March 5, 2012

Howdy Y’all,

This week was incredible!  We have hardly been able to keep up with ourselves.  It is no struggle to sleep at night, we come into the apartment every night and are just exhausted.  I know if I was relying on my own strength I would be done with by lunch.  I love how we can be so exhausted all the time, but we can just continue to find the energy to wake up every morning at 6:30 and go out and find and teach lost souls.  

The atonement is real.  It has a physical effect in our lives!  Everything built up to yesterday where we just had an incredible day and had some amazing miracles.  We have been blessed so far with people to teach, and the Lord saw fit to place some more people in our path.  John and Beverly Musoga came to church.  The Musoga family is from Kenya and knows the Kasue family.  Brother Kasue was the 2nd person to be baptized in Kenya and is going above and beyond in making sure the Musogas feel comfortable at church.  John and Beverly told us that they loved church and plan to attend every week. They have received the social conversion and now they just need the spiritual conversion.  

The highlight was for sure when Myosha Johnson got up and bore her testimony.  Earlier on in the week she told us that she couldn't look us straight in the eyes because it is "too bright".  Also this week she just up and quit smoking.  We hadn't even taught her the word of wisdom, but she knew it was something that wasn't good, so she just decided she wasn't going to do it anymore.  She is a very strong soul.  She has been through, and is still going through a lot. She has made a head strong decision to do what she knows is right.  It is remarkable to see her change her life around and seeing her countenance improve.  This is the work of the Lord and I have a strong testimony of that.

Love,

Elder Layton