Lets get ready to rumble

Dear family,

YESSS! We had a baptism this week. I am sooooo happy. Djony finally made it to the waters of baptism... So he is someone we have been teaching since like august. He was a reference from a recent convert-- Micael.. who we baptized in august and they live together. So each time we went to teach Micael we taught djony. Djony was a little bit slower. he progressed super fast and then went off the face of the earth and we dont know why. About a few weeks ago we found him and started teaching him again... Actually it was when i got to go on a division with sister Coelho when she was here for leadership conference... We ended up teaching about the atonement and he changed completely. he stopped trying to disappear and we got to reteach him a lot of things. So yeah long story short he was baptized on saturday and confirmedsunday. We got a new bishop this past week in our ward and he already marked an interview with him so i hope him and micael can help each other. We are also talking to their other friend, Samora who has a date for the 7 of November. Its awesome how things work out. Friends help friends. This is a pure example of one by one. The lord truly is doing his work.

Any way what else happened... umm Me and my comp are having a great time together and the work is really starting to get going! We have a baptism this week that was supposed to be last week but in her interview she was completely honest and said she didnt know that jospeh smith was a prophet. So... yeah! We worked on that. The lesson we had with her when she finally decided to be baptized was a great one... we found out what she needed. She needed to know that baptism was only one part... Getting the gift of the holy ghost is what completes baptism! We testified of the gift of the holy ghost. She said "i am starting to see the world in a different way" and we said " that is the spirit." It is truly incredible how the spirit teaches us and helps us to see the world in a different way. We can be warned and truly guided.

I think a funny story about this week is during companion study we realized that this month is halloween. We discussed quickly what we were going to be... My comp said that this halloween she will be a missionary. I thought for a second and said " i think i will try being just a member of the church this year" my comp got all serious and said "Wow sister... that will be a SCARY costume." Just to let you all know... we have decided that there should be no such thing as a member. We call everyone missionaries now. It makes it more fun. And every member a missionary right?! woot woot. 

I love this gospel. Sorry this email is short. I want to reply to people more personally. There isnt a lot of stuff for all of you generally. Just that i hope you all are being missionaries because if you look for your own salvation... you wont find it.. if you lose yourselves in this work that is when you will find it. Exortation from sister johnson. Stop being selfish and get to work people!

Sister Johnson

Djony made it to baptism