Elder D. Todd Christofferson

Well hello everyone :)

 

Sadly I must be quick with this letter, time is short. But after how yesterday was I cannot avoid writing. Its pretty awesome actually.

 

First the funny part... We had an appointment with Jessica and Ricardo, some new investigators (it was our 3rd time teaching them). ...the lesson went really well actually :)... but they have someone who lives there with them, also named jessica oddly enough. We have talked with her at the door a few times but never taught her (although I'm sure we will with some time). She is prolly about 20 and she's from Uruguay. Anyways, right as we were sitting down and getting started with Jess. and Ric. (the inv's) the 20 year old Jessica was just leaving. So naturally, being polite, she says hi to us... First Elder Zierenberg and it was just a simple hand shake and "mucho gusto" ....just like nice to meet you... greeting (She hadn't ever talked with him before). And then she came and was basically like 'oh hey hows it going'  to  me. Now in the hispanic world there is the infamous besito (the lil kissy cheeky thing they always do) so she sorta slightly leaned in to receive one...and obviously us as missionaries, we do not give em...and I just shook her hand and said hey how are you. It was already kinda awkward...then she, not knowing mission rules or anything of that nature, made it even more awkward by leaning in farther, turning her face and basically saying give me a besito (but in far more polite and just like 'well go ahead and say hello' type way). So she is just like inches away from my face and I'm just kinda sitting there feeling super weird and just say something to the effect of, "we don't do that". ....ya soooo awkward you could cut it with a knife. Then she got like super embarrassed, and with a beet red face, left. I felt kinda bad, but it was also super funny. Jessica and Ricardo and Elder Zierenberg...prolly even Jess. and Ric.'s daughter were laughing super hard after she had left. Really just the weirdest lil couple of seconds ever! She like went for it twice and the second time was just like inches away from my face and literally asking for it lol. so that was the humorous side of Sunday.

 

More seriously is that we experienced stake conference. With D. Todd Christofferson from the Quorum of the 12 presiding :) ...the best part were the miracles that happened in getting our people there. It was farther away from the normal building we meet at and we had more investigators than normal in attendance. It was quite the lil day of miracles. We talked with a bunch of people the night before and we were planning on a bunch. Sadly a family couldn't come because the lil toddler was sick and grandma had to go to mass and couldn't babysit (blast mass lol). But we had Harry Lugo there, who is married to an awesome member as well as Reina Contreras there, who is the mother of a family we are teaching. The best part was that Reina brought her sister (who we had never met before) because, "if its something that will be good for me it is something that will be good for her" ...yeah how awesome is that. We didn't see her come in, but she came with a member so she had sweet support. The Spirit was so strong while Elder Christofferson testified...I mean, it is to be expected from one of Christ's Special Witnesses :) While we talked with Reina and got to know her sister after the meeting Reina said, "Here is where we are, and here is where we are going to stay" ...super awesome right? We then had all of our investigators shake the apostle's hand...I'm hoping they just felt the restored power and authority of God pulsing from his hand and know that the church is true... nice wish right.  We set up an appointment with Reina and her sister for today at 5...both of 'em have nice big families. 

Can I get an Amen??? ...talk about a miraculous Sunday.

 

Hope all is well back on the home front :)

Elder Johnson