This week I traded my Sister Kleisler for a Sister Dodge. Sister Dodge is from Blaine (nest to Bellingham). She's got an awesome voice so companionship study in the morning is pretty fun cause we sing a lot. It stinks cause I have a cough right now and I'm pretty sure I'll have it the entire time I'm in Pleasanton since I have had it the entire time I've been here so I can't sing through a song without having to cough in the middle, but it just adds character to our performance. Sister Dodge graduated from Western Washington University in Audiology and Speech Pathology. She's very prim and proper, but then a ton of fun. She is completely different than Sister Kleisler which is funny cause Sister Dodge was Sister Kleisler's companion once. They have a lot of funny stories from when they were together. Sister Dodge is a really hard worker and very obedient, but we have sooooooo much fun. Sometimes as we are laughing we'll stop and say, "We're having way too much fun. What are we doing wrong?" But we are realizing that it is possible to have fun and work hard at the same time. Good times.

Rebecca went to church yesterday. I was worried sick at first because it was going to be fast and testimony meeting and in Pleasanton these meetings sometimes end up being more comical than spiritual. When we told the brethern in PEC we had someone coming to church they were very worried too. But in the end we were just faithless, because the testimony meeting yesterday ended up being so awesome!!! It was the perfect combination of real people with real quirks combined with heartfelt/unrehearsed declarations of belief that penetrated Rebecca's heart in just the way she needed. All three meetings were like that. They definitely weren't super flashy or entertaining meetings, but the Spirit was present and she felt it. It was so cool.

It's weird that I'm half way done with my mission. I'm not sure what to think of it yet...

Love you all!
sister johnson