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Hola Familia e Amigos!

Well one more transfer happened yesterday! And to my great joy Sister Zimbelman and I are staying together here in the best place on earth! Porto Novo!!! I just love this area. I feel like i will be one of those missionaries who will serve here for about 7 or 8 months and then get transfered and then return to finish my mission here... I can hope. I just love this area soooooo much. It is perfect. 

Ok so this week was good... yeah pretty good. Do not have any complaints. I finished my 12 week training finallly! Yayyyy! One more hour of teaching every day! That is such a blessing ;)

Ok so I am proud of our ward now. Yesterday they presented the ward mission plan. It was perfect. They finally addressed a few things sister zimbelman and i have been trying to bring up with our ward mission leader for a while now! But they addressed it and it was fabulous. They said they are really going to help us have Member present lessons. And not just any member.. but members that will really be a good friend and watchman for our investigator. They way they are going to do this is we bring the names up in correlation with the ward mission leader... he will bring them up in ward council and the various quorems and classes will talk about who in their groups will be good to be an amigo! YESS. Perfect :) Now it just has to happen! So we will make sure to follow up. 

So some miracles this week. One is Milene. She was the girl who got baptized my very first week! Well after that she disapperared and when we tried to talk to her again she said she didnt like us and didnt want to talk to us again... I dont know what happened. Well this week we walked by her cousins house and she was there. We started to talk a little.. and she just came out with "when can we talk again"... Ummmm... AS soon as possible. hahah so we marked with her and we had a great first lesson again and she prayed to never miss church again. that was a miracle. She completely changed. I hope it continues this way and she continues to have this same desire. 

The next is Romina and her sister Antonita. Wow... So we met Romina in a lesson with another investigatore. She just kinda happened to show up. We marked with her after the lesson and when we had a lesson with her later in the week it was solid! Her sister was in and out of the lesson because of her son was acting up but at the end they BOTH accepted a Book of mormon and would start to read it. And Romina accepted a date to be baptized too :) So then the next few days we meet with them again. And THEY READ. Boy did they read and study. They had a ton of questions for us and it was a great lesson. They are super interested. Antonita is already in 2 nephi and she only had 2 or 3 days! I was so happy and amazed. And also she remembered the story line really well too.

The next one is about Stenio! Wow... So he is super funny. He is like this small little young man.. kinda nerdy but in a good way. He loves Basketball so we obviously needed to talk to him because of that. I dont know how to describe him but he is just super goofy it is great! But anyway we havent had time to talk with him for a while because he has eye problems and had treatment on another island for a while. We were pretty bumbed out because he is super solid. So i fasted for him this week... And it was amazing to see the results. On Saturdayafternoon we found him and he said he wont have treatment for about 3 weeks until holidays for Carnival! Carnival is in like 3 weeks i think. We were so happy... and i think he was too. We told him we would mark to meet with him in church the next day. He came to church and after church we asked him How it was... and he said the best thing ever.. "I feel like a different person". I just was filled with joy! He really is a different person. Especially after we taught the Word of Wisdom he has improved so much. He has such a desire to have the holy ghost and he realizes what a great gift this is. And he really wants to keep changing and getting better. He also said he feels more love in his family. His dad died when he was young because of an alcohol addiction and he says that was super super hard. But now he feels more love for his mom and everything! It is great to see his confidence too. He is saying no to his friends when they do things they shouldnt be doing. Solid.

So those are a couple miracles this week. This transfer is going to be a great one! Oh and one last thing that ties all these miracles together... THE BOOK OF MORMON. Each one of these people are reading the book of mormon and each one of them is changing their lives. I have seen the power of this book more than ever on my mission. It is proof of this church of this gospel! It is the words of God. And we can really answer the questions of the soul when we read this book. I will open up any page and find answers to my questions about an investigator. I wont even know i was looking for it but i will find it. And that is really the power of the holy ghost that comes when we open the Book of Mormon. Please read it daily. It is the proof, the evidence and the answer to allllll questions. I have a testimony of this book and i know it is true. I have read it, pondered, and asked god if it was true and he responded. He will do that for anyone who really asks with faith and real intent to act after they ask! 

I love you all.

Sister Johnson