Hello!
Thanks for your emails. :) I am glad that everyone had a good week! That is so fun that you were able to teach primary. I think that would be such a fun calling! And Mom! I quote (about Dad): "He's gotten cuter and sweeter. I think he's about ready to be a Grandpa." Are you hinting that someone's having triplets?!? Wow wow wow! That's great news! Can't wait to be an aunt ;). HAHA
Not gonna lie, a fried oreo sounds super good right now. Dang it.
Well, another week gone! They seem to be going pretty fast. It is always tricky once I get to
Monday because I can never remember what happened throughout the rest of the week. Haha! Oh man... Alzheimers is kickin in super early these days. Turns out that the longer you are out on a mission, the older you become. You are born. You get old. Eventually you die. I can tell it is almost my time to go. "I can't even remember five minutes ago!" Name that quote: five points.
We did do something this week. We did some missionary work. We didn't have a car- so that was a pretty fun adventure. We visited a lot of members to try and get to know everyone and help inspire them to talk to their friends so we would have people to teach. Whenever we weren't able to get a ride somewhere we ended up tracting around our apartment complex. It is the "poor" part of Franklin. And most of the people don't speak English. That makes it a bit tricky. But we have found a couple of people here and there that are interested in learning.
Our neighbors really like us and love to have us over. Even though I have been on a mission for a long time now, we continue to run into situations that I have never been in before. Our neighbors have become investigators- but they have some very special circumstances. They are both special needs. They are both able to live on their own and they can grasp what we are telling them. When we go over the next day, they can relay the info we taught them the day before back to us. So we are not sure how severe the disabilities are (mentally) but man... they are the sweetest ladies ever. I love them immensely. And I worry about them all the time. One of them especially needs prayers. She is blind and her body is very fragile. And she just isn't living in the best circumstances right now. They have both been through a lot. It is interesting that this is happening now at the end of my mission. A few months back I had been wondering if I really was supposed to be in special education when I got home. There are just so many different directions life can go. Well, last night we learned more about these ladies' home lives and just everything they have been through up to this point. And this crazy something started burning within me. There are so many of these special spirits that are being mistreated. They need to be taken care of- and instead they are left to try and support themselves with little or no help at all. It brought me back to the sad situations we saw in Mexico and some of the things we learned about legislation and mistreatment of the special needs in my special education class in college. Oh, I am definitely going into special education. And I am going to help as many of these people as I can. For now, we will continue to do our best to teach and help these ladies. I know the gospel can help them. I saw in the special needs institute class the way the gospel helped those sweet kids. And they want to come to church so bad! So please pray for them. Please pray that somehow, they will be able to understand and the ward members will be able to understand and that their situations can be better.
Other than that, we are still working primarily on finding. The Elders left us one family that has some pretty good potential. The H family. The mom would probably already be a member if her husband was on board. So we have work to do there. The rest of the area book has been pretty much untouched for about a year so we are remedying that.
The ward wants to be involved, they just need some help learning how to help sisters. One cool thing the ward is doing is a youth missionary activity. They break the youth into trio-panionships and teach them the first lesson. Then, members have the youth in their homes to teach them the missionary lessons. The members are encouraged to have a nonmember in their home that night for dinner so that the youth have a legitimate teaching experience. Pretty cool. I am glad I am the full-time missionary- that would scare me pretty bad as a beehive.
Keep praying we will find people! I know that as we all do this that the Lord is going to provide miracles. The work will take off here. I just know it.
I love you all! I hope you have a great week!
Love you always,
Sister Alicia Johnson
Hi Johnson Family!
I’m sure Sis. Johnson mentioned the groundbreaking last week for our new stake center?
Here is a pic of Sis. Johnson and her comp Sis. Gillespie.
They seem to work well together!!! Hard workers seeking out all the less actives and looking for new investigators!
Sis. Johnson is inspiring!!! She has memorized the “Vision of the South” from Pres. Kimball and I ask her to repeat it
at every opportunity - it gives me chills!
So glad she is here to help us spread the gospel in Franklin!!!
She also has a beautiful voice!
Such a talented young lady!
Thanks again for sharing her!
Vicky Scott
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