HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!
Lauren understands this...
YEAH CHANDLER HIGH!!!!!
Hello!! Happy Dec. 1st!
Wowzers it sounds like y'all had a
fun week!! That's amazing that Chandler won!!! Wooo!! Finally!! :)
This past week was pretty crazy! We
had three exchanges, two of them were back to back. But they were all super fun
like always! We also started the Christmas schedule this week! We had it
Saturday and Sunday, and then it starts again this Friday through the rest of December.
Christmas schedule means we're basically in the Visitor's Center all day with
no time in our area haha. So we either work from 9 to 1 and come back at 4:30,
or start at 1 and then stay for the rest of the night. It is super fun because
from 4:30 on all the sisters are together in the VC. We are stationed at
certain spots and switch stations every hour. We are never with our own
companions either. We have a new comp every hour and are paired with someone
who speaks a different language (that doesn't really matter for me though haha,
I'm pretty useless when it comes to different languages :-p) So, the first two
days went well! On Saturday we celebrated the Christmas lights and there was a
performance in the auditorium in the Inter-Stake Center and we also had a
performance in the Visitor's Center. So Saturday was realllllly busy! It was
exciting though! We've also been showing everyone the short "He is the
Gift" video. If you haven't seen it, go to christmas.mormon.org
and watch it right now!
Last week we also had Brother
Lusvardi, the director of all Visitor's Centers and church historic sites, come
and train us! He was awesome!! He really helped us to get pumped for Christmas
and really what we want to achieve with the "He is the Gift"
initiative. Basically it all comes down to helping everyone that comes to the
Visitor's Center feel the love of the Savior and be inspired to discover,
embrace and share his love. That is our main goal for this Christmas!
Also! Sister Orantes and I had a
super sweet experience yesterday in the VC. It was a slow Sunday afternoon, so
we were just quietly sitting and studying. We went up to the front and an older
guy with his member friend were at the front, ready for someone to take them
around. He was pretty bold and insisted that we show him around and show him
what's so great and different about our church. So we showed him the Savior of
the World room first and told him everything we believe is centered on Jesus Christ
and patterning our lives after him. He asked questions and we took him to the
back and showed him the Special Witnesses room, which is all about the prophet
and apostles. He then had all these questions about the Book of Mormon, and
other stuff. Basically, his heart was pretty hard in the beginning. But Sister
Orantes is a spiritual beast and was totally inspired the whole time and threw
all of these inspired questions at him. He really opened up to us and his heart
softened so much. It was so neat to see!! By the end, he said he was really
surprised and wasn't expecting the visit he had. Also, by the end he was really
eager to get a Book of Mormon and said he was going to start reading it that
night. Point of the story - it takes courage and faith to ask people inspired
questions to help them open up and soften their hearts. But once we do,
miracles happen!!
Oh yes - Thanksgiving was
delicious!!! We went to the home of one of G*****'s parents house, who live in
Moraga and are in the Moraga ward, the last ward I served in! :) (G**** is the
member in our ward who is dating our investigator T****, who is getting
baptized in January!!! She's the cutest and sweetest and most amazing
investigator on the planet probably!!!) So we had it there with their family
and it was very nice!! They have an amazing family! I only had two plates of
food but I was about to die after I was so full haha. So I was well-taken care
of for Thanksgiving!
Well that's it for this past week!
Love you all!!!
Love, Sister Johnson
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