Hasta Ver

Hello my friends! How are all of you? :) I hope you're doing well wherever you're at.
We're doing great out here in Glendale! Well... yeah. It's been tough lately, pero está bien. We're still seeing miracles every day. It's been really interesting because in missionary work, nothing happens until you find someone to teach, right? Well, we've been having SUCH a hard time finding people. It's the weirdest thing. I can't tell you how many times we knocked on a door, heard someone inside, and still no one answered. I don't know what the Lord is trying to teach us... maybe that I need to perseverar hasta el fin, but like, the VERY fin. (Sorry, spanglish). Poor Hna Green though keeps asking if my whole mission was like this or if this isn't normal. Well, when you start the mission in the fiery furnace, it can only get better, right? She's a champ. I adore Hna Green. Either way though, we're trying hard and I just have to remember that success as a missionary doesn't always come in the form of "good" numbers. Sometimes success is when your dinner appointment gives you LITERALLY a WHOLE chicken to eat (a whole one for EACH of you) and you FINISH the thing. True story, that happened Saturday.
Sometimes success is getting a text Sunday morning an hour and a half before church saying "we need you to give a 15 minute talk on the obra misional today" and it turns out the only other speaker only talked like 7 minutes so you're left with like 25 minutes to fill and you DO. That, my friends, is success (and another true story from yesterday). And also it was TOTALLY a miracle. Longest talk of my life in puro español. I never thought I was capable of that! Jokes, I'm not. But the Lord takes what we give Him and makes it enough.
Sometimes success is feeling love towards someone who straight up rejects you. We saw a lot of that this week.
And sometimes success is praying (literally) for an elote guy to be in your camino during the day and then the Lord answers your prayers and there IS and you get yourself some of the best dang elote ever.

So I dunno... I'd say we had a successful week even though our numbers would say otherwise. Hna Green and I had a heart-to-heart and decided that really, the Lord has a hand in how many people we can or can't find. We think He knows exactly who needs His Gospel and where they are. And we think that He'll lead us to them... when He's ready and when they are. Until then we just keep working and keep showing our love for Him through obedience and our willingness to work. This ward will see miracles soon :)

Well... I suppose I ought to address the fact that this will be my final email home to you all.. 18 months, 7 companions, and 4 areas later, here I am at the end. I can't begin to explain the joy I've felt and the endless miracles I've seen in the time I've been here :) I feel so blessed and privileged to have been the Lord's servant in this small corner of His vineyard. I've seen countless lives change, including my own. I've seen testimonies grow out of completely unexpected places and flourish into a beautiful conversion to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Quiero que ustedes sepan que he hecho todo que podía; estoy feliz con todo que hice. Quiero que sepan que amo a mi Salvador Jesucristo y a mi Padre Celestial. Yo sé que es por Ellos que soy lo que soy (1 Corintios 15:10). Es gracias a la expiación de Jesucristo que todos tenemos la oportunidad de empezar de nuevo y no puedo expresar suficientemente mi amor y gratitud por esa oportunidad.

Les quiero mucho :)
Hasta ver

-Hermanita Corynne Johnson
California Arcadia Mission