February 10, 2019 Santa Fe

MAAYONG HAPON SA INYO TANAN!!! 
what a week its been! starting up my 6th transfer in the philippines wowowoww. time is so crazy ahahhh.

I GOT PUT IN A TRIO!! so im still in santa fe and sister bise and baczuk and i are now a trio!! i am way excited it'll be fun. they are both entering their 3rd transfer. so im pumped!!!!
 sister hopkins is actually heading home to get better from her weird liver problem. so we've been crying all week hahah. president calls us like every day and keeps telling us hes gonna send the assistants over with towels to dry our tears ahaha. but I know God has an incredible plan for her!! He has so much in store and Im excited to see what it is :) and im way pumped for another transfer here in santa fe with Sister Bise and Sister Baczuk!!

The highlights from this week- 
-on tuesday we decided we wanted to eat lunch at Chowking which is like a fast food chain chinese place!! so we walk in and all the workers run up and hand us these red balloons that say "year of the pork" on them and ask to take a ton of pics with us hahaha turns out it was chinese new year!! yayay happy year of the pork to one and all
-so we had a valentines day party in our ward on saturday and for some reason the whole ward thought it would be a great idea to have the missionaries provide the entertainment hahaahah so you already know me and sis hopkins and elder higginson rolled up with our ukuleles to play some nice hymns. but little do we know, we walk in and this is like a formal event where all these old women are in like prom dresses and are all slow dancing with their husbands. so then its our turn and we literally go up and play one verse of "Love at Home" and elder young literally sits in the back and bangs spoons together cause he cant play the ukulele. it was probably the best musical number anybodys ever seen id guess. but also i dont know if we're being invited to be the entertainment for anything ever again :)
-also met my cousin!!! his names elder johnson. turns out we're second cousins or something!!! small world but now we're pals

but the happiest thing this week- Alexie and Ronjelex were baptized!!! it was so so special. She stood up afterwards and just cried and cried. She testified to everyone for 7-8 minutes about the truthfullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ and how Christ's church was actually restored here to the earth. Then she just thanked us over and over again. probably the happiest feeling ever. 

Life is still good over here!! I love and miss you all and hope you have a good weeeeek!!!!
Sister Johnson




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