Pateince

Good Afternoon,

This week was great! Well... i mean i always can say that but this week was very emotional. haha good thing sister zimbelman is my companion because we just kind of laughed it all off. So lets see.. where to start.

Lets start with Aisha. She is our investigator who is 16. She is super elect! So awesome... only problem... she is 16. So she needed permission from her mother to be baptized... other problem is her mom lives in france. SO.. her date was to get baptized this week the 19th. We have been asking her for 2 weeks if she talked to her mom and finally on tuesday we decided that we needed to call. Instead of waiting. So she called on our telephone... and guess what... Aisha talks powerfully about the restoration and the book of mormon and about Joseph smith being a prophet of god and her mom Gives PERMISSION. We were so happy and amazed that it actually happened. Her mom is super catholic. But.... well... the next day we walk into aishas house and she gives us the bad news. Her sister called her mom later the next day and must have said something awful about us and now her mom wont even let aisha go to church. We were devastated. Well then we thought that we could do a fast.. And we did. But aisha still does not have permission... so we keep praying but we will see. Patience is something i am learning this month...

Patience is a great attribute of christ that seems to need all of his attributes to have it.. haha we have to have faith.. hope.. and still work diligently as we wait for something good to happen. i asked myself many times this week... Why is missionary work so hard. our mission president responded with a great talk from elder holland that compared the mission of the savior to missionary work. It was not easy for him.. and so it will not be easy for us. But i know that it is not easy for us because we are here to BECOME. Become something... become like our Heavenly father and be like he is. Imagine that. Becoming like our heavenly father, who is our god! It is not going to be easy. And for that Jesus Christ suffered it all. He knows exactly how we feel.

This week was quite a blur. We had a leadership training where i learned how i need to be a better leader. It was a great preparation for a division with an awesome sister who is kind of struggling with the desire to be out here. But she is great and i know she will keep going. It was funny because we both did not know each other at all but apparently she had heard a lot about me. We got along super well and then at the end of the division we were talking about some of her previous companions that i know really well and she said some nice things that they said about me.. i said *oh thats great that they said that... i thought everyone was just scared of me.* and then without hesitation she says... *OH i was SUPER scared of you*... hahahaha how do i give off this vibe.. all the sisters have this in depth fear of me for some reason. i guess i need to be nicer. sister zimbelman says its just because i am good at what i do... but i know i better be more compassionate and kind. hahaha

But i was super sick before the division and got a blessing... and the blessing was awesome and i was healed. The power of the priesthood restored on this earth is truly a blessing! I am so grateful for this great power that we all can take part of! Heavenly father truly loves us.

But that is about it for this week... Just that i love you all. We truly are so blessed to live on the earth in a time of the last and great dispensation! And to be able to have such great technology to share our beleifs. Keep sharing... keep being missionaries! There is no other or great work! In all the little things we do we are being missionaries. I do know this church is true. Because i prayed and asked god if it was and i recieved an answer from him by the power of the holy ghost. That is the unique invite of our church... to pray and ask god! And through him who knows all truth we will recieve our answer.

Love Sister Johnson

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