This week has too many themes

Carnival

House got flooded

Hill we climb everyday...just kidding kinda

Africa

Children of our pesquistador

 Baptism of Willy

Hello Everyone!

I spend tooo much time on thinking of a subject every time i go to do the email so i just gave up again. This week has too many themes so i had to make it very general! I will start with the Baptism of Willy! WILLY. haha he is super awesome. So he is in the other sisters area but remember when we were in a triple for about 4 weeks in december and january? Well we had the opportunity to teach willy a couple of times! And we loved teaching him. He is one of those solid investigators with a lot of questions. and he loves to read and is already finished Alma! and in his interview apparently he was showing our District leader some scriptures and stuff. haha i guess he is teaching us :) But he was blessed enough to get baptized in the ocean! We didnt have water in the church so he had to get baptized in the ocean! I am really happy for the other sisters and for willy! Finally. :)

The next is our week was a little crazy! The first part was pretty normal except we couldnºt find our baptism. So we had Romario marked to be baptized the 21st of Fev. We had a great lesson with him last saturday... he came to church on sunday! And then when we went to his house to meet him on monday he was sleeping. So we re-marked for the next day and he wasnt there! I cannot tell you how many times we passed by this week! It was ALOT. haha but he was never there!!! So we got really smart and tried looking for him in other places. We went to a house where a bunch of people hang out and looked for him there a lot of times too. We also called his friend, tony, about every single day and asked if Romario was with him. He never was. We checked by the beach to see if he was training there. Every time a lesson fell through we said a prayer trying to find Romario! Well this lasted the entire week!! We didnt find Romario, he missed his interview and then finally Saturday morning we see him walking into a house. So we follow him in there and idk what happened... i guess we were in a different part of the house but when we asked where he was after about 2 minutes of looking, he had already lefted "agora mesmo" or "just then"... hahahah "WHAT?" So then we go to our next appointment and come back after and we finally... FINALLY find him! he is sitting in chair with a lot of his friends. We asked to talk to him and ask if he really wants to keep talking to us. We are pretty sure he was avoiding us all week... haha but when we talked to him a little bit and told him about how baptism will change his life and about his potential as a son of god he was completely different.

So a little about the Romario before this week. He was cool, interessted. Wanted to get baptized... kind of. He was the type of investigator we had to pass by every sunday to go to church. Well after we didnt see him for a week, a miracle happened. Yesterday for church we passed by and he was already ready and almost out the door. He said he didnt need us to pass by anymore. And he basically chose his own date on Saturday for the 28th of Fev. And then he was interviewed by the district leader for his baptismal interview and before it he was asking alll sorts of questions and it was kind of funny, he was all nervous about it. And he never asks questions! He is completely changed. I guess it was that week of not talking to us maybe... haha

But really to me this shows that the Lord works in mysterious ways! It is incredible to see the difference in people. We tried so hard to look for him and talk to him and we did all we could. And the lord saw that. And then when we finally found him it was time to find him and he was ready. Even more ready than he was before... Also he had this earring in his ear that he was sooo attached too. After the law of chastity lesson he told us he would take it out later... wellll haha he didnt. But then once we found him again and talked again about the commandments he took it right out and gave it to us! The power of the atonement is real. it changes people completely. 

So also this week... our house flooded. It was a thursday. It was an emotional day. and at the end of the day we had a pretty cool experience. We felt like we needed to walk to a house that we knew our investigator would not be there because they were out of town but we followed the prompting and walked. We also knew we would have to run home to be home by 9. But we just felt right. So we kept walking and then a guy stopped us. He was super interested when we talked to him. He said he went to church a lot of times in the past and has all the books.. the Book of mormon and doctrine and covenants and things like that. We decided we needed to contact him and then we started to run home pretty happy we had followed the prompting. We made it to the house by 9! on the dot! and then we see that water is coming from the stairs... and then we walk up the stairs and see it is coming from our house. A thing in the bathroom had broken completely! it was spewing water out! And our floor had about an inch or two.... So we get brooms and start sweeping. haha it was awful... but at the same time pretty funny. We just had this awesome spiritual faith building experience and then we get rewarding with a flooded house. haha but that is ok! :) We finally sweeped all the water out and then called our land lord guy and they got it fixed in a few days! So we have water that works now... but sad story-- our hot water doesnt work any more so showers arent as pleasant. Oh and one more thing as well. We get a call from our investigator who we planned to get baptized this next week and she tells us she will be out of town for more than a month. :( So all sorts of great things happened that night.

Well! That is all :) Just know that i love you all! I love is here in cabo verde! And i realized something today. The atonement is for everyone. it is for everyone! And when we think of people in that way it really changes things for me. The atoning power and enabling power is for everyone and everyone can change and become like our Heavenly Father. :) It helps me love others even more.

Sister Johnson