November 19th, 2013

Hello!!!

Sorry, super short email again this week!! We keep running out of time!! Yesterday, we did yoga with a member and then went to another member's house to make jewelry and it was so fun!!!

Quote of the Week

 "Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase." 

 

This quote was on the sign in front of a little church in town and I always love the quotes they have on it. Some of them are funny but this one is really good, we truly have to have faith to start the path to eternal life without having any idea when the end is or how long it will take!! We need to always stay strong and keep pushing forward!! :)

Scripture of the Week 

"Let they bowels be full of charity towards all men and to the household of faith, and let virtue garnish thy thoughts unceasingly; then shall thy confidence wax strong in the presence of God; and the doctrine of the priesthood shall distil upon thy soul as the dews from heaven." -D&C 121:45 

 

This scripture kept popping up everywhere and so I finally pondered it and I realized how important it is to keep love and virtue in every aspect of our lives and that is what will keep us clean and pure and get us to heaven!! :)

Miracle of the Week/Month

1. Paul is so amazing!! He is so ready for his baptism on Saturday and we can't wait. He loves to learn and is just soaking up every single thing in all of our lessons. He asked the Elders to baptize him which was super cool because they are really excited about him as well. This is getting the branch excited about missionary work and it is exactly what is needed!!

2. Our branch is taking incredible care of us. We mentioned to the relief society president that we didn't have tons of food and over the last 3 days, we have gotten food and other things from like 4 or 5 different members and it just keeps coming. It ceases to amaze me how whenever I start to worry about something, Heavenly Father immediately takes care of it and I don't even have time to stress anymore because it is fixed so quickly.

 

I know that it is him blessing us for our hard work and dedication and that he loves us so much that he wants us to be taken care of. He will do anything he needs to help me and I am so grateful for the comfort that comes from that knowledge!!! Things are incredible and I am so blessed!!

Next Tuesday is transfers which is hard because I never want to leave this area. This is my home and this branch feels like family!! I know whatever happens is supposed to happen but I hope I get to stay again!! I will let you know next week what is happening!! I will also try to write a little longer email next week as well!!

Love you all, thanks so much for all you do for me!!!

Love always, Sister Britni Johnson :)

 

 

Nicole Binns (Vicki's granddaughter) was baptized on Saturday. She was taught by another set of sisters and we were the ones who sent them over there!! :) I was so happy we were able to go!! Her dad was also baptized, I just didn't get a picture with him

 

November 15th, 2013

Hello everyone!!!!

Very short letter this week because I am almost out of time!! The libraries were closed yesterday so we were able to email for a little bit today! 

 

Biggest and Best Miracle Ever!!!

Paul is getting baptized next Saturday!! We have known him for less than 2 weeks but he came to the adult session of stake conference on Saturday and the Sunday session as well! Which is saying something because the stake center here is over 30 minutes away!! We have been meeting with him a ton and he knows this is true! He is reading the Book of Mormon and D and C like crazy, he loves everything he is learning and can't wait to be able to receive the priesthood and go to the temple!!

He is incredible and this is such a blessing. He told us that we were an answer to his prayers but he was an answer to ours as well! The branch is getting so excited about all these new converts and everything is looking up! He is so strong and I bet he will be a bishop or stake president somewhere down the line!! Heavenly Father truly knows all of his children and is working with all of them to lead them to this truth that we are lucky enough to share!!!




More updates next week!! Life is good!! It's snowy and absolutely freezing out here!! Things are going well and I love being a missionary!!

Love and miss you all and hope to talk to you soon!!! :)

Love always, Sister Britni Johnson

November 4th, 2013

Hello Everyone!!! Happy Halloween and Happy Fall!!!!

First off, Happy Belated Birthday to Katie Watts and Happy Early Birthday to Brian!!!! :) Love you both so much!!

Scripture of the Week

"Condemn me not because of mine imperfection, neither my father because of his imperfection, neither them who have written before him; but rather give thanks unto God that he hath made manifest unto you our imperfections, that ye may learn to be more wise than we have been."-Mormon 9:31. 

I love this scripture because it shows true humility. He is saying to not get angry at him for the things that he has done wrong but be grateful that you can learn from his mistakes and be better than he has been in that regard. I feel like that is so prevalent these days when people are so quick to judge. I am learning to accept people for who they are, mistakes and all and learn how to improve myself from their consequences! :)

Quote of the week

"Our doctrine is clear, we are to be positive and of good cheer, we emphasize our faith not our fears."-Quentin L. Cook. 

We will never get anywhere if we don't choose to emphasize our faith rather than our fears. We need to have full and complete trust in Heavenly Father and the promises he has made to us and learn how to act out of complete faith in Him!!! :)

Miracle this Week

Our miracle this week is Paul. We have been having a hard time finding people interested over the last few weeks but we kept pushing forward and we found Paul . He is 26, single and was not interested at first. But as we kept him talking, we helped him realize that he believes a lot of the same things we do and it peaked his interest. So met him on Wednesday, taught him on Thursday, took him on a tour of our chapel on Friday, and he came to church yesterday. 

He loves reading the Book of Mormon and he loved church. In his own words "I feel as if I cam coming out of the darkness, the clouds are parting and I am entering the truth, light and understanding." We are super excited for him and when we meet with him tonight, we are going to commit him to be baptized on November 30th. He is such a blessing because it has restored our faith that people truly are being prepared to receive this message and being put in our paths for us to find, teach and help them prepare for baptism. Heavenly Father is incredible and I feel so much love, comfort and strength from him daily!!! :)

Last thing, it was kinda funny because here they have a specific time set aside for trick or treating and it was supposed to be from 6:30-8:30. But there was a really bad storm on Halloween so they postponed trick or treating until Saturday. It was so weird because they don't do that in Utah so it kinda made us laugh. It was a good thing they postponed it though because the storm was insane. It woke us up in the middle of the night and it was so loud and scary that my first thought was that it was a tornado. The next morning there was a ton of damage done to houses, siding came off, trees were blown over and all the trees were naked because the leaves were blown off. The winds got up to 60 MPH, I am just glad that we are safe and that it wasn't a tornado or anything.

I love you all and I pray for you often!! I hope all is going well and I will talk to you again next week!!! :)

Keep The Faith!!!!!!

Love always, Sister Britni Johnson :)

 Johnson, Johnson and Johnson :)-my last name is too common

 Fun on exchanges!! :)

October 28th, 2013

Hello!!!

Winter is coming and it is freezing!!!

So I had the email all typed up and it was awesome and then when I started signing my name, somehow the entire thing got deleted so I am almost out of time so this is going to be very quick! 

Scripture of the Week 
"For we walk by faith, not by sight."- 2nd Corinthians 5:7

It is so important to keep our faith and rely on it more than the natural man and the tendencies we have.

Quote of the Week
"Decide now that you will work at being happy more often. You are either the master of your destiny or a slave to your fate. Only you can choose how you'll react. Choose well." 

I am learning to choose happiness even when things are hard and not going the way we want. We need to seek for peace from Christ and choose happiness! :)

Miracle of the Week
So this week was kind of hard and discouraging. We weren't finding anyone who wanted to listen but finally on Saturday morning, we met Angie. She is a member of another church but her dad is a member of ours and we are meeting with her tonight.

We also met Adam who we had met a few months ago and he let us in. He was made a lot of mistakes in his life but he is in the spirit of changing as he put it and we are excited to help him with it! We are also meeting with him tonight so we will see how this goes!! Then we finished off the night with a branch trunk or treat/chili cook off and it was an overall awesome day and I am so grateful for the miracles Heavenly Father is constantly blessing us with!

I love you all and I will talk to you next week!! :)

Love always, Sister Britni Johnson! :)

Coolest pumpkin ever!!

 Savannah!!!