hi

We had the coolest lesson last night!!!!! We found this guy named Jason and he is really neat. He randomly had a Book of Mormon on his bookshelf and said he had meant to start reading it. We brought over the gospel doctrine teacher with us last night and they really got along. Jason has a fiance and so we were assuming that we would have to help him move out or get married, but we found out last night that they are living separatly and fully intend to live apart until they are married! That is rare and awesome. He also told us that he was telling a co-worker about mormons at work and his boss overheard and was super excited and said, "hey! i'm Mormon! You're talking to the missionaries?!" And I guess they had a long discussion after that. Sweet!

We also miraculously found the fiance of a less active woman. She's a recent convert (the fiance), but went less active about a year after her baptism, but now she wants to come back and we're teaching her 9 year old daughter and her fiance. They are awesome.

Also, Sonya told us earlier last week that she couldn't come to church anymore because she got a job that had her work on Sunday. We prayed really hard for God's will to be done, and then on Friday she called us all distressed because the job fell through, "Can you get me a ride to church?" Wahoo. She'll find a job, don't worry. But apparently the lord wanted her to have another job. :)

We also were driving away from our apartment and we forgot something so we drove back and when we did we saw an investigator that we had been teaching but then she fell off the face of the earth. But there she was. I jumped out of the car and we have an appointment on Wednesday. She's just going through a lot.

And guess what else? sister Wesley is training even though she's only been out for 6 months! There are 6 new sisters coming in this transfer to replace the 4 sisters leaving. Crazy! Sister wesley will do a great job.

Sigh. Well...People keep asking me how I feel...I feel normal. I'm not really excited or afraid...I just feel like I always do out here because my days are the exact same as they were 18 months ago. I wake up, read scriptures, find and teach people, come home and plan, and then go to bed. It hasn't really hit yet. President said in my exit interview that feeling normal is normal. He said that missionary work keeps moving and you just jump on the conveyor belt and when it's over, it doesn't slow down, you just jump off. So I'm still on the conveyor belt.

This has been the greatest experience of my life. hopefully the mission is a launching pad. But actually i have more than hope. This experience will be a launching pad because i am choosing now to make it the launching pad of my life. It's not over...however I will no longer be giving weekly email/blog updates on my life, I'll just call you...or talk to you in person--even better :)

love,
sister johnson