Mortensen, Johnathon

Welp another one down:) I will be honest. I don't know what to say really in this email… this week was a lot like last week.     To start out…. yes every lesson has canceled on us once again. Elder Dille hasn’t had a lesson here in Texas with an investigator in over a week. We finally broke the streak when we met up with Jason and Louvina (known as the chainsmoker friends). We love them! Background story…Elder Benson who got E.T. a little bit ago, Elder Layton, Elder Mortensen, Elder Harrison, and President Chapman have always had Jason and Louvina as the first lessons here in Denton. And because everyone’s first lesson needs to be with jason and louvina, we can’t progress in the work until we first meet with them so that’s what we did. We meet with Jason and Louvina on exchanges and then low and behold, the rest of our lessons that week did NOT cancel. They are our good luck charms!     On exchanges this week, Elder Dille, Elder Harrison, and I actually ended up put...

Welp another one down my friends!! Hope the hint of big news hasn’t ruined your week, haha,      SURPRISE, I am a trainer now! A trainer even though I haven't even finished my training as a greenie as myself. I still have 6 weeks left of being an official greenie… not sure why, but I guess I grew up faster than they thought!! It’s one of the rarest things as a missionary so I guess that’s the news ahha! Wish me and my new greenie luck!     His name is John Bronson Dille, and yes, I’m known for giving nicknames to all the missionaries so yes, I already have a nickname for him, haha well, l multiple names, but pickle is the main… you know? “dille pickle” dill pickle…. haha anyways he is now my greenie that I get to raise in the one and only barn haha. He's awesome! Got that greenie fire to get out there and get going.     Work is going very well out here in Clear Creek ward. We joke that the ward is going to burn…. green haha! We have a lot in common and...

Welp another week down haha and it’s a little different.      Elder Layton crashed the car into the side of the house while backing out of the garage. Tore off the whole front bumper hahah. He hurried and put it back on before I could get a picture but we will see who is driving after he makes a call to the mission president haha.     Haha Elder Layton and I made a goal to find a new person each day and wow the stories are crazy! Funny story... we were praying hard and trying to be followed by the spirit as we knocked and drove and knocked with no success. We were driving down one road when a squirrel ran out in front of us and stopped. It sat there and stared at us probably thinking that we were going to run it over. After it didn’t move after like 10 seconds, I said wherever this squirrel goes, we go. Elder Layton laughed thinking I was joking but then the squirrel ran to the house on the right and I said come on Layton! We knocked the door and met a Texas Ran...

Welp another week down! AND WOWWWWW…. Fort Worth temple!! Are you kidding me?!? Wow! That was some very exciting news around here let me tell ya. Whole place went nuts when that was said haha!! And who doesn't love when President Nelson gets up and says I have some very exciting news, or there are going to be some changes and then leaves us all on the EDGE of our seats and makes us wait till the next session ahaha! He is by far the most loving human being I have ever known. The joy he brings to the world is something I cannot even describe!!     Welp, thanks to Elder Anderson (Hayden) for giving me the idea to fish. I recently noticed that we have a pond behind our backyard. He gave me the idea to go out and buy a cheap fishing pole… and that’s exactly what i did haha. This morning I went fishing in my backyard pond and caught between 15-20 fish which I never expected haha. But the best part of all was that I caught a bullfrog too haha. Little did I know I was reeling in a fro...