Afternoon delight!
This week was a good week! We had transfers on Tuesday and my dear and beloved companion was transferred. My new companion is Elder Thompson from Mesa Arizona. It's really quite fun to do contacts in the road for when we introduce ourselves it sounds like a song because Thompson and Johnson sound the same. This week we worked hard. We did a lot of contacts, service, and we had a blast doing it.
This week I was given a “tender mercy” from the Lord. One of my investigators was such an example to me. He and his wife were expecting a child on the 26th of July but for some reason it took until the 2nd of August for the child to arrive. Shortly after being born his little heart couldn't quite handle the stress of life and he passed away shortly after being born. During the week we passed there every day bringing messages of comfort to them. The first day you could tell that they were sad and especially her, but she came up to me and said “Papai do Céu levou meu filho, mais eu sei que foi a vontade Dele” which translates to be Daddy in Heaven took my child, but I know that it was his Will. On Friday we were there giving them a message about the iron rod and about how being baptized they would then be on the trail that leads to the tree of life and eventually our “Daddy in Heaven”. She said that the change that she has seen in her husband has been enough for her to know that she needs to be baptized. They aren’t married but we are working on goals to get them married and get their entire family into the Waters of baptism and on the straight and narrow. Now for the “tender mercy” that I received. Adilson, the father of that family said the closing prayer. After thanking Heavenly Father for his many blessings he began to ask. He briefly asked for help with passing the current situation of their family. He then used the remainder of the prayer to ask Heavenly Father to bless one of their neighbors who was passing through a tough problem. He spent more time asking for blessings for that family than asking for himself and his family. I was amazed that someone who was really needing blessings at that time, and probably even more than his neighbor, was still asking Father in Heaven to bless his neighbor. This family is ELECT!
I hope that you are all staying close to the scriptures these days! Because when I get back I'm going to make us read everyday so you might as well get used to it now so that when I get home it's not as intense for you!!! That is IF you aren't already reading!
I Love you all and I hope you all know that!!!
Love,
Elder Jeffrey T. Johnson
This week was a good week! We had transfers on Tuesday and my dear and beloved companion was transferred. My new companion is Elder Thompson from Mesa Arizona. It's really quite fun to do contacts in the road for when we introduce ourselves it sounds like a song because Thompson and Johnson sound the same. This week we worked hard. We did a lot of contacts, service, and we had a blast doing it.
This week I was given a “tender mercy” from the Lord. One of my investigators was such an example to me. He and his wife were expecting a child on the 26th of July but for some reason it took until the 2nd of August for the child to arrive. Shortly after being born his little heart couldn't quite handle the stress of life and he passed away shortly after being born. During the week we passed there every day bringing messages of comfort to them. The first day you could tell that they were sad and especially her, but she came up to me and said “Papai do Céu levou meu filho, mais eu sei que foi a vontade Dele” which translates to be Daddy in Heaven took my child, but I know that it was his Will. On Friday we were there giving them a message about the iron rod and about how being baptized they would then be on the trail that leads to the tree of life and eventually our “Daddy in Heaven”. She said that the change that she has seen in her husband has been enough for her to know that she needs to be baptized. They aren’t married but we are working on goals to get them married and get their entire family into the Waters of baptism and on the straight and narrow. Now for the “tender mercy” that I received. Adilson, the father of that family said the closing prayer. After thanking Heavenly Father for his many blessings he began to ask. He briefly asked for help with passing the current situation of their family. He then used the remainder of the prayer to ask Heavenly Father to bless one of their neighbors who was passing through a tough problem. He spent more time asking for blessings for that family than asking for himself and his family. I was amazed that someone who was really needing blessings at that time, and probably even more than his neighbor, was still asking Father in Heaven to bless his neighbor. This family is ELECT!
I hope that you are all staying close to the scriptures these days! Because when I get back I'm going to make us read everyday so you might as well get used to it now so that when I get home it's not as intense for you!!! That is IF you aren't already reading!
I Love you all and I hope you all know that!!!
Love,
Elder Jeffrey T. Johnson
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