Hey y'all! I haven't written in forever, so sorry about that! Disneyland is a very busy place to serve in. To just tell everyone what's been going on the past few weeks.....Elder M got hit by a car twice in two weeks. And to clarify, two different cars. Not the same one twice. That was all very exciting. Elder S is going home in 17 days, which is craaaazy! 

We helped someone move last week on Wednesday and I broke their 3 foot battle axe. Snapped the shaft in two! Let me tell you, there is nothing in the world more embarassing than breaking the coolest thing in someone's house and then going up to them and being like, erm, I broke your axe....sooooooo awkward. BUT there is a gospel analogy behind this experience. Fear is the opposite of faith, and is something we shouldn't, as children of God have. God and His son Jesus Christ are so perfect so that we can place full confidence and faith in them. When Adam and Eve transgressed in the Garden of Eden, the first effect of that was fear.  They went and hid. When I broke the Battle axe in two, I felt like a beast, but my thoughts were along the lines of, "Holy crap, you've got to be kidding me! I just broke their axe. I just broke their axe!! Ok, ok. I'll just go put it back and stick the pieces together as best I can. No, that would be stupid. I'll just throw it into the garbage bin. No, I can't throw it away....I'll just say that it broke somehow." And then after a few moments of panicking, I realized that those were all super stupid. It's like in Kung Fu Panda where Po breaks the Urn of Whispering Warriors when Shifu is there and then says, "Someone.....broke that." Doesn't work to hot. But anyway, back to the analogy. My first reaction after making this mistake was fear. I wanted to hide my mistake. But after realizing nothing would come from that, I just went up to Brother Bob (not his real name) and said, "Hey, I broke your axe..." while holding it together. I'll be honest, the look on his face as I pulled it apart and handed it to him was pretty priceless, but he laughed and said it was ok and he never did anything with it and now that they were moving it was the first time he'd seen it in at least a year. He was totally playing it off, but only kind of. To finish the analogy, Jesus Christ was and is such a perfect being, so that we can have full confidence in His Atonement for us. He lived a perfect life, and died to complete a perfect and infinite Atonement. We make mistakes, like breaking battle axes, but we know that if we accept Christ's ransom for us, it will all be allright. All we have to do is do our best to live like him. Meaning we need to keep His commandments. That's what they are for. By doing that we improve ourselves. We change. If we are not changing, than we are not truly using The Atonement. I know Jesus Christ lives. He is our older brother and he loves us. Because He lives, we are all saved from mortal death, and can be saved from spiritual death if we allow ourselves to be changed by His infinite Grace.

 Happy Easter everyone!

Elder Hunter Johnson