Week 7 in the CTM…Tay’s Email

May 4, 2010

Family

I won’t be calling ON Mothers day... maybe after. We’ll see. I listened to your kind words at my ordination and I am SO grateful to Heidi and Justin for recoding that... It was great to listen to and remember the things I have been promised. We ALL have so many promises if we’ll live right! Dad.... I’ve said it twelve times but I am so grateful for you and your updates and your amazing thoughts. It doesn’t surprise me at all that you have been called down to BYU! Even though it did shock me at first if that makes any sense at all. I love you and I miss our Saturdays together! Next time we are together we’ll go proselyting!

To Sister Soresen : ) tell her hi and I LOVE my journal.

One thing... I JUST got a little letter like 4 days ago that was dated March 25th . . .so I f I don’t write back sometimes ... I might still be waiting for a letter that took like a month to send! So no stress ever!

EVERYONE - I ran into 2 friends from a campus here... Elder Jeremy Morgand and Elder Grant Smith. . . crazy small world! And Lucky Elder’s whoa are being called to Brazil when it is the Lord’s time here! Anything sent after today’s date will probably need to go to my new address in Fortaleze! YAHOO! I can’t wait to start the true work.

We taught TRC this week... Brazilian members who act as investigators, It went great and let me tell you why... I promised myself (after a lesson that didn’t go so well) That I would NEVER be unprepared again.. I promised my comp and he promised me. So we do ALL we can to get ready... and the Lord blesses us. I KNOW he will bless all of you in the same way as you do ALL in your power to do your absolute best. Give every last breath and bit of energy to the lord and he will sustain you.

Thanks for that quote dad, it has and will continue to change my mission. I shared it with my companion the other day, and halfway through class I turned to him and I KNEW, I don’t know how... that we was trying AT THAT MOMENT to give his all... so I asked him if he’d been thinking about that quote... He said he had just thought about it and decided he would give more, what a blessing.

One thought my time is at 2 minutes.... I realized this week that we ALL receive different witnesses and we are all at different levels of understanding when it comes to the importance of obedience and the gospel in our lives.....AH I don’t have time to explain. I wish I could. I have to go. I love you all.

GIVE EVERY LAST BREATH to the Lord and he will sustain you. Do everything in his name.

All my love - Elder Johnson