Asked if he needed to bring soap:)

Dear familia,

So what a great great week... and a very interesting one full of humbling experiences. I am learning to be more careful with how i make christlike attributes my goal... this month is humility and wow. We are seeing experiences full of humble.

So this week we had the baptism of micael!!!! It was awesome. now you have to say his name right... it is not mickael like we say in america... it is Mi-kae (like sky)- elll. Ok glad we got that figured out. So he is a pesquisador ( investigator) we have been teaching for a bit. He is an area book find... the area book actually works.... haha but we found him one day during weekly planning as i was in a bad mood and needed to take a minute and make zuccuni bread for lunch... so we used our time wisely as i made zuccini bread... my comp read out names in the area book. and we both felt good about micael!! Well it worked out.. micael AND the zuccuini bread. haha so we taught him and he came to church no problem and became an instant celebrity. he has a great personality and a lot of the ward members like him. So instant integration! But yeah... his baptism was an interesting one. He got a random job the night before his baptism.. which is like a milagre... but at the same time we didnt get to teach him. So we were praying that he wouldnt work the next day. When we found him the next morning he said he wasnt working that day or sunday! YES! So that was a huge relief. well... also with micael he is very VERY forgetful with the time... like it is VERY. So we reminded him a lot of times he needed to be at the baptism an hour early. Well... 30 minutes before he was no where in sight... and of course he doesnt have a phone that was working. Soooo you know what we had to do... RUN!

Yes... sister coelho and i ran to his house and he was about to leave.. asking what time it was... Well we told him very nicely that it was already time for his baptism so we had to run there. Good thing he is a soccer player. So we ran to the baptism! And just saying --- i won! hahahaha i beat a cabo verdian soccer player! But when we showed up we got him to change clothes and took a quick picture and i was asked to lead the music as i was drenched in sweat. One experience i will always remember.

I think for all of those who are reading just need to understand one thing about Cabo Verde... All the missionaries who serve here understand how it is... but no one else can truly understand how it is. it is like we have a secret and we just cant explain or tell anyone about it. haha i have really seen amazing things in this mission and met amazing people!

But with the subject heading... Micael was asking what he needed to bring.. flip flops.. towel.. and all that stuff.. so we told him and then we did a review of what he was going to bring and he couldnt remember about the towel and asked if he needed soap. hahaha it was super funny. I think we will teach the atonement better on how we are cleaned through Christs atonement and not by soap. :)

The rest of the week was good too. Except for a lot of miscommuncation and some embarrassement that i wont write about in the general email. But we had Leadership Council this week on tuesday and then Zone conference! I learned A LOT. Mostly we focused on the gospel of Jesus Christ. But what i learned is that we can not truly have faith unless we repent. Faith is action! So if we dont not repent we do not have faith! We need to have faith and repent and be baptized and recieve the holy ghost... and what is the fifth step? I usually would say endure to the end... but this week i realized it really is to have more faith.. and then the 6th step is to repent. Repentance every single day! And promissing to keep the commandments every day and then  the 7th is to take the sacrament and formally promise to take the sacrament and then the 8th step is we receive MORE of the spirit... and then... We have more FAITH! I love the gospel of jesus christ. It is a cycle that we live each day. And i just want to say that i have also seen the importance of ALWAYS having the spirit to be with us. What a promise it really is. The spirit does more than we think it does each day. it is literally purifying our souls and our hearts so that we can have that change as it describes in Mosiah 5:2. i love the gift of the holy ghost that allows me to see the world how it is and allows me to know when the truth is spoken and recieve answers from my heavenly father! I love this gospel and i know as we make it a pattern of our lives we will always progress.

Sister Johnson... Oh and PS... i am sister johnson... not hermana johnson. that is spanish. and sister in portuguese is irma... but because that is the name of some saints in the catholic church or something we go by sister here. ok just making that clear. LOVE YOU

SISTER johnson