The week has been really good! We have been able to pick up a new investigator and set a baptismal date for Alex on the second of July. He is such a good kid and I'm so excited for him to be baptized. The new investigator we got is 24 and is pretty well versed in the bible. Our first discussion was about an hour long and it consisted of him asking a lot of questions. We gave answers that he generally liked and accepted and he wasn't bashy at all. It was really quite fun to teach him. He was excited to be able to read the BoM and actually funny enough already had a copy that someone gave his sister years ago. He told his sister that he was meeting with us so she gave him her old copy of the Book of Mormon she got years ago from missionaries in the past.
Missionary work is hard and can be quite exhausting, but it is so rewarding when I'm able to help people come closer to Christ. I feel that I am developing good habits for the future. I'm learning how to be a good missionary and a good follower of Christ in general. I love this work.
Next week we are going to London for a double mission conference where Elder Oaks will be speaking so that should be cool. He is a funny guy so there should be a lot of laughs. I'm also exited to see some of my old MTC buddies who went to the London central mission.
A cool miracle we had this week was being able to do MMA with a less active. So we have this less active named Jo who is a beast. He owns a fighting gym and teaches MMA. He's also a semi pro fighter. So he always invites us to his gym to come fight and practice because he said a lot of his students need God haha my last companion never wanted to go but me and Elder Foster decided to go to see if it would be a good place to do missionary work. So we went to a Jujitsu class which is a non striking class (can't bruise the money maker) and there were about 10 other students there. When we got in, he turned the music off and introduced us and told the guys that we were there to convert them! Well during the class we got a chance to talk to all of them and I even got a chance to grapple with some of them. I'm sure glad I did a little bit of wrestling when I was younger so I wasn't completely stupid. Jo the teacher asked to grapple me in front of everyone and since they don't really do wrestling here in England I could hold my own. Elder Foster who is a soccer player just talked to the guys about us and the gospel while I was grappling with Jo and other guys as well. It was a really cool experience and something I never thought I would be doing in my mission, but hey the Lord gives us talents and abilities for a reason and I'm just using what the Lord gave me to spread the gospel haha I think we are going to go every week!
Love, Elder Johnson
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