April
11, 2012
Dear Friends,
If you want to continue to receive updates let us know. Also- would someone forward this to the Anhders and Slades and send us their e-mail addresses. I have misplaced them.
Some of you might not know but we are transplanted for the next 18 months and growing roots in beautiful North Carolina where the evenings are a little cool and the days just right for now. Blue skies, lots of green trees and grass, and the Atlantic ocean borders this area.
We have been called as Military Relations Represenatives for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base by Jacksonville, North Carolina. It is a huge base with several different camps within the area. It took the first week to learn where things are located and then drive to them. Sunday night we took a marine home across the base and it took 1 1/2 hours of driving. It is a biiiiiiiiiiiig base. We are glad we brought our Prius because of the gas prices. There is only one strait street going thru town by the base so I think I will be permanently turned the wrong direction in my mind the whole mission. The sun sets outside our bedroom window so I am sure about that direction but only here. Our I-phone GPS system has really helped.
It has been a very busy week getting our apartment outfitted with the basics, finding and giving rides to marines, conducting a young single adult institute night, going to the Raleigh temple for a session with sisters from the mission, giving marines a ride and attending two wards on Sunday and helping conduct an abbreviated Sacrament/RS/Priesthood meeting on Camp Geiger Sunday evening, attending both a district conference here and zone conference in Wilmington and a ward mission correlation meeting this evening. Denny is asleep on the sofa- he earned the rest.
We feel blessed for the safety we have had in our travels and have a great love and appreciation for the marines we have met so far- both male and female. We have learned much from them.
We have been shopping at the big MCX and Commissary at Lejeune and found other nice new facilities at Camp Geiger just 10 minutes away from where we live. There has been a lot of new facilities built on the base and in town in support of the military. There is a barber shop on every block (marines get haircuts every week) and a tatoo business on every other block.
A LDS Marine Chaplain Vance has been kind to show us the ropes and invited us to his family's Easter dinner late Sunday night which was very nice.
That is all for now. It is getting late. We are on Eastern Standard Time here. We have the same phone number. Love, Sister Johnson
____________________
Dear Friends,
If you want to continue to receive updates let us know. Also- would someone forward this to the Anhders and Slades and send us their e-mail addresses. I have misplaced them.
Some of you might not know but we are transplanted for the next 18 months and growing roots in beautiful North Carolina where the evenings are a little cool and the days just right for now. Blue skies, lots of green trees and grass, and the Atlantic ocean borders this area.
We have been called as Military Relations Represenatives for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base by Jacksonville, North Carolina. It is a huge base with several different camps within the area. It took the first week to learn where things are located and then drive to them. Sunday night we took a marine home across the base and it took 1 1/2 hours of driving. It is a biiiiiiiiiiiig base. We are glad we brought our Prius because of the gas prices. There is only one strait street going thru town by the base so I think I will be permanently turned the wrong direction in my mind the whole mission. The sun sets outside our bedroom window so I am sure about that direction but only here. Our I-phone GPS system has really helped.
It has been a very busy week getting our apartment outfitted with the basics, finding and giving rides to marines, conducting a young single adult institute night, going to the Raleigh temple for a session with sisters from the mission, giving marines a ride and attending two wards on Sunday and helping conduct an abbreviated Sacrament/RS/Priesthood meeting on Camp Geiger Sunday evening, attending both a district conference here and zone conference in Wilmington and a ward mission correlation meeting this evening. Denny is asleep on the sofa- he earned the rest.
We feel blessed for the safety we have had in our travels and have a great love and appreciation for the marines we have met so far- both male and female. We have learned much from them.
We have been shopping at the big MCX and Commissary at Lejeune and found other nice new facilities at Camp Geiger just 10 minutes away from where we live. There has been a lot of new facilities built on the base and in town in support of the military. There is a barber shop on every block (marines get haircuts every week) and a tatoo business on every other block.
A LDS Marine Chaplain Vance has been kind to show us the ropes and invited us to his family's Easter dinner late Sunday night which was very nice.
That is all for now. It is getting late. We are on Eastern Standard Time here. We have the same phone number. Love, Sister Johnson
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