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On mission trip to Belize or facing Lamar Jackson, UK’s Stephen Johnson won’t be rattled

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You can take Stephen Johnson to Central America. You can confront the Kentucky quarterback with challenges — repairing churches, rebuilding fences, laying cement — that stretch his skills.

Yet even on a mission trip this summer to Belize with his family and other members of the Abundant Living Family Church, Johnson couldn’t be rattled.

“He was asked to do a lot of things, maybe, he hadn’t done a lot of before,” the UK quarterback’s father, also named Stephen Johnson, said of the trip. “But you know Stephen: He just kept his head and put in hard work.