We are all sick 😷

this week we have been sick all week, we weren't allowed to go out and work 1 day because we had fevers, but it ended up being kind of fun because our whole apartment was sick. but we are all better now and we get to go back to work!

we finished teaching manny everything this week, his baptism is going to be on Saturday, we are so excited. he is the cutest lil kid and he is so excited to be baptized. every time we come over he is so happy to see us and it is the cutest thing. he always comes up to us and goes "hi missionaries" 

we also had zone conference this week which was really cool and i learned so much from it. one thing as a mission we are doing is each transfer we are focusing on learning about 1 Christ like attribute this transfer we are focusing on faith in Jesus Christ. We talked a lot about faith in zone conference which was really cool. 

our most embarrassing moment :/ so we had to sing at zone conference because

 1. all the sisters in the zone wanted to 2. my companion wanted to and 3. no one else wanted to. so we sang a song as a group of six. so to make the song more interesting each companionship sang a line a lil mini solo...fuuunnn. so me and my companion were first. so the piano start and its our time to shine and she messes up, so me and my companion both got confused and we were like are we starting orrrr... then my companion started  singing and then i didn't then i did and she didn't then we both started laughing and weren't able to stop. so that was are moment in the spotlight this weeekkk 

one of our biggest miracles form this week:

So this person in the mtc i met emailed me last week and was like there is a family that is in my ward here and his parents are less active and they live in Stockton, if you have time you should go and try to visit them. so we looked them up and see that they had moved. So we were like that's to bad and kinda forgot about them. fast forward to yesterday all our plans feel though. Best day because when ever plans fall through we know Instantly that it's going to be the best day ever! So we were going to visit a friend and I saw that we were by the house of a member and I was like we could visit them after, then i realized that it was the dot of the family that i was sent. We felt prompted that we should go there. 

So we go to her house, and we are praying in the car. Background: as a mission we are focusing on finding families. So in the prayer my companion is like please help us be able to find a family. Then she was like thank you for all the miracles you have given us and we know that you will bless us with so many more miracles. and the whole time I was praying that we would have a huge miracle at this house. So right when she said that I knew we were going to have the biggest miracle. So we go to up to the house. 

And this lady answers. And she was so excited like so excited to see us! She was like can you please come back on Thursday, she set a return appointment up with us. And before we left she was like one second and she went back to talk to her sons and was like the missionaries are here!! And she came back and was like we can't wait for you to come back! The coolest thing ever is the whole family speaks Spanish!

This week has been a good one !

this week has been a good one!

we got to go to st marys (soup kitchen)  this week which is my favorite place in the entire world.  usually we just put the food on the plates and we only get to say like hi and have a good day to the people. but this time we got to serve the food, we got to take the food out to the people and talk to everyone! it was so much fun i got to meet so many cool people and make so many friends it was the happiest thing in the whole world. i am starting to learn peoples names and they know us now and it is just the best thing ever, and i got to learn about people stories it was just the funnest!

this week we have been a lil sick and it has been a miracle we have been able to teach anyone anything, god is so good and he really blessed us this week with his spirit. We had a lesson on Sunday, and i experienced the gift of tongues... but with English, my brain wasn't really working and we were talking and i felt like i had to say something but i didn't really know what and i just started talking and words just kept coming and it was way cool that i was able to even say anything. especially considering that the day before we were in the middle of a lesson and i was talking and then i couldn't remember at all what i was saying or what part we were talking about. 

Hopefully we will all get feeling better soon. 

but it has honestly been such a cool experience because we have realized how little we can do by ourselves and so much we can do with gods help. this week we have truly been able to see gods hand in this work and see how this is truly his work not ours . 

loooovvvvveeee you have a good week

Living the Stockton life

on Wednesday we got to go to to the soup kitchen. it was really fun, we got to meet a lot of really sweet people. then that night we walked to the church and went to choir... yeah we are in a choir?  so we went and sang with 2 other members? then we stayed at the church for a while and made cookies with all the girls. then we stared walking home, we had only walked like 1/2 a mile when a member drove by us and asked if she could give us a ride home, it was a big tender mercy. 

then on Thursday we had a meeting in the morning they told us about a new goal we have as a mission and that is to have a 110 baptisms before October. they asked us to ask each of our families to begin to pray that we as a mission will be able to find families to teach and families that are ready to learn more about this message. soooo if you all could start [praying for us a mission that would be so good. i know that god answers prayers that is something that has been proven to me time and time again here on my mission. 

one of the sister we live with hit her 1 year so we all went out to eat to the best place in our area... Japanese fast food. 

the garbage can said gracias , that pretty much sums up our experience at that restaurant. 

we had the funnest night ever on Thursday, we went to this house and it was like ‪10000000000‬ degrees out side! so we went up to the door, and we talked to the mom for a sec then she had to go answer the phone. we then see her little kid jr smiling around the corner, when his mom went inside he ran up to us and and started spraying us with his water gun, he was having the time of his life he thought it was so funny. then when we were walking away he ran up in front of us and hid behind a car and started spraying us again, we then get in the car to leave and he opens the door and starts spraying the car. it was so funny and it made him so happy. it was also the hugest tender mercy because it was so hot. 

on our way home that night we saw this man he is always outside standing on the street balancing things on his head that night he was balancing a recycling bin, and he was holding up a sign that said "i will literally not drop this on any cars" it was my best moment. 

on Friday for weekly planning we went to jamba juice to make it more fun, we met one of my best friends in the whole world she was so cool, we both had wave rings on, she was from Florida, she loves the beach more than anything, we seriously became best friends, before she left i felt like i should give her one of my necklaces i was wearing and so i did and i have never seen anyone so happy in my life, the spirit is so good!

on saturday we had a temple tour with a little boy named manny he is 10 years old and he is getting baptized ‪on august 3‬, we invited him to be baptized last sunday ( i forgot to write about that). but anyway we were able to go to the temple with him an his family and he loooooovvvveeeedddd it so much he had so many questions and just soaked up everything,he is so excited to be baptized. 

life is really good, its way safe here, and everyone is so nice! were are having so much fun

My happiest place on earth

Monday last week! My last night in my happiest place on earth.
First off we had the best pday ever it was so much fun.
Then that night, we had no idea where to go so we just prayed we went out and started walking we walked for about 45 mins and that's when the night started, we saw this homeless lady sitting on the bench we asked her if we could sit by her and talk for a minute, she was the sweetest lady ever, we talked to her for about 10 minutes just about how good God is, then another homeless lady walks by (dandy) and cynthia was like hey sit down and listen to them they will teach you about God. So we just sat on the bench for like 30 minutes with the kindest humans teaching them about God! About how good he his and how they can change their lives through him.
We left that bench and went on our way we walked for a while than we passed a man we were like hey how are you, then we asked what do you need, he was like I need a good day tomorrow, with that "what do you need" it's a questions I only ask to certain people, people who want to change who want happiness, some people just want money or fame. But some they want happiness something that we can promise them. So we handed him the book of mormon and told him read this and we promise you God will give you the best day of your life.
Then driving home me and my best friend just listened to music and sang so loud as we looked at the most beautiful sunset in the world. God is good. He wants us to be happy. My favorite thing has been promising people blessings,because I know they will happen especially if they read the book of mormon.
The next day we transfers .
My new area Stockton is SO nice. Its not scary, we have had a few times where we knew we needed to leave where we were but nothing bad has happened at all.
On Wednesday’s  we get to volunteer at a soup kitchen. It's in downtown Stockton and the whole city is just tents, shopping carts full of things its unlike anything you have ever seen it's just a community of homeless people it so crazy. On Wednesday we met so many people it was so fun.  I think that its going to be one of the highlights of my week. Life is good, God is good and he loves you. Have a good week!!!
Hermana Johnson

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I’m getting transferred to Stockton !!