Bonjour family and friends!!
This last Sunday all the 8 missionaries in our ward had dinner with the cutest Brazilian couple. They like to have us over every month. We always look forward to it because it's always the best meal we have that month! They are both just genuinely good people who enjoy doing what they can to serve others. At the end of the night we shared a spiritual message as always. The wife only speaks Portuguese and so it's not very easy to communicate with her. Most of the time I don't think she even knows what any of us are saying. At the end of the message she was crying. She bore her testimony to us (her husband translated) about how much she was touched by the feeling/spirit that is in her home when the missionaries are over. It was really cute because honestly I don't think she understood anything that any of us said but she could feel the spirit because the spirit has no language barrier. It was a good reminder that indeed "who we are" is more important than "what we ever say." That night really made me reflect about the importance of always being worthy to have the spirit with us. At baptism, we are all promised that the spirit will always be with us as long as we are worthy of it. Each week we get to renew those baptismal covenants as we worthily partake of the sacrament. What a blessing that is to us and those around us that we have the 3rd member of the Godhead as our constant companion if we are worthy.
We also had a lesson with the family who we are trying reactivate! They have 3 girls and they are all so adorable. We started teaching them the lessons for baptism. While we are setting the dates for the baptism, we asked the girls when they would like to be baptized. The cute 8 year was all like, "Umm right now!" They still have a lot to learn so they are going to be baptized toward the end of October. They really have such sweet spirits that it makes it so fun to teach them! We talked with the mom a little bit and she was telling us that during the time she was inactive she went to different churches but none of them felt right. She said there was always something missing. She said that even though she regrets going inactive, it was reconfirmed to her where she could find the fullness of the gospel. We talked about change and how it is so cool that Heavenly Father gives us the opportunity to choose to change for the better. If we don't like where we are, we can choose to change our situation for the better. I read this quote this week that I thought was good.. “We must change anything we can change that may be part of the problem. … We thank our Father in Heaven we are allowed to change, we thank Jesus we can change, and ultimately we do so only with Their divine assistance. Certainly not everything we struggle with is a result of our actions. Often it is the result of the actions of others or just the mortal events of life. But anything we can change we should change, and we must forgive the rest. In this way our access to the Savior’s Atonement becomes as unimpeded as we, with our imperfections, can make it. He will take it from there” (in Conference Report, Apr. 2006, 70–71; or Ensign, May 2006, 70). Once we do all we can, he will help us with the rest!
I'm grateful for the chance that a mission has given me to really change and become better. We all make mistakes but I know that when we choose to change for the better we will not be alone in doing soon. We will always have divine assistance! All is well. Church is true. Have a great week.
Love, Sœur Johnson
This last Sunday all the 8 missionaries in our ward had dinner with the cutest Brazilian couple. They like to have us over every month. We always look forward to it because it's always the best meal we have that month! They are both just genuinely good people who enjoy doing what they can to serve others. At the end of the night we shared a spiritual message as always. The wife only speaks Portuguese and so it's not very easy to communicate with her. Most of the time I don't think she even knows what any of us are saying. At the end of the message she was crying. She bore her testimony to us (her husband translated) about how much she was touched by the feeling/spirit that is in her home when the missionaries are over. It was really cute because honestly I don't think she understood anything that any of us said but she could feel the spirit because the spirit has no language barrier. It was a good reminder that indeed "who we are" is more important than "what we ever say." That night really made me reflect about the importance of always being worthy to have the spirit with us. At baptism, we are all promised that the spirit will always be with us as long as we are worthy of it. Each week we get to renew those baptismal covenants as we worthily partake of the sacrament. What a blessing that is to us and those around us that we have the 3rd member of the Godhead as our constant companion if we are worthy.
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We also had a lesson with the family who we are trying reactivate! They have 3 girls and they are all so adorable. We started teaching them the lessons for baptism. While we are setting the dates for the baptism, we asked the girls when they would like to be baptized. The cute 8 year was all like, "Umm right now!" They still have a lot to learn so they are going to be baptized toward the end of October. They really have such sweet spirits that it makes it so fun to teach them! We talked with the mom a little bit and she was telling us that during the time she was inactive she went to different churches but none of them felt right. She said there was always something missing. She said that even though she regrets going inactive, it was reconfirmed to her where she could find the fullness of the gospel. We talked about change and how it is so cool that Heavenly Father gives us the opportunity to choose to change for the better. If we don't like where we are, we can choose to change our situation for the better. I read this quote this week that I thought was good.. “We must change anything we can change that may be part of the problem. … We thank our Father in Heaven we are allowed to change, we thank Jesus we can change, and ultimately we do so only with Their divine assistance. Certainly not everything we struggle with is a result of our actions. Often it is the result of the actions of others or just the mortal events of life. But anything we can change we should change, and we must forgive the rest. In this way our access to the Savior’s Atonement becomes as unimpeded as we, with our imperfections, can make it. He will take it from there” (in Conference Report, Apr. 2006, 70–71; or Ensign, May 2006, 70). Once we do all we can, he will help us with the rest!
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I'm grateful for the chance that a mission has given me to really change and become better. We all make mistakes but I know that when we choose to change for the better we will not be alone in doing soon. We will always have divine assistance! All is well. Church is true. Have a great week.
Love, Sœur Johnson
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