General Conference

Hello Family!

This week was great:) To start off, we had a nice little miracle on Monday night. Heavenly Father really is in the details of our lives. We looked up a former investigator, who actually ended up being a member! So, here's the details from the beginning. A few weeks ago we had dinner with some members who asked if we had any people we were working with around them. We didnt, but the next day I checked area book to see if there was anyone close. I found a former investigator named Raquel a block away so I just stuck her on my map. Then Monday night we were close by so we looked her up. She's this nice old lady and it turns out she went to church in Puerto Rico and was baptized there with her dad! So we got her information and got her membership record into the ward! So lesson learned, God really does know His children and he's in the details:) (other lesson is that feeding the missionaries really does help build up His kingdom😉 If it weren't for our members, we wouldn't have found her!)

We have an investigator named Nina who's been an investigator for just over a year now. She's gone through so much in her life and since I got here I hadn't heard her pray at all. She felt like she couldnt. But she prayed for the first time on Sister Nielsen's last day, and again this week with me and Sister Balley! Baby steps, but that's all He asks of us! It's exciting for us, so I can only imagine how exciting it is for Heavenly Father to hear her to pray! He loves every tiny baby step of progress we take, because he just wants us to come to Him!

So rewind to two or three weeks ago... remember the story of "We have 23 minutes to change someone's life!"? Well one of the two people we met that night was Ana Arias. We went to see her again last week and she wasn't there, but her son Salvatore (Sal) was so we taught him. Long story short, they're both really interested, they came to General Conference, they're amazing, we love them, and we're so grateful that Heavenly Father has prepared them and led us to them! Honestly, they already seem like members! They're so kind and just comfortable to be around. So we're really excited about them:) We feel like once we actually have a sit down Restoration lesson with them, it will really make sense for them!:)

General Conference was wonderful, and I'm sad it's already over. I was so so happy, as I'm sure we all were, to hear President Monson speak:) The Book of Mormon is so important. I love when he said, "If you are not reading the Book of Mormon everyday," and then his voice changed to even more love and he finished "please do so." So simple yet powerful:) No condemnation just pure love, just like the Savior. There were so many good talks, SO MANY!! I loved all the talks about small and simple things like daily scripture study, daily prayer, and taking the sacrament weekly. I also loved Elder Bragg's about the light of the Gospel and Russell M. Nelson's about Jesus Christ. I loved Elder Holland's about music and being part of God's choir and Elder Rasband's about following promptings (and his shout out to our mission! NYNYN!). I loved it all:)

A few funnies for the week:) Sister Balley almost got hit by a car cause she was looking at her shoes, but I saved her life;). We have close to zero self discipline when it comes to pastries. We walked past a bakery and tried so hard to resist, but one big whiff of cinnamon sent us walking away with a big cinnamon roll and a smile. And last but definitely not least haha! While showing the Easter Initiative, Prince of Peace, we literally had a girl RUN away. We don't know if she just suddenly felt uncomfortable or what, but she just quickly said she had to leave and she started running away haha! Missionary life is the best:)

Make it a great week!

Love, Sister Johnson