Leap Year

Dear Family,

Well i will start out with a funny story... that is funny now but in the moment it really wasnt that funny. 

So here in cabo verde, sal... we often have problems with AGUA.. (water). So one morning i woke up and i followed my normal schedule... get dressed to exercise.. do my hair.. and then... go to the bathroom. Well this day i put my long braids in a pony tail down my back... after i finished using the bathroom i turned my head around to get the toilet paper and wacked the scency thing off the top of the toilet with my hair and it just happened to hit the old rusty tube that connects the pipes to the toilet and WAM i feel this hard water splashing on my back.... i got up quickly and tried to turn off the water pipe but the turn off part was rusted too and so i ended up braking it off without turning it off or anything.. so here i am ... standing trying to stop the water from going everywhere with my hands. I end up putting my finger in the right spot to stop the water from getting everywhere...but my bathroom is already a lake. i call my companion to come help and we call some people but no ones phones are on in that moment... we then get super lucky and hear our neighbors leave and we ask them for help and they knew who the house guy was and we got thing settled eventually and they found a way to turn off the water. but yeah! i woke up super fast that day... i usually dont say a word until 9 o clock companion study but that day i was forced to speak. hahaha but now all is good and i got a good working toilet and everything! 

Next.. is some updates on the work here. We are seeing so many miracles. We have taught some lessons that have left impacts on me! 

You all remember Eugenio from last week. He is progressing amazingly. This week he went to church and our lesson in principles of the gospel was about prayer and he bore an amazing testimony of prayer in his life and how since he has started praying he knows that god loves him... we watched as he gained a stronger testimony of prayer in that lesson, the spirit was so strong! He spent the whole day at church and activites. He is super excited for his baptism. He already has plans... once he leaves the army next year... to serve a mission! 

Next is Benito. Remember benito? Yeah well we taught him in january and he was preparing to get baptized but then his work schedule got so busy and he never had time to talk to us. We found him about 2 or 3 weeks ago again and showed him how to put the book of mormon on his telephone. then about a week ago we were in a members house teaching a lesson and he knocks on the door. after the lesson he said he just felt like he should come to the members house in that moment and has been reading\listening to the book of mormon and is in mosiah. He is preparing for baptism in the month of march. it is great when the lord just puts.... literally PUTS people into our hands. 

Lets see.. i think that is it for the stories. This week went by super slow... haha a lot of unplanned things just happened like the water and all and we had a lot of patience builders. but february is almost over and its going to be march soon and march means MIRACLES. It also is march madness... but yeah... i hope this march is a march of miracles and we can have a month of diligence and keep helping others come unto christ. 

I would like to explain something i learned this week in our zone conference as well. We had zone conference and as it is my last i was picked on as i like to say. i got called up to do a practice in front of the zone and it was an interesting one... I was asked to teach my "14 year old rebel son" who had just come up to me and said he doesnt want to go to church anymore... it was an interesting practice but i felt my love for this son during it. I then was asked to teach an investigator who had just told me he didnt read the book of mormon... I realized how my attitude and way of teaching kind of changed. I realized that it really shouldnt. I love these people so much and if i would teach them like a son i think they would feel that love even more. We really need to see people through our heavenly fathers eyes. We are ALL children of a loving heavenly father and a lot of the times our heavenly father puts us in places so that we can bless one of his other children that he loves just as much as he loves us. So i have applied that lately.. teaching people like a parent and seeing them how heavenly father does. And i have felt my love increase for them. 

I love you all so much and ate proximo! (until next time) 

Sister Johnson