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May 29: The Woodstock continues.

Greetings!

ConGRADulations to my brother Kyle for graduating High School...with better grades than me (not hard to do). You looked pretty sweet in your grad tux. Enjoy your last summer before life gets real haha.

Happy Birthday to my nephew Ezra tomorrow! I'm not sure how he is already 7, crazy.

The work is still trudging along in Woodstock. I don't have anything that amazing to report on from this week; it's not realistic to expect an amazing week every week. We don't have any progressing investigators anymore. We just have to keep pushing forward and hope for a brighter day. I do believe that we are going to have a better week this week; I'm going to do my part to make it a great week!

One highlight of the week was our ward conference on Sunday. I sang in the ward choir: we sang a song called "one by one" the lyrics were written by Elder Bednar. It's a very nice song I recommend checking it out. The Stake theme for this year is: show gratitude for the restoration by sharing it. The Stake presidency is inspired, the meeting was much needed in our ward. We discussed the importance of understanding the restoration and then showing gratitude for it by doing missionary work. We are a missionary minded church. More and more people need to receive the fullness of the gospel! After the regular meetings the stake presidency trained our ward leaders. We talked about the power of ministering one by one.

If you look at the Saviors ministry, he did most of his teaching and blessing one person at a time. For example, in the New Testament and Book of Mormon we read that the Savior blessed the children one at a time. 3rd Nephi 17:21states, "...and he took their little children, one by one, and blessed them and prayed unto the Father for them."

I encourage you to contemplate why we should follow the Lord's example and minister unto God's children one by one. I have a testimony that there is divine power in serving and loving others one by one. There is no better way to do it. I appreciate what my mom said in her email about serving others: "We would do well to think of the person we are serving on the higher ground and us below them excited to discover what wonderful qualities and character traits we can learn from them as we serve them."

Please check out the following link to a Mormon message , it is one of my favorites. I promise it will lift your spirit.

 Lift

Have a wonderful week everybody and enjoy the beautiful days when we get them :)

Elder Johnson

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