This week oh man. I only have 2 more weeks here at the MTC. and it is a little crazy to think that. I am super excited to go. But i will Endure to the End and learn all that i can. I hope i go straight to Cabo Verde but I understand if i get reassigned. It will be weird preaching the gospel in english though if i do. Portuguese has been all we could use. I told my companion yesterday i have a hard time saying Jesus Christ in english because in portuguese the S sounds different. Anyway i must admit it is nice having english speaking problems. Maybe this language will actually come after all.
This week we got to hear from Elder Godoy of the Seventy. He spoke portuguese in this last general conference. he is a beast!!! Such a hilarious guy. He talked to us about the advice he would give his kid when they go off on a mission. So he told us what that was. And it was Alma 26:22.
What a verse. So it gives us 4 things we need to do to be awesome missionaries. 1. Repent. 2. Pray continually. 3. Bring forth good works. and 4. Have FAITH. he goes through the process of each one and says how if we repent we can be a good missionary... and return home worthy if that is all we want. Then he said but if we pray continually we can really help people and look outward like the savior. We can turn into great missionaries. Then if we bring forth good works we can be even better. And then if we have FAITH we can have the two promises listed in this verse as well. and one is that we may know the mysteries of God. And this is personal revelation. We will know what to do when to do it and what to say and how to say it. And then the second promise is the one i love the best... We can bring thousands... THOUSANDS to the knowledge of the truth.
My companion and i have been talking a lot about faith and becoming consecrated missionaries. I let her read that talk. We have been discussing it and trying to change our lives so that we can be consecrated. We even have key words for when we get discouraged or don't have faith. And one is that "we have never run a sprint we regret." Like in basketball how we hate sprints but we always do them and never regret doing them.... Because they benefit us. So when we are tired of studying or just wanna close our eyes for a bit and doze off.. we can't! Because we are on the Lord's time and we won't ever embark on study time we regret. I won't ever read a scripture i wish i didn't read... haha
So along with that i have been studying the Christlike Attributes. Wow. What a chapter in Preach My gospel. I am glad dad is studying those. They are amazing. I think we all need to do a better job at that. It tells us at the end to pick an attribute... study it... and then do stuff in our lives to change. I picked the attribute of diligence for a few weeks. I think that is one i need to work on the most right now. I have also made it a plan that i read D and C 4:2 every day so that i can really evaluate myself and think about how i have served God with all my heart, might, mind, and strength. And in doing that i can stand blameless before god at the last day. That is a great promise.
So a little about our investigators this week... We have one that is really uneducated. Like a child. haha So we had this great idea to teach him as a child. We used some props. Like they do in primary. We got an apple and a seed and taught him about faith and how it starts out like a seed. it went well. I saw his eyes lit up as he kind of understood. The only problem is we ask good questions... teach... but then when it comes to invite our invitation becomes unclear and not specific. We are really trying to do better at inviting. That is such an important part of teaching. WE need to invite them to do something so that they can come unto christ. And we are teaching people... not lessons. So we need to make sure that person in front of us... they are the most important and the invitation needs to be specific to them.
Our other investigator made me mad yesterday... i know... not Christlike. I was sooooo frustrated while preparing the lesson for him. He is stubborn and says he feels good but doens't know for certain and all sorts of doubts. I just want to throw a book of Mormon at him... Which is bad. so i won't. But I really was upset. I felt satan pushing my buttons. I don't know why i let it go on so long. I started making all sorts of excuses to why i was mad... my poor companion. But Heavenly Father was so patient with me and he is so forgiving. I finally was able to swallow some pride about the whole day and just get it out and ask for forgiveness and change. Our lesson yesterday ended up going very well... not great... could always be better. But we are getting there i can feel it.
I love you all so much. I know this church is true. I know we have a Savior Jesus Christ and his Atonement is real. We can be forgiven for all that mistakes, big and small, that we make and i am so grateful for this. Repentance is real. Em nome de Jesus Cristo, Amem.
Love
Sister Johnson :)
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