johnson
No pictures this week. The computer crashed each time. Maybe next week!
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