October 17, 2016

This week was great! We got the car and have been killing it in finding people and setting up appointments! We have tons of lessons set up for this coming week! We’re super excited to be able to be teaching a lot of people again. We have also been going into Cradock again; which I pretty much swore I would never do again but with the car we can go through the place and not get jumped or shot at. So that's a plus. We have been going through all our former and potential investigators trying to contact as many people as we can in our area before we have to switch the car back to the other Elders. We met with Sister Fullmer and we went hard in the paint talking about the Sabbath day. We didn't rebuke her, but we made it apparent that she isn't keeping the Sabbath day holy. She took it well and said she would strive to be better about it. She still didn't come to church but we’re going to keep trying to get her there. She has a less active friend that is coming to live with her for about a month and so she was telling us how she wants to be able to reactivate her. So we told her that she needed to be coming to church also in order for it to work. So we are working on that as well.

We also had a pretty funny miracle happen this week. We went and contacted a quarter referral a few weeks back and set up a time to come teach her and we show up and she is like ‘y’all caught me at a bad time’. So we’re like ‘darn’. Then she proceeds to talk to us for another 20 minutes.. haha But then she brought up church and how she is going to be going to the early morning session of her church at 8am. And were like well ‘hey! Come to our service at 11:30am’ and she is like ‘I’ll try’. (that is what every person and their dog says out here) And we’re like ‘yeah, we’re sure you will try your hardest’. haha  And so we told the time and location and we get in the car with the member and we’re thinking she probably won’t show up; they never do. haha And he agrees and we talk about it for a little bit while driving back. And then the next day (Sunday) we’re greeting people, welcoming them to church and lo and behold, guess who shows up? Yeah, so Elder Ferrero and I were like holy cow! No way! We were freaking out!  We sat with her and she took notes through church and busted out her bible trying to find Alma and Mosiah but couldn't, of course, I thought it was funny.. haha  But it was cool she really enjoyed it! She didn't stay for all three hours but she said she would be coming back again! So we’re excited to put a little more emphasis on her and trying to teach her! So that was cool!

That was pretty much our week! I hope you guys all have a great week!

Love,

Elder Johnsen