This
morning, when we were leaving for the library, Sister Nash opened up
the door and was like "look your package came!" and I said "I didn't
order anything!!!"
Hahahaha but to my lovely surprise-- I
had a package from mom!!! AND it made my day. The lovely Trader Joe's
goodies were just what Sister Nash and I need. We opened up the
melted-then-re-hardened bag of yogurt pretzels and chiseled away at it.
SO GOOD. and perfect. I love those dried cherries BTW. UNSULFERED AND
UNSWEETENED. hallelujah!
YOU KNOW YOU'RE A RED NECK WHENNNNNNN.... you fill
pot holes with horse manure. Yes. #onlyinAppleValley. We were headed to
meet a new part member family in the ward, headed down one of our usual
crappy roads, and yes, there was manure filling up the holes. I'm not
sure what different it made, but I guess it was cheaper than asphalt...
Also, another random funny story... A few nights
ago, lovely Sister Nash randomly woke up in the middle of the night
(2:30am to be exact) and turned on the light in the room. I twitched,
rolled over and glared at her-- after which she realized what she had
done and turned it off and went right back to sleep. It was hilarious.
And she has no explanation for her random need to turn on the light.
Our investigator Sabrina! She hasn't been able to
meet with us for a while. I'm actually not sure if I have told you about
her before... There's too many people to talk about them all. But
anywayyssss. She doesn't have a religious background, so teaching her is
wonderful because she is thirsting for knowledge. But teaching her is
also hard because she is so skeptical about everything and has never
recognized the spirit before. Anywayyyyyysssss. SHE PRAYEDDDDDD. This is
a woman that isn't really sure if there is a God. She prayed right
before our eyes and it was a glorious thing. Angels rejoiced and I
almost cried. I can promise you that God is indeed real, He does listen to and answer our prayers, and He does desire
for us to be happy. God is the author of our destiny. But the choices
we make plays an ever-important role in the outcome of that destiny.
Audrey-- the lady who's lawn we mowed-- has been
really busy. So we haven't gotten in the door again. But we will!
prayers for her please!
OHHHH YEAH! And we were
able to re-establish contact with our investigator Isaiah!!!!!!!! We
haven't been sure if he has been avoiding us or busy or what... but as
it turned out.. his phone had gotten turned off. hahahaha so he really
wasn't avoiding us. WELLLLL him and his girlfriend Sarah came to the
ward picnic and then to church on Sunday! They were happy and had a good
time. We have more appointments with them this week and Isaiah is on
baptismal date, and Sarah we hope to begin teaching soon!!!
Which brings me to the story of the ward
partyyyy..... Sister Nash and I are really good, sweet, obedient little
missionaries and everyone sees us as that... So we decided to be a
little crazy and we brought a trash can full of water balloons to the
ward picnic... Some other kids there had the same idea and brought
coolers full of water, and when they started throwing that at each
other, Sis Nash and I ran to our car and brought out ours and joined the
fight. Don't worry. We let them have most of the fun.... but then the
kids ganged up on us and started chasing us with coolers full of water.
So I did the logical thing and hid amongst the old people, so I would
not get dumped on. But Sister Nash ran like the champion that she is..
and was chased until the boys caught up with her. Anywayyyssss... so
this guys named Brother Poulson was so kind, and helped us dump all the
ice water from the water bottle cooler into our bucket... then we
sneaked up to the boys that were trying to get us wet, and dumped the
ice water on them..... No shame. We are 12% positive that there is
nothing against any of that in the white handbook. But that was my 30
seconds of rebellion for my mission.
AT CHURCH THIS WEEEEEEEEK. Okay so our usual Less
actives were there. Sister Mays, Sister Kirchner, Ashley! BUT THENNNN
Sister Bartok came! She is the sassy Italian lady from Chile. And Isaiah
and his girlfriend came. ANDDDD our recent convert Sam, brought her
littler sister to church. ANNNDDDD Sister Kammeyer came again. ANNNDDD
Roxy (our other recent convert) has been bringing her boyfriend to
church and he has been less active for sometime. SO MANY PEOPLE WERE AT
CHURCH AND IT WAS FANTASTICCCCC.
Ashley is just loving life and enjoying being active. She followed
us around at the picnic and took pictures of us with everyone, but
wouldn't let us take a picture with her. BUT ONE DAY WE WILLLLL..
I read this article by Elder Ballard called "Do Things That
Make a Difference". ITS WAY LONG BUT EVERYONE NEEDS TO READ IT.
Especially YSA age people. It is from the June Ensign in 1983, but is
from an address he gave in 1981. everyone read it and email me your
thoughts about it. It's where I got the quote "Be creators of
circumstances and not creatures of them."
He talks about controlling our life, our thoughts, our
actions, and utilizing self-discipline to do so. It pretty much changed
my life and made me want to be a better person, more effective
missionary, etc. He says, "I believe that when we have the proper
attitude, when we learn to reach our goals, then when we apply the
ingredient or self-discipline, there is not much that any one of us in
this audience tonight could not accomplish, if we are willing to pay the
price." If we want to be in the midst of good circumstances, we must
use self-discipline as well as the atonement of Jesus Christ- both which
will enable us to over come all things and successfully move forward in
life.. living the life we want to live. We must grasp not only our
future, but also our present, firmly and press forward with faith..
otherwise someone else will come from behind and snatch it from us.
There is a price to pay for success in life... but no price is greater
than that which was paid by our Savior Jesus Christ. We must make
sacrifices is we are to get along.
all in all.. this was a pretty favorite week.
I hope it was favorite for you all as well.
PEACE AND BLESSINGGGGSSSSSS
Sister Johnson
Oh. quote of the week--- by a littler girl in our ward.
Her- "Do you have lots of freckles?"
Me- "Not a lot, but I do have a big birthmark on my nose!"
Her- "Oh... well then what are those bumps on your face?"
Me- "ZITS!! And one day when you are a teenager, you will have them too"
Oh how she boosted my confidence that day.
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