this week has been kinda of a week of ups and downs mostly ups but a couple downs.
Tuesday was one of the best days of my life! Noting to exciting happened during the day. the exciting parts are. 1). on the way to the church we saw Fermin standing outside, so we were like we have to stop, so we stopped went to his house and he was gone. so then we saw some people speaking Spanish. so we were like lets talk to them.. they weren't interested.
BUTTT THEN we were driving and i saw Ricardo!!! pushing his little cart (in the hottttt sun) so we pulled over got out of the car and went and talked to him. it is so insane because this was the fourth time we have seen him in totally different place, and its so crazy because if we wouldn't have done all those things first we wouldn't have seen him. god has a perfect plan, even if it doesn't make sense and it is crazy he knows what is happening. then after that we continued on our way to the church, to fill up the baptismal font! So we got there and filled it up, set up everything and planned for our missionary moment. Hermana cappillo-montes got to come, there were so many people at the baptism, there were like 25-30 non-members at the baptism it was insane. the baptism went perfectly. it was for sure the best baptism i have been to in my whole life. the spirit was so strong.for our missionary moment we showed the 20 minute restoration video and each bore our testimonies after we explained what happened. then Fabi bore her testimony, it was the most beautiful, sincere testimony ever, she cried the whole time and said that this was one of the hardest choice she has had to make but she knows that it was right. she thanked us missionaries for teaching her and said how it was just the thing she needed in her life. it was so beautiful, and the spirit was so strong. the baptismal service was 1 hour and 40 minutes way long but so perfect, we wouldn't have changed a thing!
then Wednesday we visited our friend Maria and she came to the baptism. she can't see good when she drives at night so she was telling us how when she left she way nervous to drive home because it was like 9, so she prayed and she said it was crazy because she could see perfectly the whole drive home. then that night we had the opportunity to serve Seder (part of the pass-over) at a Jewish Synagogue. it was a really cool experience. we also got to participate in everything to. we just had to pretty much give people food and then get ourselves food (also blessings all the food was vegan and wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy good). it was a really neat thing to experience and to experience while being a missionary. it was so different. it was really cool to talk to people of all faiths and races and just be friends, and to not have that barrier between us but to just love each other and serve each other.
then on Thursday we had district meeting i gave a training on the importance of the book of Mormon. Then we had a lesson with one of my favorite people Salvador (he is a recent convert). he shared with us his story again about how he found out about the church and its so crazy. so he moved here to the united states July 28.then for his work a couple years latter he could go to Washington or Idaho and the other guy choose Washington so he went to Idaho. he was in a park and saw the temple. he saw the Angel Moroni on the top and he said that it was like flashing and the sun was shining right on the Angel and he was like what is that place. this was also on July 28. then the missionaries found him he was taught and he wanted to be baptized he said that he knew it was true and his life changed for the better after he made this choice. so 1 year later after he saw the temple he was baptized on July 28! it is so crazy again to see god perfect plan and his hand working in each of our lives.
then on Friday we had a lesson with Manuel this is where it is sad! so his mom has not been very supportive of him learning more, and she has been showing him Anti now. so the lesson we had with him before he was like baptize me right now in this pool he was so excited, and ready then this lesson it was a complete 180. he said that Jesus established the catholic church and that Jesus was catholic and that when Joseph smith saw god and his son Jesus Christ that was the devil. and he said that the book of Mormon was not true, but he hasn't prayed about it yet. so we are going to keep working with him. its just hard to see how much Satan does not want people to be baptized because he knows the power we get when we are baptized and he doesn't want us to gain that. so it was a rough lesson
then on Saturday not to much happened maria said that she wants to get married to her "husband" of 20 years so fingers crossed. then we got to go to a baby shower for the cutest family in the entire world. also funny story so on our way to the baby shower we were siting at a light, and it turned green but then we saw this man creeping in front of our car so we stopped, then he ran to the middle of the road, like the divider thing, and he pulled this rod out of his pants that was wrapped around his hand with caution tape and tried to hit the car driving by with his "sword", then he like put it back in his pants like a sword, it was so funny.
Sunday was pretty good the other day we had this random person call us and was like i want to go to church so we gave him all the info and reminded him on Saturday then he showed up to church. he said he was taught by missionaries 3 years ago and he is so prepared so fingers crossed here.
but anyway this week was pretty good i hope that you have a great week love you and miss you!
hermana johnson
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