Family -
So I can't believe that Taylor Harston is coming home super soon right?! . . . Tell him I want an e-mail update from him his first week at home and give him a hug for me. I hope all is well . . I believe there is a brithday coming up soon .. . : D I still LOVE my calendar that you guys sent me, thanks so much I use it everyday! Thanks for all of the pictures Hales! I can't believe how beautiful our house is! And my amazing family! That really was so fun. When did you find the time to draw with sidewalk chalk? haha. Love you all dearly! - Elder Johnson ps that picture of mom and dad is SO classic! super fun.

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Hello! So I will jump right into some updates of the week. We had 3 baptisms this week, and I just pray that they all stay strong. With the track record of this branch (which has about 60 people at church each sunday 20 of which are taken by us the 6 missionaries) they will be inactive soon. But I will do my best to leave them with good habits and strong testimonies. Sometimes I have the fear of baptizing someone before they really KNOW KNOW KNOW, but you can't wait, we all come to KNOW later on. We just do our best and pray that the Lord might bless them.
I did an interview this week that was a miracle. Someone I had already interviewed but was still drinking coffee and thus couldn't be baptized last week. Anyways... she sat down (a woman of about 45 yrs of age) and the first thing she said was "I'm not going to be baptized, I decided." . . .WOW. This is THE BAPTISMAL INTERVIEW. . . haha I calmly told her that I wasn't going to let her say that cause I knew she was prepared. We said a prayer, had a simple conversation, I bore testimony and felt SO blessed to remember some scriptures that I hadn't read for months and the spirit calmed her heart. She ended up saying, "alright, I'm going to be baptized, that is my final decision, above anything, nothing is going to change my mind!" I wanted to throw my arms up in the sky and say something cheesy like, "THAT'S IT.... YOU GOT IT!!" haha. What a miracle. She was already baptized and her son as well.
Two days ago we went to visit some investigators just to see how they were doing and to confirm the visit to church. They were at home, but they were also having a huge catholic celebration with all of their family. We got invited in and I had a flashback to those parties when you got invited by a friend of a friend of a friend and you know no one and you feel like everyone wnats to know why in the world you are there . . . but as we know "awkward is what you make it" so I talked my way out of the situation...made friends, made contacts, we got soda and cake, and it all turned out peacefully!
Love to all of you. Choose something to get better at this week. Mine is more charity. Sincerely, - Elder Johnson

We are at the 5th week without getting mail out here. . . middle of nowhere!