August 13, 2013

Hello! This new transfer has started, another one down, the time is giong by so quickly. I´m staying in palermo with my son for one more transfer. The Lord has also asked me to be a district leader, so now I have more responsabilities, blech! haha, but its alright, it will help me grow :) It´s really cold here, and im kind of getting sick of it, but I´m just thankful im not in arizona :) My companion and I had a very cool experience this week, things have not been going so great here. well things are good, except for the fact that we have no investigators. We´re trying hard, but no one wants to follow through, we have a lot of faith in the chapel visitors center activity were doing this weekend, but anyway, now I´ll tell you guys what happened :). Diligence is key! This weekend we had no investigators in church, as we went around inviting people and calling people no one wanted to go. luckily sacrament meeting is last. We left to the street an hour before sacrament meeting started and I told my companion we were just going to invite everyone to go to church. We invited and invited and everyone but everyone rejected us, but we didn´t give up. With my last pass along card in hand 5 minutes before sacrament was about to start I thought to myself that it didn´t matter, just go inside. But I prayed and asked Heavenly Father to put someone in our path to give this last card too. The next lasy I saw was a little bit older, and I approached her and gave her the card and invited her to the church. She said, ¨this church right here? I´ve always wanted to see what its like, but its never opened. I can go in and see real fast but I have to leave and go vote.¨ So we walked in with her and the members did their job. Everyone greeted her so lovingly, that by the time we got to the staircase she said, ¨This is beautiful, I want to stay for the whole thing, I can vote later today.¨ She stayed in the church and all through sacrament. Afterwards she told us that she went to salt lake city with her cousin who is a member and that she went through the visitors center and everything in temple square. We gave her a book of mormon and she is preparing to get baptized in 2 weeks. Through this experience I learned that no matter what the Lord asks us to do, if we work with all our strength and diligence it is possible. I love the work and I know the Lord is preparing people in all times and at all places! We just have to be willing to invite. No one can ever say yes to an invitation they never receive! Invite everyone! Don´t be afraid, everyone needs to receive the gospel and we are the Lord´s tools! He relies on us to do the work for Him and we are all able to do it! We just need to have faith. I love you all, and hope everything continues going well wherever you may be :) Thank you for your emails, and for your prayers. I don´t forget to pray for all of you either, dont worry! ;) Have a great week, and invite someone to church! Love Elder Johnson