JOHNSON IN WISCONSIN

Hey, It's Tuesday since the holiday was yesterday. It was fun, Me and E. Winkler participated in our ward talent show. I recited Doctrine and Covenants Section 4 and Winky played the piano. It's fun serving with him again. When we were in Madison he was still pretty green , but after 6 months of separation he is a very fine tuned seasoned missionary and on top of his game and were having a good time. I suppose it has to be good when there's a baptism on Friday night!! Beth got home last week and we met with her a bunch and she came to church and is getting baptized Friday night at 7pm! I'm so excited, she asked me to baptize her, and its looking like we'll have a lot of people in attendance. Her non member biological mother and sister will be there and at church for her confirmation. They are supportive of it and want to learn more to understand why she is making the decision to be baptized and join the church. Beth could be a domino effect for her family, at least that's what were hoping. She's got a lot of support from the ward as she had many friends from school in the two wards here and she just enrolled in early morning seminary. Nothing better than seeing some fruits on the mission. Other than her, we're having a hard time with our other investigators and less active's to keep their commitments, especially coming to church. Despite commitments to come and phone calls to remind them they aren't coming. We thought the 1pm church would help but not the other day. We've got some great people were teaching its just hard not seeing them progress like they have the potential too. Well we'll get Beth dunked and then work on em big time. I'm loving Appleton although I wouldn't mind a change for my last transfer. We had our interviews with Pres. Barret last week and I requested to get sent back to Marquette for my final 6 weeks. Its possible as they are taking Elders out of some of the smaller areas and putting them in the bigger cities and I told him about how my last 2 areas were 6 month areas and the last transfer can be a little hard so we'll see what happens. I trust whatever he feels inspired to do. There's another Elder, Larsen, who I've been good friends with for a long time that I'd love to serve with too. Still got a month to go this transfer but i gave him the heads up. 10 weeks left which is crazy and its September and like 90 out today, nice and toasty and were going on bikes for the week. Times are good. I'm praying for y'all everyday. Gotta run, love ya's so much and look forward to reporting my weekend and hearing about yours. Chow. Love Elder Ben Johnson