Hellooo!
Thanks for all the updates! Sounded like a
fun General Conference weekend at home! Yay for new traditions! Actually
though that doesn't seem like a new tradition because Dad usually makes
yummy breakfasts for conference anyways because he's amazing and cool
and wonderful and stuff. :) Brittany sent some pics of ya'll watching
conference and everyone looks as snazzy as always!
Well I will tell you about my week. :) It was a fun week! We taught M**** on Tuesday
about the Plan of Salvation with an awesome member of our ward, and the
lesson went well! When we started the topic of baptism at the end, she
told us she had been thinking about getting baptized before we invited
her!! How awesome is that?! She's amazing! We are really excited about
her. We also had another lesson that day with M**, and taught him the
second half of the Plan of Salvation. He is awesome but is super busy
with school and is feeling like he doesn't have a lot of time right now
to keep learning from us, although he is really interested. He just
doesn't want to be stressed and busy while learning. So we are hoping
that we can keep teaching him and Heavenly Father will bless him with
all his school work. Wednesday
morning we had a breakfast with all the Visitor's Center sisters and
senior couples at Elder and Sister Poulsen's house (VC Directors) and it
was a good time! We got to know each other better and share our
thoughts on the real reasons why we came on missions. I was one of the
first ones to go and I didn't know it had to be deep and spiritual so my
answer was lame haha. But overall it was really neat to hear the other
sisters' testimonies. The senior couples are also awesome! It is so nice
to have them because they kind of feel like second mom's and dad's.
It's nice to be around them and they are super funny and loving. :)
General Conference was great!! We watched the Saturday
morning session at the Institute in Berkeley. There were only a few
members there with us but it was a good time. :) Unfortunately none of
our investigators could make it to the morning session. For the
afternoon session we watched it at the VC. It was fun because a lot of
other missionaries watch it there also. We watched it in what is called
the Center Theater (just a big room where we show movies and have
presentations and stuff, although the internet wasn't working for the
first half of that session so we missed it and once we finally got it to
work we only had time to rewind and watch the first half so we missed
the second half). On Sunday
we watched the morning session again at the Institute and there were
more members there. We had a fire going in the fire place and a small
breakfast. :) Afterwards Sister Kim played some primary songs and we
sang songs with some of our members. It made me tear up because we were
singing some of the songs about going on a mission and I remember always
singing those in primary, and little did I know when I was young and
singing those songs that I would actually be going on a mission! Crazy.
:) Anyway, it was nice and the members of our ward are awesome and so
loving. :)
There were a lot of good talks this weekend! (Darn, I
don't have my notes with me right now!) But I personally felt an
overall theme of the need to be stronger now than ever before, as our
standards and the world's standards are growing apart more and more. We
need to not be ashamed of who we are and what we believe. At the same
time though, I felt a theme of humility. That we need to humble
ourselves, even to the dust. That we need to follow God's commandments
because God knows all and will bless us beyond measure if we simply
trust in Him and devote ourselves to Him. (I especially felt all that
with Holland's talk on Saturday
morning.) I also really liked Bednar's talk on burdens and that they
are necessary to have to help us grow spiritually (if they are the right
kind of burdens), and that the Lord will always be there to help ease
our burdens. That talk and many of the others definitely helped me a
lot. Oh, I also liked the talk (shoot I can't remember who gave it!
Ballard I think?) About having all members of the church/families study
Preach My Gospel! You all at home should do that! It really is an
awesome and inspired book. In the scriptures, somewhere in 2 Nephi (I
think) in that verse that talks about "other books" coming forth, Preach
My Gospel is one of those books. Just sayin'. :-) What were some of
your favorite talks? :)
Oh also! Transfers are this Wednesday!
I will be staying in Berkeley and will be getting a new trainer, Sister
Henderson! (I've met her a couple times - she is super cute and sweet!
She speaks Chinese and has been in the Chinese program her whole
mission, so that's cool! I'm really excited!) Sister Kim is going to be
the new Sister Trainer for the VC with Sister Cooper and will be going
to Lafayette. It is going to be weird but neat to have a new trainer! I
learned a lot from Sister Kim, that's for sure. It will be neat though
to learn how another missionary does things. But anyways, that's the
transfer news. :) Oh also, I will be the driver for this
transfer.....ehhh......haha. It's because Sister Henderson got in an
accident or something a while back and she can't drive anymore. So,
yeah. I really liked not driving haha. But oh well - I will definitely
learn the area really well since I will be driving!
Well I think that's all for this past week! Thanks
for reading and for praying for me and supporting me always! I love you
all so so so so so much and miss you all everyday, but that's okay!
Being on a mission is good because your love for your family grows so
much everyday and your testimony of eternal families grows. At least
mine has recently. :) Anyways, have a great week!!!!
Love,
Sister Johnson
Here are some pics! The first is from the breakfast we had at the
Poulsen's house with all the VC sisters, the second is a picture of the
beautiful view of Oakland and San Francisco from the temple (it was
really clear day so I'm really glad I got a picture!) And the last is
when we were playing/singing primary songs after conference. :)
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