Hi Everyone. Another week has gone by. All the weeks just blur together. I feel like I write the same things ever week when but I think it just feels like that because I have to ask myself... did I do that last week or this week?
TIME GOES BY TOO FAST
This week I was talking with
a less active and I started kind of complaining about how fast time goes and
how I'm a little worried because of how fast that it is going that I might not
be enjoying my mission as deeply as a can be. I went on for a little bit and
then the less active said to me... I think you can have a better perspective.
They then continued... when your life is going fast it means that you are
occupied, that you are engaged in something and that you have something that
you are working towards. Life goes fast when you are enjoying yourself because
you are using your life to the fullest. Life is slow when we aren't enjoying
ourselves and when we wish time would go faster. It is usually when we don't
have anything to do or we are lonely.
I had never really
thought about it like that before. I am really thankful that I had the opportunity
to talk to this less active member of the church, because it did make me feel
like I was just looking at things in the wrong light. Life is best when it is
flying by. :)
iPads
We finally got our iPads.
They are pretty awesome tools. I like them. I think the coolest thing about
them for the moment is that we have so many resources within our reach with
such little space or weight taken. The gospel library is so cool. You can take
notes and highlight and make tags and have scriptures on certain subjects all
grouped together. It is really useful.
Another thing I really
like about them are the language learning apps on them. They are really fun and
useful. They make language study more efficient.
I'm just thankful for the
opportunity that I have to be a part of the first wave of missionaries using
the iPads. We have been promised that once we have social media on them and
that if we use them correctly we can double the amount of people we are
teaching. That would be awesome.
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK
So this week we went to
Rodez to do an exchange with Elder Gossel and Elder Keller. They serve in the
same branch as us but they live about an hour north of Albi. The best part of
the entire exchange was when Elder Gossel and I ran into a 90 year old woman
while we were porting. She opened the door and looked super surprised and then
said, “Well, are you going to come in or not?” She was super delightful.
Obviously we didn't go in because she was alone but we spent a good 30 minutes
talking to her at her door.
She asked what church we
were from and we said "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints"
Then she said, "Oh! That is my church!" lol In the course of her
conversation she said just before we knocked on her door, she had been praying
to have someone visit her because she was feeling really lonely and depressed.
She then told us "You are truly representatives of Jesus
Christ".
As we were walking down
the stairs after just finishing our conversation with her, I realized that we
had been the answer to someone's prayer. And that really touched me. It isn't
by chance that we decided to port her building. Her building had five floors
and she was the only one that opened her door and talked to us.
I thought about how we
probably are never going to see this little old woman ever again. She probably
isn't going to get baptized. We didn't teach her a lesson at her door. We
didn't do anything with her that we could "count". But she had
testified to us that we were the Lord's servants. It made me think about a
conference talk that I had read this last week. It says something like
"the most important acts of service are recognized by God alone." I'm
just so happy to have been able to be in the right place at the right
time.
ALSO! BRIGITTE FIXED HER
OWN BAPTISMAL DATE! She prayed and prayed and prayed and she said she wants to
get baptized the 5th of September. It isn't as soon I would have personally
liked but that is her answer so too bad for me! It isn't my decision, it is
between her and the the Lord. I'm super happy she finally realized she had
received an answer.
SOOOO...
Yeah…that was this
week!
Je vous aime
Elder Johnson
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