February 27, 2017 - Hey

This week was super exciting!

We had transfers! Sis. Ewing has left me to go to the wilds of Juneau to finish out her mission with Sis. Christian! (Yes the very same Sis. Christian who was my second companion). You will never guess who my new companion is!!! It is Sis. Jackson!! The one and only Sis. Jackson who was exiled with me to Fairbanks about 7 months ago! Round two here we go!!!

We have been so busy since she got here we haven't even had time for her to unpack, so she's still living out of a suitcase. I feel kinda bad but, it's the usual life of a missionary, so ya.

I've also been super sick since she got here.... so that sucks.....it's ok I will heal eventually.....
but ya that's pretty much it! Sorry this is so short! But I love you all!

😊Sis. Johnson

Good bye Sis. Ewing

Sis. Ewing, Jackson, and me at airport

The zone

A funeral for a dying elder

February 20, 2017 - 13 months!

This week was super exciting! Just let me tell you about it!!!!! To start the week off, last pday we celebrated Galentines day (gal-entine aka girls only) Sis. Ewing and I made waffles, sausage, bacon, and all the sisters serving in Anchorage brought toppings and we ate! It was great! Sis. Mayhue (the senior couple next door) even joined us for a little bit! It was fantastic!

Sis. Ewing and I also got to have a Skype lesson with a family in the Bush branch! Their son is getting baptized in July so we have the privilege of joining them for family home evening once a month, and last week was that Day! They are super awesome! They live out in a village called Akiachak (cool name huh?)

Also we celebrated Valentine's Day by heart attacking all of our investigators, the sisters, less actives, and even some members doors. We were super busy! We also didn't have a dinner cuz, well, ya know, it's Valentine's Day, and neither did one of the sisters in our district, so they came over and we had a romantic dinner of Taco Bell
and spaghetti! It was fabulous!

On Wednesday the Soldotna sisters drove to Anchorage so we could have exchanges! We double booked our area and Sis. Randall and I were able to teach a few lessons! The best part of Wednesday was dinner! The
Mayhues, President Anderson (President of the bush branch), us, and the Pittsenbargers (a family/ investigator from the bush branch)  had dinner! I got to finally meet someone from the bush! It is so nice to put faces with names! They are the funnest people ever! They came down for a wrestling tournament thingy! It was good to see them! While at dinner with them a couple came up to our table cuz they saw Elder Mayhues name tag and they introduced themselves as being a part of the bush branch....... we were all super confused cuz so were we, come to
find out they were members of our bush branch and had come down for medical reasons and we all happened to be eating at he same place! #tendermercies!

Then on Thursday the coolest experience happened! It was zone conference and a member of the 70, Elder Ardern came to have a missionto ur and he spoke with us! First he spoke at our mlc meeting (where I
made the connection that his son is Brother Ardern who is a seminary teacher at mc!!!!) then we had zone conference where 6 different zones flew/ drove in where we were all spiritually rebuked and fed all at the same time! He spoke on so many things, my favorite is he would rebuke everybody, pause, smile and say "still friends?" In his New Zealand accent. He is super funny! He also spoke on being the missionaries that match our message. Or even being the members after our missions that match our message. He pointed out everything our message was (like it's a message of hope, peace, etc) and he said we need to be worthy to share such a message. IT WAS SO GOOD!!!!!!!!

Elder Hallstrom was supposed to come, but I guess the Lord had other plans and needed him elsewhere, but I loved Elder Ardern! He is for sure called of God! Then after zone conference we finished our exchange and taught a few more lessons. 

This week was super great. It is still snowing but it is starting to warm up so that's good! I love you all, and so does Heavenly Father. Yesterday we had a lesson with one of our amazing returning less actives (she is so cool! She has made it a goal to go to the temple! It's the best!) and we read with her a talk by Elder Bednar about tender mercies. In this talk he said over and over again how tender mercies are NEVER random. They
are all planned out and for the purpose of helping us. It was super cool! The spirit was so strong! We hadn't even planned on reading it, but we couldn't find the one we had originally planned on. And we weren't even going to read the whole thing but all three of us got sucked right into it! Look for those tender mercies and you will be able to recognize the Lord's hand in your life more. Cuz he is here and he does love you! That is the message we share. God is our loving Heavenly Father.

Anyways, sorry this is so long! Hope you can make it to the bottom!

Love,
Sis. Johnson :D
💗Galentinesday!!!! 💕

February 13, 2017 - Travels and things

This week was awesome!

So it started out in Juneau! Sis. Ewing, Pres., and I flew to Juneau for exchanges and President Robinson had interviews. It was the best! Juneau is so pretty! I want to serve there some day! Funny story though, we only had one car..... so that made things a bit harder to do exchanges. So what we ended up doing is dropping 
Sis. Christian (yes the same Sis. Christian who was my comp almost a year ago) and Sis. Ewing off on the side of the road and they just walked to dinner which was a little ways away. Sis. Fa'anunu (from Tonga) and I visited people and stuff cuz we had the car. So it kinda worked out lol! It was so fun! But I am the worst and didn't
really take any pics cuz I'm the worst.... so sorry everyone! Plus it got dark super fast so... ya he he...

Also, this week we went on exchanges with Campbell Park again. I went with Sis. Oliver in Campbell Park. It's super funny cuz we are basically the same person! Like not even kidding. We don't look alike, other than we both have brown hair, but people got us confused a lot, lol, and we like all the same things! So ya it was fun! I am 
Sis. Oliver's mother. She took my place when I left Fairbanks so that was great! We got to do service for foster kids. We read to them and made them lunch. It was great! I loved it! The man who runs the service is this old blind man. He is so funny! He proposed to Sis. Oliver like three times. I was laughing The Whole time!

So miracle of miracles happened his Sunday! In the bush, all of our investigators came to church! Every single one! That never happens! It's was a great Sunday!

So happy Valentine's Day! Love you all! And happy day of birth Sean! You are the greatest!

Love,
Sis. Johnson

February 6, 2015 It has been a year!

A year ago on Feb. 2, 2016 I entered the winter wonderland of Alaska! So weird!

So I don't have much time today! But this week we went on exchanges, I was with Sis. Neild...
AGAIN!!!! Wahoo!  I love her! We found 2 more investigators which is awesome! They are both 
in the bush branch so that's great! Just a quick side note, you would not believe how many 
Angela's there are in the bush! It is super weird! One of our investigators is an Angie, and we 
had a member present the lesson with her, and our member was also Angie... so there were 3 of 
us in one phone call. Luckily I'm Sis. Johnson right now otherwise that would have been super 
confusing lol :)

We also had MLC (missionary leadership council). Some meetings last all the day long! But it was
super good! President wanted Sis. Ewing and I to teach about obedience... always a fun subject... 
President and Sis. Robinson gave a cool training! Read 2 Nephi 31 and that is basically everything 
vital to what we believe in, in a nut shell. It is so good! Read it!

My studies have been pretty awesome as well! I wish I had more time to tell you about them... but I
don't. Maybe next time. Sis. Ewing and I are flying to Juneau tonight to go on exchanges with the 
sisters down there. I'll tell you about that next week. Love you all!
Sis. Johnson