May 28, 2019 La Carlota

MAAYONG AGA

hi friends!! happy last week of May!! this day last year i was being set apart as a missionary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. thats INSANE. its crazy to think of this day last year, I still had no idea what to expect and had absolutely no clue what was going on over here on the other side of the world. and now this country and the people in it have become something i love so much! 

This has been a good week for lots of reasons!! 
-I FOUND MY JOURNAL! I realized a couple weeks ago that I hadnt seen my journal in a long time that I had used for 8 months of my mission! I was so sad and thought it was gone. But I was praying one day to know where it is and I had the thought to go into our bedroom and check under my bed. I had checked under there at least 6 or 7 times already, but I went in and it was just laying there in plain sight. i was sooo grateful. God seriously is the very best ever. then me and the other sisters in my house all had a celebration hahah. 
-We went and did a service project this week!! it was so so fun. so in the schools here they dont have janitors or anything so the week before the school starts up again, the whole town goes to all the schools and cleans and gardens and does everything! so we went ot a school and helped paint! it was SO fun. the teachers and administrators were SO thankful we came. they thanked us over and over and we took pictures with all of them and they printed out posters of the school for us so we'd remember. it was so so fun

basically life is so good and i love being here in the philippines. its so crazy to me how fast the time goes. i already cry thinking that i only have 6 months left to love and serve these cute people. they really are the absolute best. 

i love you all!!!! 

sister johnson



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