Sister Sarah Johnson: Laugh every day!

Hello Family!!

This week I have laughed more and harder than I have my whole mission! Sister Christoffersen is hilarious and so far she's basically made me cry from laughing so hard every day haha! So she's awesome!:)

Here's one hilarious story! So we've seen a few big cockroaches in the last few days, so we called Sister Miles, the senior couple in charge of mission housing. Here's our conversation.

"Hi Sister Miles! This is the Inwood Sisters. We just wanted to let you know that we've seen a couple of big cockroaches in our apartment." "Oh no! Where do you live?" "We live on Ft. Washington Avenue." "Oh, do you need somewhere to stay tonight?" "No we're okay, we've killed them." "Well I'm sorry to hear that... but I just don't understand why you're calling me..." ...*confusion and gears running in our head* and then it clicked that we called Sister Miles in our WARD not Sister Miles for the mission! Hahaha!!! We apologized and told her and then we were able to contact the correct Sister Miles so it's all good haha! But we were dying!!

So there are soooo many Dominican people here, and so a lot of people speak Spanish. Some still speak English but they're more comfortable in Spanish so we pass them off to Spanish missionaries. Three months ago we knocked into someone named Rodolfo Garcia. He spoke pretty good English so we talked to him about the Book of Mormon and then passed him off to the Spanish elders. Now him and his brother have a baptism date for next month! Wahoo! We're all on a team when it comes to missionary work!:)

I learned a very important truth this week that brought me a lot of hope and peace in my life and in my own testimony of the gospel. In Sunday school we talked about the gifts of the spirit. In D&C 46:13 we learn that "To some it is given by the Holy Ghost to know that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and that he was crucified for the sins of the world." Some people just KNOW! They have that gift of really knowing, unwaveringly that Jesus Christ and His Atonement is real. But then you continue to read in verse 14 and it says "To others it is given to believe on their words, that they also might have eternal life if they continue faithful." To others they have the gift of BELIEVING! These people may never KNOW, but they believe on their words and they act in faith. And as long as they continue faithful, they too will gain eternal life! They will receive the same reward of those that know, even if they never know in this life! And that's a gift to believe! I feel like I'm a believer, and I'm sure many of you are too! There are a lot of things that I feel like I don't KNOW about the gospel, but I BELIEVE in it enough to act in faith on whatever it is. So if you struggle to know, be patient with yourself and believe! Maybe that's your gift:)

Make it a great week!

Love, Sister Johnson