Sister Sarah Johnson: Choose! :)

Hello Family!!

First of all, shoutout to Liz and Lincoln cause they're MARRIED!! Wahoo!!

We started this week off with a Fiesta! Sister Cunningham from our ward had her 23rd anniversary of being a member so we went over and had dinner with her last Wednesday! Sister Cunningham is the funniest, most confident, bold, loving, talented, fearless woman I've ever met! Everyone needs a Sister Cunningham in their life to build you up and encourage you to keep going! She told us her whole conversion story. She is hilarious and I love her!

We have an amazing new investigator, Maria. I mentioned her a little last week, but she is a former investigator that we started teaching again. On our second visit she had read from the Book of Mormon and was able to draw some parallels between it and the Book of Mormon. We taught the Plan of Salvation and she had more great questions! She was out of town this week, but will be coming to church next week! We love her and are excited for Her!

The Elders have an investigator named Mevelin who is the greatest miracle ever!! 2 months ago when I was with Sister Balley we got a text one day that basically said "Hi this is Mevelin. Is this the missionaries? I got your number from mormon.org and I would like to learn more about how to become a Mormon." WHAT?! Every missionaries dream right?? We texted back right but didn't hear from her. We found out the next day the Elders had called her and set up a time to meet with her. They've been teaching her and her family, and she is literally the MOST GOLDEN person I've ever met!! She's willing to do anything to become a member and I love it! Last night me and Sister Christoffersen had a little Family Home Evening with her and her two daughters. We talked about building a strong family and what it takes. We talked about how FHE can help us do that, and we were able to set up a foundation for their family home evenings:) We played Jenga and it was so much fun!! I love them and I'm so excited for their family:)

Last night we also had a little bit of a power struggle haha! Our breaker fuse thing has been weird and our electricity in half of our apartment will turn off so we fix it with the fuse and then it happens again! (It's fixed now so don't worry!) But last night we had to plug our fridge into an extension cord and different plug to keep it running, move the microwave to the table so we could plug it in, and live mostly in the dark haha! (Only a few fuse things could be on at a time). Lucky for us we had some left over glow sticks, so we cracked those and use that as our light source haha! It was excited and definitely an adventure;)

The thing I learned this week is that the whole Gospel of Jesus Christ is a CHOICE!! We must choose to have faith, Repentance is as simple as making a choice to change, we choose to be baptized and make those promises, we have to choose to receive the Holy Ghost and let it into our lives and choose to stay worthy of it, and then we choose to continue living it for the rest of our life or not! And just like Nephi, "I say unto you that the right way is to believe in Christ, and deny him not." Choose the right!

I love you all! Make it a great week!

Love, Sister Johnson