Sister Riana Johnson: Life as a Michiganary: Food is the solution to every problem

August 12, 2019

Hello hello,

This week was a rough one compared to the amazing weeks we've previously been having.

We've seen the amazing family we're teaching experience trial after trial in a seemingly never ending cycle.

When we teach people about the Plan of Salvation, we teach that the Fall of Adam and Eve is a good thing, that it is and always was part of God's plan for us to come to earth and experience mortality. But for us to gain experience and make choices in this life there has to be opposition in all things. Without the bad days we wouldn't appreciate the good, without the sorrow we couldn't know joy, and without trials we wouldn't be able to enjoy God's blessings. It's become a simple truth I've seen while serving a mission that while these people we are teaching grow to understand, love, and accept the true gospel of Jesus Christ, the adversary tries equally hard to push them to abandon their efforts to strengthen their faith. He will do all he can to stop people from finding the truth, and the easiest way to do that is to put as many obstacles in our way as possible. This family is strong and we know they have the faith to get through these trials, but that doesn't make it easier watching them go through so much and not being able to do anything to help.

On another, more happy note... Sister James and her daughter, Nicole, took us out to ice cream and we were late for curfew because we just had too much fun with them.