I really don't know what to write in this weekly email because I
really don't remember all that happened this week and I'm also in the
middle of what I know is a huge change in basically my entire life and
I feel like I really don't have the right perspective yet. Like I'm in
the middle of a giant 180 haha:). I honestly just had a really solid
week. God blessed sister Riser and I with about a million miracles.

Every appointment fell through this week except two (and a half). The
first was with Bernadette. We met her in a park with her three kids.
We needed French translation, so the lesson went a little slow, but
every time she heard truth, she would just shake her head up and down.
We have a standing weekly appointment with her now, and I'm really
excited to see how she progresses. The next was Elizabeth:). We tried
to meet with her twice, but she was feeling really sick. The third
time we went by, she let us in and we taught her about the Book of
Mormon. She immediately knew it was from God. When we taught her about
the first vision, she really wanted to understand. So, she would read
it in French and then explain it to her daughter (who happened to show
up for the end... Miracle) and have her daughter explain it to us in
German. Her grandson was there too (2 years old), so while we were
showing her the first vision, I was trying to entertain him.

 We're really excited for Elizabeth, but with all her
health problems we don't know if she can come to church or if she'll
be ready in October, but we're hoping and praying! Lastly was Roberto.
Roberto is a wonderful amazing man. We met him on a Gleis reading a
Spanish bible. We brought him a Book of Mormon and left him with our
testimonies. We then saw him the next day, not even twenty four hours
later, and he was 20 chapters in, just reading it standing on the
Gleis. He doesn't speak much German either, so I've been memorizing
the first lesson in Spanish, which is challenging, but humbling. Just
trying to fulfill that promise that every man will hear the gospel in
his own tongue, ya know?

A really huge miracle, amongst all of the others, was on Friday. I was
really sick and I just couldn't concentrate, and so my German was
really not good. SisterR iser kills it with German, so I had just kind
of been leaving the more intense contacting to her. I realized what I
had been doing and was really mad at myself because I was stopping
myself from learning and not doing the Lord’s work. So, I decided I was
just gonna run with it, awful grammar, pronunciation and all. We had a
goal to find 4 potentials, and all of our appointments had fallen
through. We just started contacting on this one street, and we ended
up getting 5 potentials in 45 min. It was incredible. 3 of them were
families:). One of the families is from Romania. We're teaching her
German. She has four children and they are adorable.

God also blessed us with this crazy miracle on Sunday. We met two Orem
business men. They just had this crazy strong spirit and really
uplifted us and helped us to see the power of what we were doing.
Also, one of them, after I expressed interest in learning Arabic, gave
me his card and told me to call him ( he was born in Saudi Arabia and
minored in Arabic) and that he'd make sure I got into the program
at BYU and knew all of the professors and such. It was just funny. I
guess I'm majoring in Arabic now:P.

We're moving onto our last week of the transfer. Köln is wonderful,
but I really feel like there is just so much left to be done. All I
can do is trust in the Lord and his guiding hand to take me to the
work I need to do.

I love you all so much. (General conference is in two weeks and ich
bin sehr begeistert dafür!)

Liebe,
Sister Johnson

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