I gave a talk in Sacrament and then Sister Wesley and I sang "Brightly Breams Our Father's Mercy." I love that song.

We met a girl named Sasha. She is the oldest daughter to one of our recent coverts. She's 18 and finishing up high school this summer, but she seems like she's 25...She's way more mature than me. Anyways, she's got a good head on her shoulders and she came to church and liked it. We'll see her again on Tuesday.

Oh.... this is funny and random:
I was telling Sister Wesley about Kirsten, but I accidently called Kirsten Sister Johnson. So then I said, "Yeah, Kirsten is another Sister Johnson...well, actually she's Sister Moody. She used to be Sister Johnson, but then she got mad.....I mean married."

Did I tell you I ate cow tongue? It's pretty moist and it doesn't have any fat or anything...but nevertheless...as soon as I found out I was eating cow tongue tacos I couldn't take another bite.

Linda Sue came to Church and everyone was so happy to see her! She's so cool! I love her a ton.

I have decided that I really like Jehovah's Witnesses. I was warned about them when I got here, but I have had really good experiences with them. They often give us water and treats when we come to the door expressing that, "We know how it is cause we're out there too." And anytime we ask for a referral they say, "Let us get to them first." :) But they are nice, plus they are the ones responsible for taking the issue of door to door proselyting to the Supreme court. Because of their efforts, our door to door proselyting is legally protected by the first amendment. We carry around documentation of this because some cities and home owners associations have made ordinances against religious proselyting, and we have to explain that the ordinance is unconstitutional. :0) But it's a different story on public property. Anyways, my thanks goes out to Jehovah's Witnesses for the kindness they've shown me on my mission.

In fact, most of the people here in Texas are pretty nice. Usually our worst door approaches are people sincerely warning us that we have been deceived. They are worried for us personally which I appreciate even if I don't agree. Now Elders have it different...people here are a little rough with the Elders.

For the past 2 and half months we having been working with a philipino woman from New York. Her name is Racquel. She's pretty intelligent so we have very interesting discussions, but for on reason or another she wont come to church and you can't really progress in the gospel unless you are willing to participate in covenants and ordinances. So we were going to drop her yesterday...a terrible term, but I define the term "drop" as the action of placing the invstigator back in the Lord's hands for further preparation. Anyways, that was our plan. We showed up and she wasn't there. It was blistering hot out so I was ready to leave and go some place else, but Sister Wesley said, let's go see if Jen's home (an investigator we have also been working with for several months who lives down the street). I looked down the street and Jen's car wasn't home... Then sister Wesley suggested that we walk instead of drive... mind you it was blistering hot and we could clearly see that Jen wasn't home, but Sister Wesley wanted to walk which is very very very very unlike her. She hates the heat and is always trying to find an excuse to get back into the car. So we walked and it was hot, but our characters were being built and as soon as we got to Jen's house it was clear that she wasn't home...but then there was Racquel walking around the corner of the street. she thought our appointment was earlier and that we had forgotten. So we walked back, taught her some more and she is understanding more and more. We decided not to drop her yet. We'll give her a little bit more time.

I love the Spirit and I love companions that listen to the Spirit!

love, sister johnson