From the trench.: I'm racist and family dollar is deadly

Hello friends!

Welcome to Nampa, Idaho.

It's a magical land that smells like peanut butter pretty much wherever you are because of the giant sugar factory that's here.

My companion and I bought christmas cards at family dollar and the next day the store was taped off because someone was murdered there so that was kinda crazy.

We can't go to Walmart without getting stopped by someone so they can ask how tall my companion is before immediately guessing somewhere between 6 and 7 feet tall to which my companion at this point just says "yup!" no matter what they say.

We're kind of like celebrities here! Celebrities that live in a basement and eat all the food we get to take home from volunteering at the local food pantry. We're living it up man!

A sweet lady offered to teach me how to cook her food during a lesson in spanish the other day. Excited to say something I knew en español, I exclaimed, "Yes, Mexican food is my FAVORITE! Please teach me how to cook it!"

She was from Honduras. She made sure to explain to me that they were totally different places. I will likely never live that moment down for the rest of my life.

Yes, I think Nampa is beginning to grow on me already. I had a great christmas dinner with the Johnson family, I sat by Brock Johnson at the table. Yes, you read that correctly – there is another BROCK JOHNSON in Nampa Idaho. He's 13 and is an absolute stud.

We checked with family tree, but sadly I am not closely related to this family at all. They're still awesome though!

Since quarantine stuff doesn't let us do the usual missionary stuff like knocking doors or eating with members, we have been doing a lot of facebook proselyting which is still pretty weird to me right now but I'm sure I'll get used to it! I get to meet all kinds of people this way, and I don't even have to put on pants before I share a lesson. (I do anyway of course, I'm just saying...)

I do love the opportunities we get to make videos though! It's pretty incredible how valuable my existing interest in video creation has turned out to be in missionary work here. It's yet another testament to me of how perfect Heavenly Father's plan is for all of us! He loves us so much that before we were even born he figured out exactly what time period we needed to live in in order to maximize our potential.

If you're looking for some good new years resolutions that are actually fun to keep, I invite you to ask God what talents he still wants you to discover. You will be shocked at how much you can still accomplish!

I love you all! Keep living awesome-ly.

Elder Johnson

Here are all the pictures you skipped down to the end for:

1. Picking my wedgie