Alright everyone!
This week was awesome!
First of all we witnessed a small but awesome miracle just this morning. Our lock on our door is broken and our key is too, so we can't really turn it to lock or unlock it. This morning when we were trying to leave it wouldn't budge! Like at all! The key wouldn't turn. And we
were running late! So Sis. Jackson said a quick prayer that it would turn so we could leave. After a few more tries with no luck she looked at me and then turned it, and it turned so smoothly I didn't even know she had locked it! Usually she has to wrestle with it to lock it! But it turned so smoothly! It was awesome! The Lord answers prayers! Even little ones such as a broken lock!
So this week we have been doing lots of service! I chopped wood for the first time in my life with an ax! And can I just tell you how satisfying it is?!?! Such a great stress reliever! And I got pretty good at it too! I chopped logs and stuff in half in like one..... Or 2..... Or 20 chops! But it's super fun!
We have 2 new investigators this week! One of them is so prepared it is truly amazing how awesome she is! We helped her family move in at the beginning of the transfer and she invited us over for lunch and asked if we could talk about churches with her. We were like, ok, cool that's awesome (we were planning to anyways lol). So during lunch before we
were even done eating, she eagerly was like, ok tell me everything! So we started with the restoration and she wanted to make sure she understood everything we were talking about. She asked so many questions and committed to read the Book of Mormon and pray about it. It was crazy! By the end we looked at the time and it had been like 3ish hours, shortest but longest lesson ever! She invited us back every week!
And finally, we got our transfer calls! Sis. Jackson is training a new missionary up here in Fairbanks, and I will be pink washing Wasilla in the memory lake Ward with Sis. McGraw (Sis. Jackson's trainer, I'm killing her off muwahaha (it's her last transfer)) Pink washing is a
lot like white washing, except we are taking over the elder's Ward. They had to open 3 new areas for sister, cuz 8 new sisters are coming out this transfer! That is the most sisters we have ever gotten in probably all of the Alaska mission history! It's crazy! But ya, those are the highlights of my week! I love you all, and hope you are all doing well!
Love you!
Sis. Johnson :)
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Tuesday, July 26, 2016
Tuesday, July 19, 2016
July 18, 2016 - Fun Times
Hey guys!
So this week was excitingish..... Ok, not really. I got sick again :P So far I have gotten sick every transfer, well except my first one. Don't worry it hasn't been anything to horrible, more just like obnoxious uncomfortable horrible.
Anyways so it's been very bipolar up here! The weather gets up to 100 degrees one day, then it's raining
the next, but it's not like normal rain, it's more like mist, it's been misting the past few days, if that makes any sense. It's almost like we are inside the cloud itself. Haha it's very interesting.
We get transfer calls this next week! Crazy! I feel like the transfer just started! But it's going to be a crazy transfer call cuz we are getting 7 new sister to the mission! Which means there will be some new areas opening up and we will all be transferred. And if we aren't training this transfer we will be next transfer cuz we will be getting
5-6 new sisters after that, so within these next two transfers all of the sisters in the mission will be training! It is quite the exciting buzz going throughout the mission!
On Friday we did this huge service project! It was us, 1st Ward elders and 6th Ward elders. We helped a cute little family clean up their back yard. And it was a HUGE backyard. The yard ended into the Chena river and it had t been mowed or taken care of in a very long time. The grass was almost taller then me! And there were trees popping up in random places throughout the yard from the forest around the house. So we clipped and mowed those suckers down! Basically we did that all day and smelled like grass and gasoline the rest of the night. But I
am now a professional lawn mower tree trimmer! Their yard looked fantastic by the end of I do say so self!
While we were doing this a river boat with oodles and gobbs of people floated by on the river so that was cool, sadly I did t have my camera to take a pic but it was exciting! (We took this pic at the very beginning when we started working on the yard. We cut down trees and in the back elder Ryan is mowing it down. We forgot to get an after pic so just imagine the perfect yard that looks amazing! And that would be it! ;)
Anyways hope all is well in Zion! I love you all! Make good choices!
The lord loves you!
Sis. Johnson
So this week was excitingish..... Ok, not really. I got sick again :P So far I have gotten sick every transfer, well except my first one. Don't worry it hasn't been anything to horrible, more just like obnoxious uncomfortable horrible.
Anyways so it's been very bipolar up here! The weather gets up to 100 degrees one day, then it's raining
the next, but it's not like normal rain, it's more like mist, it's been misting the past few days, if that makes any sense. It's almost like we are inside the cloud itself. Haha it's very interesting.
We get transfer calls this next week! Crazy! I feel like the transfer just started! But it's going to be a crazy transfer call cuz we are getting 7 new sister to the mission! Which means there will be some new areas opening up and we will all be transferred. And if we aren't training this transfer we will be next transfer cuz we will be getting
5-6 new sisters after that, so within these next two transfers all of the sisters in the mission will be training! It is quite the exciting buzz going throughout the mission!
On Friday we did this huge service project! It was us, 1st Ward elders and 6th Ward elders. We helped a cute little family clean up their back yard. And it was a HUGE backyard. The yard ended into the Chena river and it had t been mowed or taken care of in a very long time. The grass was almost taller then me! And there were trees popping up in random places throughout the yard from the forest around the house. So we clipped and mowed those suckers down! Basically we did that all day and smelled like grass and gasoline the rest of the night. But I
am now a professional lawn mower tree trimmer! Their yard looked fantastic by the end of I do say so self!
While we were doing this a river boat with oodles and gobbs of people floated by on the river so that was cool, sadly I did t have my camera to take a pic but it was exciting! (We took this pic at the very beginning when we started working on the yard. We cut down trees and in the back elder Ryan is mowing it down. We forgot to get an after pic so just imagine the perfect yard that looks amazing! And that would be it! ;)
Anyways hope all is well in Zion! I love you all! Make good choices!
The lord loves you!
Sis. Johnson
July 11, 2016 - Mission Miracles
Hello everyone!
So this week was insane! It was like a roller coaster of emotions! We saw so many miracles and yet it was one of the roughest weeks yet! Unfortunately I am running a tad bit short on time, so I won't be able to tell you everything that happened, I'll just share 3 of my favorite miracles!
Miracle 1: We almost had a normal Sunday! Almost. For once we hadn't been asked to speak or teach any classes. And then at around 9:51 am we get a call from our bishop that he had forgotten to ask people to speak in sacrament meeting and he was in Arizona, so he asked us to do it.... What!?!? So in 30 min we put something together. I was scared out of my mind but as sacrament meeting went on I felt peace and calmness. I don't even remember what I said in my talk but I felt calm the entire time! I didn't say a single "um!"
Miracle 2: One of our investigators drove 6 hours from where they had been fishing, just to come to church!
Miracle 3: Sis. Jackson has been going on this random phase of wanting to play the guitar. We asked some elders of we could borrow theirs, but after church we went to visit a less active and she is letting her borrow her guitar. And it was really random too! Cuz we were talking about something else and then she was like, do either of you play the guitar? And we were like sorta, and she was like cuz I have one that is gathering dust and would love it if you could play it and stuff. So that was awesome! We don't need to borrow the elders anymore.
Anyways, I love you all! Prayer is real! Even the simplest things, if you have faith, the lord will provide! The lord would not ask us to pray if he did not intend to answer them.
I love you all!
Sis. Johnson
So this week was insane! It was like a roller coaster of emotions! We saw so many miracles and yet it was one of the roughest weeks yet! Unfortunately I am running a tad bit short on time, so I won't be able to tell you everything that happened, I'll just share 3 of my favorite miracles!
Miracle 1: We almost had a normal Sunday! Almost. For once we hadn't been asked to speak or teach any classes. And then at around 9:51 am we get a call from our bishop that he had forgotten to ask people to speak in sacrament meeting and he was in Arizona, so he asked us to do it.... What!?!? So in 30 min we put something together. I was scared out of my mind but as sacrament meeting went on I felt peace and calmness. I don't even remember what I said in my talk but I felt calm the entire time! I didn't say a single "um!"
Miracle 2: One of our investigators drove 6 hours from where they had been fishing, just to come to church!
Miracle 3: Sis. Jackson has been going on this random phase of wanting to play the guitar. We asked some elders of we could borrow theirs, but after church we went to visit a less active and she is letting her borrow her guitar. And it was really random too! Cuz we were talking about something else and then she was like, do either of you play the guitar? And we were like sorta, and she was like cuz I have one that is gathering dust and would love it if you could play it and stuff. So that was awesome! We don't need to borrow the elders anymore.
Anyways, I love you all! Prayer is real! Even the simplest things, if you have faith, the lord will provide! The lord would not ask us to pray if he did not intend to answer them.
I love you all!
Sis. Johnson
Tuesday, July 5, 2016
July 4, 2016 - Happy Independence Day!
This week was super duper exciting! We saw so many blessings it was crazy! I will be forever grateful!
So first of all on Friday July 1, 2016 at 7:00pm at the stake center our investigator was baptized by her husband. Their story is truly amazing! They grew up together. They met in high school and got married. Her husband is in the army which is what brought them to Alaska. While he was out for training away from his family he met some Mormons and started going to church and got baptized. When he told his wife, she was very concerned. But after a year or so she agreed to take the lessons and learn more about it. The sisters who were here before us taught her and she agreed to be baptized. And that my dear friends is where Sis. Jackson and I popped in. And she was baptized and is so excited to go to the temple to have her husband and her three sons sealed together for time and all eternity! It was amazing! And I am forever grateful the Lord blessed me enough to be a part of
it! There was even a rainbow that night! It was cool!
Another cool experience I had this week was the next day. On Saturday we were out tracting (which is terrifying btw. When people knock on your door, missionaries, Jehovah witnesses, sales men, or anyone, you all had better be nice to them! Cuz it is the scariest thing I will ever have to do on my mission!) and we were going door to door. No one was really interested. Door after door we went. Then we come across a no soliciting sign in one of the windows. In Anchorage I always avoided those houses, cuz they usually don't want any visitors. So we went to the next house. But they didn't answer and we felt like we needed to go back to this house. So hesitantly we went back. And this older man answered. He came out on the porch and talked with us awhile. His family is all Mormon, he is not..... (Yet 😉) We had a great discussion and he accepted a Book of Mormon! Super cool!
Then on the way back to the car (we were going to be late for an appointment) we passed one of houses we had knocked on but no one had been home. Well they were home now and outside unpacking their car. It was an older couple. We stopped and had a nice casual conversation with them. Then we left without fulfilling our purpose with them.... About halfway back to the car we felt we needed to turn back around. So we did and awkwardly walked up to the open door of their
house and knocked. Sis. Jackson apologized for not fulfilling our purpose to them and explained as missionaries we teach and bring people closer to Christ. That started an awesome discussion about
their beliefs and our beliefs and things. They also accepted a Book of Mormon! This was definitely a learning experience! Cuz it was the two houses we were just going to avoid that happened to be the ones who were ready at the time. It's amazing to me how hard Satan was working on us to not go to those house, but the Lord truly prepares people and he will send to those whom he has prepared!
I love you all and hope you have a great 4th of July!!! (These photos are from a hike we went on)
Xoxoxoxoxo
Sis. Johnson
P.s. Shout out to all of my Canadian friends! It was Canada day this
past week or something as well! Go team! 🇨🇦
So first of all on Friday July 1, 2016 at 7:00pm at the stake center our investigator was baptized by her husband. Their story is truly amazing! They grew up together. They met in high school and got married. Her husband is in the army which is what brought them to Alaska. While he was out for training away from his family he met some Mormons and started going to church and got baptized. When he told his wife, she was very concerned. But after a year or so she agreed to take the lessons and learn more about it. The sisters who were here before us taught her and she agreed to be baptized. And that my dear friends is where Sis. Jackson and I popped in. And she was baptized and is so excited to go to the temple to have her husband and her three sons sealed together for time and all eternity! It was amazing! And I am forever grateful the Lord blessed me enough to be a part of
it! There was even a rainbow that night! It was cool!
Another cool experience I had this week was the next day. On Saturday we were out tracting (which is terrifying btw. When people knock on your door, missionaries, Jehovah witnesses, sales men, or anyone, you all had better be nice to them! Cuz it is the scariest thing I will ever have to do on my mission!) and we were going door to door. No one was really interested. Door after door we went. Then we come across a no soliciting sign in one of the windows. In Anchorage I always avoided those houses, cuz they usually don't want any visitors. So we went to the next house. But they didn't answer and we felt like we needed to go back to this house. So hesitantly we went back. And this older man answered. He came out on the porch and talked with us awhile. His family is all Mormon, he is not..... (Yet 😉) We had a great discussion and he accepted a Book of Mormon! Super cool!
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house and knocked. Sis. Jackson apologized for not fulfilling our purpose to them and explained as missionaries we teach and bring people closer to Christ. That started an awesome discussion about
their beliefs and our beliefs and things. They also accepted a Book of Mormon! This was definitely a learning experience! Cuz it was the two houses we were just going to avoid that happened to be the ones who were ready at the time. It's amazing to me how hard Satan was working on us to not go to those house, but the Lord truly prepares people and he will send to those whom he has prepared!
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| What do you do? It had to be plugged! |
Xoxoxoxoxo
Sis. Johnson
P.s. Shout out to all of my Canadian friends! It was Canada day this
past week or something as well! Go team! 🇨🇦
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| She said she saw this at a member's house. How cool is that? ( For Tia Torrie;) |
June 27, 2016 - Strangers and things
Hello!
So this week was fun. We have been working on preparing an investigator for her baptism! The sisters we replaced are so awesome and left these people like pre- taught, it's awesome! Anyways, we have been working on that all week, her baptism is scheduled for Friday July first, but her hubby wants to baptize her so it might get pushed back a few weeks. But we will see.
Also, this week as Sis. Jackson and I have been making lists of people we need to try to meet (cuz we are still getting to know the people they were working with). We were going through the list and a name stuck out to us, and we could not figure out how she got on our list cuz she wasn't in any of their notes or anything, but there she was so we met with her and holy cow she is so awesome!!! She
is 23, and in the military. She lives alone with a chihuahua. She grew up a member in Lehi Utah (she even knew some people I graduated with) she's been inactive for 6 years and she was so excited when we came over! After our message she was like "That's it?" So we kept going and it was really spiritual and really cool! She even had her scriptures out and everything! And we gave her a chapter to read, but she said it was too short, so we gave her two chapters to read, and she asked if there was anything else we wanted her to do, so we said read the whole book of Mosiah. Haha, it was funny. But she's awesome! And she totally misses it. Also we are starting a band. Cuz she plays the guitar and I sorta play the ukulele and Sis. Jackson sings. I only know hallelujah on the uke and she said she knows that on the guitar so we are going to be a famous band someday! Haha #dreamingbig!
But ya, mostly we are still getting to know the ward and the investigators and stuff! I love you all so much! Make good choices, the church is true, the Lord really does know us and love us each
individually. Don't you ever forget that!
Love
Sis. Johnson
This was the hole I was talking about in the last email. It keeps going around and under the house!
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
June 20, 2016 - 5 months!
Hello all!
I hope you all had a great Father's Day! I know mine was interesting! It was our first Sunday in my new area (the Fairbanks 5 Ward) so my companion and I have been trying to get to know our Ward and everything. Plus we taught relief society! They put us to work right away! It was super exciting! Our bishop looks like he's 20 so that was really weird, but I think he's actually older then that but idk.
Haha it just weirded me out to have a bishop so young! Especially coming from Inlet View!
This week we have mostly been working on meeting everyone! We already have two people on date! The sisters before us were amazing! So we are just trying to prepare them for the baptisms. One of them is in 2 weeks, and neither of us have ever had a baptism before so we are trying to figure out what we are supposed to be doing! Haha it's a good time!
We also got to do this awesome service where we dug a gigantic hole! Yeah, we are building a root cellar so our entire zone was digging a hole and it was a deep hole. The sisters were in he hole digging and filling up buckets and the elders lifted the buckets out of the hole and dumped it out the. Sent it back down to be refilled. It was awesome! I got so dirty! I loved it! We did this for like 5 hours! At around 4:30 Sis. Jackson and I had to call an appointment to reschedule cuz we were filthy and we weren't going to make it back. So we went to the truck to get our phone and the back left tire was completely flat! It looked like it had been popped on the road up there. So ya, we definitely weren't going anywhere. So all of us were try to figure out how to get the spare off the bottom of the truck. It took a long time, but we eventually figured it out. After 2 hours and 6 missionaries we finally changed the tire. It was super funny!
I love you all so much! Make good choices. I know this church is true. That is why I am here. The gospel blesses families and by living it and following Christ the lord will bless and protect them.
I love you family and friends!
Sis. Johnson
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| I guess it still gets warm. |
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| Angela says they use some interesting terminology up north:) |
I hope you all had a great Father's Day! I know mine was interesting! It was our first Sunday in my new area (the Fairbanks 5 Ward) so my companion and I have been trying to get to know our Ward and everything. Plus we taught relief society! They put us to work right away! It was super exciting! Our bishop looks like he's 20 so that was really weird, but I think he's actually older then that but idk.
Haha it just weirded me out to have a bishop so young! Especially coming from Inlet View!
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| Angela thinks this ladle is abnormally large. |
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| She said, "It's as big as my head!" |
This week we have mostly been working on meeting everyone! We already have two people on date! The sisters before us were amazing! So we are just trying to prepare them for the baptisms. One of them is in 2 weeks, and neither of us have ever had a baptism before so we are trying to figure out what we are supposed to be doing! Haha it's a good time!
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| Her District |
We also got to do this awesome service where we dug a gigantic hole! Yeah, we are building a root cellar so our entire zone was digging a hole and it was a deep hole. The sisters were in he hole digging and filling up buckets and the elders lifted the buckets out of the hole and dumped it out the. Sent it back down to be refilled. It was awesome! I got so dirty! I loved it! We did this for like 5 hours! At around 4:30 Sis. Jackson and I had to call an appointment to reschedule cuz we were filthy and we weren't going to make it back. So we went to the truck to get our phone and the back left tire was completely flat! It looked like it had been popped on the road up there. So ya, we definitely weren't going anywhere. So all of us were try to figure out how to get the spare off the bottom of the truck. It took a long time, but we eventually figured it out. After 2 hours and 6 missionaries we finally changed the tire. It was super funny!
I love you all so much! Make good choices. I know this church is true. That is why I am here. The gospel blesses families and by living it and following Christ the lord will bless and protect them.
I love you family and friends!
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| The Zone |
Monday, June 13, 2016
June 12, 2016 - Transfers, and Sister Johnson is in ...
I'm running out of ideas for a subject line, well actually I ran out awhile ago if you can't tell 🙃
So life is great here on the mission! We just got transfer calls! I am finally leaving my place of birth here on the mission and heading out to Fairbanks! Sis. Jackson (a sister who came out with me) and I will be white washing the 5th ward (white washing means that they are taking both missionaries out and putting bran new ones in) and by brand new ones I mean almost 5 months new. We both still don't really know what we are doing, but that's fine. The lord has awesome things in store, I'm super excited to be apart of it!
We got to go to the temple! It was my last time, for a really long time cuz they only have one in all of Alaska and I was privileged enough to serve the first part of my mission near it. It's so cute and
small too! It's adorable!
We also got to go in changes with the stls this week! I went with sister Grieve in the ocean view area of southern anchorage, it was actually really cool, she is such an amazing missionary! I learned so
much.
I have been reading the Book of Mormon since being out here, as I read I almost feel like it is as if it is for the first time. So many different things stick out to me that hadn't before. I have read it a
few times in my life so as I'm reading I'm always like "how have I not noticed this before?" It is because this is the word of God, it is how he speaks with us and guides us. The things that stick out to you now, are because He knows your needs and wants at this time and he will help guide you through the Book of Mormon. I love this book so so so much! As I have been reading I have been putting myself in their shoes, as a new missionary so much has struck me that never has before. I want to invite you all to try it! As you read simplify and apply it to yourself. It will help and mean so much more to you. I love this gospel and I know that it is true! The Book of Mormon is the word of God and it does help us with the simplest things in life!
Anyways I love and miss you all! Keep being awesome! Make good choices! And remember who you are!
Love,
Sis. Johnson 🤗
So life is great here on the mission! We just got transfer calls! I am finally leaving my place of birth here on the mission and heading out to Fairbanks! Sis. Jackson (a sister who came out with me) and I will be white washing the 5th ward (white washing means that they are taking both missionaries out and putting bran new ones in) and by brand new ones I mean almost 5 months new. We both still don't really know what we are doing, but that's fine. The lord has awesome things in store, I'm super excited to be apart of it!
We got to go to the temple! It was my last time, for a really long time cuz they only have one in all of Alaska and I was privileged enough to serve the first part of my mission near it. It's so cute and
small too! It's adorable!
We also got to go in changes with the stls this week! I went with sister Grieve in the ocean view area of southern anchorage, it was actually really cool, she is such an amazing missionary! I learned so
much.
I have been reading the Book of Mormon since being out here, as I read I almost feel like it is as if it is for the first time. So many different things stick out to me that hadn't before. I have read it a
few times in my life so as I'm reading I'm always like "how have I not noticed this before?" It is because this is the word of God, it is how he speaks with us and guides us. The things that stick out to you now, are because He knows your needs and wants at this time and he will help guide you through the Book of Mormon. I love this book so so so much! As I have been reading I have been putting myself in their shoes, as a new missionary so much has struck me that never has before. I want to invite you all to try it! As you read simplify and apply it to yourself. It will help and mean so much more to you. I love this gospel and I know that it is true! The Book of Mormon is the word of God and it does help us with the simplest things in life!
Anyways I love and miss you all! Keep being awesome! Make good choices! And remember who you are!
Love,
Sis. Johnson 🤗
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