JOHNSON IN WISCONSIN

Good morning,Ok ok, about the tooth...Its getting fixed tomorrow. Other than that my life is busy. We have a large teaching pool of investigators and less actives that we've been working with which is nice, I love having people to teach. We were on bikes last week and it was hottttt making it mucho fun. I enjoy getting the one week a month to ride the bikes. On Tuesday the zone conference was awesome. Pres. Barret changed things up a bit and I like it a lot. The spirit was very strong and it was a very inspiring meeting. He is such a great teacher, I'm sure he will be speaking in General Conference someday if not at the next one to fill the vacancy. It was sad to learn of Pres. Faust's passing as I've grown to love all of the Apostles from conference although I know he is continuing the work on the other side. After the conference me and E. Greer went to Sheboygan for the night to do exchanges with our District leader and it was cool seeing my old area. We especially loved seeing Lake Michigan as we rarely see Lake Winnebago here as its not in our area. I love water!! It was hard leaving there. When we got back to Appleton we had some great days and the lord is blessing us. We are now teaching 2 single sisters in the ward who have been inactive for a while and each have 2 kids of baptismal age that we are going to teach and try and baptize and get their mom's back to church. Sister Dupont came with her 2 kids yesterday for the first time in a while and it was so nice to see them there. Cynthia was also at church but her mom still wont budge. So we had a few miracles last week but due to time I have to condense. So we decided to go tracting near our home and found a cool lady who took a BOM and invited us back over tonight to teach her and her husband and they have 2 young kids. We were pumped and have been looking forward to that for a few days....Well last night we were on our bikes with an hour left to proselyte and I was tired and wanted to just come home and we got a call on our cell and it was that family . She told us that they wanted to cancel our appointment for tonight and that they are going to stick with their current church....BUMMED.. I was so bummed that they canceled on us and that really made me just want to give up for the night. E. Greer suggested we just park our bikes and tract the street we were on and even though that was the last thing I wanted to do I remembered why I came out here and that I was there for the lord and not myself so I parked my bike and decided to make the sacrifice and knock on some doors....So get this, the first door we knock on was a middle aged woman who was really nice and said she would be interested in learning about the church but she was too busy at the moment. I asked her what she was doing tonight at 7;30 and she said she would be home and I said "We'll be here at 7:30 tomorrow night and teach you!" She hesitated and when we gave her the puppy dog look she couldn't say no so she agreed. I knew we had to teach somebody this evening. Bro. Allen is going with us. Another miracle in the mission field and it was such an awesome feeling. Its been tons of experiences like this that have really boosted my testimony on the mission. There really is nothing like it. I'm loving it right now got to lot of exciting things going on this week and look forward to writing again next week. Mom thanks for writing every week. Other than the forwarded emails for some of my missionary friend nobody writes anymore, oh and Ashley sends me those letters, so its nice to hear from home once a week. I love you and wish you a splendid week. Chow...Love Elder Ben Johnson