Jeff email July 26, 2010

Hello folks.

This week was stellar! I had a division with one of my leaders for 4 days this week and it was awesome!!! We spent our time doing what we normally do.. CALLING PEOPLE TO REPENTANCE. Literally. We seriously call people to repentance using those words.

I'm starting to feel the pressure of my time ending and I really want to baptize a lot more people so I decided that I need to be a lot more forward with these people to see who it really is that wants to progress until salvation. We found a lot of people that didn't want anything to do with anything but we also found a few elect.

I did a contact with this lady and marked to go and teach her on Saturday. When we got into the house we found out that the old lady's daughter and her husband had been baptized five years ago but were no longer going. We invited them to come to church and passed to get them and bring them to church but the only one that came with us was their son of 10 years named Arthur. He was laughing at me most of the way because I was sweating pretty badly because we were climbing up crazy hills and the sun was hot. I'm super excited for this week. I want to get back out there and start calling people to repentance again.

Hope all is good with you all and I hope you aren't having too much fun with out me. What am I saying... there exists no fun unless I am there.

I sure do love you all!!!

Elder Johnson

Niles injury 7/12/2010

Niles and Todd went up to Camp Maple Dell on Monday, July 12th. Todd stayed behind to guard the camp site while Niles went with the other scouts to do a service project. While hiking there Niles went to jump over a log and came down on a large stick. The camp Doctor had bandaged it up before Todd saw it so he didn't know how bad it was. The Doctor told Todd that Niles needed to be stitched up. Todd ran him down the canyon and called me while on his way to the doctor's office. Russ and I met them there.

We thought Niles was having a hard time because he was not to happy about getting stitches. After they removed the bandage we knew why he was struggling.

The doctor had to check to make sure no ligaments were damaged. It went all the way to his bone. Poor guy!! He did well and headed right back up to scout camp. He is restricted on what he can do there. No swimming, running and needs to be careful hiking. Todd is staying one more night and then big brother Russ will head up to be Niles partner.

Jeff 7/12/2010

July 2010 Freedom Run

Todd ran the 10K and the kids ran the 5K. All did well
Todd running the 10K

Our first glimpse of Todd during the 10K

Jeff email 7/5/2010

Olá Família dos sonhos

So how are you all doing? So here is how my week went. I went to Baixo Guando on Wednesday. (the city that has the basketball program) We were there the entire day teaching basketball to kids that haven't really touched a basketball in their entire lives. There were a few kids that were decent but I felt like the Harlem Globetrotters playing against them. Their coach wants me to teach them how to do ally oops and stuff like that and I'm like... "they need to learn how to dribble, pass and make a lay up". He thinks that they need to learn crazy things like that but I'm not teaching anything aside from basics.

Friday it was Brasil against Netherlands. Brasil ended up losing and it was the funniest thing ever. Everyone was screaming swearwords out their windows and immediately after Brasil had lost everyone took down their decorations flags ext that were decorating their houses for the World cup. Argentina is Brasil's biggest rivalry and they got killed 4-0 by Germany so that got everyone here happy again. My money is on Spain or Germany. Whoever wins that next game.

This week I had one of the guys in my district decide he was going to go home. He had completely given up, stopped working and decided that he wanted to go home. Last night I had a good talk with him, but he is set on going home. I feel sad for him because he wants to go home because his family is having some SERIOUS problems. I told him that him staying here would help his family in a much greater way than him giving up. Hopefully he decides to stay because I don't want to lose him from my district!

This week for the first time in my life I traveled by an actual train! It was awesome!!!! It was cool because it was an actual passenger train that goes very far. We just jumped a ride for about an hour but it was still cool!

I hope you enjoy the pics that I sent!!!

Hope all is good back in the good ol USA!!!!!!

I love you all!!!!

Love Jeff!!!