Dear Family,
I love you all! thanks for your inspiring emails each week. i find a lot of strength in them! This week was full of smiles and laughs! I have felt a lot of joy this week. Mostly it came from Du! i dont think i have talked a lot about her but i did send a picture. So Du was a reference from a investigator that we are teaching. She has been coming to a lot of our lessons with her friend and accepted to do all the commitments but we didnt really follow up with her because we were focused on her friend. it turns out that she had been keeping every single commitment... reading the book of mormon, living the law of chastity, the word of wisdom and not drinking coffee... for 2 whole weeks and we didnt even know it! She came to church for the second time and we decided that her friend was kinda holding her back... so we taught Du by herself and felt that we needed to invite her to be baptized that week! She was super surprised but had her mind opened for sure. Her biggest worry was that her family is super catholic. her daughters even help out the padre every week in church. So i could see how it would be a huge test of faith. But she showed a lot of faith and said that she would pray about it.
The next day we show up with a member who had similar difficulties... power of members!!!! And she shared her testimony very powerfully about how none of her family has chosen to follow her example for 20 years but how she still goes strong and loves them and knows it is the right decision. This helped a lot and du said that she would get baptized this week! And she was!!! It was great to see the change in her as we taught her all the lessons. The good thing is she is super super intelligent and understood everything! The bishopric is already thinking of a calling for her! And now we have to help her daughters...
her daughters have been very interesting. They act like they dont want to listen but then they wil ask to see a verse in the book of mormon or whisper silently in the back... haha i think they are about to change. WE are going to bring book of mormons for each of them!
So update with erika and vitor! A whole lot changed this week. Erika started opening up about how something weird happened with her neighbors and how she was really preoccupied about that. but i think she is ready to forgive. They got their identification cards worked out and now we just need to mark the day of marriage! We are hoping miracle will happen and this week they can be baptized. We will see. Their phone is not working and they keep going out of our area to the in laws house!!!! ugh! haha so they just need to come on back home so we can teach the gospel! :)
We also had a division with some of the sisters that are doing good... kinda struggling with doing contacts! i have seen how christlike attributes take over when we let them and we talk about things in a way that will edify and not destroy! I have learned a lot and changed in that way. I love divisions too because we get to see a different way people teach and present things in simple and understandable terms! i love how the sister i was with explained the restoration! i want to study and get better about teaching that great and powerful good news!
Well.. i think that is all i have for now! I made some food this week that was super delicious... it was with lobster. haha i think maybe i am finally learning how to cook. you all can be proud. my next thing to master is to make fish! fish is just sooooo good. I am sorry mom... but you have to learn to love it! :)
Love Sister Johnson
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