September 12, 2016

This week has been really good! But we have also had some downfalls as well... We were teaching Andrea, but her husband decided that she is not allowed to go to the Mormon church. He is being very rude so Bishop and the Relief Society President are the only ones staying in contact right now. We are laying low until the situation clears up. But we did have a very powerful lesson with her this past week! We invited the Mission President and his wife! They were so great! He was very bold and blunt with her when it came to contradictions, he made sure she knew exactly whatever she was trying to say was not right and that this is where it says it and what it means. And the best part was that he did it in a loving way. something I sometimes struggle with. I’m usually pretty mean when I smash false doctrine or prove people wrong. haha President Weed is just perfect and so is his wife. They were perfect for her! So we will see if anything happens with it. For now we are just going to lay low.

But we also saw the Fullmer’s again and the wife and one of the boys kept our commitments, but the dad didn't. But we did find out he got orders to go to Georgia so she will be staying for 3 months then going to be with him down there in Georgia. So we are going to really start working hard on getting her active now that he will be gone, since it seems like he is the one that is kinda holding them back! We had a powerful lesson with them on Saturday! They didn't come to church, but we did get them to both bear testimony of the Gospel of Jesus Christ! So we’re very excited to see if we can get her active enough to become a little more converted to the gospel!

Otherwise that has been our week, nothing to crazy or amazing but kind of a slow week number wise. We did have 14 lessons fall through or cancel. But none the less we have worked through it! Hopefully this next week can be a lot better! I’m sure it will!  I love you all and miss you all so much!

Elder Johnsen