September 9, 2019
Hey y’all! It’s been such a fun week!
• We were able to pick up 10 new people with week! So crazy but
our area is white and ready to harvest!
• We did a lot of finding through potentials and formers and we
had a lot of success. We met this sweet woman named Amber who could not wait
for us to come back and share more with her and her family! So awesome!
• We got to go to Sister Jacob's baptism in Grand Rapids on
Saturday for Marquita! It was so amazing to see how she has grown in her faith
and chose to make that covenant with God. Seriously the cutest woman alive and
I'm so grateful I got to meet her!
• A couple weeks ago I smashed my finger in a car door and
during church yesterday my fingernail just fell right off. That was a fun
little surprise in sacrament haha.
• We got to meet with our friend Rick again last night and it
was so spiritually uplifting. He has endured so much but has been so prepared for
the gospel. It’s so wonderful being able to share God's plan of happiness for
each one of us and that we can one day be with our families for eternity.
• Sister Jacobs got pulled over this week for running a red
light
. she actually got a
warning from the police, haha—sorry for the click bait but—it was the funniest
thing and we are going to be safer drivers from now on haha!
. she actually got a
warning from the police, haha—sorry for the click bait but—it was the funniest
thing and we are going to be safer drivers from now on haha!
• We have also been working with a lot of returning members
which is so amazing! So many people have different struggles they each face and
reasons for why they chose to stop coming to church, but everyone can find
strength in the Book of Mormon. We have been building that foundation with them
and it is so amazing to see that change within them, because when the Book of
Mormon is true, everything falls into place. Again, I plead with each of you to
read it! It is for EVERYONE! It was written specifically for us in our time and
is here to bless our lives in whatever trials we face.
This week I got to read about the 2,000 stripling warriors and
it was so inspiring. These young men had never fought in a battle before
and only had the knowledge they got from their mothers. In Alma 56, Helaman is
talking to these young men saying, "Therefore what say ye, my sons, will
you go against them to battle?" When I read this, I was thinking about the
battles and challenges we all are faced with every day. Many times, God gives
us these challenges to help us grow and allow us to exercise our faith. The
question for us is, will go to against them to battle and face those challenges
with trust that God will deliver you? The scripture then goes on to say that
"never had I seen so great courage, nay, not amongst all the Nephites,"
and in response they said, "Father, behold our God is with us, and he will
not suffer that we shall fall; then let us go forth ... Now they never had
fought yet they did not fear death; and they did think more upon the liberty of
their fathers than they did upon their lives; yea, they had been taught by
their mothers, that if they did not doubt, God would deliver them." As
these untrained, inexperienced teenagers went up to battle without any
training, they did not fear because they knew God would deliver them. We must
trust God in everything that we do, then we have no need to fear what is to
come.
Thanks for reading and I hope you all have a great week!
♡Sister Johnson
195 Memorial Dr Apt B 21
Sturgis, MI 49091
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