I'm so happy that you had fun celebrating my birthday! Did you save me any pizza? Sounds like Ammons b-day was pretty busy! That's so fantastic that K came to church! That speaks volumes! That means so much, please don't under estimate how much that means! Serving specifically in the YSA in the states has taught me so much. Young people, or anyone really, are very hesitant to read something, especially a "new" religious text they are unfamiliar with. In addition to that, they just can't comprehend the importance of the Book of Mormon. I would kill to have some of our investigators at church!   Man, I really need to meet S! Make sure she's there when we skype on Mother's Day or something! I simply must meet this fantastical person! I did get the picture and recording! I'll have to go to a computer to access it though. The zone is doing amazing! It's don't a complete 180 since I've been here. It's now (almost) full of good hardworking missionaries that want to do what's right. There's a couple people here and there that are thorns in my side, but that's fine. All the good makes up for it! This week has just been fantastic! We had A"s baptism on Saturday! It was a bit of a mess because a family that is basically his family wanted to do everything.....so the musical number ended up falling through then I ran around to all of them before and told them what they were doing. It was hilarious! But it was a very nice baptism. A was so happy, he was just beaming from ear to ear! Then on Sunday after church, we got a series of texts from R, the girl we Tracted into who's whole family is on date for baptism now, and from C! This is what they said. "But what I wanted to tell you guys is that I'm a very emotional person. And I see all of you guys as one of the greatest blessings in my life. I thank God for sending you guys to our door. In just little time you have all impacted my life greatly, I will forever be thankful for all of you." - R

And then C...I texted him, "Hey C, we loved having you at church today! We hope you enjoyed it! Everyone loved seeing you there!" Then he said,

"I sure did enjoy it and Elder Johnson I have something for you I'll give it to you when I see you :) today on my way to the library I told my brother I have spiritual father who found me and he was like who, what are you talking about and I was like it's Johnson. He looked at me like okay your point is and I just smiled and he said your turning into one of those crazy mormans and I said to him yeah a crazed lover of Jesus." A couple days before, we got a text from a less active guy we've been teaching. We deleted the text, but it basically said, "Elder Johnson what made you know that God called you to be such a great Elder?" Those three texts just absolutely made my week this week! Filled my heart full of 'warm fuzzies!' Anyway.....ill send the pictures in my email to everyone! And please let me know if you got the pictures from last week!

Hunter

We also gave a Book of Mormon too a Reverend yesterday! He wasn't going to take it, but after a pleasant conversation and appealing to his expertise in theology we got him to take one! He said he was going to read it by himself and not talk to anyone, including his Pastor about it! Woohooooo!