E-mail from Neal - Received 11/5/08

Hello to the most amazing family on earth!!!!

Well you want to talk about a crazy week!!! I have learned more in this past week than I think that I have my whole mission. I have learned that I can really teach anything to anyone. I can really talk to anyone, and share the gospel to them without fear, and I have learned that example is everything!!!!! I remember when I was young and brand new, and it feels like it was just yesterday, can you believe that it has been over 6 months!! Elder Lloyd is doing great! He is so excited, and so full of faith its amazing. It have been really really great being the example and showing him how its done. There is so much that I just do naturally now, but that he hasn’t learned yet. Its rather insane, but its great at the same time! We have had some amazing experiences this week, and I am sure that they will continue as long as we are working our hardest! Keep praying though, I can feel your support everyday!!!! I have really found that I have a lot of skills that I didn’t know that I had before. I am not saying that E. Lloyd is bad cause he is the exact opposite, but its just that the mission changes you. How you act, talk, think, and carry yourself! I love this place. I love my mission, and I love the Gospel!!! There is nothing truer, and there is nothing more real than this!!!!! This is the real deal, and as Jeffery R. Holland (J. Holl according to me and E. MacIntosh) “THIS IS ETERNAL LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Enough said really.

We have zone conference this next Tuesday so I am really excited! It will be great as always! I hope that you all have an amazing week and that all starts to smooth out. I think that your lives are almost as busy as mine!!!! I think that you may still have some distance to go though. Let me tell you 10:30 at night when I get to plop (and I mean literally PLOP) is one of my most favourite times!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Its hard work, but its worth every second of it!!!!!!

I love you all, and I think about you all the time!!!! Stay strong and keep studying!!!!!!!

Elder Johnson

P.s I was going to send pictures, but these computers are complete Rubbish!!!!!!!!!! I had some good ones too. I got a legacy picture of me, e. Lloyd, e. Garcia