July 28, 2014
Dear Family and Friends,
Transfers calls were today and looks like I will be staying in Little Rock for
another transfer with Hermana Dube. This week started off pretty interesting.
Monday our car got booted and us and the ASL sisters were stuck in the
apartment most the day. Tuesday we had a misunderstanding with an
investigator.... he was talking to me about how he used to make shoes and asked
what my shoe size is and he had some shoes for me... he goes inside and my
companion thought it would be funny to tell me that in his small town in Mexico
that is how men propose... like a Cinderella moment.. and if you wear the shoes
you accept. I freaked out for a little bit because I thought my companion gave
me away on my mission but then the other member with us told me that she was just
joking.
Wednesday was specialized training I learned a lot about myself and
some of the weaknesses that I need to work on.. later that day you could just
feel satan putting those temptations in my path not to stop me because he knows
I can't be stopped but to distract me. Keep me from progressing as quickly. Our
new mission president is amazing. His focus is how when we truly convert
ourselves to the gospel and to following the spirit we can better bless other
peoples lives too.
Hiking Pinnacle Mountain
Our missionary group hiking Pinnacle Mountain
We have been working with a less active and helped him get
his patriarchal blessing. The patriarch got it to him in about 4 days... he
seriously needed that guidance in his life... he called us up one night after
we went out teaching with a member and told us his concerns with opening his
blessing. You could feel how hard satan is getting him not to read it because
he knows how much good it is going to do in his life. He has gone through so
much and has been abused, abandoned by his mother, and his father... has had
suicidal thoughts and has been going through even more that we don't even know
about. There is so much that he can do to help build up the kingdom of God and
he is so strong which is why satan is trying so hard to use the guilt of past
transgressions to get him to fall into those bad habits again. I know he will
make the right decision and as missionaries we are guides and we seriously are
here to help people and a lot of times people don't realize that.... if you
need any help with anything spiritual and sometimes even temporal.... ASK THE
MISSIONARIES THEY CAN HELP YOU!!!!
I love this gospel and I know this
church is true. As I have started reading the Book of Mormon again and focused
on the Christlike attributes I can feel my testimony grow and have a stronger
testimony that this book is true and this church is the same exact church that
Christ himself set up... no other church has such great organization...
everything the church does is inspired of God.... and who are we to question
that... we can definitely ask Heavenly Father for help understanding but I do KNOW
that the prophet and his apostles are led by Christ himself. I know that
~Hermana
Larissa Johnson