Bonjour family & friends!
It has been quite a crazy week. We had so many things happen, that I don't even have time to write about them all! Here are just a couple highlights from the week..
We met a lady from Thailand a couple weeks ago and we taught her the restoration and gave her a Book of Mormon in Thai. This past week we met with her again. She started telling us about how she was in the Thai temple and found a book about Jesus Christ. We just kinda nodded our heads and said, "Oh that's cool." There are a lot of books about Jesus Christ so we didn't think much of it. Then she reached down and pulled a french Book of Mormon out of her bag. She said, "This is the book I found in the Thai temple." We both looked at her really surprised! She doesn't speak french and we had given her a Book of Mormon in Thai the week before. She didn't even realize that it was the same book we had given her, but just in french! It was a funny little "coincidence"... we told her maybe she should go put it back where she found it, but this time put our number in it, just in case someone ends up reading it.
We got on a train this week to go visit one of our amis. We sat down and Sœur Brown started telling me about how last time she was on this train they met a really cool lady and that we need to try to get in contact with her again. A couple minutes later a lady gets on the train and sits down right next to us. Soeur Brown looked up and they immediately started talking. It was the same lady that she was just talking to me about!! We talked with her our whole train ride and we are hoping to set up a lesson with her soon. What a total miracle!
We had one of the most spirit filled lessons I have ever experienced on my mission. We visited a family who has not come to church for awhile. This is the same family that at 8:30pm we had a feeling that we should just stop by their house and say a prayer with them. That was over a month ago. This week we were able to have an actual lesson with them and get to know a little about their family. It was cool to hear the dad talk about his baptism because he is someone that truly understood the covenant he was making. He talked about how his baptism changed him completely. He said he was a total different person after he was baptized. We talked about the difficulties he has faced with staying active in the church because he moved from Portugal to Luxembourg. We could literally hear in his voice how much he misses the gospel. Then my awesome companion turns to him and just says, "We can tell you miss Him, and we are here to tell you God misses you." We just sat in silence for a minute as the spirit filled the room. He nodded his head in agreement. We talked a little longer and then we asked him if he would be willing to say the closing prayer. He usually says no, but without hesitation he agreed this time. The spirit was so strong! I left our rendezvous just thinking about how grateful I am to be a missionary and get to help those feel the spirit again in their lives. I hope everyone has a wonderful week!
Love, Soeur Johnson
It has been quite a crazy week. We had so many things happen, that I don't even have time to write about them all! Here are just a couple highlights from the week..
We met a lady from Thailand a couple weeks ago and we taught her the restoration and gave her a Book of Mormon in Thai. This past week we met with her again. She started telling us about how she was in the Thai temple and found a book about Jesus Christ. We just kinda nodded our heads and said, "Oh that's cool." There are a lot of books about Jesus Christ so we didn't think much of it. Then she reached down and pulled a french Book of Mormon out of her bag. She said, "This is the book I found in the Thai temple." We both looked at her really surprised! She doesn't speak french and we had given her a Book of Mormon in Thai the week before. She didn't even realize that it was the same book we had given her, but just in french! It was a funny little "coincidence"... we told her maybe she should go put it back where she found it, but this time put our number in it, just in case someone ends up reading it.
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| District Photo! |
We got on a train this week to go visit one of our amis. We sat down and Sœur Brown started telling me about how last time she was on this train they met a really cool lady and that we need to try to get in contact with her again. A couple minutes later a lady gets on the train and sits down right next to us. Soeur Brown looked up and they immediately started talking. It was the same lady that she was just talking to me about!! We talked with her our whole train ride and we are hoping to set up a lesson with her soon. What a total miracle!
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| train rides in Luxembourg! |
We had one of the most spirit filled lessons I have ever experienced on my mission. We visited a family who has not come to church for awhile. This is the same family that at 8:30pm we had a feeling that we should just stop by their house and say a prayer with them. That was over a month ago. This week we were able to have an actual lesson with them and get to know a little about their family. It was cool to hear the dad talk about his baptism because he is someone that truly understood the covenant he was making. He talked about how his baptism changed him completely. He said he was a total different person after he was baptized. We talked about the difficulties he has faced with staying active in the church because he moved from Portugal to Luxembourg. We could literally hear in his voice how much he misses the gospel. Then my awesome companion turns to him and just says, "We can tell you miss Him, and we are here to tell you God misses you." We just sat in silence for a minute as the spirit filled the room. He nodded his head in agreement. We talked a little longer and then we asked him if he would be willing to say the closing prayer. He usually says no, but without hesitation he agreed this time. The spirit was so strong! I left our rendezvous just thinking about how grateful I am to be a missionary and get to help those feel the spirit again in their lives. I hope everyone has a wonderful week!
Love, Soeur Johnson
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