This week has been soooo good.
(On May 8, 2016, Elder Johnson was able to call home for Mother's Day.)
(Everyone in the family was able to talk to him. It was a thrill for them, as well as Elder Johnson being able to talk to all of them.)
(Elder Johnson and his companion, Elder Brown.)
So
many positive and uplifting experiences have come out of this week. I
have fully transferred over to Cheonan now and have been able to get to
know the members and the area a little bit more. I still don't know
everything but I am slowly learning!
My
companion is Elder Brown from Timpview, Utah. He is the man. We are super
similar in so many ways, and we work super well together. He is a great
example to me and is filled with faith!
We are really focusing on three things now:
Thoughts
Others
Finding ,Teaching and Baptizing.
We
both don't have much time left in the mission field and so we are both
learning so much from each other and are becoming very effective
instruments in the Lord's hand. The Lord is strengthening us and giving us
revelation from on high.
I want to share a quick thought that came to us this week as we were talking.
Putting attention or focus on something that you have little or no control
over will allow no success or progression and will do you absolutely no good.
Focus on the now and the important because it's what you can
change and it's what you can do. Change to Become.
Focus on the Lord and the Work.
This week I have been suffering from a cold, but I am now over coming it and am almost back to normal health.
However, we saw some crazy cool miracles this week that I want to briefly describe.
(Missionaries in Elder Johnson's District)
On
the way home from District Meeting this week, it was pouring rain. It
was lunch time and we were on the way home just right out in from of our
apartment when we saw an older mother and her son pass by. We said "Hello" to them and we started a conversation. It ended very well. We
received their address (which never happens) and planned on going to
their house the next morning. Well, after we finished eating, our other
appointment cancelled and we realized that we were going to go out and
talk to people in the rain for three hours until our next appointment, but we
also realized that we could go visit the address that we had just
received from the lady and her 22 year old son. We had a feeling to go
buy some bread and deliver it as a gift.
On
our way to their house, the timing was absolutely perfect. We met a guy
in the elevator who was going to the same destination as us. He was
going to fix their sink... Anyway that guy had met with missionaries a
long time ago and wanted to start meeting again.
We
met with the mom and the son. They came out to church yesterday and a
member invited them over to dinner last night. We all ate together and
shared about the Book of Mormon, its importance and what blessings we
can receive from it. It was a very spiritual night! I feel very good about both of them, and I feel that they can be baptized in three weeks. It's a huge miracle.
We
also had a bunch of other crazy miracles like right after we got done
praying to know where we needed to go, we were directed to go right by
the Spirit and we met a little kid who took us to his house and
introduced us to his parents. The next thing we know we were in
these people's home teaching the gospel to a family!
They didn't have much interest, but the Lord led us there and they let us in to share our message!
Prayer is so real!!!!!!!
We met so many cool people on the street this week.
We
have Zone Conference this week! Pray it goes well! I have a lot of
preparation to do. I love you! Skype was glorious and I look forward to
seeing you all so soon.
Follow the Spirit.
Elder Cole Thomas Johnson
PACE
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