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Last night, Sister Horspool sat out on our front porch, blew bubbles, and talked about what's in our souls. It's warming up here in Missouri, and it was beautiful. And I realized that I have the best life ever. 

It has been SUCH a good week. We've just been doing the work and loving people, and it's so fulfilling. 

One thing we're really excited about is we've started 2 Come, Follow Me groups with the women in each of the wards we cover. It was so fun to get to know them and talk about Christ's gospel and what that looks like in action. 

We had a miracle on Saturday. We were delivering masks we had made for people (just dropping them off on people's doors cause social distancing). We were in this apartment building, and a man comes out of a door across the hall. We say hi as he walks past. Then, when we go out to our car, he asks us if we're from a church. He told us that he just moved here, he hasn't been to a church in 4 years, and is looking for one. We're going to start teaching him over video call!!! God really puts people in our path when we leave the house cause it doesn't happen very often. 😅

We had such a blessing yesterday! I ADORE little kids. Before my mission, they were my whole life--I was either working with kids or going to school to learn how to better work with kids. Yesterday we went chalking with some of our friends at the park, and this dad comes by, walking his dogs with his 3 year old daughter in the stroller. Of course, she wants to play with chalk too. So she did. For an hour! I was sooo happy. She called me a "little mother." 😂 My heart was very full. 

As you can tell, this week has been incredible. I was talking to my mission president, President Strong, about joy this week. He told me that if your focus in life is joy, joy will never come. But as you focus on Jesus Christ and living His gospel, joy will come without you even realizing. It helped me to realize that my whole mission in life is to point people to Jesus Christ. That has not changed, and it's not going to. And that's why I'm so incredibly happy. 

I love y'all so much!! I need your help with something-- Sister Horspool and I have started teaching yoga every morning. And I don't really know what I'm doing. So, if any of you have yoga poses you like, please share. Email me at liberty.johnson@missionary.org.

LOVE,

Sister Liberty Johnson





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