May 4, 2020
hey hey!
the week has flown by again. the stay-at-home order has been
extended until may 29th, so we are looking forward to that! we have
been so busy with meetings and lessons. it is so cool. also it is transfer week,
and we are sadly losing sister cook. she is wonderful, and i wish i got more
than three weeks with her! i am lucky i get to stay here with sister nielsen
though! here are highlights:
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| one of our final sleepovers as a trio :'( |
• DAVID! such a cool guy. so we had our first lesson with him
two weeks ago and it was great! sadly, work kept getting in the way so we
weren't able to meet with him until last night. in our lesson, he kept asking
about baptism and how he could feel ready to be baptized. we ended up throwing
our plan for the lesson out the door and taught him about the gospel of Jesus
Christ. he really wants to know what God wants him to do, and we put him on
date to be baptized the end of June! the lesson was very spirit led and the
members we had that came were so wonderful in helping him understand baptism
and its importance. so so cool!!
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| me and sister cook love nutty buddies so we celebrated putting david on date with some. |
• we had a really cool lesson with our friend Kevin! he has been
keeping his commitments so well and loves coming to our church services. we
taught about the law of chastity this week and he said it wouldn't be easy to
live, but that he could do it! the Lord has prepared him so much to come to
this point.
• our friend ryan is doing good! he still has a lot of things he
is struggling to find answers to. we were able to discuss with him how we feel
and recognize the spirit. we also taught about fasting, and we are going to fast
with him on sunday to help him find answers!
• because we are covering the lansing and williamston areas, we
had the opportunity to speak in both of the ward's zoom devotionals! we spoke
in one about how the restoration points us to the Savior! and it really does.
everything that has come through Joseph Smith and our prophets, centers around
the truth that God is our Father, and Christ is our Redeemer! we also got to
share with the williamston area about our facebook page! such good stuff.
• we had an amazing book of mormon class this week! it was the
best one we have had since i have been here. we followed the counsel of
president gentile, of the mission presidency and created a powerpoint to help
engage those on the call. it was really fun and we had many people reach out to
us after and said that they found answers from that! i love how the spirit
works like that.
we had a really powerful mission devotional last night. the plan
was for president vidmar to join us in our devotional from california over zoom
but due to health reasons, he couldn't. we had a testimony meeting and it was
so powerful. each testimony born was from the spirit and a pure testimony. i
felt so much peace as each one sharing their knowledge of our Savior. i would
like to take this opportunity to bear my testimony to each of you. i know that
Jesus Christ lives. He is the Savior of the world and the only name given under
heaven that a man can be saved. He paid the price for sin and suffered pain
beyond anything we will ever know in this life, because He loves us. i love
Him, and i love my Father in Heaven, and i leave this with you in the name of
His Beloved Son, Jesus Christ, amen.
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| my two favorite people on the earth!! i love the brennans. |
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| lansing state capital! |
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| the art district again! |
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| update on my goose friends: they hang out outside our apartment everyday. so blessed |
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| funny story. sister nielsen does not enjoy the geese as i do and was not a fan of the one seen in this image. during our prayer to start contacting, he tried to jump up on the table next to her and flapped his wings. it was too funny. he's really friendly--good intentions i'm sure. |
have a wonderful week!
sister johnson
riana.johnson@missionary.org
Sister Johnson
500 W Lake Lansing Rd Apt B 16
East Lansing, MI 48823-1479
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