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Life Is Like Moving a Giant Black Table

 


Hello, hello! What a wild week it has been. 

Last Tuesday we went to a lady in our ward's house to do service. We'd helped her out a few times before, usually with little things that only take a few minutes. We get there, and she asks us to move a table from one room to another. Easy enough. Well, the table was piled high with all kinds of things. She told us just to put it on her bed. So we do. Then we realized we had to move this dresser to get it at a better angle to get it through the door. When it still wouldn't fit, she pulled out her swiss army knife, and we took the door off to give us a little more room. It still wouldn't fit. At this point, we were late for an appointment, but we couldn't leave with mountains of stuff on her bed and her dresser in the living room. We prayed so hard and turned the table every way we could thing of, and, by some miracle, we got the table through the door and into the other room.

We went home and ate icecream after that... cause, we needed it. And Sister Salmons was like, " Life is like moving a giant black table..." What a wise woman. 😊

It is true though, that there are a lot of things in life that we cannot do on our own. But, with Christ, no worries! He is in our lives more than we realize. 

Like I said, it's been a wild week. We've had some hard things-- one of our friends doesn't want to meet with us anymore. And another one is making some bad decisions in his life, and I'm so worried about him. But there have also been some incredible highs. My friend Daria came to church!!! Robyn brought her and was amazing. We're going to dinner with them tonight. We also had the best Zone Conference of my life this week. And gave Bart a copy of the Book of Mormon. And sweet Rhoda said we could come over again. 💕

God is so good. And I trust Him. Even when there is no way a giant black table is going to fit through the doorway. 

Love you all! Email me at liberty.johnson@missionary.org.

 

LOVE,

Sister Liberty Johnson





 

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