Dear Friends and Family,
It seems like our mission keeps shifting gears every few weeks with emphasis on different things. We finished teaching the first series of 4 Resiliency Classes last sunday. it turned out to be a very interesting class since we had 5 women and a husband who just returned from a year deployment at Guantanimo in the class. It was good to get the deployed spouses perspective and especially hear about the things that were the most important to him. 3 LDS husbands left this week for deployment on Navy ships to the coast of Africa.
The Tuesday night Young Single Adults group had a lively time when after the Gospel Discussion they played Curses and ate popcorn. It was a lot of fun.
The marine spouse of a member got baptized Wednesday evening and that was very special to witness.
The two ward's RS and YW are going to be working on a project to make soft military dolls for the younger children who have dads deployed. I saw the idea in an Era magazine and the wards seem interested in helping. You take a full length digital photo of a deployed spouse, print it on fabric, sew on a backing and stuff them to make a soft doll. Sounds like something I could do don't you think. I knew I brought my machine for some reason besides fixing missionary pants.
The greatest news of the week came when we got approval from the Camp Lejeune Chaplain's office for a home evening/gospel study hour at Camp Johnson on Monday evenings at the chapel there on a regular basis. We have had several LDS trainees there in the past that don't have cars, can't leave base and would like to participate in some church activity. We will see how this works out. The LDS Chaplain got that approved and he has been a great support.
Tuesday we did drive the two sister missionaries to Raleigh where they exchanged companions. We were packed to the hilt in our small car with their luggage. The next day we drove the new sister companionship to Wilmington for a 2 hour District/Zone meeting and ate at a very good mexican restaurant before heading home.
We have had heat, rain, beautiful flowering trees and big billowy clouds this week.
Love,
It seems like our mission keeps shifting gears every few weeks with emphasis on different things. We finished teaching the first series of 4 Resiliency Classes last sunday. it turned out to be a very interesting class since we had 5 women and a husband who just returned from a year deployment at Guantanimo in the class. It was good to get the deployed spouses perspective and especially hear about the things that were the most important to him. 3 LDS husbands left this week for deployment on Navy ships to the coast of Africa.
The Tuesday night Young Single Adults group had a lively time when after the Gospel Discussion they played Curses and ate popcorn. It was a lot of fun.
The marine spouse of a member got baptized Wednesday evening and that was very special to witness.
The two ward's RS and YW are going to be working on a project to make soft military dolls for the younger children who have dads deployed. I saw the idea in an Era magazine and the wards seem interested in helping. You take a full length digital photo of a deployed spouse, print it on fabric, sew on a backing and stuff them to make a soft doll. Sounds like something I could do don't you think. I knew I brought my machine for some reason besides fixing missionary pants.
The greatest news of the week came when we got approval from the Camp Lejeune Chaplain's office for a home evening/gospel study hour at Camp Johnson on Monday evenings at the chapel there on a regular basis. We have had several LDS trainees there in the past that don't have cars, can't leave base and would like to participate in some church activity. We will see how this works out. The LDS Chaplain got that approved and he has been a great support.
Tuesday we did drive the two sister missionaries to Raleigh where they exchanged companions. We were packed to the hilt in our small car with their luggage. The next day we drove the new sister companionship to Wilmington for a 2 hour District/Zone meeting and ate at a very good mexican restaurant before heading home.
We have had heat, rain, beautiful flowering trees and big billowy clouds this week.
Love,
Elder and Sister Johnson
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