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Well this week started out good with an exchange with my man Elder Walker but that lazy bum didn’t send me the photo from the exchange so that will have to wait till next time. Hahahaha but it was good I finally got to leave Johnstown and went to Somerset were I got to enjoy a car for a couple days! It was great we were able to set this amazing guy named Eric on date to be baptized! So it was a pretty good exchange!

When I got back to Johnstown on Wednesday we got an email telling us that Thursday through Saturday are going to be some of the coldest days recorded in PA so we are not allowed outside for more than 10 minutes without somewhere warm to go to. Well since everything even the buses are more than a 10 minute walk from our house that meant we were grounded... we spent 3 whole days inside our apartment... it was the longest 3 days of my life. Hahahaha but one night we got a text from someone telling us that it got down to -18 with windchill. So we counted our blessings that we did not have to walk around in that! Hahaha I definitely got a lot of reading down those days!

So Saturday we get a text from a guy in Texas telling us that he is a member and his friend out in Johnstown wants to be a member... so we call up his friend named CJ and we invite him to church the next day and set up an appointment with him for after church. So without meeting CJ ever he shows up to church the next day and loves it! He said it had such a warm and welcoming feeling more than any other church he has been to. So after church we taught him about the Book of Mormon and the restoration and he said he wanted to be baptized. So he has a date to be baptized on the 27th!! It was a miracle! I have never seen this happen on my mission ever! But let’s hope and pray that CJ keeps it up! He is only 21 years old and is just awesome!

So the video is of district Meeting. I had to give an obedience training. So I made my district reenact the Battle of Jericho and then after I asked how they felt. And then compared it too the white handbook. Just like how they felt silly marching around playing trumpets unexpected miracles came from it. So some rules may sound ridiculous and may make us feel stupid but if we do them in faith we will be blessed beyond imaginable.

Other than that nothing much has happened just sitting in the apartment chilling and reading! Thanks for all you do! I love and miss you all! See ya soon!

Elder Swisher