{6.9.15} Adios Muchachos; Transfer Week!

It's Transfer week and I'm staying!!!

Adios Hermana Anderson (left)

But everyone else in my district is leaving. Everyone hahaha. My Trainer, Elder Gomez, is gone. The sister missionaries in the ward, including Sister Anderson who came in with me is leaving (which is really unusual) and the English Sisters are also leaving and being transfered. So basically the entire District is getting White-Washed, which basically means the new missionaries coming in start from scratch instead of coming into an area with established missionary who knows the area, members, investigators, etc. So there should be some really big things happening around me these next 6 weeks!

I'm super Sad to see my Trainer Elder Gomez leave, but I'm also really excited for him. He's only served in 2 areas for his mission, and he's been out a little over a year. He's hopefully going to get to see a lot more of Florida and meet a lot more people! He's been a great trainer. He's extremely obedient, and has been amazing with Spanish. We have pretty different personalities and backgrounds, but he's been able to put up with me and it has worked really well! At least for me, hahaha. 

Adios Elder Gomez

BUT besides getting a new companion, there will also be another set of Elders moving into our Apt! there will be four of us instead of just two, which will be a lot more fun. The other Elders will have a car too!! BEST DAY EVER. I will still be on Bike, but on P-Days and for activities we will be able to hitch a ride. Sooooo great. 

Elder Gomez and I got some serious blessings this week! That family we met Sunday night I mentioned in my email last week is SO cool. Dennys and his wife Sheyla. They have a lot of objections in other Churches and desires to attend churches that perfectly matches with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints!! They have a Date for the 27th currently, but Sheyla is tentative to make a decision because she wants to learn everything, while Dennys goes more off of his promptings of the Holy Ghost and how he feels, so he's more ready for the date. Sheyla loves the church tho! We are just working with helping her learn as much as possible to work for that date, and as well as having her focus on Praying after everything we teach and focusing on her answers from God that she feels through the Spirit. It's important to put in the work, learn, and have Faith, but it's also important to Grow our personal relationship with God, Jesus Christ, and the Spirit.

We also received an amazing miracle! A new family moved into our Ward from Peru, and one of the son's is Married to Yovana, who isn't a member. She has amazing desires to learn and want's to get baptized! She is a lot like Sheyla, and wants to learn as much as possible. We're focusing with her on the Same things and helping her grow her relationship with God and receive those answers from the Spirit. We, as missonaries, are just 19-20-21 year old kids, but the Spirit is the PERFECT teacher and can answer any and all questions, and teach us anything. We simply extend invitations for people to learn through the Spirit. This is why prayer is so important in all of our lives, as well as being worthy and living our lives in a manner that allows us to hear and feels those distinct, subtle promptings and answers from the Holy Ghost.

We have to finish rearranging our apartment to accommodate four missionaries, but I want to leave you all with my testimony that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is the exact same Church that Jesus Christ established on the Earth during his ministry. It was restored through a Prophet of God, who was called to be a Prophet by God himself and received Priesthood Authority to act in his name. The Book of Mormon is evidence of this Testimony, and it supports and sustains the Bible, as well as clarifies it. Don't tell me I'm wrong if you haven't read it, prayed it about it, and honestly sought for an answer with real intention to act on whatever answer you may receive. If you do, I know you will receive an answer, if you have even a particle of Faith.

I hope everyone has a great week! 

Love,

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Elder Johns