Hello Again!

Hello hello one and all! We are going to explore some caverns at Natural Bridge today on a fun tour, so I don't have a lot of time (I say that a lot) but I'll try and be thorough! 

This Monday we had the opportunity to eat with some cool people, R. and N.! We met them a while ago (few months) while trying a former investigator, and they happened to live in that house! We had a good conversation with her (N., we met her the first time) and she said we could come back some time. We did a few weeks/months later (this was last week) and they invited us to dinner! How cool is that? I love meeting awesome people. Hopefully we'll be able to cut some wood with them soon! They need some and R. participates in Timbersports, so he's ripped and can rip through wood, haha. Also on Monday we had a Family Home Evening with the B. family! They are a great less-active family that we saw last week, and Sister B. works on Sunday, so at the moment she is unable to come to church. We ended the day with dinner with the H. (Two dinners in one day)! They are awesome members of the ward.

Tuesday was MLC! We drove all the way up to Charleston and got to have it this time at the Mission Home! President and Sister Salisbury have a really nice house. We had a really good meeting, learned a TON (as usual), and drove back home, stopping at a Mexican Buffet on the way, haha.

Wednesday morning we got haircuts from Sister C. and talked to her husband N. for a little bit. They are an awesome family! I know Mom really likes them because Sister C. sent her a picture of Elder Brenchley and I. :P Not a whole lot happened until that night! We tried a potential investigator that we had set up an appointment with last week, and there he was! We grabbed his correct phone number this time (we wrote it down wrong, haha). We taught him, J., and his girlfriend, A., the Restoration and committed them to read the Restoration Pamphlet! We have another appointment with them tonight. Woo hoo!

TURKEY DAY! Thanksgiving was great! We got to participate in the Ward/Elders Quorum Turkey Bowl that morning, and we played with a non-member foreign exchange student from Slovakia who was there. He was guarding me the whole time, so we had a lot of time to talk! He's a cool guy. We ate Thanksgiving dinner with the S's! We ate WAAAAAYYY too much, but it was delicious. They are a good family.

Friday we had exchanges and Zone Meeting! Zone Meeting was alright, could've been better, but oh well! I had the opportunity to go to Clifton Forge with Elder Higgins this time around! He is a great Elder that I knew from the beginning of my time in Wytheville! He was in Radford, which isn't too far away. We did some awesome work and were able to teach a New Investigator, B., and saw a Part-Member Family, H. and N. It was great! Back in BV I heard that Elder Brenchley and Elder Rasmussen were able to teach J. and M.! They had a really good lesson with them on Prayer, and J. said the closing prayer while kneeling! They are going to be amazing members someday.

All we really got done on Sunday was going to church (which was awesome) and eating dinner with the A.'s! They made really big taco salads. They were delicious. Mmmmm. Sacrament Meeting was excellent though! A. and K., two of our Ward Missionaries, spoke this time, and they did a great job. All four of the talks were on getting answers to gospel questions. I just love Sacrament Meeting and Church in general. What a blessing it is to be able to take the Sacrament every single week. We also had a great 3rd hour combined lesson taught by our Ward Clerk, Brother P., about Social Media - the dangers as well as the possibilities. J. and M. a weren't able to come because their little 6 week old baby was in the ER that morning, but they really want to come next week! We are excited for them.

Also! #ASaviorIsBorn, the new church initiative, went live yesterday! It can be found at Christmas.mormon.org (https://www.mormon.org/christmas). I encourage EVERYONE who has access to Social Media to post it/tweet it/Pin it/WHATEVER it and share it with the world! Follow Elder Bednar's advice to "Sweep the Earth as with a flood." Post it with the hashtag #ASaviorIsBorn and let the world see what you stand for!

Thank you all for reading this email. I love each of you! Have a great week!

Love,

Elder Brax Johnson