Hey everyone! This week was pretty low key  like last week, but there were a few interresting things that happened! First and foremost was C. We just started talking to him as he was sitting outside waiting for his apartment to be clear from the poison spray. Lemme tell you, I don't think I have ever been asked questions so deep in my life! It was super fun answering them, and by the time we finished talking with him, he was 1. Satisfied with the answers we gave him, and 2. intent on reading the Book of Mormon from cover to cover. Just that made this week awesome. Then on Thursday I was able to go listen to Jeffrey R. Holland at Chapman University!!!!! I was sitting 30 feet away from him! For those of you who don't know who that is, he is an apostle of Jesus Christ. He is an incredible speaker and he teaches with the power and authority that only an apostle can have. One of my favorite quotes was, "People are not better off when they are given maximum freedom to do whatever they want." I'll let you all think about that one. It's good. It was amazing listening to him talk about faith, family, and religious freedom. That is about all the cool stuff worth mentioning this week!

So sorry I didn't send this last week, here's the updates for this most recent week!

This week was a week to remember! First off.....we had our I-pad exchange and I-pad meeting on Tuesday, so now we have the iPad's that we are going to be keeping! There was a lot of interesting things talked about. First and foremost, the area 70 that came to talk to us spoke extensively about (and I am paraphrasing) how part of getting iPads and being trained on how to use them was inoculating ourselves against pornography. We are developing skills of responsibly using technology while on a mission in order to retain those acquired skills and apply them when we complete our missions. Something I learned, that the Spirit told me during this meeting, when we were talking about Agency, was that, "Satan try's to take away our agency by changing us from divine beings, created to act, to objects to be acted upon." To many people allow themselves to be changed into objects to be acted upon, by video games, cell phones, iPads, movies, etc....we can do better than that. Another cool story, about agency, that this seventy told us was about Elder Bednar, another Apostle. In a meeting with some people, a man stood up and said something along the lines of, I have my agency, so I can choose weather or not to pay my tithing, or fulfill my calling, or go to church, etc...Elder Bednar asked this person if he was a baptized member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints. He said yes. Bednar then asked him, "Could you now raise your hand and tell me that you're a covenant breaker?" When we make covenants with God, hat is when we use our agency. We are choosing then to do what God wants us to. So when that comes up in the future, we are not necessarily using our agency to make a choice. We are using our agency to break a sacred covenant. If we choose to break our covenants, we do not understand agency.

Continuing with the week in chronological order, Tuesday night, Johnson was in bed with his eye cover on, and I was at my bedside.

Suddenly we heard BAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAM and saw flashes of light. I dived into our closet so fast that an Olympic sprinter would have been impressed at how fast I moved. Elder J almost didn't see me. In the meantime, he stood up and wildly looked around. After the noise stopped, I carefully crept out of the closet, grabbed a knife, and we went out to the balcony to kill the gunman. And that's when we found the firecracker. We learned from this that in a life or death situation, I would leave Johnson to die, and he would get gunned down before he realized what was happening. We had so much adrenaline going through us that he didn't get to sleep until midnight and I was up until 1:00!

On Thursday night, I got a call from the AP's telling me that I would be training! So tomorrow I'm getting a brand spankin' new missionary!

On Saturday, in anticipation of getting together with the zone for transfer calls, we were heading back to the apartment after a few appointments around 7:30 so we could get picked up. I was going down a road under construction at 32 mph, when all of a sudden there were orange traffic construction sticks in front of me! I blew through 4 of them and then the world turned upside-down and all over the place! My shoe flew off, my tail light broke off, my helmet was fractured (big

cracks) in 10 different places and my backpack and shirt had some holes in them. The only injuries I got were scratched elbows, and a nastier scratch on my shoulder, along with quite a bit of difficulty in raising and rotating it. But now I am ok. 😄 if I hadn't been wearing my helmet, I would be very dead or very much in a coma, because I hit the asphalt reeeeallly hard. My backpack saved my back, and it was more full of stuff than usual at the time, so there was some extra cushioning. My bike tires look like Dr. Seuss tires now, so I'm gonna get new ones soon. It was probably the most epic crash ever.

And then an hour and a half later, I got a call telling me I was going from Placentia to Anaheim! Disneyland is IN MY AREA!!! Pretty cool. So I am sadly no longer in good ol' P3, but good things are gonna start happening in A4 east-side! I love you all! Pictures will hopefully come next week!

Elder Hunter

From a letter Hunter sent to Seminary Class in San Antonio:

I know this church is the church of Jesus Christ, which is more than just a church.  It is the Kingdom of God on Earth.  It contains all the authority, power and truth necessary for conducting the work of salvation on Earth.  I know that fulness of the Gospel has been restored.  I know we are all here at this specific time for a reason.  I know Jesus Christ is the Son of God.  He is our Elder Brother.  He was born and He died, but that was not His beginning and End.  It was all part of the plan laid before the foundation of the world in order for us to obtain exaltation.  It is up to all of us to accept this gift or reject it.  I know the way to fully accept it is through the Restored gospel of Jesus Christ.  I know Joseph Smith was the Prophet fore-ordained to usher in that Restoration.  i know he translated the Book of Mormon through the gift and power of God.  I know these things not only because they make sense, but because God has revealed the truth of these things to me by the Power of the Holy Ghost.  I promise you all that "DAD" is watching out for us.  He is there for us, and we only have to turn to Him for help, and He will give it, though perhaps not in the way we want it.  I love you all and leave you with my testimony, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Elder Hunter Johnson

"Vision without effort is daydreaming, effort without vision is drudgery but vision coupled with effort will obtain the prize."

-Thomas S. Monson