I made it here! and i absolutly love it! i
feel like i have been here forever but, in reality i have only been here
7 short days! becuase i only get to check my mail on mondays for an
hour i would love to get letters sent thoughout the week if you have
time! even if they are typed letters-it would be awesome hearing from
you. if you send a letter today i would get it friday. sooo... just if
you have time please :). they did find my bike, it was never lost, there
are just so many people over it and it was a miscommunication. I have
so so so much to tell you and i know that i would be able to remember
it all but i will write what i can remember. Florida is beautiful. the
humidity is crazy but we are in the car most of the time so it hasnt
killed me yet. there are lizzards EVERYWHERE. i will be sending a lot of
pics home and you can see them in the pictures. there are really just a
lot of reptiles everywhere ha. i have seen lizzards, turtles, frogs,
and a baby (huge) iguana. kidna cool. are area is fairly big and so we
drive. this area is not a biking area so i will just use my bike for
morning exersize. you will be getting my letter that talks about my
first night here! it was amazing. i gave out three BOMs my first night.
That def got me in the missionary mode. i wanted to talk to everyone
that night! My comp is sister andrus and she went to BYUI shes from CALI
and she is so great! we get along really well and are simular in so
many ways! i am very grateful for her! We live with two other sisters
one of them was Kristas comp. sister geest. us four have a great time!
We do this amazing thing here called harvesting. i will let you know
what it is in a bit but i will talk about it a lot throughout my mission
becuase we do it ALL the time. we are over YSA so anyone that is not
YSA that we find we have to pass but thats okay cuz we are always
getting YSA passed to us as weel. so it works out great. i am just dying
to share with you my amazing stories though so i will do that now.
Elders had been harvesting in this one apt comlex and they found this
girl(we cant use names in email but i will write home too tell you
names). she was passed to us on monday so before i was here. sense wed
we have been stopping by at her house everyday so that we could meet her
and teach her. she was never there. on friday her sister(who has kids,
so not YSA) was home and we talked to her and offered them a blessing.
then she said she would let her sister know we stopped by. we went back
again on saturday and she was home! i was beyond excited! we invited her
to be baptized and she said yes. she is getting baptized next sunday on
july 8. she is amazing! she is so ready to hear the gospel. she came to
church with us on suday and she bore her testimony. yeah this is real.
she said that she has been to other churches and that she doesnt really
like church. and then she said not only do i like this chruch, but i
love it. i really jsut love it here. i wanted to jump right out of the
benches i was so excited! i have already seen so many miracles and i
just got here. she said she feels so good and happy and that her heart
was racing inside and i said YES! thats the spirit talk to you! she is
just so great and i will def send pics home of her after her baptism
next week! so story number two.... we met this guy named david on
saturday as well and he is and elect. hes been prepared to hear the
gospel right now. he too came to church, bore his testimony about how
the gospel is giving him strength and wisdom, and is getting baptized on
july 8. i wish i could go into detail about him but i am running out of
time. all i know is that this gospel is true! God really has prepared
so many of his children to hear the gospel and he is just waiting for us
to ask for guidance to find them! i cant wait for next sunday and for
these two to be baptized!
dad, i have been reading in alma too! i love reading about alma and
the sons of mosiah. they are incredible! the book of mormon is true and
it def applies to us in these latter days! i think its awesome that we
are about in the same spot. im about 20 chapters behind you though! i
will try to catch up!! thats great that you are staying busy! thank you
so much again for all the support that you are offering me in so many
different ways!
Family i miss you all so much and i love you all with my whole
heart! the mission is the best thing that has ever happend to me. i see
the lords hand him my life through out each day. i am learning so much
and my faith in increasing so much. i feel so blessed to be out here
serving the people of Florida. There is no place that i would rather be
right now. i just wanted to share one of my favorite scriptures with you
real quick and then i got to go! its alma 26:12. i love how it says in
the Lords strength we can do all things. most days i feel spirtually
weak, like i dont know enough to be out hear and that my faith is
somewhat weak. but if i trust in the lord i can do all things. i can
know what to say, study, and share. i know that this is true. i know
that in the lord strength i can serve him. i can find spirtual,
physical, and emotional strength as i trust in him! and i know that he
too can offer any of us strength if we just turn to him.
sorry i am out of time i will tell you about harvesting next email.
i love you all so much. i cant tell you how grateful i am for each one
of you! stay strong and keep having a great summer. i miss going out on
the boat but there will be plenty of time for that when i get home!!
send me pictues! mom thank you for checking on me, i dont think i need
anything sent to me right now but i will let you know if i do! thanks
for always being such a great example to me! you are such an amazing
mom!
love love love you! sister johnson
p.s. sad news, i have already gained weight as you will see in my
pics. ha. oh well theres nothing i can do. the first pic is of my MTC
district. my comp was the half african american. and my comp now is the
one with the curly hair. i cant wait to tell you more next week xoxoxo
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