Hey yall!! How's it goin? Sorry I didn't email Monday, I had a zone conference, so p-day got moved to Wednesday!! I got to play a violin again!! A nine year old girl decided she wanted to get baptized, so Elder Uchida and I sang/played Savior Redeemer of My Soul. It was pretty sweet. A few days ago a lady, probably early 40s came into our mission office and asked if some missionaries could talk to her. She was freaking out about the end of the world and so we talked a while. She was just so scared of the influence the devil has in todays world. And it's true. In so many subtle ways. There are so many counterfeit paths around us and we have no idea we're on them. Just one quick example. This story might sound familiar to some of you because I wrote about it recently. This is more of what I learned....last night in fact! Some 19 year old moron got someone's 15 year old daughter pregnant after 4 restraining orders were filed. He had shoplifted, and almost killed the dad of the 15 year old by stabbing him with a knife (and we're talking a big hunting knife. The stab wound was about 1.5 inches/4-5 cm.). He went to court and got a wopping 3 months in prison. Hmmmm....Anyway, this next story is somewhat more lighthearted. At zone conference Elder Cardon of the 70 wanted to do a role play. My comp. and I volunteered and then we got 2 sons and 2 daughters and together we made up the "Young" family. (at this point you might have realized that elder young and I were the 'parents'. He and President Taggart were pretending to be the missionaries and they were teaching us about prayer. Near the beginnig Elder Cardon said something along the lines of 'you and you're....(guesturing to me...and then after a pause everyone else)...family'. It was mildly amusing. Then near the end he asked, 'how has prayer helped you in your life?' Elder young being as robotic as he is started playing as a person from the District videos (for those of you unfamiliar with that, they're videos about missionaries teaching people) and said, 'well I love my family, and when we got married we knew we would have trouble having kids...' and at this point everyone (including President Taggart) lost it completely. It was soooooooooooooo funny!!! Elder Cardon wasn't too amused though.....he's a great guy, he just needs to loosen up a bit....kinda like my comp!! Anywhoo, also this week a new elder came into our district! Elder C was replaced by Elder J who is being trained by Elder U! It is extremely confusing to everyone in the ward, they are making up names for us or calling us Elder H and Elder Z

These are the most recent pictures we recieved from Hunter.  Including pictures of him in the MTC and his trip to the mission home.

...or Elder HoJo and Elder ZoJo. I ask you....yup, that's about all that's been interesting this week. I'm sure I've forgotten some things, but this weeks been extra long. Hard to remember. Sorry I didn't email last week! My email was messed up. It was weird.

Elder Hunter Johnson