Week 43!

random recent obsessions just for fun: snack size seaweed, the song sleeping alone by flatland cavalry, coloring, studying the atonement, fresca, and drawing with chalk!

anyways..

it was zone conference week! last one with pres & sis child:(

I know that president child was supposed to be my mission president! he was truly inspired & I learned so much from him. in this last interview, he told me how proud of me he is and how much growth he has seen in the past 9 months... that was incredible to hear!

we did another exchange this week! they're always a transfer highlight. roswell is a weird zone cause there's not very many sisters so we get to do more exchanges & this time I got to go to Carlsbad with sis flake! we did tennis for morning sports!!! 2nd time I've played on my mission... mira you'll probably beat me when i get home:,(

almost all of our lessons punched AGAIN! it's hard to be a missionary when people's agency is involved.. or maybe I'm just a bad luck charm:,) just kidding haha. we did have a good lesson with Corina where we just read the book of mormon... we're just still trying to figure out how to make everything click for her... keep prayin!

we had the cool opportunity to do more service this week as well... we planted flowers with sis weitze and her kids on Saturday cause it was her birthday!!! she's an incredible soul.. so inspiring:) we also made dinner for a member with a newer baby & ate with her which was super cool. we sorted through donated books at a domestic violence shelter (found some Junie B Jones books AHH throwback), played bingo at a nursing home, and cleaned toys in a "play lab" at the elementary school... so so fun! service always brightens the hard days.

I filmed a little facebook video of me playing a piano arrangement of "be thou my vision" and when I was looking up & studying the lyrics, I found a specific verse super powerful... it says:

"riches I head not

nor vain, empty praise

thou mine inheritance

now and always

thou and thou only

first in my heart

high king of heaven

my treasure thou art"

it made me think of that time in the book of mormon in where samuel the lamanite is prophesying to the wicked people... he says "and behold, the time cometh that he curseth your riches, that they become slippery, that ye cannot hold them; and in the days of your poverty ye cannot retain them." (helaman 13:31)

when we treasure things of the world, it does not last and we are poor both temporally and spiritually. bit when we treasure Jesus Christ, his gospel & sacrifice, that is when we will be fulfilled and satisfied! when we place Jesus Christ first in our heart, everything else will fall into place in one way or another.

HEY! HEY YOU! love ya!

Sister Sage Johns

People to pray for:

Jacob, Corina & DeeDee, Liz, sister weitze, amber, raquel & jose

Address:

905 S 11th St

Artesia, NM 88210

Email:

sage.johns@missionary.org

Pictures:

1. sis sushi chef chock

2. the roswell sistas + sis child