Baptism of Dayanne

Dear Familia,

Well... cant remember what i wanted to write about today. 

So i will just probably blabber on but i hope all is well with all the world. 

This week we had the baptism of Dayanne. She is super hilarious as you can probably tell in the photos. I really love hearing about her story. She is an 18 year old and living with a member. The member is kind of worrying us though. We hope dayanne will be a good force of strength to her. Dayanne was born in another country i believe... forgot which.... but her mom is cabo verdian and her dad is of this other country. But they both were not able to take care of her so she was sent back to cabo verde to live with her grandparents. They both died when she was 14 and since then she has been on her own. She said something that i love though... she said along the way she has always found people that care for her. She has a great story.

So she was already taught all the lessons by the elders in another island but never got baptized there. We found this out a lot later in the lessons and couldnt beleive she was so brillant all the time with her answers... but we finally figured out why. because she already received the lessons hahaha. But she is great and gave a powerful and simple testimony of the BOOK of mormon and the prophet (she was having problems knowing if Thomas S Monson was a prophet prior to the interview) and she also bore testimony of the savior. Like a true member! haha but i am excited to have her teach with us and be a missionary.

I would say that was the miracle of the week. 

But also some awesome thing i learned and understood about our purpose this week.

We have been studying and thinking a lot about how we can be more BOLD! We need to be better and more powerful teachers. So we have been finding all sorts of scriptures and phrases in preach my gospel that get us excited. We sent these to the sisters this week in our zone and we hope they get excited as well. we are seeing that sometimes things go wrong and we just let it happen... BUT NO. We are represenatitives of Jesus Christ. We have the best calling in the world to really PREACH the gospel and use the power of the spirit! We can see miracles. I hope we have given some fire into the sisters heart. because in reality... THIS IS PRAIA. haha 

So with my purpose i wrote down i wanted to share D and C 112 5 and D and C 88 81.... i cant remember why. Look those up and let me know.

But as we were studying we came across a lot of baptism verses... my comp has quoted John 3 5 everyday before studies. Baptism is where we do a powerful promise we that make with god and we need it to progress! And we need the sacrament to progress as well. A lot of times i thought about the sacrament during lessons this week and we focused on that. OUr church time changed and a lot of members missed the sacrament this week. We really need to help them see it is essecial to take it. i love the sacrament and how i can truly think of my savior and his life! His life is such an example to all of us. I love my savior and i hope i can become more like him each day. 

sorry this letter is so small... haha well not too small.. but you know. 

One thing funny is my companion tried to be cool and fell down the stairs in our apartment this week.. but she is a trooper and we are still good. hahahaah AND we ran home yesterday and little bit and i dont know what was wrong with the dogs in praia but EVERYONE barked at us as we walked by.... it was soooo weird. i do not like dogs. only jasper. 

I love you all

Baptism!

Sister Johnson