Repentance is Cool :)

Hello Family!

Can you believe it's almost JUNE?!?! Wow. This year is just flying by!! And the funny thing is, our weather forecast still says 10 days of rain, and it's June... Today was perfect weather though!

Our cute investigator Nina and her daughter Mariah moved to Florida this week, so we helped her a lot on Thursday to pack up her moving truck. She's been an investigator for a year, but so many family struggles and situations make it hard for her to really focus on the church. She's gone to church a lot though and she really loves the church, so she will get baptized someday:) We contacted her new bishop and sister missionaries and they will take good care of her:) I love her though! It's so fun being a missionary because you're able to become so involved in individuals lives and you just grow to love them so much! But thanks to technology we didn't really have to say good-bye:)

Not too much happened this week so I don't have a lot to share, but one thing I know is that we can always use little reminders that repentance is cool because it is! So here's my reminder, and now yours:) We talked about it during church. So imagine a path going on forever in both direction. One direction is towards God, and the other is towards sin or anything that takes us away from God. Here we are on this path, and we're always moving in one direction or the other, we can't be stationary. So when we sin and do something that leads us away from God, our back is literally turned to God. We step away from Him. But repentance is receiving the strength from Jesus Christ to turn around. We can then face God and walk towards Him, and we don't have to do it on our own! That's why it's so cool!! Heavenly Father knew there would be plenty of times in our lives when our backs would be turned towards Him. Not because we mean to, but because we're human! He knew it would be hard to turn around, hard to change. So that's why he sent His Son, Jesus Christ! So that we never have to do it on our own and we can always receive his help no matter where we're at! In Mosiah 26:30 it says "Yea, and as often as my people repent will I forgive them their trespasses against me." Wherever you are on your path, you can always receive help from Jesus Christ! That's what repentance is all about:) And it is so empowering, freeing, and comforting when we know and recognize that He is right there to help us turn around:) So use it cause repentance is cool!

Make it a great week!

Love, Sister Johnson