message of hope and healing

 November 16, 2020

 

• mathew is doing so good!! he shares his testimony frequently with us and others and the Lord has been blessing him with so many spiritual experiences. we taught him and his daughter twice this week and it was so good. his date is the 28th and it couldn't seem more perfect with how everything had timed out.

mathew!!

• jimmy is also so good. we taught his whole family twice!! we did the plan of salvation as board game and the girls loved it. 

our game we played with jimmy's family

• i hit 18 months as a missionary yesterday. that blows my mind haha. feels like just yesterday i was hopping on a plane to utah then to michigan. God has blessed me so much in the time i have been serving and i thank him every day that i got to serve here among God's elect.

MOST IMPORTANT: come hear a message of hope and healing from our prophet. -FRIDAY, 1pm est, 11am mst

find the hope and healing God wants for you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlcILxGmVrI&feature=youtu.be 

love you all
sister johnson

petoskey :))

   

lake? always.

the cheboygan group. i love them

riana.johnson@missionary.org

Sister Riana Johnson
135 North Benton Street
Cheyboygan, MI 49721

are we always at the lake?? the answer is yes

 

November 9, 2020

• Jimmy. I love Jimmy. We taught him several times this week and we are actually going to teach his girlfriend and two daughters tonight!! He just lost his dad this week and when we taught him the Plan of Salvation, he said he felt like a weight was lifted off his shoulders. He is also the funniest person alive. 

• Mathew is so sweet and so good. He sadly missed church this week so we have to move his baptism at least a week. Otherwise he is doing so good and has been studying and praying more than most people I know

• We watched the sunrise one morning and had a lesson with Alex at sunset. So dang pretty. Plus she brought her dog

 

• We had exchanges!! It was so fun to be with all the sisters that were in Lansing with me a few months ago

 

• Jimmy recommended this trail that leads to the lake and it was so beautiful. We went after church on Sunday and spent some quality time on the beach

 

• It has also been insanely nice out. Idk what happened but we have been mega blessed

 

• We had our district pday in Petoskey today and someone the elders are teaching saw us from her house so she took our picture haha

• We grilled steak and made s'mores. Thanks to the group for giving us steaks and thanks to Robert for letting us use his grill

"Complacency is not the place to be" - Sister Hansen

 

sister johnson

riana.johnson@missionary.org

Sister Riana Johnson
135 North Benton Street
Cheyboygan, MI 49721

too much candy

November 2, 2020

 

words cannot describe the fun we have around here. i absolutely love cheboygan and my companions and i never want to leave! hope you all had a lovely halloween, we ate tons of candy and watched the chosen ;) also sad day- it snowed all day yesterday and it's only getting worse. here are some highlights from the week

• we taught mathew again! he is so good and is so willing to live God's commandments. we had to cancel an appointment that we planned to bring president and sister heap to because of a tough situation but we were able to have a lesson with them instead. he is excited to meet them soon though!

president and sister heap!!!

• we had district council in sault ste marie! we went across the mackinac bridge and saw all three great lakes that are close by! so so cool. 

mackinac bridge :s

lake huronnnnn from many angles

too many cute pics of our companionship

• we had a superrrrr inspired lesson with alex. we went in with a plan to read a chapter from the bible and from the book of mormon focusing on "fruits" and had to 180 and study those same chapters with a completely different focus. Heavenly Father knew she needed those scriptures but not in the way we had prepared it.

• we picked up a new friend named jimmy! he is really cool and has been taught by missionaries previously. we met with him three times this past week and he is so prepared! the Lord has really blessed and prepared cheboygan for us

sister despain at the farmers market. she is an angel

we had a north america north east area fireside broadcast with elder and sister uchtdorf. he taught that knowledge without action is merely trivia. knowledge becomes power when we act on that knowledge. 

 

act on whatever prompting you have been feeling today or this week

sister johnson

 

riana.johnson@missionary.org

Sister Riana Johnson
135 North Benton Street
Cheyboygan, MI 49721