Miracles Miracles Miracles

8.23.10

Hello everybody. Hope everyone had a great last week. It has been rainy here...which is good and bad depending on the moment. Sometimes its super humid and thats no fun, but we're makin it work. I imagine its sunny and beautiful back on the west ...it always is right ;)

 

Well this week was a good one. Lots of cool blessings. Mainly, we found a lot of new people to teach. We were truly led by the Spirit to find those that were willing to recieve us. 12 new investigators, which doubles the mission standard, I believe is a tie for the most I've gotten in one week my entire mission. Also, there was a day in which we had exchanges this last week and I got to serve for a day with my old MTC companion (well one of them) Elder Gamez. It was interesting to see how we have both grown as missionaries and teachers since the MTC days ~1 year ago. Keeping the cool blessings coming: I got to see the now Returned Missionary Elder (Michael) Davis this last week. He was my first companion, or my trainer/pops as some would say. He came to a sealing of a few people in the ward. It was really nice to see him and talk for a little bit, although it was weird to see him without a tag on. Another cool little blessing is learning how to make this amazing little "cheese bread" (pao de quejo) ...my spelling could be off... its a brazilian thing and its super good. But someone taught me how and I'm pretty sure I'm gonna give it a try and see how it goes. I am quite excited :)

 

In terms of the work it was a great week though. We had some great new people we found. I realized that I love youth.... mid to late teens are always willing and open to listen. We were able to teach a couple of youth and they had great questions and seemed truly interested. I am quite excited for them. On top of that, we also had two people this week invite us right in... which like never happens. One of them is sooooo prepared. He's having such a hard time in his life and is just very much so depressed and searching for peace and happiness. ...when we knocked on his door he asked us, "aren't you going to come in?" (in spanish of course). It was a great lesson. Also we were blessed with a great little tender mercy of the Lord. We were trying a few people in this one part of our area yesterday and nothing was really coming of it. We hadn't even had any good contacts or anything. I was ready to head to where we were going next and start doing our next plans, but Elder McBroom mentioned how he hates when you feel like you don't even do anything in a particular area you had planned to work in. ...so we decided to knock one more door... We looked across the door and saw three doors, and he let me pick which one we'd knock, I did. Then as we walked over he said, "alright Elder Johnson, lets see how much faith you have" and motioned for me to knock the door. As I climbed the stairs I offered a prayer in my heart that we'd be able to find someone at home and teach them, but not for our own satisfaction...rather for the Lord. We then knocked on the door and Jose let us right in. It was amazing. It truly never happens....we hadn't even said who/what we were, simply that we had felt that we needed to knock that door. We taught him and now we have a return appointment. Even prayers in the heart are heard and answered.

 

Hope your all doing great! 

Much Love,

Elder Johnson