Week 64: The Miracle of the Email

Olá boa tarde galeira, tudo bem?

This week was so amazing! We have really been struggling to find new people to teach in our area this transfer, but this week we found three new friends who are already progressing! One of our friends, Júnior, we found through sending an email. Missionaries in Brazil generally get lots of media referrals from sites like Come Unto Christ. But a lot of times these people get contacted once with a text message and then nothing else after that. Well, this week we were going through our Area Book contacting these people again and Júnior's phone number didn't work, but we noticed he had also included his email address. We decided to send him an email with our phone number, and he responded!! It was so cool, I have never had that happen. We got his phone number and started teaching him. He told us he was having a really rough week when he saw our email, and he doesn't think it was a coincidence we got in contact with him. God really is in the details!!

In terms of the media work, we ran a new ad this week about going to church, and we were able to send 18 referrals! It is so amazing how Facebook can be such an amazing tool to find and teach new people.

It was also soooooo hot here this week. I'm not sure how it's 85 degrees here in the winter, wish me luck. I was talking to one of the ladies at church and asked her how she was liking the heat, and she looked at me like I was crazy. So something tells me I haven't experienced hot yet...

Love and miss you all, have a great week!!
Com amor,
Sister Johnson

1. Saying goodbye to Elder Icaro as he heads to Mozambique!
2. I LOVE YOU SISTER MATTHEWS
3. The APs bought us a pizza because we made the best video of us cleaning our house in preparation for the mission tour. Send me an email if you want to see it, I'm pretty proud of my video editing skills, but I guess 5 months in the media will do that to ya
4. Eu e minha companheriaaaa
5. View of Valinhos
6. Yummmm. Just kidding haven't tried yet, I'm too scared
7. Made a new friend!
8. Media crew!






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