Writings from West Virginia: Short Week and a New Companion!

Hello everyone! I am here in Fairmont with Elder Carson Casey from Layton, Utah! He is a great guy who is ready to work, and work hard! We are having a ton of fun together. Here's what went down since last Wednesday:

Wednesday evening we said goodbye to a few people! President H. took us out to dinner and I ate a HUGE burger and TONS of fries and it was DELICIOUS but I felt AWFUL afterward. :D He then went with us to see Sister C. so Elder Jolley could say goodbye, and after that we taught Sister D. and did the goodbye thing there. To end the night we saw the N. family, Brother N. being an awesome man from Africa who works for NASA because he's awesome. Really sweet accent too!

Thursday was transfers! We headed out of Fairmont at 7:30ish, and headed out of Clarksburg at 8:30. I got to drive the Morgantown Zone Leader's Toyota Sienna because we didn't have enough room in the 15 passenger van and Ford Expedition for all the luggage, haha. It was a fun drive. Down in Charleston I got to see all my friends!! Elder Malin was there, as was Elder Sawyer (who is home now!!!) Elder Bingham is training again, so I got to see him, and Elder Nelson gave me a full-body hug when I saw him. I love this mission and everyone in it. We had so much fun! I met Elder Casey that morning in our training meeting. It was great. We all got to bear our testimony and hear instruction from President for a little while. I know almost no one anymore, haha. I do have a lot of friends though. That night, back in Fairmont, we had dinner with C., a non-member whose daughter is a returned missionary, currently living in Logan, Utah going to school at USU. We had a good little visit with him, unfortunately he really isn't too open to changing right now. He is comfortable where he is at!

On Friday we taught Brother L. about Patriarchal Blessings! How's that for a first lesson, eh Elder Casey? ;D It was a little weird, but it went well I think. L. wants to get his patriarchal blessing now. We also asked him for a referral and now he's actually going to ask his friends to learn and we are going to meet them at his house this week hopefully!

For Saturday we were able to see R. and help him out with moving some things in his apartment. Later that evening we taught Sister V. with Brother H. That was a really scattered lesson, but we think it went well! Hey, she went to church, so that's gotta count for something, right? :D

Church was wonderful! There weren't a whole lot of people there, which I don't really understand "because of the time change," but whatever. Maybe it's because we went to bed at like 9:30 so we weren't super tired haha. After church L. had his priesthood interview! Bishop wants us to review what the priesthood is with him, but I think everything went well! He is on his way to the temple! Woo hoo! We also brought L. to T.'s house with us. That actually went really well! We taught her about overcoming trials through faith and coming to the true church and being a part of it. We committed her to read the Plan of Salvation pamphlet and the Book of Mormon. That evening we taught Sister D. with D. She committed to read the Book of Mormon daily! She is a golden less-active. On her way to coming back! That night, while we were doing training, I gave Elder Casey some assignments in Preach My Gospel and I #supersecretly went and made a cake because it was his birthday. It actually turned out alright! :D We have a lot of fun.

Thank you all for your support and kind words! I love you all! Have a great week! Make it the best ever!

Love,

Elder Brax Johnson