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Hello!

I have a new companion! Her name is Sister Wesley. She is from American Samoa. She is the youngest of four kids and all of her older siblings went on missions. She came to Texas with Sister Hill so she's been here for four and a half months. I always thought that I'd get her as a companion so it didn't come as a surprise when it was announced that she would be my new companion. Sister Green went up to San Marcus with Sister Christensen who was my companion in December for 2 weeks. I miss her, but I know she'll have fun in San Marcus.

At transfer meeting President Cutler said something that he says a lot, but I have come to really understand this quote the longer I'm on my mission:

"Go about making other people happy and you will find happiness."

Linda Sue (our investigator who had a stroke two years ago) was VERY sad to see Sister Green leave. Like I said in my last letter, they had a very close connection so it was heartbreaking for her. She was crying and asking us why. It was pretty funny when I tried to comfort her because I said, "Linda Sue, I'll still be here," And she looked up at me and then over at Sister Green and then she started crying even harder, "It's not the same!!!" Haha. She turned to Sister Green, "Why do you have to leave before I go under the water?" It was pretty sad, but also really touching to see the love that Linda Sue had for my companion. But it is probably best that Sister Green was transferred so that Linda Sue can base her testimony on the gospel and not on Sister Green.

So after that we weren't sure if Linda Sue would still want to come to Church. She told us during the middle of the week that she was going with her sister on Sunday to her church. We called her the night before to see if she would come to church with us and she said no, she was going to Church with her sister. And then for some random reason Sister Wesley and I decided to show up at her apartment at 8AM Sunday morning and we asked again if she was coming to church with us and she said no, because she was going to church with her sister. So we stood there awkwardly and she said, "I can't go to church like this" pointing to her pj's. "Sure you can," I joked. And then suddenly she said..."okay. I'll call my sister." My jaw dropped. She called her sister and then turned and told us she'd go to church with us. She went in the other room to get ready and we ran out to call someone to come and pick her up. By that time it was 8:30AM, 30 minutes before church. No one was answering their phones cause they all had already left for church. What were we going to do! But then we got a hold of Sister Rodriguez and she picked up Linda Sue and Church was amazing! Linda Sue loved it. She turned to me during Relief Society and said with tears in her eyes, "I'm more happy today." oh...she's so great. It was awesome. I love it when investigators go to church for several reasons, but one of the reasons is because the week after church they seem to be more spiritually in tune and they have an easier time understanding the concepts we teach...and because of Linda Sue's stroke, we need all the help we can get. I want her to understand as much of the doctrine as she can. We are going to try and see her every day for the next few weeks to really help her understand what she will be covenanting with God when she's baptized.

We met an awesome lady on Friday night. They way we met her was pretty cool. We had a few minutes before we needed to go home. We were going to knock some apartments. "Where should we knock?" I kept noticing one door, but it wasn't in a very logical place to begin knocking. Then Sister Wesley said, "Right over there." She pointed to the same apartment building. "Which door?" I asked, she pointed to the same door. "That's exactly where I wanted to knock! haha. wouldn't it be funny if the first door we knocked the people let us in and they ended up being golden." We laughed...yeah right, like that would ever happen...haha....Well we knocked and Margaret opened the door and before we said anything she told us to come in and we were instantly friends. Apparently her mom was baptized several years ago so she's talked with missionaries before...but she didn't join cause she doesn't think it's right that we use water instead of wine during the sacrament...however, she doesn't bash with us and she listens AND she's feeding us tonight so we feel like there' potential.

Church was great yesterday. I finally feel like I know a good chunk of people in the ward. I love smaller wards. So much better.

love yall
sister johnson