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May 1: Still kicking it in Woodstock!

Hello everybody,

Happy belated Birthday to my amazing dad on the 25th! You don't look a day over 55 :) I hope it was a great day, I love you dad!

Congratulations to my brother Jordan for graduating from BYU! You are going to do some great things in the future! Good luck with everything!

My new companion Elder Kohl is sweet. We get along very well, we have many similar interests and a similar sense of humor so we are working well together. The work is moving along well in Woodstock.

I would like to share one amazing miracle that happened yesterday!

An unfamiliar man walked into fast and testimony meeting a few minutes late. Right after the meeting finished our bishop took a b-line for him and we caught up. The man was in tears as he shared a spiritual experience he had last November: he parked in our church parking lot during a dangerous storm and felt a feeling of peace unlike anything he had ever felt before. He came to our church today and we taught him the restoration right after sacrament meeting. He was very intrigued and amazed about the church organization and the priesthood. We answered his many questions and gave him a Book of Mormon. He said he is excited to read it and pray about it, similar to how Joseph Smith prayed. I was amazed to hear that he had worked around many LDS members over the course of his life but he had never seen a Book of Mormon. I was the first one to give him that book, and it will change his life if he let's it. This is the first experience I have had with a person walking into church ready to receive the gospel so it was really cool! Bishop was super pumped too!

This experience increased my testimony that the Lord is hastening his work and that there are people all around us being prepared to receive the gospel! We just need to be ready to help them!

I'm looking forward to talking to the FAM on Mother's day! Have a fantastic week everybody!

Elder Johnson

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