Week 80

Hey Everyone!!!

This week was busy but awesome! We we went to Guymon, OK for a District meeting in my zone and then went on exchanges with them in liberal. It was fun. Then on Thursday we had to go to Dodge City to do baptismal interviews. It’s about 1 1/2 hrs from dodge. We left at 3:30 and then crazy stuff happened including on of the people getting baptized didn’t show up and wouldn’t answer his phone so when we started heading back to liberal the elders called us and said to turn around and come back so we did (he just lost his phone at his aunts and went to get it and then got pulled over) anyways then we left dodge and then had a zone leader call that night at 9:15 but since we weren’t home we had to pull over in a town in the middle of nowhere and the conference call was an hour and after that we still had an hour drive back home and got back to our apartment at 11:30pm. So that was adventure. 

But I’m loving liberal! We have a pretty big teaching pool that includes 2 families that are really interested. One is the Acosta family. We have been teaching them for a couple of weeks. It’s a family of like 7 but like 2 of them arnt too interested yet but the others are way cool and they pretty much already know the Book of Mormon is true. They just work Sundays and can’t come to church :/ 

The other family is a younger couple with little kids but we taught them the restoration last night and they were freaking out that there is a prophet on the earth and were just fascinated with it. So they looked up a picture of President Nelson. Thats was a cool experience. Both of the families speak Spanish so it’s even better. 

We also have this investigator Logan he has met with missionaries for a while but wasn’t ever baptized because he is living with his fiancée. But long story short they are getting married this weekend at the church so we are having a wedding and then he is going to get baptized on the 7th of April. 

So things are going great! I hope all is well with all of you!

Elder Skylar Johnson 

Week 79 Baptism

This week was real busy. We had exchanges with the APs in Wichita on Wednesday so we had a good long drive. Then the next day we had a MLC meeting that took all day Thursday then we drove back to liberal friday morning. Saturday was awesome because  I got to baptize Freddy Gonzalez! It was awesome! So that’s my 3 sentence run down of my week!

 Chilling with Elder Ryan at Zone Conference 

I ate at his whole torta for lunch. It was real good!

Week 78 Airplane Museum

Week 77 Life in Liberal

Hey everyone! 
My first week in Liberal has been super awesome! Fun fact, Liberal is where Dorothy’s house from the Wizard of Oz is. So when Dorothy tapped her heels together and said there’s no place like home she came to Liberal Kansas. So there are tons of statues of Dorothy everywhere. And even a museum dedicated to the Wizard of Oz. 

 Anyways let me tell you all about the amazing milagros that are happening here! So the Sunday before I came here a guy named Freddy showed up to church. The Elders found out that he wasn’t a member and had been meeting with the missionaries in Las Vegas. This week we have been teaching him and he has a super strong testimony of the church! He was on date to get baptized the 10th of March but we had stake conference that weekend so we told him we could either move it up a week of back a week. He said he was planning on making a trip out to Vegas this week and to move the baptism back. Then Sunday night he texted us and said that he didn’t want to wait any longer to get baptized and that he would postpone his trip so he could get baptized on the 3rd of march! He has his priorities straight for sure! So we have a baptism this weekend! 

 We are also teaching a ton of other people. There is a family of like 10 that we are teaching. Only like 4 of them are super interested as of now but it’s super awesome because they have great desires to learn and get closer to Jesus Christ. And they prefer speaking Spanish! It’s so great to teach in Spanish again. I’m a little rusty due to 4 1/2 months in an English area but it’s coming back. There is a lot of Spanish in liberal so I’m real pumped for that!

 Transfer day I drove from Junction City to Wichita to Guymon Oklahoma then back tract to liberal. So it was a ton of driving and we didn’t get to the apartment till like 10pm

On the bad side I wrecked on my bike Sunday night (we have to share a car so we bike half the time) but the lord provided and I didn’t get hurt at all! Be safe when biking across a railroad crossing at night 😂 ¡Todo bien! 

I got a good amount of pictures this week from saying adios to Junction (I’ll send them in a separate email)

I hope you all are doing well and having a great week!

Elder Skylar Johnson 

 Saying bye to the Johnson’s (we hung out with them on pday)

Saying goodbye to the Carpenters (one of the coolest families in all of Kansas)

 My best friend Tyler & his older brother Lukas

 The Stonerocks

 Elder Riley & I with Brett

 

 Junction City District

The Medinas

A Foggy day in Kansas

Week 76

Hey everybody! 

Transfer news is in... and I’m getting transferred!! I am going to be transferred to Liberal, Kansas and I’m going to be a zone leader too so that’s exciting! I’m excited for this opportunity. Liberal is a bilingual ward so I’ll be able to speak Spanish again! My companion is going to be Elder Ortiz I don’t know him but I think he is a fluent Spanish speaker! It’s gonna be sad leaving JC and not going to be able to fully train elder Riley.

This week was a really good week. One of our investigators Dwayne has been progressing pretty well. He has met with missionaries like almost a year ago and we started teaching him again these last couple of weeks. We had some great lessons with him and he really wants to start living the word of wisdom now! It’s gonna take him some time but he will get there! 

Also this week I had exchanges with Elder bischoff. It was fun. 

Have a great week everyone!

Exchanges with Elder Bischoff 

I found a boat in Milford

Week 74

This week was good! I can’t really remember everything that I did. But we have been busy. We have this one investigator named Joshua he is really cool. And to put a long story short he really wants to turn his life around and follow Christ so he really wants to get baptized. So that’s awesome! I’ll tell you more about him in future weeks. 

I did find sister Cluff and we took a picture I don’t have it so I can’t send it to you. 

That’s awesome to hear that the Court of Honor went good. 

Love you tons!

Sorry this picture is a little trashy

Week 72-73

We had Zone Conference.....Elder Peterson and I drew a picture ......My adventure shirt feat. Monroe and 4 more miles