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Sacred Things



Hello, hello! This week has been crazy busy, but way good. I went to Harrison (my home)! I love that place, and the sisters there are incredible. We have been doing a ton of service and meeting new people, and just going hard. With so much going on, it's easy for me to feel so busy and pretty stressed. I was reading in Alma 37 this week, and a verse really touched my heart. It said, "Remember... that God has entrusted you with these things, which are sacred." The Spirit hit me hard, and I remembered how sacred what I do really is. This is God's work. My whole purpose is to help people come closer to Christ. And the people I am entrusted with are amazing! Such a sacred responsibility. I have felt this sacredness a couple times this week. One was Tuesday. My friend Cassidy got baptized! She has been meeting with other missionaries but has started coming to church with my congregation. And she just glows. Seeing her take this step to promise to follow Jesus Christ filled me with such joy! Then, yesterday, I was able to go to church in a family's home with my friend Juan. He is a member of the church, but he hasn't been in a long time. But he missed taking the sacrament. The family had little kids, and a lot was going on, but I saw Juan wiping away tears as he partook of the sacrament. And, again, I remembered how sacred it is to help people come towards Christ.

Alma 37 goes on to talk about how important it is to keep these things sacred and that if you don't, they will be taken away. Then, in verse 16, it says, "But if ye keep the commandments of God, and do with these things which are sacred according to that which the Lord doth command you, (for you must appeal unto the Lord for all things whatsoever ye must do with them) behold, no power of earth or hell can take them from you, for God is powerful to the fulfilling of all his words." I have seen this this week. Y'all, I am not enough for this job. The magnitude of it is crazy. I'm going hard, but I'm weak and make so many mistakes and do not have the capacity to do all that is required of me. Just like this scripture says, I have been asking the Lord for help a LOT. And He has given it. Guys, He is dumping blessings on us. Like, we just moved into our apartment and so we bought a lot of things for it and now have no money... and this nice couple we do service for and a couple in our ward gave us a TON of food. We were having a crazy day, and Brother Hansen, our ward mission leader, was incredibly helpful at our meeting with him and gave us cookies. We came out, and Sister Hess was like, "We should have MCM (Mission Correlation Meeting) every day!" Everyday we have way too many things to do than we can actually do, and somehow it works out! 

Miracles are real. God asks us to take care of sacred things, and then He helps us to do so. He listens to our prayers and always keeps His promises.

I love you all!! Email me at liberty.johnson@missionary.org. Also, I definitely gave you my wrong address last time. It's apartment C 206. :)

LOVE,
Sister Liberty Johnson









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