"race me!!!!!!"

April 18, 2016

Hello fam:) This week has been an interesting one haha. We have been mostly walking this week. The car broke down when the elders had it & it's because there was water in the gas tank...we think that some hoodlums pranked the elders but we aren't sure haha. That's okay though.

Monday...Sister Jensen and I won 5,000 dollars. We got one of those ticket things in the mail. Well the odds of winning were 1 in 40,000 & we won!! Hahahah...unfortunately, we don't have a state ID since we are just visitors so we couldn't claim it ;)

Tuesday was sad- we had to drop 2 investigators & our appointments fell through. It just makes me sad because I know how much the Savior can help all of His children and so it is hard seeing people turn away from it. But we were able to see a couple less-actives this week who we hadn't been able to get in with which was cool:)

Saturday we were able to teach a recently returning less-actives 8 year old daughter about baptism. She wanted to learn about it from the missionaries. It was so much fun:) We used the pepper in water with dish soap visual. Children's hearts are so open & ready. It was a lot of fun. It was also #socialmediasplit Saturday so we did a lot of service for people around the area.

Sunday was an amazing miracle. We had dinner with Brother & Sister Johnson. Brother Johnson used to be Bishop here. Remember how I talked about the less-actives wife we ate dinner with? Well Brother Johnson had been meeting with her husband & she wanted to meet the Johnsons- so we had dinner over at the Johnsons house with her!! It was really cool. 

Sister Johnson is from Japan & April is from China and they were talking about their similar stories with Christianity. Aprils parents had to hide the bible in their country & Sis Johnson joined the church with her mom since religion wasn't a very common thing growing up after the war. 

Brother & Sister Johnson bore their testimony of the spirit & the gospel. April said that she knows God hasn't given up on her because of all the ties she has with the LDS church. It was so stinkin' cool. Probably one of the coolest moments of my mission. The spirit was so strong & it just made me so grateful for the Holy Ghost which softens peoples hearts. It was such a joy! :)

I love you guys so much. I hope you all have a wonderful week. Love, Sister Stolworthy

PS: The elders said they've been having some trouble with some people giving them a hard time in their neighborhood so Sister Jensen & I went to try and talk things out with them. Here they are....


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Hahahahaha!! They were so funny. We were all racing each other:)