Writings from West Virginia: Merry Christmas! New Transfers! New Possibilities!

Hello everyone! It's the start of a new transfer! Elder Wasden is here! We are going to rock it this transfer. Let's jump in!

On Wednesday night, after emailing, we had a super busy evening! We started with dinner at the J.'s with the H. family eating delicious homemade burgers. Elder Brenchley said goodbye and we were off! We headed over to Brother F.'s house, a less-active member of the ward with Brother T. He's had some serious health challenges in the recent past and knows he needs to get the gospel back into his life. Hopefully we'll see him soon! After that we rushed over to B. and D. where we had a great lesson with them and picked D. back up as a new investigator! She told me that she wants to be baptized before I leave!! Should be late January. I'm so excited! I think she's ready. She said she really wanted to give this another honest try and start reading and praying again. We ended the night with the R. family who fed us an authentic Mexican Enchilada dinner! That was DELICIOUS! Real Mexican food is DELICIOUS. We went home full and happy. Elder Brenchley packed, I cleaned, went to bed...

Woo hoo! Transfer night is always crazy. We got up at 3:30 am to get over to the Transfer Train in Lexington by 4:30 and Elder Brenchley, Elder Tunell from YSA, and Elder Kelly from Rockbridge were off. Headed to bless lives elsewhere! Elder French, Elder Moser, and I headed back and slept for a little while, and then spent the day together! That was a lot of fun! We had a great time. Not a ton happened, but it was still fun to be with them. Elder Wasden arrived at around 7:30 that night on the transfer train, fresh from Maryland! He is great. He's a big goofy guy and we just love each other. He's really jumping in to his responsibilities! We headed over to Brother T.'s, our Ward Mission Leader's house so they could get acquainted. He's a fantastic Ward Mission Leader. Working with him really is going to make the work move forward here!

On Friday we were blessed to teach B. and D. again! They are moving along great. We read Alma 32 with them and committed them to keep reading every day. We also were able to see T., a former investigator from back in the days of Elder Numbers and I. She's hard to catch, but she would make a great member of the church one day if we could just sit down and have an open, good lesson with her. I think one day she will realize how much she needs it!

Saturday was BUSY. We have 4 new district leaders this transfer, and so we needed to go and do training with everyone! We were in the car for 5 hours, whew! But it was fun to associate with all of our District Leaders. They are all super solid and ready to work and lead their district as a Shepherd leads his sheep! This transfer is going to be great because of them. We spent an hour with each of them, and they all have some great ideas.

Sunday was a great day. I love the Sabbath! Church was great. There were two musical numbers during Sacrament Meeting, and they did a good job. B. had her temple recommend interview and is going to the temple hopefully this week!!! That's what I'm pumped for. The end was in mind! She is going to the temple! Then right after her interview she bore her testimony about how she will one day be sealed to her husband C. She is the bomb. We were also able to see W., a Less-Active Member who wants to come back to church! He's great. Miracles are happening! BV is great! I love it here!

Have a great week everyone! I will talk to you all next week!

Love,

Elder Brax Johnson