E-mail from Neal - Received 10/22/08

Hello Everyone!!!!!

Well the work never stops over here in England, and it is always fun and exciting!!!!! So much happens every single day that I really don’t know where to start, but this week has been a really interesting one. I will start off by telling you about something that I did that I never thought that I ever would do while on my mission…..

I mixed the Primary program on Sunday!!!!! Yes yes that is completely and totally correct and true. HA HA HA!!!! I ran a sound board while wearing a missionary tag!!!! The primary in the Stretford ward is really really small. They needed to use some mics so that the kids could be heard over the piano and into the back of the chapel. Well the mics that they used were really really nice ones, that I have used with Headtalk, so I went up and was talking to the guys about them. Well long story short they asked me if I knew how to run a mixer board. One of the guys had to play the piano for it, and the other had a kid in the program that he needed to watch. I really couldn’t lie, I’m a missionary, so I said yes I could. My actual thought was that I was more than qualified to run a simple 14 channel mixer, but I didn’t say that to anyone ha ha ha!!!! So I mixed the sound for the Primary program. 4 microphones (three for the kids, and 1 for the podium), and it went great. Everyone was very very impressed that I actually knew what I was doing. They asked me if I was going to be here for Christmas so that I could do the program then. I just said that we would have to see. That’s only 2 transfers away so you do never know. I was in my element. E. Davis said that I looked really really happy!!!! It was a lot of fun, and now I have a really good reputation in the ward ha ha ha!!!!!!

We got another new investigator last week, and it was someone that I have talked to on the street. It was so cool. His name is John, and he is from China. He really has no preconceived notions about any religion so he is really really easy to teach. That brings our teaching pool to 6. Andrew and Robert are the brothers from Tanzania, they are really cool and very well versed in the bible. They have lots of questions, and get very deep sometimes. Dominic is from Nigeria, and is really searching hard for something. He believes everything that we say and is really getting into the Book of Mormon. Sean is 19 and is going through a lot of hard times. He is English and really wants to find a faith, and wants help from God. I hope that we are helping. Leonardo is also English, and is very intellectual. He also has very deep questions, and it is tough sometimes, but we get through. That’s our teaching pool in a really quick nutshell. Teaching is really really fun, and it is amazing how much time flies when we are teaching all the time. The past 2 weeks have totally dissolved in front of my eyes!! Its good though, cause that’s what they are supposed to do. 3 more days and I will hit 6 months, can you believe that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So it took 12 days for me to get Angela’s letter! I think that that is a bit insane but whatever. I guess that might be a reason why I haven’t seen anything else for a long time. I guess that the mail is going slow, but no bother, I will survive. Transfers are next week, so you know the drill. I will try to let you know as soon as I can if I am leaving. I think that I am probably staying, but you do never know.

I am really sorry that this letter is so detached and everywhere, but hey that’s how it goes sometimes. I have been reading the Book Of Mormon from the beginning again, and I really really like 1 Nephi. I just read 13-14 and those chapters are awesome! That angel really showed Nephi a lot, and there is so much to learn!!!! He saw our day, he saw our scriptures, and he saw us!!!!! He tells us exactly what is going to happen, and what we have to do to be prepared for it…… “Be armed with righteousness!!!!!!” That is such a cool piece of advice. The prophets have told us that if we are righteous then we will have nothing fear, and I agree!!!!

I love you all very very much, and I am super sad that you are going to get snow soon. I think that I may have cried a little when you told me that some Ski resorts are open. That is really sad, but I will live. 2 more years and I will be able to snowboard all that I want, but the difference will be that I will be a much better young man!!!!!!

Stay amazing everyone!!!!

Love,Elder Johnson