I’m Pretty Lucky
Just ask me how much I love
being a missionary. Please. BECAUSE I LOVE IT!
Ok, I will probably get
reassigned tomorrow. How crazy is that? Cross your fingers for
Africa for me!! We will either leave a week or two weeks from
today!
So I may or may not have the
best district currently in the MTC. And I am heavily leaning toward the
first. Our Elders are the best. They are so funny, but take such
good care of all of us. To give you a good idea of how funny/tight knit
we have all become, let me tell you a story: On Monday evening, the two
of the three remaining Elders came out of the classroom and were standing with
their legs touching and holding their ties together. We just stopped, and
were confused that they were acting so weird. And then they were like,
"Seriously? We have been matching all day long! And you said
nothing! We even borrowed this tie so that we could match, and it went
completely unappreciated. We looked up the word irate in the Spanish
dictionary because that's how we feel right now." It was so
hilarious. Elder Bradley was like, "Hermana Johnson, this is
literally the only day you haven't complimented us on our ties, and there were
multiple times when we were pretty much begging you to." And then we
realized they had been dropping hints all day, like "You look so good
today Elder." Or, "You know what show I love? What Not to
Wear." To which Elder Bradley responded, "Yea, and Love That
Dress Hate that Dress." (P.S. they just walked behind me and I said
I was writing a story about them, and they said, "Don't you
dare." And then gave me this little card thing we were supposed to
buy, but they beat the sisters to it and bought them for us - prime example of
their sweetness). Anyway, we have been laughing about it ever
since. And they've been coordinating ties every day since too. And
walking us home at night. And our biggest problem between our district is
that we don't speak Spanish enough because we have too much fun with each other
in English. Yea, I'm pretty lucky.
Our teachers are the best
too. I wish they could come with us. I had a dream that Hermano
Rockwood saved us from a bad guy the other night. That's how I feel about
them.
There was a fireside on Sunday
about the hastening of the work. The head of the missionary media came
and spoke to us. Mormon.org advertising is everywhere, and it is working,
and it is so cool. I came out of that fireside feeling almost the most
excited I ever have to be a part of this work. It is so cool.
Heavenly Father wants His children to know He is there. So here is my
challenge to you this week: If you have never visited mormon.org, please visit
it, and take a gander, and watch some videos and feel free to chat with the
missionaries on it (because I know some of the people who do that!). If
you have in fact visited the site, share it. Share it on Facebook, give a
pass-along card, something. If you are reading this sentence, that means
you have agreed to this challenge. Congrats! Bienhecho y Bueno
suerte! Love you!
Now, for the climax of the
email: Guess who came to the devotional last night - none other than Elder
Richard G. Scott! It was so evident to me that this man is called of
God. There is no way around it. He knows the Lord, like an apostle
of old. He knows the Lord the way Peter did. And we got to hear
from him, in a personal setting. He spoke on prayer. He started by
saying that if he could, he would sit down with each of us for an hour and talk
and share and laugh and weep. And that that's what we can do, but not just
with the Representative of God, but with God Himself. He entreated us to
have faith in the times when we don't feel the presence of the Lord as deeply,
that He is just as much there and supporting us and loving us as the times when
we feel it the most. It made me think of Harry Potter (stick with
me). Like, when a dementor comes, does that mean that good isn't real and
we never felt those good feelings? No! It means it's time to put
those good memories into power form, and fight! Alma 5:26 baby! If
you have felt to sing the song of redeeming love, can you feel so now? In
dementor times, we need to remember, and use the times of strength to
strengthen us when we need it most. We deemed yesterday Tender Mercy
Tuesday, needless to say.
The most amazing part about
Richard G. Scott's talk? The Apostolic blessing at the end of it.
Remember that time, Dad, that you gave a Stake President blessing, and the Spirit
in the room was like incredible? So imagine that, but from an apostle of
the Lord. Calling down blessings from heaven on the missionaries in
attendance, as one who has complete authority to do so. He gave us a
blessing to master the language as we put in our efforts, and peace along with
knowledge that you are not alone, and help with companions as we pray for it,
etc. The Spirit in that room was incredible. When he said, "I
invoke an Apostolic blessing" every head went up from their journals and
the room went silent. That was cool.
I love you so dearly.
P.S. hugest compliment ever -
when I showed Elder Fankhauser the sisters picture I got, he was like,
"You didn't tell me you had a dark-haired twin!"
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