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Last prep day was quite the adventure! We had district prep day and played sports together. Elder Tripp ended up spraining his ankle really bad before we even got there. We found some otter pops in the freezer at the church...and that is how he iced his ankle. We played ulitmate frisbee for a while and then sis. Joseph and I played soccer by ourselves for a while. The elders made hamburgers that actually tasted pretty good. Probably the best meal I've had in a while. Monday Sis. Joseph and I did splits for the first time too! I was scared to death. I went to Sis. Jones' with the Young family and we taught about tithing and repentance. Sis. Jones informed us that she didn't feel like she quite ready to be baptized so we are praying and working towards a date in August now.
Tuesday was a busy busy day. We went and visited a less active who has been actively attending a baptist church. She is such a sweet lady...we asked why she stopped attending and she said she didn't understand where the Book of Mormon came from or "who that Joseph Smith feller was." I don't think she knew what she was getting into when she was baptized. We are teaching her and her husband who is not a member. We also went and visited with Trisha. It ended up being pretty crazy because Trisha was babysitting the Willets' kids (there are six of them) It was insane. We scratched our plans for teaching and decided to watch the restoration video with all the kids and have them draw pictures of what they learned. I think that was my favorite lesson so far. Trisha is doing so well! I am proud of her. Tuesday nights are now dedicated to branch work with the members. We didn't have any appointments with branch members because they cancelled, so we had a nice evening of tracting with two of the ward members. We found a girl who has been taught before and her roommate was a member.
Wednesday we taught Jose and his family. Jose had read everything we assigned him and then he went back and read the first 11 chapters of 1 Nephi. It was amazing! He said he loved reading from the book of Mormon and that it made him feel happier than he had felt in years. He asked us to assign a lot more reading this week so he would stay busy. Oh, he also told us that he liked reading the Book of Mormon more than watching TV. We commmended him for his excellent choice. We are trying to work with their whole family..which makes things hard. His wife is currently attending the JW's so, she is not as willing to accept learning about the Book of Mormon, but she still said she would read with Jose if we gave her an El Libro. So, we did. I am so excited to see them this week!
Thursday we had weekly planning. I sat on my pillow and we planned for a VERY long time. I am not a fan of weekly planning. After we finally finished planning around 3:30, we went to the Robinson family home. Bro. Robinson is not a member, but is a very sweet man. We had a good lesson about the Gospel of Jesus Christ with the kids there. He listened very intently. We asked if he would like us to come back and teach him, but he said no. We will see what happens though! Then, we tracted for the rest of the evening.
Every appointment we had on friday fell through. We called for about two hours and then sis. Joseph said she might go insane if we didn't go outside and start doing some missionary work. So, we tracted for a very long time on friday. We tracted on a road and found a family that said they wanted to come to church, but didn't have a car. One of the kids piped up and said, "I want to go to church more than I want to go to school!" We told him we could help him with that and also encouraged him to like going to school. on saturday we continued tracting some more due to cancellations. We went with sis. Farrer. She is one of the most hilarious people I have ever met in my life. She served a mission in Michigan and had all sorts of stories. We drove out in the middle of nowhere and tried contacting some less actives and some of our investigators that lived out there without much success.
Sunday was probably the best day ever. We had two people who weren't members show up for church. We showed them around and then took them to sacrament. One of the ladies who came was friends with a lady who is a member in Bermuda. We met her as well. She was so excited that there were sister missionaries because she said that she had only ever seen the Elders in Bermuda. Then, Talia (our YSA investigator) came to sacrament again! She loves reading the Book of Mormon and we are so excited for her. One of our newer investigators came to church as well. Her name is Norma and she really enjoyed church. It rained cats and dogs during all of church and the thunder shook the whole building. It definitely made church an exciting experience!
Well, my time is up, but I hope all is well with everyone. Send my love to Grandma and Grandpa. I hope they are doing better.
scripture of the week: Hebrews 12:1-2 and 2 Nephi 9
I love y'all!
Love Sis. Johnson
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