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Temple in Bentonville!!!

My friends!
Good news! There is going to be a temple in my mission!!! We probably won't actually get it till I'm gone, but that's okay. We'll prepare the people for it.

I love being a missionary. I am always with awesome people that I'm trying to help. Nothing could be better. I'll tell you a few stories.

We do a lot of service as missionaries (about 10 hours a week). It's amazing how powerful it is. As missionaries, Christ's name is on our name tags, and we are Christ's representatives in this area. Service really shows that, and it softens hearts. Our biggest service is Meals on Wheels. We prepare food for a senior center and to be delivered to different people. It's pretty fun, and we help in the kitchen for 5 hours on Tuesday. Another service we do is we go to an assisted living home and paint nails. The ladies are so cute. I got to play the piano for them after. (Oh, Mom, I need more music. Will you send me In the Mood, the Bumblebee, and another book that I've played a lot with some quality classical music?) 

We had a cool lesson with a guy named Fred. He has such a strong relationship with Christ, and wants to follow Him more fully. We gave him a church tour and taught him about how God calls prophets to teach us. Joseph Smith (a prophet) brought Christ's full church back to the earth! Sharing it, I thought a lot about how this message has blessed my life. It brings me so much joy. I have so much peace as I follow Jesus Christ, and His gospel makes it possible for me to continually come closer to Him. Anyway, we invited him to read the Book of Mormon and pray to ask God if it is true. (I had shared how I had done that same thing and got the answer that it was true that blessed my life so much.) He said he would and told us that he already knew what answer he would get, that it would be the same as mine. So much faith!

It's so awesome to be able to work with so many wonderful people. I could tell you about so many more, but I don't have time. General Conference was AWESOME. It is so cool that prophets can teach us. I loved that everything was so centered on Christ and the peace and joy we can have through him.

Also, I have become such an animal person. I have never pet so many dogs and cats in my life. :) Also, l ate a whole jar of baby pickles this week. My addiction in real. I'm going cold turkey though cause I didn't buy more today.

I love you all! Please email me! Thank you for your prayers and your love.

Love,
Sister Johnson

(Oh, funny story. We really struggle with taking pictures. As we got to the church to email home, we realized that we hadn't taken any pictures this week. So our only picture is us outside the church just now. Sorry about that...)

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