Sister Alyssa Johnson: MTC - Week 2

Wow! Ok.. so this week has been awesome!! But I have decided that it is like a roller coaster here! You feel like every single emotion every single day!! It's the craziest thing!! But it is also the best thing ever!!

So everyone is getting sick here!! Its a horrible cough and cold! It's mad.. but almost all the sisters in my district (keep in mind that all the girls in my district share a room with me..) are sick!! And one of the elders is sick and I sit right by him in our classroom! So yeah Sister Cahoon and I are drinking "Emergency" to try and fight it off and surprisingly we have! So lets hope we can stay strong and not get sick.. :)

Also our teachers have come in the past couple days and have asked the people who are sick in our district these weird questions about their eyes hurting and questioning them a lot.. then when we ask them why or about it they get all weird and say don't worry about it. So is there something going on in the outside world with sickness or something? We know nothing in here.. so what is going on?

So this week we had our first Fast Sunday and holy moly. We fasted for EVER and I honestly have never been so hungry in my life. WOW. it was kind of funny because we all got to see the "HANGRY" side of everyone and now we look back and laugh :)

So yeah the food here is still gross.. and I'm already so sick of it. MOM-- I am so sorry that I always complained about having roast and potatoes every Sunday... or complained about your cooking.. I WOULD GIVE ANYTHING FOR ONE OF YOUR HOME COOKED MEALS RIGHT NOW!! so please forgive.

Oh, so yeah remember how I told you about me and Sister Cahoon's first lessons and how they were a train wreck.. so yeah. Our "investigator" that we were teaching.. is now our TEACHER!! oh my gosh. talk about embarrassing. She walked in and we died laughing because our lessons were sooo bad!! hhahahaahaha....

For our Devotional we got to hear from Sister Jenny Oaks Baker and she was really good! Her family all played songs and it was very powerful! She is amazing at the violin! Our second Devotional this week we heard from Sister Joy D. Jones (General Primary President) and her husband and they were AMAZING. Loved it!

ALSO Sister Cahoon and I got an assignment in our Branch!! They call it an assignment instead of a calling because we are called to be full time missionaries.. but our assignment is MUSIC CORDINATOR!! Mom -- the music callings are following meeeeee. I died laughing.

So Sister Cahoon and I got 2 new investigators this week! We taught one of them yesterday (our teacher pretending to be an investigator) and hahaha we did really well and could feel the spirit and the gift of tongues until.. the end. Oh my gosh. The investigator asked where we were going after our lesson with him and so I said "home" but I said the tone/word a little wrong and accidentally said "foot"... He tried to hold it in, but busted up laughing and so Sister Cahoon and I died laughing too.. ahhaha It was sooo embarrassing but hilarious! SO FUN TEACHING HERE AND SO MANY GOOD MEMORIES!

Weird thing---I woke up one morning and I have a black eye!! I honestly don't know how I got it or anything! Weird!! But everyone thinks Sister Cahoon beat me up or something so its hilarious.. but yeah everyone looks at me all weird in the halls and everything.. ?? I don't know!!

But yeah my teachers are great and I learn so my here! I love in my Patriarchal Blessing where it says "I will never tire of testifying of Christ" because that is how I feel! I love testifying and telling people about what I know is true! Even though my testimony in Chinese is a bit rough.. it is amazing that I can still bring the spirit soo strong.

I thought I knew about the power of prayer before I came on my mission.. but boy was I wrong. I have learned sooo much more here about prayer and that God honestly hears and answers all of our prayers!! So thank you so much for your thoughts and prayers! I can feel them and I am so blessed!

Well I love you all and thank you to everyone who has emailed me! It is sooo awesome to hear from you! I love it more than you guys know!! Have a good week!!

xoxo

Sister Johnson