Sturgis it is!

August 27, 2019

Hello everyone!

It has been an awesome week and we had transfers! Sister Nuttall is staying in Midland and I'm down in Sturgis now! My new companion is Sister Jacob's and she is the sweetest! We came out together and are pink washing! Crazy stuff going on here.

Here are some highlights from the week: 

• We have been meeting with the Bushre family every night and it has been such a blessing to see them grow! They are so amazing and were so hard to leave!

• Our ward campout was on Friday and it was a so fun! Any place with s’mores is a place I want to be.

• Our carbon monoxide detector went off around 10:15pm on Tuesday so we had to go stay at the other sisters’ apartment. Grateful to be alive and well! 

• We got our transfer calls and cried I was so sad to leave Midland and Sister Nuttall but I know that Sturgis is where I need to be! 

• With the help of our ward, we got the Bushre's a nice set of new scriptures! They loved it and were so excited to bring them to church!

Something that has really stuck with me this week was 2 Nephi 10:23 which says: "Therefore, cheer up your hearts, and remember that ye are free to act for yourselves- to choose the way of everlasting death or the way of eternal live." Since the foundation of the Earth, we were given the gift of agency. This allowed us to choose to follow our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ by coming to Earth. This gift also allows us to decide if we are willing to follow our Savior in our thoughts and actions. Every day we make choices that affect us so we must be willing to use our agency to help and lift others and become more Christlike. I am so grateful that I have the opportunity to be a missionary and to share this wonderful gospel with the people around me! 

Love you all!

♡Sister Johnson

riana.johnson@missionary.org