Wishing you the best 21st birthday EVER, Scottie!!!! Hope you get all our packages and that the elders and members in Georgia spoil you cause you deserve it! We love you MUCHO!!!
February 28, 2011
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELDER JOHNSON!!!! BIG 21!!!!
so not a lot of time today.... i got things to do to get ready for my
birthday tomorrow...... i will be 21!!!! man, i am old HA HA HA HA
i am doing good and love it here!!! things are looking to improve and
my spirits are high now!!! keep it real and help some one in need
this week for my birthday HA HA HA HA and then tell me about it next
week!!!!! ;)
it is cold here, snowing but not sticking, kinda sad. i want snow to
stick and stay!!!!
gave a good talk again in church yesterday, 4th week in a row!!! i
always get called on the spot like 5 mins. before, i am
getting better at this speaking and bearing testimony :) this week
just bore my testimony and talked about how i have seen the gospel
change my life, the lives of friends back home, and in georgia!!! it
was really good!!! i don't think i will get called to speak next
week just cuz it will be fast sunday....... maybe though, things are
different here in georgia.......
so be safe all of you and party it up on the 1st for me HA HA HA HA HA
life is an adventure.... it is all on us to make it happen. :)
words of the living Prophet Thomas Monson:
Stick to your task till it sticks to you.
Beginners are many, but ender's are few.
Honor, power, place and praise
Will always come to the one who stays.
Stick to your task till it sticks to you;
Bend at it, sweat at it, smile at it, too—
For out of the bend and the sweat and the smile
Will come life’s victories after awhile.
so make your life what you want. embrace the gospel and share the truth :)
LOVE YOU ALL!!!!
KIA KAHA
ELDER JOHNSON
SUPERMAN
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
It snowed!
February 21, 2011
Well so this week was a sad one!!!!!
we had 4 missionaries leave and 2 come...... so we again are back
down to 8 missionaries in the country. good news we got a new senior
couple this week as well but the old senior couple leaves in a month
so we will be down to just 1 again soon.....
so 3 missionaries finished their mission and left home to family and
friends. but with only 2 coming, that made it so we were an odd
number in georgia, 9 missionaries. so in order to make things work
out, a 4th missionary left georgia to serve in armenia so that we
would have an even number. so we said good bye to 4 missionaries and
hello to 2 new ones. it was sad to say good-bye, because we have been
through so much together and because those were our trainers and
fathers. we do not know when the 4th elder will come back to georgia,
he will serve there until we get one more elder to come up.....
the new guys are good, i like them. they know the language alright
and really ready to do the work!!! so with the changes me and Elder
bennett are still together in the same area and will be like this for
a while. our 2 zone leaders got split and they are training so
everything else is the same.
it is still cold and now just rainy, on sunday we got a good 3 inches,
but then it rained and it vanished. so sunday i was excited but now i
am sad cuz it all left. so i am guessing it will be wet and rainy
for the next little bit.
so things are the same but not!!!!!
well not much else happened. the work was really slow this week and
not much we got done in the work, sad to say. well i am doing good,
things are quiet here and not much going on....
HOPE YOU ARE WELL AND BE SAFE!!!!!!
LOVE YOU!!!
ELDER JOHNSON
SUPERMAN
WE GOT SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!! SUNDAY MORNING WOKE UP TO A GOOD 3 INCHES ON
THE GROUND!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I GUESS THE NEW ELDERS BROUGHT I WITH THEM.... I AM SO HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!
FIRST SNOW OF THE SEASON!!!!
Well so this week was a sad one!!!!!
we had 4 missionaries leave and 2 come...... so we again are back
down to 8 missionaries in the country. good news we got a new senior
couple this week as well but the old senior couple leaves in a month
so we will be down to just 1 again soon.....
so 3 missionaries finished their mission and left home to family and
friends. but with only 2 coming, that made it so we were an odd
number in georgia, 9 missionaries. so in order to make things work
out, a 4th missionary left georgia to serve in armenia so that we
would have an even number. so we said good bye to 4 missionaries and
hello to 2 new ones. it was sad to say good-bye, because we have been
through so much together and because those were our trainers and
fathers. we do not know when the 4th elder will come back to georgia,
he will serve there until we get one more elder to come up.....
the new guys are good, i like them. they know the language alright
and really ready to do the work!!! so with the changes me and Elder
bennett are still together in the same area and will be like this for
a while. our 2 zone leaders got split and they are training so
everything else is the same.
it is still cold and now just rainy, on sunday we got a good 3 inches,
but then it rained and it vanished. so sunday i was excited but now i
am sad cuz it all left. so i am guessing it will be wet and rainy
for the next little bit.
so things are the same but not!!!!!
well not much else happened. the work was really slow this week and
not much we got done in the work, sad to say. well i am doing good,
things are quiet here and not much going on....
HOPE YOU ARE WELL AND BE SAFE!!!!!!
LOVE YOU!!!
ELDER JOHNSON
SUPERMAN
WE GOT SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!! SUNDAY MORNING WOKE UP TO A GOOD 3 INCHES ON
THE GROUND!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I GUESS THE NEW ELDERS BROUGHT I WITH THEM.... I AM SO HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!
FIRST SNOW OF THE SEASON!!!!
Saying Goodbye...
February 21, 2011
this week, some new elders came and some old elders left..
it was rough saying goodbye, i'm not a fan.
this week, some new elders came and some old elders left..
it was rough saying goodbye, i'm not a fan.
this is me with the old departed elders :( it was really cold that
day so i was wearing a hat but took it off for some of the pictures and so i
have bad hair style. man, i miss them. it was hard to
say good-bye, they are my brothers and it was hard to watch them
leave........ i hate good-byes!!!!
day so i was wearing a hat but took it off for some of the pictures and so i
have bad hair style. man, i miss them. it was hard to
say good-bye, they are my brothers and it was hard to watch them
leave........ i hate good-byes!!!!
More Miracles
February 14, 2010
so the miracle this week that we saw started on tuesday. after a
great district meeting, we went out for a district lunch for Elder
Lucas' last one. we went to the place we always go and this time we
had a new girl (her name is Tata) as our waitress. she was nice and
gave us free drinks on the house. so sitting there with 3 other
boys our natural instincts kicked in, thinking we were studs and
thinking we could get this girl; we decided to leave our number on a
business card for the girl as a joke..... just like before the mission
hanging with the guys... ya know.... well she calls us like 2 hours
after we left asking why we left her our number, and also telling us
that her co-workers told her that we taught english and she was
interested.... well my companion had the phone and very nervously and
sweating explained that we only taught about Christ and what our
purpose was. well she was nice and told him to call her in 2 days to
meet...... my companion freaking out because he thought he had just
established a "date" with her... so in 2 days we call and arrange the
meeting. at this time i am on exchanges with elder Steele. my
companion and Lucas were going to meet her.... well at the last minute
they cancel and we had to meet her. so we meet her at the metro and
walk her to the church. Elguja was there doing some work and what
not..... we showed her around the building and explained our purpose
again to her more fully. we watched finding faith in Christ with her.
she did not know a lot of what happened in the movie and we showed her in the bible the
things that happened and she was so surprised. after that we talked
about the apostasy and led into the restoration and invited her back
to watch the restoration. she accepted. we also showed her the
baptism font because we had a baptism the next day and talked about
baptism with her, ON THE FIRST LESSON. it was really good. she took
some talks of the prophets and apostles to read and thanked us. it
was a smooth meeting and it went really well!!!! so being yourself
really works out in the Lord's favor sometimes, but be careful when it
involves the ladies.... HA HA HA
so that was our great story for that week! this next week brings in
lots of changes!!! with old elders leaving and new ones coming and
only 3 days away and still don't know what is going to happen..... it
is all in HIS hands.
WELL AFTER LIVING "IN A FAMINE" FOR 10 WEEKS OF NO INVESTIGATORS AT
CHURCH, WE DECIDED TO STOP AND START "A TIME OF FEASTING". WE GOT 1
INVESTIGATOR AT CHURCH THIS WEEK!!!! IT WAS SO GOOD TO BE ABLE TO
WRITE A ONE IN THE BOX ON OUR STATS FOR ONCE!!!!
YAHOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;) GOD BLESSED US! :)
so the work is better and i am enjoying it more cause we had a good week!!
TAKE CARE and BE SAFE!!!!!!!!! MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU!!!!!!!!!!
KIA KAHA
LOVE YOU ALL,
HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!(worst holiday ever!)
ELDER JOHNSON
SUPERMAN
so the miracle this week that we saw started on tuesday. after a
great district meeting, we went out for a district lunch for Elder
Lucas' last one. we went to the place we always go and this time we
had a new girl (her name is Tata) as our waitress. she was nice and
gave us free drinks on the house. so sitting there with 3 other
boys our natural instincts kicked in, thinking we were studs and
thinking we could get this girl; we decided to leave our number on a
business card for the girl as a joke..... just like before the mission
hanging with the guys... ya know.... well she calls us like 2 hours
after we left asking why we left her our number, and also telling us
that her co-workers told her that we taught english and she was
interested.... well my companion had the phone and very nervously and
sweating explained that we only taught about Christ and what our
purpose was. well she was nice and told him to call her in 2 days to
meet...... my companion freaking out because he thought he had just
established a "date" with her... so in 2 days we call and arrange the
meeting. at this time i am on exchanges with elder Steele. my
companion and Lucas were going to meet her.... well at the last minute
they cancel and we had to meet her. so we meet her at the metro and
walk her to the church. Elguja was there doing some work and what
not..... we showed her around the building and explained our purpose
again to her more fully. we watched finding faith in Christ with her.
she did not know a lot of what happened in the movie and we showed her in the bible the
things that happened and she was so surprised. after that we talked
about the apostasy and led into the restoration and invited her back
to watch the restoration. she accepted. we also showed her the
baptism font because we had a baptism the next day and talked about
baptism with her, ON THE FIRST LESSON. it was really good. she took
some talks of the prophets and apostles to read and thanked us. it
was a smooth meeting and it went really well!!!! so being yourself
really works out in the Lord's favor sometimes, but be careful when it
involves the ladies.... HA HA HA
so that was our great story for that week! this next week brings in
lots of changes!!! with old elders leaving and new ones coming and
only 3 days away and still don't know what is going to happen..... it
is all in HIS hands.
WELL AFTER LIVING "IN A FAMINE" FOR 10 WEEKS OF NO INVESTIGATORS AT
CHURCH, WE DECIDED TO STOP AND START "A TIME OF FEASTING". WE GOT 1
INVESTIGATOR AT CHURCH THIS WEEK!!!! IT WAS SO GOOD TO BE ABLE TO
WRITE A ONE IN THE BOX ON OUR STATS FOR ONCE!!!!
YAHOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;) GOD BLESSED US! :)
so the work is better and i am enjoying it more cause we had a good week!!
TAKE CARE and BE SAFE!!!!!!!!! MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU!!!!!!!!!!
KIA KAHA
LOVE YOU ALL,
HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!(worst holiday ever!)
ELDER JOHNSON
SUPERMAN
A good week!
Miracles are happening in Georgia! haha we love how excited Scott gets when people listen to his message.
February 7, 2011
well the week was a good one. we had some miracles happen this week.
so on friday was the day to remember. we started tracting and and the
first entrance way (which is about 24 apartments) no one received us.
so we went to the second entrance and the 1st door we locked on the
guy let us in and listen and accepted our message and our commitments
to learn more and to read the Book of Mormon. it was such a great
meeting, he wanted to learn more and have his family learn more. a
little side note; he even made room for the Book of Mormon in his
shrine of khaties(pictures they pray to) and candles because it was
the word of god. POUND IT!!!!
so the next floor of apartments we knock on the last door and an older
guy with his wife invite us in and listens as the first guy and
accepts the invitation to learn more and to read. just like the first
meeting everything went well. POUND IT!!!!
then we go down 2 floors with no answer from people and on the 3 floor
another guy and his wife and just like the other 2 meeting everything
went well and by the Spirit. so that was great!!!! then we go down
to the last floor and the last apartment and again it is a guy who
lets us in because "we had smiles on our faces and looked like we had
something to share with the world" he said. turned out he was athiest
but still listened to us and was nice and took a pamphlet about God
and said he would read it. so in ONE DAY we got 4 meetings; and 5 new
investigators!!!!!! what a blessing of the LORD!
also this week me and my companion set a new record! we have
officially gone 10 weeks with no investigators at church! that takes
some hard work to pull off! IT SUCKS!!!!! despite the
hard work and the miracles, at the end of the week it comes down to no
one coming to church...... sad :(
while reading in the Book of Mormon and marking the parts where ever
it talks about Christ is so great. just seeing how many times it talks
of Him, strengths my testimony of this book and really shows the
importance of it!!! if people would just read it............
well these next few weeks will bring some changes...... with old
elders leaving on the 18th and new ones coming in, it is going to be
good and a switch up :)
well i love you all and hope all is good!!!!!
HAVE A GREAT WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!
KIA KAHA
ELDER JOHNSON
February 7, 2011
well the week was a good one. we had some miracles happen this week.
so on friday was the day to remember. we started tracting and and the
first entrance way (which is about 24 apartments) no one received us.
so we went to the second entrance and the 1st door we locked on the
guy let us in and listen and accepted our message and our commitments
to learn more and to read the Book of Mormon. it was such a great
meeting, he wanted to learn more and have his family learn more. a
little side note; he even made room for the Book of Mormon in his
shrine of khaties(pictures they pray to) and candles because it was
the word of god. POUND IT!!!!
so the next floor of apartments we knock on the last door and an older
guy with his wife invite us in and listens as the first guy and
accepts the invitation to learn more and to read. just like the first
meeting everything went well. POUND IT!!!!
then we go down 2 floors with no answer from people and on the 3 floor
another guy and his wife and just like the other 2 meeting everything
went well and by the Spirit. so that was great!!!! then we go down
to the last floor and the last apartment and again it is a guy who
lets us in because "we had smiles on our faces and looked like we had
something to share with the world" he said. turned out he was athiest
but still listened to us and was nice and took a pamphlet about God
and said he would read it. so in ONE DAY we got 4 meetings; and 5 new
investigators!!!!!! what a blessing of the LORD!
also this week me and my companion set a new record! we have
officially gone 10 weeks with no investigators at church! that takes
some hard work to pull off! IT SUCKS!!!!! despite the
hard work and the miracles, at the end of the week it comes down to no
one coming to church...... sad :(
while reading in the Book of Mormon and marking the parts where ever
it talks about Christ is so great. just seeing how many times it talks
of Him, strengths my testimony of this book and really shows the
importance of it!!! if people would just read it............
well these next few weeks will bring some changes...... with old
elders leaving on the 18th and new ones coming in, it is going to be
good and a switch up :)
well i love you all and hope all is good!!!!!
HAVE A GREAT WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!
KIA KAHA
ELDER JOHNSON
New year, new area
It's hard work whitewashing an area! Scott keeps us updated on their gradual progress...
January 24, 2011
well this week not much happened.....
we did do a lot of tracking (knocking on doors) and this week people
chose not to accept our message. we spend 7 1/2 hours on friday (all
day) knocking doors and we didn't get one meeting. we did give out
one book of Mormon, we knocked on about
108 doors in one day. that is a lot. it was a very tiring day.
Saturday we had a priesthood activity, where we had a BBQ and played
ping-pong. that was really nice. got to build better and more
relationships with the preisthood of our branch. they taught me how
to make georgian BBQ and talked about family and getting them to the
temple with theirs. it was a great meeting. from now on, i call them
all 'UNCLE' ha ha ha ha just cuz we are close.
Sunday was another bad day for me. we had again no investigators
at church for 8 weeks in a row...... i was very depressed about it and
then a member, Liana, told me that it was ok because there was 41
members at church and most from my area so i needed to cheer up.... i
call her 'Mom' which is DEDA in georgian cuz she is my mom away from
home, but she always corrects me and says that she is my 'Aunt' which
is DEIDA in georgian. she tells me that she can not take the role of
my mother because then she would be stealing a gift from God and that
is a big sin, but she still calls me her child.
she stole my missionary shoes from me this week beacuse they were in
terrible shape. i was literally walking on nothing, i had worn the sole
down so much. well she took them and got them fixed and the guy she
took them too literllay took a sole off a army boot and glued it on to
my sunday shoes HA HA HA HA so now i truck around in army dress shoes
HA HA HA pretty solid HA HA HA HA
so work is good. i guess the thing that is improving is the
relationships with members. that is good. but hard when you don't have
investigators to work with. ALL IN THE LORD'S TIME............
so be safe this week and have a good one!!!!!!
LOVE YOU ALL
ELDER JOHNSON
January 24, 2011
well this week not much happened.....
we did do a lot of tracking (knocking on doors) and this week people
chose not to accept our message. we spend 7 1/2 hours on friday (all
day) knocking doors and we didn't get one meeting. we did give out
one book of Mormon, we knocked on about
108 doors in one day. that is a lot. it was a very tiring day.
Saturday we had a priesthood activity, where we had a BBQ and played
ping-pong. that was really nice. got to build better and more
relationships with the preisthood of our branch. they taught me how
to make georgian BBQ and talked about family and getting them to the
temple with theirs. it was a great meeting. from now on, i call them
all 'UNCLE' ha ha ha ha just cuz we are close.
Sunday was another bad day for me. we had again no investigators
at church for 8 weeks in a row...... i was very depressed about it and
then a member, Liana, told me that it was ok because there was 41
members at church and most from my area so i needed to cheer up.... i
call her 'Mom' which is DEDA in georgian cuz she is my mom away from
home, but she always corrects me and says that she is my 'Aunt' which
is DEIDA in georgian. she tells me that she can not take the role of
my mother because then she would be stealing a gift from God and that
is a big sin, but she still calls me her child.
she stole my missionary shoes from me this week beacuse they were in
terrible shape. i was literally walking on nothing, i had worn the sole
down so much. well she took them and got them fixed and the guy she
took them too literllay took a sole off a army boot and glued it on to
my sunday shoes HA HA HA HA so now i truck around in army dress shoes
HA HA HA pretty solid HA HA HA HA
so work is good. i guess the thing that is improving is the
relationships with members. that is good. but hard when you don't have
investigators to work with. ALL IN THE LORD'S TIME............
so be safe this week and have a good one!!!!!!
LOVE YOU ALL
ELDER JOHNSON
News from Georgia
January 10, 2011
well sorry that it has been a while since i have sent you mail. we
did not have a p-day last week because we used to many for the
holidays...... so i will write you today and let you know what has
happened.
so new years was great!!! we got to gether with all the missionaries
(10) in one apartment and just hung out, because we were not allowed
outside, so we ate lots of food, watched some
church movies, the Nativity, errand of angels, walking across egypt.
so it was not to bad....; there was fireworks up the wazoo!!!! and so
much noise!!!! what a new years it was!!!! i really enjoyed it!!!
next we had another branch christmas party for the other branch here
and we re-enacted the Nativity story as written in the bible. i got to
play the part of a wise man. the same as last year. so that was really
fun! then we hads lots of food and games and just a big party!!!!!
so what a time it was!!!
well it was Christmas here on the 7th, in georgia they are on the "old
calendar" and so it is on the 7th. so we got to celebrate again with
the members and do it the georgian way..............FOOD!!!!!!!!!!
when georgians have a party, it really means FEAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
more food then we have on thanksgiving day!!!! needless to say i am
fat!! HA HA HA HA i like their style of parties!!!
well this week my area got white washed, meaning that they changed the
missionaries in the area that don't know the area. the zone leaders
moved into our area, so we had to divide it up and neither one of them
know the area and me and my companion only know half cuz that is where
we have been doing all our work. well we got the half that we don't
know and they got the other half that the don't know at all..... so it
is a interesting change....... we will see how it goes....
i am doing good and having fun!!! i love it here!!!!
be safe all of you and have a good week!!!!!!
LOVE
ELDER JOHNSON
SUPERMAN
well sorry that it has been a while since i have sent you mail. we
did not have a p-day last week because we used to many for the
holidays...... so i will write you today and let you know what has
happened.
so new years was great!!! we got to gether with all the missionaries
(10) in one apartment and just hung out, because we were not allowed
outside, so we ate lots of food, watched some
church movies, the Nativity, errand of angels, walking across egypt.
so it was not to bad....; there was fireworks up the wazoo!!!! and so
much noise!!!! what a new years it was!!!! i really enjoyed it!!!
next we had another branch christmas party for the other branch here
and we re-enacted the Nativity story as written in the bible. i got to
play the part of a wise man. the same as last year. so that was really
fun! then we hads lots of food and games and just a big party!!!!!
so what a time it was!!!
well it was Christmas here on the 7th, in georgia they are on the "old
calendar" and so it is on the 7th. so we got to celebrate again with
the members and do it the georgian way..............FOOD!!!!!!!!!!
when georgians have a party, it really means FEAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
more food then we have on thanksgiving day!!!! needless to say i am
fat!! HA HA HA HA i like their style of parties!!!
well this week my area got white washed, meaning that they changed the
missionaries in the area that don't know the area. the zone leaders
moved into our area, so we had to divide it up and neither one of them
know the area and me and my companion only know half cuz that is where
we have been doing all our work. well we got the half that we don't
know and they got the other half that the don't know at all..... so it
is a interesting change....... we will see how it goes....
i am doing good and having fun!!! i love it here!!!!
be safe all of you and have a good week!!!!!!
LOVE
ELDER JOHNSON
SUPERMAN
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