Elder J the English Teacher??

Da Famalam! This week has been long, training takes a lot of thinking! And Spanish is murder on the brain. I try not to laugh too much... We have had some cool experiences this week. My new Comp is Elder Warr from Holiday UT. He went to Olympus High. He actually knows Jarred from football. (note from typist : Jarred coached Olympus Football two years ago while he was going to the U) He is best buds with a guy who played LaX for Olympus and BYU, Teddy Ferin, who is a really good player. My kid is a red head and he is working really hard on Spanish. In a few months he'll loosen up. (: kid means greenie Companion in mission lingo) I would hate to be born here! (: born means first area) He didn't show it but I overheard him telling someone it was scary here. I have been talking a lot and forget to let him talk. I'm used to Elders just jumping in. He doesn't know how yet. We are working really hard. With Elder Valenzuela, he never spoke English so with any English people I just go! I'll figure it all out soon too! I teach English classes two times a week alone because Elder Mackrory transferred to East Long I. We were practicing the preterite - past tense- and the last person in the class came up. He knows really good English and wanted to conjugate his own word. This was his sentence "The boss bedded his secretary." Hmmm.... I try to look at it this way, it's somewhat of an improvement from " I have black s___" when I wanted, Tengo la camisa negra "I have the black shirt." This is one crazy world. (smiley face) Last week was a real tough one. We have been finding for 7 weeks and I was getting pretty low. And to top it off 0/3 of our investigators, who we were positive would, didn't come to church. I have no idea how but I somehow was rejuvenated after talking to a lady who basically said I'll accept Hell, I don't want to try. I felt like what she said would hit her hard later. I know it will. Just testifying that God does live rejuvenates us so much! Now as I look back I realize all the small miracles last week to keep my spirits up. (Oh, and on top of all this, I was sick) We had some mail mix-ups and it caused all my mail to come last week. I had like 10 letters from people! And I had some big awakenings about, well "life". Why the family needs to work how God wants, and especially the marriage aspect! That same girl said, "you can't stay in love forever" and I said "yes you can". She said"you can't teach me how to love." Then some members, who are newlyweds studying out here, walked by and said "yes they can, listen to them!" It doesn't matter how much we know about God's plan, whats important is how much we obey the commandments and love our families. So you guys, I LOVE YA! I'm all better, mental and physical. I am looking forward to reaching our goals of; 1 new baptismal commit 1 new Investigator in Church 15 lessons 4 lessons to our baptism commit It's not easy but they are going to change our mission. Change isn't easy. We find it's very much a climb, but we keep the mental image of the view of the horizon from the top in our minds. And we love what we do. Love you all! Elder Johnson P.S. You should read True to the Faith. I like it a lot!