Dear family -2, (Russell and I),
This week was amazing! As you heard last week I was in a situation that would require a lot of help from the Lord. We had a goal of 3 baptisms for the week and not a single date that had been accepted the week before. On Tuesday we went to work! We managed to get three dates marked for Sunday! We decided to team up with the other elders that are in this ward and we decided to do a baptism date day and just invite everyone that was ready and worthy of baptism to be baptized. The first that we visited was the grandson of a sister in the ward. On Monday night while I was thinking of who we would visit the next day it came into my mind that she had said something about her grandson not having been baptized. We went there and it was amazing! We taught a powerful first lesson and we invited him to be baptized on Sunday. He accepted and his mom said that this gives her the biggest desire to go to church again. I had him say the last prayer and in it he began sobbing and asked our Heavenly Father that he would help him to be baptized on that Sunday. When we opened our eyes their entire family was crying! He was baptized yesterday and his family is very excited!!! We managed to mark 2 other dates for Sunday but on Saturday night they decided that they wanted one more week of being prepared so next week we are going to have 2 more “dunkings”! Plus we managed to get some more dates marked for this next week so it should be a pretty fruitful conference weekend! I’m very excited!
On a spiritual note. A few weeks back while we were teaching a lesson I had the strong impression that I needed to pray and do a fast for Grandpa Johnson. I didn’t know why but I did it. This week I received a letter from Grandma Johnson saying that she had been very worried about Grandpa on around the same day. It was quite a big testimony builder to have that happen.
I know that this is the true church and that is why it is so easy for people to change their lives and become part of this church! Its very sad to think that I only have 7 more months to do this but I will make the best of every moment!!!
Love you all
Elder Jeffrey Todd Johnson
This week was amazing! As you heard last week I was in a situation that would require a lot of help from the Lord. We had a goal of 3 baptisms for the week and not a single date that had been accepted the week before. On Tuesday we went to work! We managed to get three dates marked for Sunday! We decided to team up with the other elders that are in this ward and we decided to do a baptism date day and just invite everyone that was ready and worthy of baptism to be baptized. The first that we visited was the grandson of a sister in the ward. On Monday night while I was thinking of who we would visit the next day it came into my mind that she had said something about her grandson not having been baptized. We went there and it was amazing! We taught a powerful first lesson and we invited him to be baptized on Sunday. He accepted and his mom said that this gives her the biggest desire to go to church again. I had him say the last prayer and in it he began sobbing and asked our Heavenly Father that he would help him to be baptized on that Sunday. When we opened our eyes their entire family was crying! He was baptized yesterday and his family is very excited!!! We managed to mark 2 other dates for Sunday but on Saturday night they decided that they wanted one more week of being prepared so next week we are going to have 2 more “dunkings”! Plus we managed to get some more dates marked for this next week so it should be a pretty fruitful conference weekend! I’m very excited!
On a spiritual note. A few weeks back while we were teaching a lesson I had the strong impression that I needed to pray and do a fast for Grandpa Johnson. I didn’t know why but I did it. This week I received a letter from Grandma Johnson saying that she had been very worried about Grandpa on around the same day. It was quite a big testimony builder to have that happen.
I know that this is the true church and that is why it is so easy for people to change their lives and become part of this church! Its very sad to think that I only have 7 more months to do this but I will make the best of every moment!!!
Love you all
Elder Jeffrey Todd Johnson
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