JOHNSON IN WISCONSIN

Hello all. Well the library was closed last monday due to Christmas and will be this monday due to New Years so that why im here on saturday. Well Christmas was good. Ive gotten a lot of food in packages and i was able to speak with my family and that was nice although it made me a little homesick for a while. But im fine now. Work lately has been tough. December was a tough month with the holidays and the flu going around it makes meeting with people a hard thing. Luckily i havent gotten sick yet but some of our investigators have and some have been on vacation and such so weve been doing a lot of tracting. In December, Elder Gent and I taought 7 people the first lesson but haven been able to meet with them a 2nd time yeat due to the above reasons. Im learning patience out here. I havent even taught the 2nd lesson sinct the MTC. Hopefully things will settle down in January and we can meet with them more often. We had a recent heat wave here with temps in the upper 30's and low 40's. Yeah most of our snow melted but then last night it snowed 2 inches back on so i got to see a little green this week. I wish all of you a happy new year and look forward to hearing from you this year. Adios.

I type really fast cuz i do emails and all this stuff and i only have an hour and a half each week so excuze the spelling errors.

Merry Christmas everyone. I know its still a few days away but i cant wait to call home. It was another cold week of snow. It snowed 6 inches on us last Wednesday and there is tons of it on the ground. Elder Gent and i stayed quite busy helping some people move, voulenteering at the hospital and tracting and teaching. Most of our investigtors still arent progressing very fast but we continue to work with them. We taught an awesome Elderly couple on friday and they accepted the Book of Mormon and we commited them to pray about it and we are gonna visit them again soon. Ill keep you updated. Their our most promsing investigators at the moment. I had my tougest day on Thursday as i got very tired and had little motivation to do anything. Luckily the lord is here for me and ive had three awesome days in a row. I keep hearinf about my boys, da Seahawks and i might be able to watch the Super Bowl preview against the Colts on Saturday as we are allowed to watch on pg movie and a sporting event on Christmas eve. I alos hear that UW b ball is crusing. Well i hope you all have a great Christmas week. Travel safely and enjoy being around your familes. Take Care.

Another week down. Janesville continues to go well. We have a few more investiators now but who knows how far they will go. We have quite a few visits to make this week. I saw a sign in a parking lot that said "Parking for Expectant Mothers and Guests with small Children". That was new. It continues to be snowy and cold although it was a warm 36 today (thats warm here). We see signs on peoles homes that say "No jevohas witnesses" and "no cults or preachers". You see a lot of strange stuff on a mission. The one thing other than people that i miss right now is my music. I find myself singing my rock songs in my head. Its awesome when we do our laundry and we can hear radio station music for a short bit. Well hopefully ill have more exciting stuff to say next week. We found a hill that was about 20 feet high so maybee i miss mountains a little bit. Adios.

Ha. Im actually in Janesville, WI. Located 50 miles southeast of Madison at the bottom of the sate. Its a big town of 60,000 people, kinda like Kirkland. My companion is Elder Gent from Bremerton, WA and hes been out for 15 months. He is rad and we have a lot of fun. We live with two other Elders and we split the town in half so we take the east side of town and they take the west. It has snowed two seperate days here but it will be white for a while cuz when it snows here it doesnt melt cuz it never warms up enough to melt it. We woke up this morning and it was 1 degree outside. The temp now is 17 but the wind chill makes it feel below zero. BRRRR. Well the work here is going well. We have quite a few appontments this week and referrals so we are staying busy. We tract an hour or two a day and we have a car that we share with the other two Elders. Well ill give you all an update next week. Peace Out!!!