We are all fighting the good fight!

Hey everyone! 

It's been a while since a weather report, so let me tell you. Its frigid!!!! I was thinking Texas would be like Southern California, warmish all the time, but its been pretty cold and rainy these past few weeks lol. But, I'm forever thankful that we have a car and members who offer to drive us if we don't! Grateful, thankful and blessed.

This week was slower, we didn't have a whole lot because its been so cold and I have a bad cold so I'm just dead inside, but we managed to find 5 new people! A legit blessing becsuse they hadn't been finding people in this area for like 6 months! 

One was a woman named Shay, and her name was in our records from like 2 years ago but we didn't have much else, so we went by and asked for Shay and she seemed really apprehensive cause we knew her name, but her 11 year old daughter was so excited for us to come and her name is Jennifer and we asked if we could teach a lesson and she said YES!! And so we taught Jennifer a lesson, outside, in the roaring wind and it was so incredible! She loved learning about the restoration really quick, and when we looked at her mom, she had a few tears rolling down her face and Jennifer asked us if we would please come back again!! She was so sweet! We are going back again this week! 

So, there is this member, who I love, Sister Martin and she is actually moving to Utah so keep an eye out. We invited her and her daughter to a lesson, and when we were knocking Sister Martin pushed us aside and started knocking on the door and peeking through the window and it was so funny! Then, she asked if we could take them knocking so, I took her daughter down one side of the street and Sister Martin and Sister Mabila went down another and it was so fun! I love her! 

We had a lesson with Christina,Shen, and Skyler again and it went so good! They were so excited for us to come and we sat around the table and there was a pot with woodchips in it and we asked if they were growing something and Shen said no, it had died a few years ago and ripped it out. Well, then the cat knocked the pot over and all this water came out. So, it turns out Christina had been watering this empty pot for like a year! We laughed and laughed and we used it to teach them about how she had faith and hope that it'd grow and how she is such a good example of hoping for this plant to grow, but we still laughed and her son teased her a lot. It was funny.

This week I have been reading a lot of talks by Jeffery R Holland and this quote is just so amazing 

"I had a missionary ask me once if I would give my life for the Church. I 

said, “Elder, I am giving my life for the Church.” I know what he meant. 

What he meant was, “Would you die for it?” Well, that’s the easy part. 

That’s a snap! On some days it looks really appealing. That’s the easy 

part, to die for it. Well, what God needs is people who will live for it, 

people who will go the distance, people who are in this race we’re talking 

about that will go all the way to the tape. And some may die along the way 

and that’s wonderful, but He needs people who will finish the work. He 

needs people who will wrap this up, and that’s the pledge I make to you, 

and that’s the pledge He asked. We’re in this together."

As my dad tells me every week, "We are all fighting the good fight! We are all in this together! Stick with it!”  If you want more, email my parents, their really good at pump up speeches. 

Yall are awesome! 

Sister McKee 

Sis. Johnson