JOHNSON IN WISCONSIN

Its been a few weeks, well i broke my finger on Memorial day and now its in a aplint for 6 weeks. Fun stuff. I just got transferred to Appleton about 45 minutes south of Green Bay kinda in the middle of the stateGreetings from Appleton Wisconsin. It sure is a different place than Madison. There are about 70, 000 people here and it’s a usual Midwest town I suppose. Houndini, the magician is from here and our area goes out into the farm country which is a nice change from my last area. We have quite a few copmpanionships here, 3 english a Spanish and a hmong companionship. Im excited to be here. The ward is different as the families are older and there is quite a bit of youth here. There are a few soon to be missionaries that are very active in helping us out. I bore my testimony in church yesterday to introduce myself here. This ward has had 8 baptisms this year already and they have a good ward mission plan that is helping the members. Our Bishop and Ward Mission Leader aer way gung ho about the work too so im excited to be here. There is already some baptism potentials that were teaching right now. E. Anderson and I are having fun although the first few days have been stressful with transfers and being a zl. Ive been pretty busy with phone calls and paper work and we have to prepare a training for the zone tomorrow at interviews. That’s the life of a zl and we haven’t been to bed on time one night so far. Its tough. We have a cell phone as they used to live with members but now we have our own place and we have to go over to the spanish elders apartment to fax stuff to the mission office and we get home late at nights, we need to get a land line at our apartment so that we can do everything from our place. I'll enjoy it here once i get settled in and get to know the area. It is nice to be serving with another friend making 2 great companions in a row and ill probably get hooked up till i go home. Im not sure if ill finish my mission here. Its possible but i could do 2 transfers here a 2 somwhere else. This is E. Anderson's last transfer and he'll go home in July so my guess is 3 and 3 but time will tell. The finger is doin ok. It doesnt hurt and ive gotten alot better with my left hand and using the other 3 fingers that i can with my right hand. Hasnt been a problem yet and im gonna get a blessing to make sure that it heals properly. I wont go to the doctor till the end of the transfer so that they can take off the splint and make sure it heaed right. Im missiong b ball a little bit but not too much. Alls i coiuld ask for is some sun as it has been raining since i got here. It is alos nice to have a car again. We get a car 3/4 weeks which is nice and convenient. Overall im well but tired, things will be so much better when we get a phone line at our house, we live in the upstairs apartment of a house, the guy renting it out to us lives downstairs so its nice not to live in an apartment complex too. One mre thing that happened is that we attended a wedding on saturday for one of the recent converts here. It was held at a baptist church and was a tradional wedding, the first i have ever attended. They used the words "till the end of your mortal life" as opposed to "for time and all eternity" which was odd but true. Im sure that the temple cermony will be a better experience. Well i have not much else to say. I love you guys and my testimony is strong. Im continuing to grow and learn each day that my mission goes by and im greateful for all the blessings iver recieved for my service. Its weired to see the day count in my journal keep on going up, i reached 573 today. Time flies when you are having fun. Keep the faith and let the good times roll. Love Elder Ben Johnson .