Faith, Hope and Charity

(sorry readers - my internet was down last week so I just posted 2 of her letters - todays and last weeks :)

Hello Family!

This week was a bit chilly! We officially have snow so it's now cold winter time! We bundle up hard core and then go trudge through the snow which is super fun haha! It's only fun because we're missionaries and that makes everything better!:)

Each week in my studies I pick a Christ like attribute and study it for 10-15 at the beginning and it has been so amazing! I learn something new about them I had never thought about before!

- Faith in Christ means confidence and trust in him. He has shown us that He has perfect love, knowledge, justice, mercy, unchangeableness, power, and every other needful thing so that our human minds can place all confidence and trust in him without reservation. There is no reason not to have faith in Him!

- Hope. In our normal language hope has a hint of uncertainty, but there's no uncertainty with hope in the gospel. Hope is not a wish but an expectation - it's sure, unwavering, and active.

- Charity includes God's eternal love for all His children. That's a lot of love! And we're supposed to have that kind of love? How! But charity is a gift. We can't conjure up all that love on our own. But as we do good and try to serve and love others and as we pray for charity, Heavenly Father will help us to have it. Which is good because we need it! No matter what good things we do, if we don't do it out of love, it's not worth it.

So I'm trying to develop these wonderful attributes:)

Me gusta espanol:) I went on a split with Hermana Morales and I can now have a full missionary conversation! (Mostly a one-sided conversation because I don't know what they're saying unless they answer my questions directly haha!) Here's everything I can say: Hello! How are you? What is your name? I'm Sister Johnson. We are missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Do you believe in Jesus Christ? Would you like to learn more? Can we get your contact information? What is your phone number? What is your address? Here is our card. The church is at 1815 Riverside Dr. It starts at 11:00. I know God lives. God is our loving Heavenly Father. It was nice to meet you. Have a great day! Bye!

We have a less active member named Avanna that they've been trying to get her to read the Book of Mormon for a while. But she has now started! Wahoo!! We sat down and read the first chapter with her, and she read the second on her own:) We gave her a Book of Mormon reading chart to fill out and she loves it! When we read chapter 3 with her we had her think of a question to have in her mind as we read and it was really cool to see what she was able to learn from it! She is so good at understanding and learning from the scriptures! So that's a miracle and such a blessing:) It's amazing to see her change and take that step of faith to read the Book of Mormon because it's hard but she wants to do it! I love when people are able to have spiritual experiences with the Book of Mormon! Because that's what it's for:) To be a springboard to build our testimony. We don't have to do it all on our own, God has given us tools to get closer to Him:)

I love you all! Thanks for all your love and support! Make it a great week!

Love, Sister Johnson

Winter is finally here! And let me tell you, it's freezing! But it's pretty and fun at the same time :)