GOOD MORNING BERLIN!
Well my dear friends. This week brought transfer calls and my companion Elder L was transferred to another place. As we got to the bus station where the transfer meeting would take place I was full of anxiety not knowing what was in store for me. As the new missionaries arrived as usual I went over to greet them and welcome them to the mission. After I had greeted everyone I went back to talk with some of my good friends here in the mission. That was when the only American that came out of all the 15 new missionaries, came up to me and said….”are you Elder Johnson?” I said yes. He then said….”you’re my trainer.” I was flabbergasted! It seems that I just got here yesterday and met my trainer and there I was being told that I would be training. After a few minutes of standing with my hands on my knees to try and get my head around what was said to me I got excited that President Pickett trusts me with the training of another Elder. His name is Elder Grange and he is from Ogden Utah. We spent the week working our hind ends off and we have had some great experiences and some weird, but funny experiences as well.
Our first work day we were walking to a members house when a bunch of teenage girls about 16-17 years old started yelling “Tio” at us which means uncle but can mean dude sometimes. We just ignored it and continued on. They continued screaming “TIO” so I decided to turn and face them and to do a contact with them thinking that they would shrink away with embarrassment and go away. All but one walked past us blushing because of embarrassment. I began the contact about the church. I didn’t want to get her address or go teach her at her house so I just invited her to go to church on Sunday at 9 o’clock and left it at that. I reached out to shake her hand when it happened she pulled me close and said….”um bejo na rosto” which means kiss on the face. The little snake was trying to pull a move on me. Being a little shocked at the sudden and bold move of the girl, I was a little frightened but managed to blurt out a “não pode”… or you can’t! This whole experience brought me back great memories of the before mission life when I had to walk around with a 9 iron to keep the girls away from me. Just kidding. Let’s hope that here in next October when I get back the females are still with the desire to get a piece of this man candy! ;)
On the spiritual side. Elder Grange and I went up to teach this lady named Patricia on Saturday night. As we got there we saw that she had a Book of Mormon and it was opened as if she had been reading it. The Elders in the other area had taught her the first lesson and left a Book of Mormon with her and asked her to pray about the church and ask whether or not the church is true. When I got to that part in my lesson I asked her if she had done the prayer. She then explained something really amazing! She said that the first night she had read the title page of the Book Of Mormon and then went to pray while everyone else in the house was sleeping. She said she felt nothing so she went to bed. The next day she thought nothing of it until she was alone again in the house and decided to read 3 Nephi 11 which was a part that the Elders had left. She read about Christ and His visit to the people here in the Americas. She then decided to give it a shot again and pray. She said that right after she asked in the prayer she felt like someone had their hands on her head. She said the hands had a warmth that started in her head and went all the way down to her toes. I then went for the kill and marked her baptism for the 19th of this month. I love to see the love that Our Heavenly Father has for His children and how He shows His love by answering their prayers!
I know that God will always answer our prayers, we just need to make the first pace and ask!
I love you all!
Elder Johnson
Well my dear friends. This week brought transfer calls and my companion Elder L was transferred to another place. As we got to the bus station where the transfer meeting would take place I was full of anxiety not knowing what was in store for me. As the new missionaries arrived as usual I went over to greet them and welcome them to the mission. After I had greeted everyone I went back to talk with some of my good friends here in the mission. That was when the only American that came out of all the 15 new missionaries, came up to me and said….”are you Elder Johnson?” I said yes. He then said….”you’re my trainer.” I was flabbergasted! It seems that I just got here yesterday and met my trainer and there I was being told that I would be training. After a few minutes of standing with my hands on my knees to try and get my head around what was said to me I got excited that President Pickett trusts me with the training of another Elder. His name is Elder Grange and he is from Ogden Utah. We spent the week working our hind ends off and we have had some great experiences and some weird, but funny experiences as well.
Our first work day we were walking to a members house when a bunch of teenage girls about 16-17 years old started yelling “Tio” at us which means uncle but can mean dude sometimes. We just ignored it and continued on. They continued screaming “TIO” so I decided to turn and face them and to do a contact with them thinking that they would shrink away with embarrassment and go away. All but one walked past us blushing because of embarrassment. I began the contact about the church. I didn’t want to get her address or go teach her at her house so I just invited her to go to church on Sunday at 9 o’clock and left it at that. I reached out to shake her hand when it happened she pulled me close and said….”um bejo na rosto” which means kiss on the face. The little snake was trying to pull a move on me. Being a little shocked at the sudden and bold move of the girl, I was a little frightened but managed to blurt out a “não pode”… or you can’t! This whole experience brought me back great memories of the before mission life when I had to walk around with a 9 iron to keep the girls away from me. Just kidding. Let’s hope that here in next October when I get back the females are still with the desire to get a piece of this man candy! ;)
On the spiritual side. Elder Grange and I went up to teach this lady named Patricia on Saturday night. As we got there we saw that she had a Book of Mormon and it was opened as if she had been reading it. The Elders in the other area had taught her the first lesson and left a Book of Mormon with her and asked her to pray about the church and ask whether or not the church is true. When I got to that part in my lesson I asked her if she had done the prayer. She then explained something really amazing! She said that the first night she had read the title page of the Book Of Mormon and then went to pray while everyone else in the house was sleeping. She said she felt nothing so she went to bed. The next day she thought nothing of it until she was alone again in the house and decided to read 3 Nephi 11 which was a part that the Elders had left. She read about Christ and His visit to the people here in the Americas. She then decided to give it a shot again and pray. She said that right after she asked in the prayer she felt like someone had their hands on her head. She said the hands had a warmth that started in her head and went all the way down to her toes. I then went for the kill and marked her baptism for the 19th of this month. I love to see the love that Our Heavenly Father has for His children and how He shows His love by answering their prayers!
I know that God will always answer our prayers, we just need to make the first pace and ask!
I love you all!
Elder Johnson
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