Skip to main content

God Is Good

Hello family!! Happy 2021!!! 🎉🎊🎉 I wanted to write you today to tell you that God is so good. Here's just one story of how I've seen that this week. 

I LOVE teaching people the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is one of my favorite things in the whole world. It is so exciting to see people become converted to Jesus Christ and His gospel and change their lives because of it. Sister Maxfield and I have both been praying to be lead to people who will let God prevail on their lives so we can share our incredible message with more people. And God was too good to us this week. Let me tell you about 3 people God led to us this week:

1. Kari

Kari has had a tough year. Her grandma is in a nursing home, so she hasn't been able to see her, she's had to work a lot, and she feels distant from God. She went to comeuntochrist.org and requested a free Bible. Yesterday, we brought her one and heard her story. She wants to come to church next Sunday, and we're going back this week to talk about God's plan for us. She is really sweet. 

2. Val

Months ago, Sister Maxfield put an ad on Facebook offering free copies of the Bible and Book of Mormon. Val reached out and asked for a Book of Mormon. On New Year's Eve we met up and talked about prophets and where the Book of Mormon came from and how Christ's church is on the earth again! He is such a deep thinker and has studied every religion ever and even made up one of his own. It's going to be an adventure teaching him, but I think he's a seeker of truth. 

3. Dave

Dave isn't a member, but his wife and daughters are. Years ago, he met with missionaries, but he wasn't super interested and stopped meeting with them. A few months ago, Sister Maxfield went to dinner at their house, and he wasn't very friendly towards the church. This week we went to dinner at their house again. We shared a message with them about the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ and had good talks. As we were leaving, he told us that missionaries used to come by every week, and he'd love for us to come by more often and share messages. WOOHOO!! 

Isn't it amazing how God answers prayers? This week was kind of a roller coaster, but it's amazing to see how God works through it all. "The tender mercies of the Lord are over all those whom he hath chosen, because of their faith, to make them mighty even unto the power of deliverance." (1 Nephi 1:20) 

Love you all! Hope you have a wonderful year. 💕

LOVE, 

Sister Liberty Johnson

 






Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

It's Good to be Home

  Missions are hard. You give your whole self every single day for a long time. You have to do scary things like talk to people you don't really know and have major changes in your life every 6 weeks and tedious things like create workshops plan. Yesterday, Sister Maxfield and I were both hangry and trying to plan a lesson and just started laughing at ourselves cause we were struggling so hard! But there are also times of complete, full joy that I can't even describe that makes everything else so worth it.  Cindy got baptized Saturday morning, and it was one of the most wonderful things I've ever been a part of. She's gone through a lot to get to where she is now and has a lot of hard things yet to come, but she is truly converted to Jesus Christ and cares more about following Him then anything else. There is such a light about her! After the baptism, she said she felt this weight lifted off her that she didn't even know was there. In church, she bore her testim...
Post a Comment
Read more

Member Work Works

  Guys, let me tell you about my week. God is a God of miracles. He leads us to people we can help or leads them to us, and it is humbling to watch. We started teaching 4 people this week, all through their member friends. Aw, it makes my heart happy.  Last Sunday in ward council, our ward was all excited about a lady named Helen. She had just moved in and used to meet with missionaries in the past. We knew nothing about her, so we talked to some other sisters and Buck was a hero and got us on a video call with past missionaries and friends that met with her before. One of her member friends set up an appointment for us, and we went over to meet her. She is really sweet and says she wants to get baptized but isn't ready to commit to anything. But God's hand was definitely in all of this because Helen just moved in with her niece Michele. Michele is going through a lot-- way a lot. She is a strong women. We started talking and connected hard. The Spirit was there. She said sh...
Post a Comment
Read more

God's Not Done with You

I hope you are all doing well through this crazy time. You're in my thoughts and prayers.  This week I discovered the new theme song for my life. It's called God's Not Done with You by Tauren Wells. This is a very "dynamic time" (as my mission president says). Everyone is being affected in drastic ways! But I know that God is not done with you. His work is not slowing down, and your role in it isn't either. One of my sisters shared a quote with me this week that helped me to understand this.  "The standard of truth has been erected. No unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing; persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent till it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished and the great Jehovah shall say the work is done."   ...
Post a Comment
Read more