April 28, 2014
Well kind of... our "numbers" show lots of succes but you never know here haha. so we broke or record of 25 nuevos this week we had 27 news. and over 80 lessons taught in all! We had splits with the Sister Trainning Leaders this week on tuesday and i was really worried cuz i didnt feel like i could be without my companion/ dictionary... but i was pleseantly surprised when it happened to be one of my most favorite days in the mission!
Friday the elders (we share our ward with two elders) had a baptism! it was so wonderful! the spirit was so strong and it was reafirming to see exactly why we are here! we get to help people make convenents with God! OUR ETERNAL FATHER! there is nothing sweeter.
I had a cool experience saturday when we made a goal to contact 8 reference (people that other people tell us to go visit). Well i learned that if you plan your day around contacting references the Lord helps you to meet all your goals! we had the most succesful day ever all because of references! we didnt even find everyone we planned to contact but the Lord blessed us for doing everything in our power and we met our goal of 8 contacts spot on! it was crazy.
So after having one of if not the best week of my mission we had a rough day sunday. Only 2 of the 10 or so people we invited and "commited" to come to church came and one of them is less active (which is awesome cuz he is changing and coming unto christ!) but it was a bit sad to only have one investigator in church when we tried to do all we could to have lots of people this week. We gave talks in sacrament and it was terrifying but fun. after everyone said they could understand everything i said and that it was beautiful! so thats a good sign! cuz sometimes i will be talking in spanish and a little kid will say "can you speak in spanish please i dont understand english" so there's that. haha but esta bien... the gift of tounges really is real. little by little things become more clear and the spirit is easier to recognize and i am able to speak. the interpretation of tounges... now that is a whole different story... that is what i need haha. We got premission to participate in the Stake chior (dad i wish you could have been there) and i had a blast with the bishops wife singing saprano... when we first got there there were about 10 altos and no sapranos... they all said USTED PUEDE! so for the first 10 mins i was terrified i would be singing the saprano line solo.. but no one is ever on time here so needless to say many more people arrived and i did not have to sing solo.
well our time outside the church was not so good and we had hardly any success and lots of rejection. we ran into one of our investigators with two HUGE bottles of beer... that was cool. NOT. and by the end of the day i was not feeling all that great. And after about 30 mins of letting myself feel like i wasnt doing any good and wo is me i had a thought about Joseph Smith and the early days of the church and what it was like for them. that striaghtened me right out and i mad the goal to be more positive and to try and truly recive all things with gratitude [d&c 79:19] so needless to say i am doing much better and i am excited for another wonderful week and another transfer in this area!
Con amor!
Hermana Johnson
Alma 37:40-46
2 Nephi 26:23-25
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