Guten Morgen!!
Well here we are already August? I can't believe it? Hey I
would be finished with a semester at school by now! This week went by pretty
slow though! Nothing too eventful to report about! Last week I talked about a
little family that come from Spain! When we met them they were great and the
man of the house had so many questions that seemed so similar to Joseph Smiths
questions! We had a sister from our ward come teach with us because she can
speak Spanish and we were all seriously crying because the spirit was so stron
during the first lesson! However when investigators don't read or pray they cannot
grow! We saw this week with some of our investigators!
On the bright side MY BIKE IS FINALLY FIXED! We took it to a
bike shop and they said that they found glass in the tire! (all those beer
bottles on the side of the Road)...Just another great blessing we will have in
the second coming! Not more broken beer bottles on the side of the road! lol
So this week was really a test of how we could use our time!
Since I have been here in Germany we have had pretty full and busy days every
day. This week however we literally had no appointments planned for the whole
week! Let's just say we had a lot of time to go street contacting! It was great
though because we got to meet a lot of cool people! No one really wanted to
meet with us but it is always great because you get to bare testimony of what
you know to them.
We also said goodbye to Quan Quan this week! She went back
to China on Friday. It was really sad and when we asked her if she wanted
someone to come by and visit her from the church in China she said no! However
she has now the foundation to find out for herself whether or not the church is
true! I only hope that she takes the opportunity to do it!
Okay so to be completely honest I don't think we have 1
investigator that is actually German. All of them are from another country. It
is fun, however at the same time it can be a little hard for them to come to
church and stuff. Recently we have been teaching a lot of people from Africa!
They are great because they believe everything that we say! haha however the
problem is, is that whenever we make appointments with them they always fall
out! So we have yet found the Perfect family! The wife is from Poland and her
husband is from Africa. He believes anything and she is responsible with her
time! Yes it all works out! They are amazing and they have two little kids Adam
and Anna who are the cutes babies ever! This week we read a story with the from
the Book of Mormon to help them want to read more in the Book of Mormon! It was
so much fun! We read the story of Ammon and King Lamoni! They really loved it
and learned so much from it! Just about praying and having a testimony and how
we can gain testimonies! The Book of Mormon really is your greatest tool along
with the Spirit in helping people come near to Christ! We really can't do it on
our own!
This week I have also been spending a lot of time in the
Book of Mormon. We are reading it together as a mission and right now I am in
Mormon. It is so sad to me how fast the hearts people can change so fast! We
really have to continue to work on our faith every day. It can't just be a onetime
thing! In German it is Bis ans Ende Ausharen. or Enduring to the End! When we
do this we can continue to grow in our faith and become more like Christ! If we
don't continue to pray, read in our scriptures, go to church every Sunday and
focus our thoughts on our Savior our hearts will begin to change fast and
dwindle in unbelief! As a missionary we have to spend so much time in the
scriptures and in prayer however even then if we are not doing things to help
our testimony grow then things will start to get hard really fast!
Always remember the Savior and remember that we can Always rely
on our Heavenly Father to help us with anything!
Ok Now for the funny stories of the week!
We have a ton of fruit flies out here! Seriously it is so
gross! The other problem is, that we have to separate our trash! It causes more
problems in my mind! So yet these fruit flies decided to make a little home in
our Bio Mule! Or Biodegradable trash and We found little presents all over our
floor and trash can one morning! It was seriously the most disgusting this I
have ever seen! Little White Larva everywhere! Yummy!! So we enjoyed cleaning
that up and the other great part was that right above our trash was a sticky
fly catcher and as I was coming up from sticking something in the trash can All
my hair got stuck to this thing with 500 flies attached to it! I was seriously
freaking out, while sister Blake was laughing her head off! Then for the rest
of the day I had sticky hair! So let's just say I caught all the bugs in Osnabruek
in my hair that day! Later in the week we were going door to door and people
here don't really trim their plants or take out their weeds! As we were turning
a corner on a house my arm brushed up against a plant! All the sudden I start
to feel this sticking pain on my arm and look down a realize that I am leaned
up against a stinging nettle plant!! Ahh
Let's just say that my arm was read and puffy for the next couple of hours! Luckily
it was too bad.
Well that is it for this week! Love you all Hope you all
have a great Week!
Liebe
Sister Toma
