JOHNSON IN WISCONSIN

Remember when they used to play that at Mariners games after the opposing pitcher got rocked and they went to the bullpen. Anyways, i got tranfered this past week to downtown Milwaukee (City A) or otherwise known as the ghetto. No joke. 90% of our area is where all the african americans in Milwaukee live. When we got tracting were literally the only whit folks around. They like us though but that doesnt mean that we stay out past dark. Forget about it. Were usually in our apartment by 6pm. We ride the bus everwhere and we go downtown sometimes. My new companion just so happens to be the other Elder Johnson in the mission so its "Johnson&Johnson" in da hood. I like being back in the city, i miss Seattle though. Milwaukee doesnt quite cut it for me. Well thats the big news. Tell ya more about it next week. Peace Out dawgs.

Actually i was pretty sick. I had a nasty cold from Wednesday to today as its finally settling down. That and the extremly cold temperature (below zero with the windchill) caused us to have a lesser productice week than usual. We got a bunch of snow and there was a sweet thunderstrom at the same time it was pouring snow so that was pretty cool. Its tough being away from home. Out here all the people care about is the Packers, Nascar and Hunting. Not to mention that they talk funny. Im giving them a hard time. Ive met some pretty cool people here and most people are nice. I got to tour the GM assembly plant here this morning. It was sweet to see all these cars being made by robots and tons of people. Well transfers are this week so i should be getting a new companion and maybee a new area. Youll all get to find out next week. Take care.

Wow. Ive gone over the three month mark. February is flyin by fast. The last two weeks have been up and down. The good news is that Colton will be getting baptized within the next 2-3 weeks. Im so excited for him. Hes so sharp and ready. The bad news is that i havent been seeing as much progress with our other few investigators as i would like. The fact is that investigators that we meet off tracting dont progress nearly as well as those that are member referrals and unfortunately i havent been making a good enough effort working with the members here so its made the work hard. I have realized that this work is not easy and requires a lot of patience. Im having fun and i love teaching but a lot of random stuff has happened recently that has made me discouraged at times such as seeing promising people just not be interested anymore and what not. Oh well, thats how it goes. Im looking forward to the new week. I know that as long as i work hard that the blessing will come. Happy Valentines Day to everybody. See ya.