JOHNSON IN WISCONSIN

These past two weeks have been great. I really love serving in the city. Elder Johnson and I have been teaching machines and have found 8 or so people this transfer that we are currently teaching. The tough commitment is them coming to church. Other then that they are learning well. We are staying pretty busy and have met some awesome people here. We saw "25 wives" again this past week and got pictures with him although i had to pay him 3 dollars to get him to pose with us. It was worth it though. I had a old white guy do a Richard Nixon impression for us. A bum was walking by us and stopped us and sang a high pitched love song whil holding his liqour bottle. He told us that he had girl problems. I gave him a BOM pass along card. We played some b-ball in the mad ghetto at a school yard and they nicknamed me Luke Ridenour. Life is going great. Being a missionary is great. I love proclaiming the gospel to people becuase i know that my message is true. The gospel has been restored!!! Its wonderful and i love sharing it with people, even in the ghetto of Milwaukee.

I cant beleive that ive left this info out of my three posts since arriving in Milwaukee. Just so ya'll know my district leader here is Elder Devin Williams (my good friend that grew up in Bothell 2nd ward) so its been great to be serving right next to him. Hes an awesome missionary and it was cool enough that we got called to the same misssion but to be in the same district is bomb!!! Just though that some of you would like to know that. Im out.

This past week was a good one for Elder Johnson and i. We met two new investigators who we taough great first lessons. Then we also met with Daryl and he read from the BOM and felt the spirit and said that he belives it to be the word of god (which it is) and that he knows its true. He will be coming to chucrh this next week. So we have three good investigators right now. Life in the ghetto rolls with funny people. We saw a dude weve named "25 wives" cuz hes always on crack and the first time we saw him he was trying to convince us that everybody should have 25 wives. Weven seen him a few times and yesterday we saw him on our way home from chucrh and we rolled the window down and yelled "25 wives!" at him and he looked at me and said "hey white boy!" it was great. Then he tried throwng a sandwich at our car. He missed. The weather has been crazy here. We had temps in the 50's and we played some ball with all the black kids on Saturday. Today its very windy outside. I dunno whats up. Well Milwaukee is dodin great. Take care.

Hi all. Life in the ghetto is alright. This past week i learned how tough missionary work is here. Its not that the people arent receptive its that they dont keep commitments and finding real investigators is tough. The people are actaully very receptive and we teach a ton of people when we tract but even when we set return appointments they are never home when we go back. Its frustratiing but oh well. We will probably meet 5-10 new investgators a week but actally seeing them is the question. Its fun being in the city. I see something random and funny ever day. Drunks, bums, wackos...Milwaukee has got it all. I even heard my first gunshot on Saturday. It was in braod daylight too!!! We got off that block after we heard it. We saw a guy try to roundhouse kick another guy but he missed. We had a guy on the bus that was so drunk that he couldnt stop laughing hysterically...then another guy that was dropping the "f bomb" every other word. He was talking to himself too....So fun. And its been snowing for the past 24 hours so we have a ton of new snow. I cant wait for spring to get here.