Week 14

Well hellllloooo!

This week has been ... wow. Full. Okay first of all, my companions are great. And they are weird. Like- we have the same sense of humor and it's the best. This week we may or may not have dressed up as hillbillies and did a talk-show about how to talk like Texans one night... So great.

Also! Good news! Because we're in a trio and only have two beds, I have been taking on the role as the "middle child" and volunteered to sleep on a little fu-ton on the floor. Aka, I might as well have slept on the floor, it was pretty much nothing. But this week I got a bed! We're on little bunk-beds so my childhood dreams have been fulfilled of sleeping on the top bunk. Love it. The man that came and helped us set it up's name is Elder Nilson, and he told us his re-conversion story. That he had been inactive for 20 years or something like that and the bishop or someone showed up at his house with the elders one day and asked him if he would help with scouting. Long story short, he quit smoking and drinking and cleaned up his life and now he's on a mission! The Lord works in so many ways. He told us the importance of keeping our apartment clean and how the Spirit dwells in clean houses. That we needed to make our apartment like a temple, because that's where we'll receive revelation. It was super powerful and we're totally committed to do it. We need all the help from the Spirit we can get.

The man who's wife works at the temple- they're the Martinez family. Mom, they are my favorite! I just LOVE them! They left to Mexico this week for a week so we didn't get to see them at all. It was so sad! Every day we're like "We miss them so bad!" But we did get to go see them last night. They bought us little bracelets from Mexico and some dulces. It was so nice! They were like "We were thinking of you all the whole time!" It was so sweet. We didn't really have time to teach a lesson- but it's been so cool to see the change in Hermano Martinez's eyes. There is just light. That has been one of my favorite things in the mission so far, is to see light fill the eyes of the people. I love it. This is the Lord's work!

We also have another family that I just love- the Torres family. There are like 15 of them that live all together in one big trailer neighborhood. They are some of the most humble people I have ever met. We shared a short scripture with Mariana - Alma 7:11-12 and just testified of the Atonement. And then we asked her if she would say the closing prayer. She's like "I can't! I feel like I'm going to cry!" She's SO sensitive to the Spirit. I know she's going to be baptized on day. Most people's problems are they have to convince their "husbands" to get married to them first. Those husbands....

I love it here. I wish I was more. I wish I could do more for the Lord. But I pray that what I have and who I am is enough for Him right now. Alma 29:1-4

Gotta go! I sure love you!

Hermana Johnson