Elder Kaden Johnson: The Mook!!

Hey everyone!

This week was awesome! Transfer day was pretty crazy because IT SNOWED! A lot of rides were delayed because no one knows how to drive in snow (and it was only like an inch lol). I left Keizer around 10:30 and headed off to Tillamook. We got 30 minutes out of Salem until we got a call from Elder Joyner saying that I still had the car keys in my pocket ha ha classic! So, we had to drive all the way back to Keizer to drop them off. The drive to Tillamook was awesome. We drove through Willamina which brought back some pretty nice mems!

My new companion is a stud. His name is Elder Alofipo and he is from West Valley. he has been out 6 weeks so I will be finishing up his training. Along with the Tillamook Ward, we are also covering a super small branch called the Neah-kah-nie Branch. The branch covers 4 or 5 coastal towns where the majority of the houses are vacation homes so that is why it's a branch. They average about 30-40 people at Sacrament meeting each week and around 200-250 people at Sacrament meeting during the summer. There used to be a senior couple there but they just finished their mission so that is why we are covering it.

On Friday morning, we got a call from President Tateoka telling us to not go to our district council today because he needed our help moving some stuff out of the senior couple's apartment up in Rockaway Beach. We drove up there with he and Sister Tateoka and it was awesome. The whole ride there was right along the coast basically. It took us about an hour to get everything out of the apartment and then they took us out to lunch and ice cream at the famous Tillamook creamery!

The work here is going pretty good. We found a really cool person named Armando my very first day in the area. He was very open and willing to learn more. He invited us back the next day and we taught him the Restoration. He is going through some things in his life but he really wants to receive blessings that we testified can only come through Jesus Christ. He told us that he was going to try and convert his mom to our church as well so he is already doing missionary work ha ha!

We are also teaching a couple of other people who are progressing pretty well. One is named Ken and one is named Tony. We had good lessons with them both this week and Tony came to church! I will give more of an update on them and others next week since I don't really know them yet!

I'm really excited to continue serving here. All the members are great and very missionary minded. I hope you all have a great week! Love youuuuu.