August 15 - 2011

Howdy Y'all!

Well, this week has definitely been an eventful one! (as always...)

On monday, we decided to go out for ice cream at the local pharmacy. It was delicious! (besides a little freezer burn here and there). We met with Talia and had a great lesson! She is progressing wonderfully!

Tuesday was nothing but tracting, tracting, and then tracting. It was fun though! We had fun going down a really cute street by our house. We found a couple of YSA's and we were super excited for that! We also went a visited a member who was taken off dialysis. Her daughter, Gloria has been caring for her and isn't a member of the church, but she probably one of the nicest people I have ever met. We sang a song to Doris (her mom) and then had a wonderful lesson with Gloria about the Plan of Salvation. Sis. Joseph informed me that her and the other sister missionary who had been there before me had tried teaching Gloria and they have taught her basically everything, but would never commit to reading the Book of Mormon, but she did this time! Woot! We were excited to say the least.

Wednesday was great! We were walking down the street while tracting for a referral that we had been given, but couldn't find her house when we heard in the not so far distance a whistle. I just kept staring at the ground thinking "stinking kids..." but Sis. Joseph looked around to see who it was. Turns out it was a member who happened to be outside. We went over and talked with her. She knew who the girl was that we were looking for and pointed us in the right direction. I also made a new friend on Wednesday! We went to the Jorgensen home for dinner on Wednesday and their little girl (who is 3 years old) was SO excited that we were there. Sis. Jorgensen told us that when they had told her that the sister missionaries were coming over, her response was, "They have GIRL missionaries?"

I love that little girl. She gave me a baby spoon to eat my soup with. We taught a lesson with their whole family and we were reading from Alma 26 in verse 22 and we had each of the kids be a part (like repentance, faith, good works, and the last one was mysteries) and we had them tell us what each one was. Their little boy that we gave the part of 'mysteries' to, didn't want to participate so he went and hid in the cupboard. It worked perfectly since he was the 'mysteries of God'!

Thursday we did weekly planning. It was great; or as great as planning a week in advance can get. I made soup! And it worked! You would be pround mama. We had dinner with the Furstenburgs again. I love them. Sis. Furstenburg is such a sweet lady. We had homemade french fries! It was divine. We went out to the country afterwards and visited with Sis. Bland whose husband is not a member. He is a really sweet man and he has been taught by several sets of Elders. We taught him from 2 Nephi 9 and it went really well. Then, we had to book it home because we couldn't see what time it was and ended up going over and then we were out in the middle of nowhere and it was quite the adventure!

Friday I had a really good personal study time. I read from Alma 29. It pretty much sums up how I feel about missionary work and I learned the importance of being humble while doing the Lord's work. Verse 9 was my favorite. We went and visited a less active named Wanda. Her parakeet died and she has been really struggling with life. She asked if we could just kneel and pray with her. We did for about 20 minutes. It was such a neat experience. I kind of felt like I was stepping in God's shoes for a bit. She poured out her soul for the full 20 minutes and it was very touching. Afterwards, we went and taught a referral about the Plan of Salvation. She really liked it and invited us back!

Saturday we went back out to the country with Sis. McCoy. We taught Steve. He is struggling, but making it through.

Sunday was great!

Well, my time is up. I hope all is well.

I love sharing the gospel!

Love,

Sis. J

Another AWESOME Week!

It sure has been a wonderful week!

I hope everyone's has been great as well. :)

Last monday for prep day I guess we didn't do anything really that neat because I have no memory of what we did last monday.

On Tuesday we visited with Trisha. She had been reading and praying and keeping all of her commitments. I think one of my favorite things about sharing the gospel with people is to see how much their countenances change from one visit to the next. Trisha's has totally changed since we started meeting with her. We shared with her about the gospel of Jesus Christ. It was a great lesson. However, the next day, we recieved a call from Trisha informing us that she had prayed to know the truth and if she should be baptized and all of that good stuff and she said that God had told her she needed to wait. So, we are trying to work out her concerns. It kind of breaks my heart when that happens, but it was still a good day. We went tracting in the evening because our other appointments fell through. We were enjoying the cooler evening air and came upon a well-kept trailer house. We walked up to the front porch and noticed there was something sitting there on the porch. As we got closer, we realized that it was a snake! Sis. Joseph and I debated about what we should do for a bit and then after staring at the snake for a bit I decided that it was a fake. Sis. Joseph didn't think it was. I pulled out a pass along card and poked the snake and quickly ran away. It didn't move. Then, we poked it again and what do you know? It was fake! We visted with Norma and Cindy (who are both friends). We decided to teach them both the word of wisdom. Teaching two investigators like that wasn't such a great idea. They did not like the lesson at all. They told us the didn't believe any of it. Oh well.

Wednesday was district meeting. It was a good meeting about having faith and being obedient. Sis. Joseph is the queen of rules. I always want to be a rebel now, but I was definitely humbled after learning about the blessings of obedience at district meeting. Sometimes I think we need to be reminded of what we think we already know. We went and visited with Jose on Wednesday too. Jose told us he had this incredible dream about a man dressed in white who told him that he was doing the right thing and then the man came and put his hands on Jose's head; like he was giving him a blessing. Jose said that he could definitely feel a difference in his life ever since he had started reading the Book of Mormon. He's been going to town with that! We usually leave him a chapter or two, but he's done all of that and he's read through all of 1 Nephi and part of 2 Nephi as well. We shared with Jose about revelation in Alma 5:45--46 and it was a lesson that I hold near and dear to my heart. We also met with Norma. Norma is such a sweet lady. She'll talk your ear off! We had a nice followup discussion about the importance of eating a well balanced diet and why smoking and drinking coffee and tea isn't good for you. Norma is still a little undecided about the whole thing, but I thought it was funny to see that she had made the effort to remove all of the ashtrays from her house, replace the empty space with flowers and such things and to open the windows. I think she is trying to quit without letting us know. She is funny lady.

Thursday was the blessed day of weekly planning and the never ending calling list. We went and visited with some of the branch members after we finished...mostly. It's so much fun to get members excited to do missionary work. Getting girls to come on exchanges is hard though. I am going to sign up for exchanges all the time when I get home.

Friday we did a lot of tracting again. We had a really neat experience with a man named Phillip. We were walking down the street and he saw us, waved and then came down off his porch and asked if he could see our book [the Book of Mormon]. We let him look at the one we were carrying. He then commenced to tell us that he had been taking the lessons from the Elders in Clayton, NC. He said he really liked everything about the church and we told him a little bit more. He asked if he could keep the Book of Mormon to take to the beach with him that day because he had left his at his home in Clayton. We let him have it. It was awesome! In the evening we went and visited with a lady named Melinda that we met last week. She is a sweet gal. She is Hindu and also a vegetarian. It was pretty funny when we went over there on friday because she told us we would have to stay outside because she had been burning incents all day and had accidentally smoked out her house. I could smell it outside and it was pretty strong. We had a good lesson with her. She really liked learning about the fall of Adam and Eve.

Saturday, we woke up to rain! Sis. Joseph and I went on a really good run through the puddles and it was so much fun! I love running in the rain! We went and visted Cindy again and like Norma, she had removed most of the ash trays from her house. We shared the gospel of Jesus Christ with her and read from Alma 38. That is such a good chapter. Go and read it. We ended up getting drenched on the way out from Cindy's lesson and spent the rest of the day looking something like drowned rats as it dumped buckets of water. Cindy gave us a bunch of clothes from her son (we still don't know why she gave them to us) and we didn't know where to take them so we went to the Free Will Baptist Press and asked them. It was quite the site to see to LDS missionaries walking into their store.

Sunday was wonderful! we have been working with a girl named Talia in the branch. She wants to be baptized and she is just the sweetest girl you'll ever meet. We taught her during sunday school and asked her to specifically pray to know if the chruch was true, etc. She did and recieved her answer right then. The spirit that we could feel in the room was incredible. We shared from D&C 9 about knowing when you have made a good decision. It was so exciting to see her recieve an answer. Probably the highlight of the week...acutally, it definteily was.

I hope y'all are doing well!

This church is completely true. I am thankful for my knowledge of that.

love you!

love,

sis j

A very BUSY Week!

Hey Hey!

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

A week of Ups and Downs

Hello from the land of sweltering heat and tobacco fields!

Monday we made smores in the oven and they definitely were not as good as a firepit smore, but still delicious. We have been teaching a less active lady name Donna on Monday evenings. Her son just got married and he is also less active. His wife is not a member. They want to take the lessons and have been asking a lot of questions about the temple. We were supposed to meet with them this past monday, but one of them was sick. So, we taught Donna about the importance of going to church, taking the sacrament and having the holy ghost. It was a really, really good lesson. She said she would come to church!Tuesday was a pretty full day, but everyone cancelled so we did A LOT of tracting that day. It's been really, really hot this week. I never thought I would fully appreciate air conditioning, but I most certainly do now. After we had talked to a zillion people, we knocked on a door that is just down the street from where we live. A lady named Maria answered and we told her our purpose. She agreed to have us come and we were able to teach the restoration to their whole family (4 of them!) They were very receptive to the message and asked to have a book of Mormon. They don't read english well so we gave them a spanish Book of Mormon and they were really excited to read. The best was when their son, Jose stopped us when we were talking about praying to know if the book of mormon was true and said, "I pray to the virgin Mary and I have a giant flag with her on it hanging above my bed." Sis. Joseph and I just smiled and didn't know what to say so we just continued and then Jose asked if he could pray. He offered a prayer and it was such a wonderful expreience. I really love that family. Oh! the other best part was when Sis. Joseph was bearing testimony about reading a praying about the Book of Mormon and Jose Sr. piped up and said he already knows it is true. It caught both myself and Sis. Joseph off guard.

Wednesday we had zone training. It was great! We learned about teaching people, not lessons. I think that is a hard concept to grasp, but it was good. I learned a lot from the conference. Afterwards, we met with a lady named Cindy. Cindy is hilarious. We tracted into Cindy. She lives a sketchy part of town, but she is very sweet. She has been taught by the missionaries before. Her biggest hang up is the polygamy thing. She also thought that we never wore pants. It's been a lot of fun teaching her.

Thursday we met with a less active lady named Carolyn. Carolyn has an incredible testimony, but has had some experiences in the past that have shaken her faith in the members. We have been trying for the past 3 weeks to get her to come to church, but she always has a health ailment suddenly pop up on Sunday mornings.

Friday was the best day ever! We met with Trisha who we have been teaching for the past couple of weeks. She was so excited to have us come over and immediately started telling us about how she has been trying to sell her house, but hasn't been able to, but we invited her to pray and to read from the Book of Mormon every night and she said she has been doing that and she had someone make an offer on her house. She has changed so much. I think one of my favorite things about the misison is being able to see how much people change. The light in their eyes; their whole appearance is different. We taught Trisha the word of wisdom...again. She said that she had actually considered getting a frozen hot chocolate that morning, but decided to get the iced coffee instead. We invited her to live the Word of Wisdom again and she said she would. Then, she grabbed her coffee and took a big slup. We told her she couldn't do that. We poured the rest of it down the sink. The best part about the whole visit was that the family down the street that are members (the Willets) have been friendshipping her since the elders started teaching her last year and Sis. Willets was there with us.She bore her testimony to Trisha and it was one of the most wonderful experiences. They both cried (tears of happiness of course) and hugged. We invited Trisha to be baptized and she said she definitely wants to. We are still trying to figure out a date though. Trisha came to church yesterday too! It was so exciting. I hope we can start teaching her son, Adam too. He is 8 years old, but hasn't ever sat in on the lessons with us. I'm just praying that Trisha won't get discouraged.

After Trisha, we went and visited with Bro. Rose. I love sharing the gospel with Bro. Rose. He is so knowledgable in the bible. It was really neat too because we had planned to teach him the Word of Wisdom, the commandments, etc. and the first thing he asked when we got there was, "I was wondering if you could tell me about any guidelines your church has and that sort of thing." We told him that we most certainly could! Bro. Rose always has deep questions that make my brain hurt and I generally have no idea how to answer them. He asked why we don't drink wine when Jesus drank wine and why everyone else drank wine in the bible.

We also met with Bro. Parker, a recent convert that evening. He had been taking the lessons from the missionaries for 50 years before the sisters were able to convince him that being baptized was probably a really good idea since he knew it was true. We taught him about service. It was a great lesson. He reminds me of Elder Scott. His wife passed away and you can definitely tell that he really does love his wife very much, just like Elder Scott always expresses in his talks.

On Saturday we met with a referral at the church building in Greenville and did a church tour. It was a great experience. The pictures in the church building make teaching about the gospel so much easier. Afterwards, we drove back to Ayden and ate dinner with the Furstenburgs. The Furstenburgs are so sweet. I love them. They have a table that all of the missionaries sign. So, my name is now on a table in their living room along with about 300 other names. It was the coolest table ever! I am doing that when I grow up and have a table of my own.

Sunday was an eventful day. I got to speak in the YSA branch. Discovery of the week: writing a talk without the internet=hard. I learned how to use my resources though!

All of our investigators in the 2nd ward didn't show up and then we had a girl named Talia come to the YSA branch for the first time. She really liked it and said she wanted to come back again. Trisha and her son came to church in the 1st ward. It made my heart happy to see them both there.

We taught Talia after our 8 hour day of church (or something like that...(8:30-4:00) and we invited her to be baptized. She said yes! Her mom is a member so she already had talked to her mom about it and she feels very strongly about everything the church teaches. I am very excited for her. She said she is really excited too.

I think that is everything! I Read from 2 Nephi 4 in one of my studies this week. It's all about repentance and it was incredible. It really hit home for Trisha when we taught her.

I hope all is well for everyone back at home. I love you all. I know that this is Christ's church restored to the earth today. Thank you for everything you do.

Love,

Sister Johnson

Week 7...I'm in Heaven!

Dear Family,

 

This week has been soooo busy. It's been great though. I have had the opportunity to ponder a lot about missionary work and I think I have learned a great deal this week.

Sis. Joseph and I had a lot of appointments fall through this week with our investigators, but we had the opportunity to contact a zillion people; most of whom were willing to listen, but didn't really desire to pursue much more after that.

When we were driving in Winterville, I saw a house that had a fire in the front lawn. We drove by and I wondered if they knew that their landscaping was on fire. I asked Sis. Joseph, but she said that she thought it must be intentional. We missed the house we were supposed to stop at and had to loop around on that street again. There wasn't anybody out there watching the fire so I told Sis. Joseph I thought we should stop and tell the people that their landscaping was on fire. So, we knocked on the door and he was on the phone and asked what we wanted to which we replied, "We just wanted to see if you knew that your landscaping was on fire?" He said "Oh my goodness, no!" and then we put out the fire on his lawn, gave him a pass along card, and that was the end. So I guess that was our service moment of the week: save a house from burning down.

One of our investigators, Sis. Jones had a setback this week. (I can't even remember if I told you about her...there are so many people!) Sis. Jones is married to a less active-he has been coming to church every week since we contacted them and he really desires for their family to be sealed and strengthened by the gospel. She was supposed to be baptized this past Saturday, but when we went to visit her this past week we could tell that something wasn't quite right. She told us that she didn't feel like she and her husband were really working together to build a strong relationship that could be centered on the gospel ( I thought it was so neat to see that she could identify that herself). She said she wanted to make the church a part of her life and not just jump right into being baptized. We set some goals with them for praying and reading everyday together and when we saw her at church on sunday, it was like the difference between night and day. She is normally a very reserved, quiet person, but this past Sunday, she was happy and smiling and laughing and talking to people on her own. We talked to her and she said that she could feel a huge difference. We invited her to be baptized on the 30th because her husband and herself are going out of town the following week. She said she would think about it, but she told the bishop she was planning on the 30th as well. It's so exciting to see the changes that occur in people as you share more about the gospel with them and they come and learn at church.

We also taught Trish this past week about the Plan of Salvation and the word of wisdom. The elders who taught her before had taught everything else and she had given up smoking for them, but still liked her coffee. After we taught her, she said she would give up the coffee and we are working on a baptismal date in August.

 

I'm loving the work here regardless of how hard it is...it's a great experience.

 

Thanks for everything y'all do. I hope everything is well.

 

Love you!

 

Love,

 

Sis. J

Week Six :)

Hello!

 

This week has been great! It's had it challenges and it's had it's high points.

We had zone conference on Wednesday and it was a great. We learned the importance of setting goals and getting the members involved in the missionary work.

Sister Joseph and I had some really great experiences this week with missionary work.

We have been trying to figure out where we should go because our area is HUGE and it's hard to plan and know where God wants us to be. We pray every night and every day to know where the Lord would want us to be and it's been really neat to see it work!

The first experience was with a couple named Zoe and Renado. Zoe was interested in the Book of Mormon, but she can't read English. Her husband, Renado thought the church was a joke and didn't have any desire to hear more.

However, when we stopped by to drop of Zoe's libro de mormon, Renado had completely changed. He had some stuff happen and wasn't happy about the consequences of his actions. He asked how it was that we were able to be happy all of the tme. We told him we could share more with him and that it was because of the gospel and how it blesses our families. He agreed to have us come back, but we didn't get to meet with them this week. We are hoping to meet with them this coming week though!

On Thursday night, Sister Joseph and I were planning backup plans for the next day and we both felt impressed to visit a lady named Trisha. Trisha lives in Grimesland which is way out of our area, but the elders had referred us to her. Trisha's husband died about 7 months ago and the sisters tried contacting her then, but she didn't want to have the missionaries over at the time.

So, we didn't know how we would be able to make it out to her because we can only drive so far. We tried calling a sister in the ward and miraculously, she could go! So, we drove to Trisha's and when we got there she was glad to see us, invited us in and told us that she had just been thinking about the missionaries not 15 minutes before we came. She said that she was so glad that we had come and that she had a dream about her coming to church. It was a neat experience and the spirit was so strong.

I know that God reveals to us where he wants us to go and guides us to those who need our help.

We've had a ton of success in the YSA branch too! It's been GREAT!

 

I can't remember if I told you much about where i live, but sister joseph and I live with a member. She is the nicest lady. Her name is Sister Carman and it's just like home.

 

I hope you all are doing well! I love and miss you all. Have a great week!

My time is up!

 

Love,

Sister Johnson

In North Carolina! 1st Week!

Faaamily!!!!!

 

 

Hello from North Carolina!

North Carolina is amazing! It's everything I could havew hoped for and more. The humidity really isn't that bad. Everything is SO green! There are literally thousands of denominations. I think every other building here is a church building of some sort. The plane ride over was good. I talked to a lady from England who has lived in Utah since the 80's. she married a member who had gone inactive when his mom died, but has been taking lessons from the missionaries and is going back to church. She asked me about mission stuff, but told me she wasn't interested in joining. On the connecting flight from Dallas I sat next to a really nice couple for Raleigh. It was kind of funny. The man asked me if I was an LDS missionary. I told him I was. He then told me that it  was my lucky day because his name was Joseph Smith. He knew a lot about the church and wished me luck on the mission.

I am currently located in Greenville, and more specifically, Ayden, NC. It is a very small town and it reminds me a lot of Idaho...kind of. This is definitely the south. Everyone knows everyone and they all have some mighty fine accents. Everything is very spread out, and there are a lot of fields (mostly tobacco and soybean fields). My companion, Sister Joseph is awesome. She is very patient, very much dedicated to missionary work, and I'm just so happy and feel incredibly blessed to be with her.

My first experience in North Carolina: we went to a member's house and ate meatloaf. Then we shared some scriptures in 2 Nephi. Then, we went and taught a lady who called the missionaries because she saw an ad on tv about mormon.org. We had a good lesson with her and I could tell she was quite touched by the spirit.

The area I am currently serving in consists of Ayden, Greenville, and Winterville. There are three wards that I am over. One of them is a YSA branch. I am so excited to be working the the YSAs. They have about 40-60 people who attend every week. There are a lot of less actives in the branch. We have had some good success contacting them and committing them to church...so that's been great! We also had a lesson with a girl who is 19 and she seems very interested in the church. She is debating joining the military and going to school. We taught her about the restoration and it went really well.

The other two wards are great too. The bishopric is so good about giving us referrals. We have TONS. We are teaching a really neat lady, Sister Jones. She is getting ready to be baptized on July 16th. Her husband is a member and she had a baby and just wants her family to be together forever. I really like teaching her.
We also have another investigator, Bro. Rose. He is the neatest man. He has had a lot of trials in his life. He decided a few years ago after his wife left him that he would read the bible every day of his life after that; and he's done just that. The other sister that was with Sis. Joseph before I came taught him the restoration. We talked to him about 2 nephi 31 and invited him to be baptized. He said that he would need to think about it, but that he had never been baptized before and that it was a goal that he wanted to accomplish.

We have several other investigators.

Tracting is hard, but I love it. It's hard just because most everyone here has some sort of religious affiliation and most of them are content with what their religion offers. It's hard to identify what they need when they simply tell you that they aren't interested and like the church they go to. I think at least 80% of the people here are baptist of some sort. We talked to a baptist minister. He wasn't interested. at all. We had a lady yell at us for talking to her brother, who has been to church quite a few times, but he had a stroke so she doesn't think he can make logical decisions for himself.

Yesterday was hilarious. It was the fourth of July and since it was p-day, we decided to have a picnic at the park. We did just that and enjoyed it very much. Then, we found some swings (which was way to much fun). We started tracting at 6 because our appointments fell through and we were trying to decide if we were in the right spot at the right time. I told sis. Joseph that I thought we were. Then, we both just about had a heart attack because some one lit of some fireworks and we thought someone was shooting at us. Sis Jospeh said, " I don't think we're in the right place" when they went off. Then, we laughed ourselves sick. I tried popping some popcorn after we got home and the bag caught on fire. I don't think my cooking skills are improving here.

 

I hope y'all had a great 4th!

I love you all and I know that this church is true and that it is through the ordinances and covenants we make that we can be with our families forever.

 

love you all!

 

sis. J