This week was a lot of traveling.! Finally on friday morning we got to porto novo! And then it was work work work... and now on monday we get a little time to relax and prepare for a great week! So my new companion is Sister Kohlert. She is from Lindon, UT. She is super cute and fun! We are going to have a great time together! She is being patient with herself and the language which is good. But she is amazing at the language already! It is amazing to see the gift of tongues in action. Only 6 weeks of ever hearing portuguese and here people are teaching other about the gospel, how to pray, and baring testimony very powerfully. During a contact on the street we were talking to people and i looked to Sister kohlert and gave her that "say something" look and she started baring her testimony and she simply said " I know that jesus christ lives" and the spirit was so strong i started to get tears in my eyes. The people we contacted stopped with there excuses to and said "we will go to church." We also marked to pass by them another day as well. Sadly they didnt actually come to church... how quickly people forget how they feel... but we will follow up with them. Moral of the story is that it is amazing how simply and powerfully a testimony of the savior can be.
So after a lot of travels we made it back to our house... it wasnt as much as a disaster as it was before. So that is a plus! haha But we got some things set up and got right to planning and looking through our new area book! We have so many awesome people in the new area! The other sisters were so lucky. I am super excited to work over there. There are also ALOT of members too! So a lot of references! I got the chance to spend a few hours with the sister training leaders in sao vincente before i got on my flight and they are opening a new area. I got to see how they did things with this new area. And they looked for ways to serve, contacted the world, and asked for references from everyone! So that is our goal for this week. Ask for references from everyone!
With one of our new investigators we got someone who will be baptized this week. It is actually a family pretty much! A mom and her daughter! They are super adorable. We got to talk to them a few times this week and they are super excited for baptism! We went by their house to pick them up for church and they were already on their way. It was so good to see. We didnt have to wake anyone up or invite them to show up late, they were already on thier way and they made it there even before a lot of the members :)
speaking of church! It was AMAZING yesterday! I know it was the work of the Lord to bring elders here to porto novo! Yesterday 5 of the investigators sister zimbelman and i had in the other area came to church. We had been teaching some of them for months and they didnt come. But they came yesterday and it was soooo goooo to see them. They all looked so happy to be there too! Also another miracle.. one of these investigators named Anna. I think i talked about her a long time ago. Well Sis Zimbelman and i never really said good bye to her. So as i was sitting in relief society one of the members tells me to come to the door. I open up the door and there stand Anna! I dont know why put i just started crying. It is amazing the love you develop for these people. She is an eternal friend. And i know she will get baptized one day! I just hope it is while i am here. She has a lot of fears but she came to church yesterday and that was huge! i know the elders will take care of her! Also with church we had NINE investigators! Some of them were investigators that i thought were members but apparently they are not. haha. So with this new area we got some people we got to baptize!
We also have another goal for baptism. His name is Adilson. We have lessons with him in english because he likes to speak english. Sister kohlert was happy about that and she shared a story in the lesson that was really special. Adilson doesnt see why he needs to be baptized again if he was already baptized in the catholic church! Well we have talked about this doubt a lot. Finally we just said he needs to decide if the book of mormon is true or not. Because if the book of mormon is true than joseph smith was a prophet and he had the power and authortity to baptize and now others in the church have this authority! Simple. All questions can be answered with the book of mormon. i know that book is true. And it has power.
I love you all
Sister Johnson
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