Michael had his 20th Birthday last Friday. I attached a picture. One of the members took them to a Mexican restaurant and they donned the sombrero on him and sang ‘Happy Birthday’ to him. Hopefully you can open the picture. I pasted in some excerpts of his e-mail today.
This week was good- we got a new investigator John- he says he likes to hear anything about Jesus but just doesn’t like Jehovah witness' - We taught him the message of the restoration and he’s starting to see how we stand apart from other Christian churches-
We had a really good lesson with Tasha- she is our best candidate for baptism right now- she missed church last week and said she'd be there this Sunday but again she missed- we even had a sister go to go pick her up- we are going to try and teach her in a member's home this week- the bishop's home actually- she wants to get baptized- she’s a little shy and I guess has trouble waking up in the morning.
We had dinner with a family the Stoelting's. They have two little girls and a boy- The little girls ages 4-7 always remind me of Jenna- their daughter named Elana is 5- she likes me a lot- we went to an activity Saturday and she asked me "Elder can you sit next to me?" haha
We had zone conference- it was our last one with President Hobbs- June 30th he'll get replaced by president Thomas- it seems so weird to happen- I’m really going miss the Hobbs' - Sister Hobbs is just a ray a beaming light- she just lights up a room wherever she goes- she really is an example of matt 5:16- and pres. Hobbs is probably the most spiritual man I’ve ever met and had a relationship= he’s amazing- I know he was called of God and I know that president Thomas is also called of God to come takeover- He gave us some really good advise for the rest of our lives in his closing remarks-
Well I had an ok birthday- Bro. Isenhour took us out to a Mexican place Casa Grande- it was pretty good- the guys came around and put a big sombrero on me and sang to me and put icing on my nose- I attached a picture to the email
We had a really good lesson with Kenan again at the Messisco's. We taught him the plan of salvation- He really liked it- he understood that we lived with heavenly father before and that we learned his plan for us and that this earth life was part of the plan for our spiritual progression- and now he has been lead in this life to know the plan again- Just because we know the plan doesn't make it easy to follow the plan though- but it gives greater understanding and peace which does provide the fuel to our fires to give our best efforts to follow the plan-
We taught Lewis Wallace again- He actually invited us over for a cookout after church- So we had some burgers- - He doesn't understand the restoration completely- and if he does he's not accepting it- He loves the Book of Mormon- that was why I had hope for him- but he thinks it's just another bible out there- He says there's the Holy Bible, the Catholic Bible, the Presbytarian Bible, the Book of the Mormon’s bible, and many many more bibles out there that haven’t come forth yet. I told him he really only named two records there- the Bible and the Book of Mormon- There are Many different versions and translations of the One Holy Bible but that there is only One Book of Mormon. I explained that with one dot you can draw numerous lines different sizes and angles going through the dot- but when you add a second dot you can only draw ONE line through the dots- That’s why God brought forth the Book of Mormon. With just the Bible it is confusing because it contains the Gospel but many plain truths have been taken out and that's why many different churches are using this ONE book but some pull it this way and others pull it that way- With the Book of Mormon in the picture they solidify one another- The book of Mormon covers things not covered in the bible and the bible covers some things not in the book of Mormon. We emphasized that either it's true or it isn't. And he needs to read and really pray for that witness for himself. We then bore testimony of that we knew it WAS true.
We also went to the Passmore's and helped them around their house with some cleaning and stuff- They are continuing to progress once again and come back to church- After away from the church over 8 years they said it felt good to come back- and that they knew God had forgiven them for falling away- And it’s true - God is a loving God- As we are willing to repent he is willing to forgive- He is always longing for the lost sheep to come back!
Love Elder Michael Johnson
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