Dear Friends and Family,
I spoke too soon when I said we were getting along fine with the heat because of the air conditioning in the car, church and apartment. We went to help the Young Single Adults get started building a shed at the Habitat for Humanity Re-Store in Jacksonville this morning and I about melted into the pavement. We left them still working at 10:30 a.m. and came home to recover. Rain brought some relief this afternoon.
They are harvesting beets, corn, peppers, tomatos, etc. here now and there are lots of farmer's markets around to buy good produce from.
We are into teaching the second lesson of the Church's Military Resiliency Class series for families dealing with deployment this week. Husbands continue to come and go from deployment and most of the spouses stay here while they are gone. The information is excellent and would be good for anyone but especially married couples. It has helped us just to study the material.
We continue to hunt for lost marines who haven't come to church but it is hard when you don't have telephone numbers or addresses or phones that no one will answer just worried parents. We have got a lot of great LDS marines who are looking for good LDS wives if anyone knows of anyone who would be interested. I am not kidding.
Preparing lessons and talks take a goodly amount of our time as does making treats for the YSA, Resiliency classes, firesides, and families we visit. It is all enjoyable and rewarding. Juggling rides for marines from 3 different camps on base to church also requires some organization.
Last Sunday was special because after attending the two Jacksonville Wards and teaching a class we had 5 young adults show up for services at Camp Geiger. Only two were members of the church. One of the investigators moved to another camp on base and wants a ride to church tomorrow. When you have more investigators than members in a church service you have to make a lot of adjustments to what is taught.
We made our weekly mistake by going to the grandstands of what we thought were the MCT graduation ceremonies only to find out after sitting there 20 minutes we were at the change of command for a unit of the base. They thought we looked a little out of place and directed us to a gym where the ceremonies we wanted to attend were being held. Ooops. We can't wear our name tags on base so they thought we were grandparents of a graduate. We were given good up front seats when we arrived the last minute at the Marine Training Graduation.
The Gospel is true and it is a joy to teach pure doctirne. Love,
I spoke too soon when I said we were getting along fine with the heat because of the air conditioning in the car, church and apartment. We went to help the Young Single Adults get started building a shed at the Habitat for Humanity Re-Store in Jacksonville this morning and I about melted into the pavement. We left them still working at 10:30 a.m. and came home to recover. Rain brought some relief this afternoon.
They are harvesting beets, corn, peppers, tomatos, etc. here now and there are lots of farmer's markets around to buy good produce from.
We are into teaching the second lesson of the Church's Military Resiliency Class series for families dealing with deployment this week. Husbands continue to come and go from deployment and most of the spouses stay here while they are gone. The information is excellent and would be good for anyone but especially married couples. It has helped us just to study the material.
We continue to hunt for lost marines who haven't come to church but it is hard when you don't have telephone numbers or addresses or phones that no one will answer just worried parents. We have got a lot of great LDS marines who are looking for good LDS wives if anyone knows of anyone who would be interested. I am not kidding.
Preparing lessons and talks take a goodly amount of our time as does making treats for the YSA, Resiliency classes, firesides, and families we visit. It is all enjoyable and rewarding. Juggling rides for marines from 3 different camps on base to church also requires some organization.
Last Sunday was special because after attending the two Jacksonville Wards and teaching a class we had 5 young adults show up for services at Camp Geiger. Only two were members of the church. One of the investigators moved to another camp on base and wants a ride to church tomorrow. When you have more investigators than members in a church service you have to make a lot of adjustments to what is taught.
We made our weekly mistake by going to the grandstands of what we thought were the MCT graduation ceremonies only to find out after sitting there 20 minutes we were at the change of command for a unit of the base. They thought we looked a little out of place and directed us to a gym where the ceremonies we wanted to attend were being held. Ooops. We can't wear our name tags on base so they thought we were grandparents of a graduate. We were given good up front seats when we arrived the last minute at the Marine Training Graduation.
The Gospel is true and it is a joy to teach pure doctirne. Love,
Elder and Sister Johnson
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