Transfers Wooo

A wedding

Dear Family!!!

Well yesterday was transfers for those of who you didnt know... which is everyone i think. i think its always a surprise to you all but it is for me too. Well i got a new companion! She is Sister Dorgan! She is from utah...we lived in the same house for these past 3 transfers and she just got changed to my area as sister leader with me and her companion went to Sal with sister Zimbelman. her old area will be white washed by a sister who was in the island of brava and who served with me in santo antao! haha i think its funny. i know and have spent a good amount of time with almost every sister on the mission until now! And the only one i didnt know will come to serve in praia so we will get to know each other well. It is just great! I love our little cabo verde mission. but anyway sister zimbelman is lucky she gets to end her mission.. die.. in the area that she started.. was born in! That is super cool and she will  be with my daughter.. the sister i trained.. sister kohlert in sal. They will do miracles together. I will be with sister dorgan and basically we will have the time of our lives. I am not sure if we have stopped laughing since last night! But we will get to work because we got some work to do.

Monday.. was a crazy day as we recieved a bunch of sisters to our house for council. and we planned our training alllll day... we tried with many failed attempts to use a talk from general conference but finally it worked...we learned a lot of patience on that day.

tuesday... we had an AMAZING counsel! We gave our training and i think it went very well and then we made some great changes and goals to the mission. And we are going to start ponderizing and memorizing a scripture as a mission and also our goals for baptism are going up and our daily goals just got a great increase! We are working! haha i was super impressed by the zone leaders in mindelo and how they decided to cut out some common missionary break times to work harder. I was inspired and now me and my comp are going to use our time even more efficiently! No more long lunches. Quick and easy and out.

Sister mathews gave a great training on the laws and ordinances and how the pattern in the scriptures is ask... recieve... conversion... SHARE. we need to share what we recieve and help our investigators do the same.

wednesday.. we had zone meeting and transmitted all the information we learned the day before. We gave another training which i think was better than the first! And we got inspired by our leaders to do even better! This zone is awesome.

thursday... we had a normal day... finally.

friday... weekly planning... i was in a terrible mood. i dont know why but finally at the end we had comp inventory and like always sister zimbelman inspired me and i got over my anger! I think sometimes i want to show my love for these people so bad... but then we love them so much we get SOO mad when they dont complete committments. it is a constant battle. But i am seeing that we need to see the people in the eyes of our heavenly parents! Like said in the testimony of Elder Renlund

saturday.. normal... kind of. 

sunday... we got the transfer call! woot woot. And we got to teach some great people and had an amazing family night in the house of a less actie. She is so great!!! She invited all her friends.

So yeah this week we are helping two people prepare for baptism. I wil share the story of one this week because it was an awesome miracle. So we had a great zone meeting on wednesday and our AP who is from cabo verde talked about his story of conversion and it was incredible. He just a practice on how to figure out the doubts of our investigators by asking questions and turns out the practice was his story. He was an investigator of gold but never went to church because his mom would kick him out of the house... well he read 1 nephi 3 verse 7 and decided to go to church! what faith! But the thing is that same day we go and teach our investigator who is gold.. but had a doubt about baptism. she had the SAME problem. her parents will disown her if she gets baptized. We used 1 nephi 3:7 and she started crying. she knows what she needs to do. there is so much power in practices. we were so prepared for her because we had just practiced. i know in each phase of our lives we can practice for things ahead of time and the spirit will truly bring to our minds in that moment what we need. this is why we NEED to study and pray each and everyday to be prepared.

love you all

sister johnson