Family

Dear Familia,

I read a great talk today about how we are all part of the family of the lord! it was from conference from april! We FINALLY got the liahona for that month. yayaya! hah it is beautiful and i am super excited to read it... although it is all in portuguese it will just be great language study :) But yeah... for this cause i just said dear family because we are all family and i love you all. Even though i think some of you are busy.. i have been getting less and less emails. i think that is how the mission goes. but just know i do love you all and whatever difficulty you are passing through, know that the lord loves you and that we are children of god. and we are here to be like him... and he is perfect. so his hope for us is to be perfect!

So this week i will do a day by day looking through my planner trying to remember what really even happened. haha. so here we go.

Segunda feira- monday: it was pday. i emailed you guys... i got some time to do my hair. i have some sweat awesome braids now. but still no pics. sorry. next week. and then we taught 5 whole lessons. which is super hard on pday but we did it! i was pretty happy with that day :)

terca feira- tuesday: another day of miracles. We showed up to the house of one of the people who is trying to get married and they are going strong. family council and prayer and reading the book of mormon together really helps! But then today we passed by and we were going to pay for their marriage... because the mission can do that here now... and they got in a fight yesterday. ugh... they are so up and down! and we asked.. how long have you been together... 5 years.. and have you had hard times... yes.. then what does a paper that says you are married and keeping a commandment really change! Ugh... like if you live with someone forever... basically married... what does marriage change. i guess it changes a lot because it is super hard for people here to do it. the funny thing is that they will talk about it today and change their mind tomorrow. i just can see that satan is really trying to make them not get married and putting their minds through all sorts of problems. but we really focused on how the gospel of jesus christ will help them have a strong marriage always. So i hope they recognize that and use the principles we have taught them to have faith in the lord and what he has planned for them.

 anyway.. also terca feira we were with Sister Mathews.. the Presidents wife! she walked around and taught with us. portuguese is hard for her, but she is amazing. we were teaching another couple who wnats to get married and she bore a great testimony of her marriage and i think it helped them see it is possible. i love listening to sister mathews testimony. she is amazing. She also gave us a reference that day that turned into a miracle.. but i will touch on that later.

quarta -- wednesday. 

Normal day. We had a meeting with the zone leaders and district leaders. our zone is doing good and achieving our goal of baptisms this month. it really is a miracle. we just need to be better as a mision i think of getting people to church! i think this will be my mission question. HOW CAN WE GET PESQUISADORES NA IGREJA.

Quinta-- thursday.

i had my first division as sister training leader. It was a littler... weird. because the sister i did it with is siter gates and she is about to go home. this is her last transfer but still during the transfer she said she learned a lot. she actually told me she was a little discouraged being with me because she said she still has so much to work on. but i told her something that i think i needed to hear too... is that the lord sent us to these areas because there is someone here who needs us.. and the lord trusts us to be who we are and do our best. he will do the rest. i know this is true!!! 

Sexta feira- friday

We had a meeting with our whole zone! i called it the faca meeting. haha but it was a faca of love. haha but really we went in that meeting and watched a lot of a talk elder holland gave at the mtc. I learned a lot! i wish i got that at the mtc. but i know i need to be a better teacher. Elder holland talked about the importance of our studies. i always thought we got up in the morning and excersized and took a shower because we cant get fat... NO... haha it is because we need to prepare to recieve revelation through our studies. and also the importance of comp study as well. These people deserve my best! so i need to learn to be a better teacher and a more consecrated missionary! but it was great. oh and a faca is like a lecture... haha

sabado. 

Tons of lessons... super tires.

domingo

Great day at church and amazing day of ward council. our ward is amazing! haha and we finally got the 1st and 2nd councilor in the bishopric. but also this day was the 21st! and 21 is my favorite number and something great always happens on the 21 of june. last year i was stuck in a cave! But this year we contacted that reference of sister mathews and it is a inacitve family of like 12 people! all baptized and were preparing to go the temple. i dont know what happened but we got there yesterday and they treated us like queens and said they just needed the sisters to show up and they want to come back to church. i dont know their needs still.. but they have a great desire to change. all of them... almost all.. were just gathered in thier living room and we were sitting together talking about how the restauration changed their lives. i cant wait to see them all come back. we also talked about how one can make the difference. i think the young daughter is ready to make the change the most but i know her example will be a great difference for the family.

ok so isso.. love you all!

maybe one more thing... i Know this stuff is true. i know that as we keep the commandments we are blessed even at times we have to go through hard times, but it is for our growth.

Sister Johnson