First off.... MY companion is hilarious!!!! We have laughed so many times and already had some amazing experiences together. she is just what i need at this time in my mission. i am amazed. haha sister coelho. it means rabbit. but the funny thing is she doesnt like vegetables... so i am the one who eats the carrots for her. She speaks english super well. So she is helping me a lot with portuguese. she is getting me to speak like a portuguesa and not a braziliara. so that is exciting! they have super formal amazing accents.
Next off... our house. they girls in my house are super great too. they know how to cook really well and are super supportive when i tried to experient this week and make something cabo verdian.... i didnt turn out great but they all suffered through and ate it! And no worries... i have already cleaned to kitchen as my first project of cleaning the house. it is a wonderland in there now. i think next project is the laundry room but we will see.
haha but we had amazing number this week. Mainly with teaching A LOT of lessons and getting A LOT of references. we contacted 23 this week and still have more to go! So we are super excited about that. that is one thing my comp is teaching me... ask for references. everyone knows at least one perosn who is ready for the gospel so it has been good to ask and recieve haha
Ok so next is The sister training leader responsibilities. Whitney gave me some great advice... i need to love them and show them we care. then they can open up to us and tell us what they need. We have amazing sisters here in praia. They are all different with different trials but i am amazed by their power and strength. So i think mostly they will be teaching me. but one thing we really want to focus on is showing them our love. we start divisions this week and we want to invite them all to focus on the restauration and also this new thing we have is 10 3 3 1. it is 10 contacts a day, 3 lessons a day, 3 recieved references and 1 lesson taught in the house of a member. when we got this challenge from president i was a little worried.... i dont think i really have ever taught many lessons in a members house. so i didnt think that would happen. BUT... faith is huge because i have seen it happen each day. it really is beneficial working with the recent converts who have family members in their house interested and getting other members involved really strengthens the ward.
Our bishop by the way is awesome. i felt like i was in america in word counsel yesterday! they really got it together. Now we have to be prepared when we walk into that meeting to be able to tell the ward what we need. haha
The next thing is about our pesq.. investigators. SO.... haha i have never had so many people cry in lessons! hah but it is all good. So we are trying realy hard to help these two families get married. they are both a mom and a dad with one kid and the moms are pregnant. Maybe this is the reason for the tears... idk. But they were both all set and ready for marriage...well at least it was on the agenda... last week. but at the end of this week both of the women told us in tears they didnt want to marry the guy and that they want to leave. What. So we testified on the importance of families a lot. And that with marriage the key is to draw closer to god and remember that they both have the same goals on the things that matter. maybe one is really bad at washing the dishes, but at least they both have the same goal to get to the temple. So that was a trial. i was about to tell the women to just leave and make it on their own.. women power... haha but really we need to work out our problems together. they both have so much time living together.. marriage isnt that different. and with the church and the gospel, the home will be a heaven on earth. i am so grateful for my parents and the example they have set. i use you two as an example in my lessons to help people see that it is possible to have a happy marriage!
So i put the subject as in the spirit world because that is our saying for...we are out of it. hahaah so we have been in the spirit world a lot!
Some funny stories. My great roomies made a basketball hoop for me.. see pic. i cried of joy.
next is that i got my hair done! the person who was going to do it wasnt at home when we passed by.. but like when a lesson falls through you go to plan b. and when plan b falls through you go to contacts! so we contacted some people in the street to do my hair. it was great.
Love you all!
Sister Johnson
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