Monday, February 24, 2014

New Ipads

February 10, 2014 Alrighty so this past week has been full of excitement. So much has happened. But where to begin. I guess i'll begin with the biggest news. We got Ipads. Ya thats right, they've been talking about it forever and now we finally got them. We had a zone conference that started at 8 in the morning and we didn't leave till 5 at night, it was the longest meeting ever and it was all on ipads. We didn't get them till half way through and of course once we got them everyone zoned out and was messing around on them instead of listening, but it was all good. The Ipads are so much of a hassle right now, all our planning and all of our area book(teaching records) have to all be put on it. And it just takes so much time to do so. But when it comes to teaching it's really nice, we can show videos and other things on it. They also have a lot of restrictions, we can't download anything and if we try doing so, or going to a site on the interent thats not allowed it gets red flaged and you get your ipad taken away. They have so many rules on them, i feel i i'm going to do something on accident and loose my ipad. But other than that we also had some other exciting news. A little while ago we got a media referral for a Johny Brown, but was never able to go see him until recently. We called him on the phone and he just sounded awesome as we were talking to him. When we went over we had an amazing visit. Turns out he is actually a member, got baptized back in the 1980's and he just recently had moved here, he has been less-active for the past year or so but wanted to get back. He has a fiance who has a 6 year old daughter and he just wants to do everything right with her, and wants hers to join the church. Her name is Tiffany and she is amazing. They came to church yesterday and had a wonderful experience, the only bad thing was during gospel principles class the ward mission leader teaches and he always likes to focus on one person for the entire class and yesterday it was her, but it all went good and she didn't get turned away. We are going to go see them again tomorrow and set a baptism date with her. It should go really well. And that about all the exciting news for the week, this coming saturday Chelsie is getting baptized and the Sister's have a baptism earlier that day also, so it's going to be a wonderful day. Also next week is transfers and we're thinking that i will get transfered since i have been here so long. We'll see what happens. I love you all so much.

Ping Pong Table

"The Famous Ping Pong Table"
Elder Jeremy Johnson & Elder Greenlaw's
Homemade Ping Pong Table, inspired by Laura's
Christmas present of a little ping pong set.

Basketball???

February 3, 2014 Seahawks won baby, Woot Woot. Now thats what i like to hear. Last night and this morning we had a bunch of members send texts says they won, cause you know i'm from washington and all. And i told them all that they were going to win, no one believed me though, but hey i hear they destroyed. So how are you all doing, anything interesting been going on, besides football. Laura hasn't written me since Christmas, whats up with that. She said she was going to change, sad day. So as for things here, all is well. You asked about Daphne, ever since the first of January she started working again and we haven't been able to see her, we're still trying but nothing is really happening with her. And as for Chelsie she is the one who came to us with already having an amazing testimony of the Book of Mormon and she is getting baptized on the 15th, She is pretty much set, her only struggle is Tea, and she is working on that. Tea is a hard thing for people to give up down here in the south for some reason, worse than coffee. Now lets see what else is there, we got some new beds this weeks, mine had a major sink hole and the box frame was flat on one side, it was pretty bad, they also gave us some office chairs and gave us a list of things to go buy and they will repay us. Our senior couples here are pretty nice. Oh and also on thursday the had elders quorm ball and we brought an investigator and went and played for our ward, we got totally smoked, i'm never been bettin so bad, the other team was full of non-member black guys who were just running circles around us. It was so bad. The south really does play ball a lot different than the west, they are a lot more aggressive out here. Oh and one last thing we get IPADS on Wednesday, oh ya, it's going to be crazy. Well thats about it i love you all so much. Love, Elder Jeremy Johnson P.S. those pics of the ping pong table i sent to anna-marie, but i'll forwad you them, i love you more than all the ping pong balls in the world, and that's a lot if you go to china ebruary 3, 2014