First off. I just love my companion. She is so patient with me and so kind and loving. Like obviously i cant speak the language super well... obviously... but she has been a saint in allowing me and making me speak in the lessons. and she is so patient with what i say and allows me to make mistakes but also is so patient when i ask for help. the goal this week was to let me take the lead in teaching the restoration... so that was good. haha especially that we had sooo many first lessons this week.
so the restoration... after this week passed i looked at my companion and i was a little discouraged and told her i didnºt know if i had learned anything about teaching the restoration or if i had gotten any better at it. she then asked if i felt like i could teach the restoration in english... i said yes. because i really do... and then she said: then you know how to teach it. it is just the language limiting you know and you will learn it little by little. it will come. that helped me a lot because i was discouraged about not getting any better at teaching lessons. but i think a good indicator is if i feel i can do it in english then i must be getting better at it.
ok so my companion is really great with awesome advice all the time. we have become friends now.. which i told her is bad because now we talk non stop and sometimes talk through the night... haha so we are working on exact obedience and really trying to get our studies in even if we have all sorts of stories to tell. haha sister zimbleman is great.
so best experience this week... was JOSE AND DIRLIN. they are investigator family. a really beautiful family with a boy and 2 girls. we talked to them about the book of mormon in the beginning of the week and one day while we were walking to go exercise we saw jose at work reading the book of mormon. he had a big huge smile on his face. he was so happy. and then the lesson we had the next day was incredible. we talked to them about keeping the law of chastity and they told us they knew the book of mormon was true. they had a smile on their faces the whole entire lesson. both of them. and i could literally see the change in their lives. incredible.
so i know the book of mormon can change lives. it really can. it is incredible to see. the book of mormon is the evidence we have today that we have a living prophet... that we have personal revelation and that we DO have the church of jesus christ on the earth today. it is His church and he leads and guides it through a living prophet. i love this. and the proof and evidence is the book of mormon. it testifies of chirst and we can get closer to christ by reading it. and i know it is true.
the second great thing that happened was a funny experience... it wasnºt funny at the time though. so we have these doors that automatically lock when you close them. and so if you dont have the key.. you canºt just walk back in and get it... so one morning we left the key in the apartment... i had my key but it wasnt working because they other key was in the other side of the door. so we prayed and prayed for a miracle. all the windows were closed... there was no way to get back in. while we were praying though i felt that this experience wasnt going to be for us. it was for whoever we would meet in the process. we ended up making a lot of contacts that morning that we would not usually see because in the mornings we are always studying. and we happen to meet a carpenter. and he miraculously opened our door... with some handy work. so we talked to him a bit... gave him a pamphlet and picked a day to meet with him and his family. the lesson ended up falling through. but i hope we find him again. but i know whoever we met that morning or talked to or invited needed to happen. all things happen for a reason. so although we were really upset about our door... it isnºt about us... it is about the people
i love it in santo antao. this place is great. i really love the people. they are so beautiful. but i have decided i am in the rock climbing area... we climb this like cliff thing to get from one zone to another... it is pretty exotic. i will have to take a picture of it. but it makes me laugh because this place really is not america. haha and i am climbing rocks to get to people... how cool is that??
i love you all
sister johnson
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